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Year: 1866

The Chinese laborers are said to be as


agile as monkeys. A gentleman, who


has spent some time in Pekin, mentions


a courthouse in process of erection which
is surrounded by bamboo scaffolding
forty feet high, on the top of which the
laborers move about with wonderful rapid
ity, going up and down the bare poles
like squirrels, using only their hands and
the soles of their feet They show great
expertness in throwing materials from
one to another at considerable height,
even casting spade of mortar to a man
on the roof of house without dislodg-
ing particle of the mortar. The paper
hangers, also, are very expert in throw
ing sheets of paper, with one side covered
with paste, ready for being put on the
wall. Their paper for room purposes IS
very good, the "satin pattern" being the
most commonly used. Paper of this
kind is not kept in rolls, as with US, but
in squares of about twelve inches by ten
inches. One man stands by the table
and applies the paste, and then adroitly
throws the sheet up to another one who
fixes it on the wall.
Year: 1866

The last dog story is of two dogs who
fell to fighting in sawmill. In the
course of tussle, one of the dogs went
plump against saw in rapid motion,
which cut him in two instanter. The
hind legs ran away, but the fore legs con-
tinued to fight and whipped the other
dog,
Year: 1866

The following is the answer to letter
sent to one of those advertising swindlers
of New York offering, for a fractional
currency, to send certain and quick
mode of getting Ech:" ''Work like the
d-l,and don't spend cent"
Year: 1866

Not that to tell the truth. was ever very
anxious about that rock ahead; but was
very possible that his iastidious honor or
p ide ~ ght have oc, aSioned q considerable
iru ference with our happiness for a time.
As it turned out, he could not leave me
CuIverwood, and | regretted the fact as
little as he did himself. His gratitude to
me was, however, excessive assuming
occasionally ludicrous outbursts of thank.
fulncss. DO not b lieve he could have
been more grateful if | had saved his ship
and it's whole crew. For his hospitality was
at stake Kind old mani


Here ended my fathers story, with n
light sigh, gaze into the bright coa's, Il
kiss Of my mothers hand which he he'd in
his, and another glass Of Burgundy.
Year: 1866

is certain, provisions are scarce and high priced


and men-citizens who have no excuse for


not being well supplied with gold, if it is


abundant here in the soil, are constantly coming


to the post to try to get little of Uncle Sans


grub, which was sent here for the soldiers


Whether they get it or not, and if so, how, and


why. deponent saith not. But deponent does


further say, that one year ago, most of these


same citizens were loud-mouthed secessionists,


as he has been informed by soldiers who were


here then, and are still here; and deponent


further says, that, from their actions and


conduct, which be has witnessed himself, it is


bis firm belief that they have not yet expert


euced the necessary "change of heart" to entitle


them to the honor of being considered loyal


and honorable American citizens. Too chiy-
alrous, proud, and indolent, to work, they prefer


to live on the generous benevolence of the


Government they sought TO destroy, and seal


their base ingratitude by cursing the hand that


feeds them and the soldiers sent here for their
protection. But a day is coming which will


be full jolly for them. The Bully Fourteenth


(U. S. Regulars) is at Yuma, and four eompa-
nies have been ordered to this post, and if they
do not play the citizens OF Prescott lively
tune. they viii lose their reputation for fun and
frolic, and that, You know, is not to be expected
of soldier The weather is mild and pleasant,
and nothing occurs that is more than ordinarily
offensive, or would be even to an Apache.


General Mcdowell arrived here on the 26th
of January, and made pretty close inspection
of one thing aud another, somewhat to the
annoyance of US military heroes, but WE the
soldiers rather liked the annoyance after all,
for be said and did some things that suited our
exactly, and we would have been
willing to go on dress parade every day for a
month if be would have stad that lorg and
somehow or other it seemed to US be ought to
have done so, but doubtless, he thought other
wise, for on the 29ih, be left by way of Date
Greek and Wickenburg for Maricopa. What
of the Posts in the Territory be
intends to visit do not know, but am inclined
to think very few will suffice to let him out
In speech at Prescott, be remarked that
" He had often heard Arizona spoken of as
paradise, and it certainly was entitled to one
of those heavenly attributes, FOR one had TO go
through PURGATORY to get here" I'll
bet ten dollars has head is sound on that goose
But as it is en- excellent characteristic of
good speaker to know when 10 stop and sit
down, no doubt the same principle will apply
with equal force to writers both good aud
poor, and as have nothing more to say jast
row down goes my pen,' and whoever seeks me
ten minutes later, will find me "roNed up in
Blankets" B.
Year: 1866

PRoaREssIxG.-Wo is in progress upon
the Theater Building, preparatory to Its trans
formation into steam Touring establishment
Under the management Of the energetic pro
prietcrs, Messrs. Perkins & Brooks, the work
will be prosecuted as rapidly as possible, and
before the Lapse Of q great many months, our
citizens will be able ;c look with pride upon
douring mills second to none n he State.
This is one among many institutions required
by the people Of Butte to bring the good
times" so long and so anxiously looked for.
Year: 1866

one of his friends hands in both of his
giving a good, hearty, soul-welcoue.-
Sometimes be might be seen vending
his way to bis Office, to the court room, or
the rail road depot with his baggage,
looking like rail in broad-cloth.


"Of winters morning he might be
seen stalking aud sitting it towards the
market house, basket on his arm, his old
gray shawl wrapped around his neck, his
little Willie or Tad running along at bis
heels, asking thousand little quick
questions, which hi father heard


not even then knowing that little Willie
or Tao was there, so abstracted was the
father. When be thus met friend he
said something put him in mind of a story
which he heard in Indiana; and tell it
he would, aud there was no alternative
but to listen.


"Thus, l say, stood and walked and
looked this singular man. He was odd /;
but when that gray eye and face and ev-
cry feature were lit up by the inward
soul 10 fires of emotion, then it was that
all these apparently ugly features spTang
into organs of beauty, or sunk themselves
in a sea of inspiration that sometimes
flooded the face. Sometimes it appeared
to me that Liueoln's soul was fresh-just
frou the presence of its Creator
Year: 1866

From the National Intelhgencer, May .


The President and His Cabinet in


ConnciI-The Views OF Each upon


the Report of the Reconstruction


Committee.


It is understood that at the Cabinet
meeting yesterday the President invited
an expression of opinion from the heads
Of Departments respecting the PROPOSE.
tions reported OIL Monday last by the
Congressional Committee on Reconstruc-
ton. An interesting and animated disCus.
sion is said to have ensued in the course
of which, if rumor be true Secretary
Seward declared himselfin very decided
and emphatic terms against the plan of
the committee, and in favor of the i'm
mediate admission of loyal representa-
tives from the lately rebellious States.


Secretary McCulloch was as positive
az the Secretary of State in his opposl'
ton to the plan recommended by the
committee, and expressed himself strong.
IL in favor of an immediate cOnsumma'
ton of the Presidents restoration policy
By The admission into Congress of loyal
men from the Southern States.


Secretary Stanton was equally decided
in his opposition TO the committees pro-
positions, was for adhering to the policy
which had been agreed upon and con-
sistently pursued by the Administration,
and was gratifed that the President had
brought the subject to the consideration
Of the Cabinet. -


Secretary Welles was unequirocally
against the committees scheme, and
was earnest in his support of the Presi-
dents policy, comprehending the instant
admission into Congress of loyal repre-
septatives from the States lately i'll re.
bellion


Secretary Harlan was rather reticent
and expressed no opinion


Postmaster General DennisOn was Ill
favor of carrying ont the restoration
policy of the President, but expressed
some doubts as to the precise time at
which loyal representatives from the
Southern States should be admitted to
seats in Congress.


Attorney General Speed was not pres
ent at the meeting being on visit to
his home in Kentucky.


The President was earnest in his oppo-
sition to the report Of the committee,
and declared himself against all condi-
tions precedent to the admission of loyal
representatives from the Southern States,
in the shade of amendments to the Con-
stitution or the passage Of the laws. He
insisted that under the Constitution no
State could be deprived of its equal snf-
fraoa in the Senate. and that Senators
and Representatives ought to be at once
admitted into the respective Houses, as
prescribed by law aud the Constitution.
He was for n rigid adherence to the Con
stitution as it is, and remarked that hav-
ing sustained ourselves under it during n
terrible rebellion. he thought that the
Government could be restored without a
resort to amendments. He remarked in
general terms that if the organic law is
to be changed at all it should at time
when all the States and all the people
can participate in the alteration.
Year: 1866

Though Europe is now at peace, after
the sudden termination of the great war
that threatened at one time to shake the
continent throughout its limits, there are
ominous mutterings of wars to come which
will have more important results than any
since the days of Napoleon Bonaparte


The late war left Prussia a power Of the
very first rank in Europe, with several
temptations to aggrandizcment in the shape
oflittle German States onher borders. There
is undoubtedly a strong national feeling
throughout Germany, and the work ofPrus-
sia, without these States, is not yet done,
any more than is that of Italy while she has
not possessesion of the States of the church.


Prussia, will in time, swallow all the minor
German States, and thus secure German
nationality. Nobody who has studied the
recent history of that power can doubt it.
Meanwhile France is the only power that
Prussia has reason to fear. Austria has
just been so well whipped that she will
scarcely want TO try it over again Italy is
bound to Prussia by ties Of common inter-
est, and, IN any event, would be powerless
as an opponent Russia has her own ''ket-
tie of fish TO attend to and England has
the same rs surrendered her position as a
member of the European hegcmony. Lou
is Napoleon has seen the swift success of
Prussia with jealous regrets, and the French
people have natural hatred for the Prus-


slams. The French Emperor forward
the late war to the glory Of himself and
France, but the unexpected prowess of the
Prussians spoiled his little plans, and his
humiliation was complete when his propo-
stion to extend the French boundary TO the
Rhine was promptly refused by the victori-
Gus Prussians. He will naturally oppose
the future increase of Prussian power, and
for the same reason that he is bound to op-
pose the march of Russia to the Bosphorus.
Meanwhile it has been rumored that an al
lance has been formed between Russia and
Prussia, the great Northern powers of Eu-
rope. If this is true it is a very important
event, and its purpose must be something of
no small moment. These two nations com
bined, with the sympathy if not the actual
support of Italy are more than a match for
all the rest of Continental Europe. That is,
they cannot be successfully opposed where
they will operate,--in Germany and Tur-
key.-whatever might be done on n field
equally accessible to both parties. The al
lance of Russia and Prussia means an eX-
tension of the Russian Empire to the Bos-
phorus and the possession Of Constantnople,
and the verlicaton of Germany under the
rule OF the Ifusslun dynasty. IhlS Delng
effected Russia and Prussia would hold the
first rank of power in Europe, and France
would rank next to them, without power to
disturb any arrangement they might make.
This is the great game now on the European
chess board, and we shall see how it will
end We are inclined TO believe that the
alliance of the two great Northern powers
would seem so formidable just at this time
thar they could carry out their programme
without serious experimentation Herald
Year: 1866

Letters from prominent men were re-
ceived and read at the Woman's Rights
Convention recently held at Albany, N. Y.
Among them were Judge Sewell and Rev.
j. f. Clarke of Boston, and Geo. w, Curtis
of New York. The latter says


"Women have quite as much interest in
good government as men, and | have no
more doubt of their amelorating influence
upon politics than have of the influence
they exert every where else But the ques-
ton is new to practical consideration, and
there is a very general and not unnatural
feeling that it will be time to change the old
tradition when those to be benefited by the
change care enough about it to demand it,
Whenever the women of the State of New
York authortatively declare that they wish
to be voters at the polls, l do not believe
Year: 1866

TIE METEORs.-As the meteorc show
after the brilliant style of 1888, which was
to come Off about the 18th or 18th of this
month, was failure, it may be well enough
to console ourselves with an anccdOte of the
last one:


On that memorable night, in November,
1888, old Peyton Roberts, who intended
making an early start to his work, got up
in the midst of the display. On going to
the door he saw, with amazement, the sky
lit up with the falling meteors, and he con-
cludcd at once the world was on fire, and
the day of judgment had come. He stood
for moment gazing in speechless terror at
the scene, and then with yell of horror
sprang out of the door into the yard, right
into the midst of the falling stars, and there,
in his efforts to dodge them, he commenced
series of ground tumbling that would have
done honor to a rope dancer. His wife, be-
ing awakened in the meantime, and seeing
Peyton jumping and skipping about the
yard, bawled out to know what in the name
of common sense he was doin out thar,
dancin' round without his clothes on" But
Peyton heard not. The judgment, and long
black accounts he would have to settle, made
him needless of all terrestrial things, and his
wife, by this time becoming alarmed at his
behavior, sprang out Of bed, and running to
the door, shrieked out, at the top of her
lungs;


"Peyton, / say, Peyton, what do You
mean jumpin' about thar? Come and put
your trOwsers on


"Trowscrs what the h-ll's the use of
trowsers when the worlds on lire?"
Year: 1866

NENDCEs.-Judging from the number Of
public sales which have taken, and are to take
place, during this month, about half of the far
mers expect to sell of. We do not remem-
Der to have ever seen SO many notices before.
There Is to be two or three sales in this vicinity
every day from now to the 27tL. The low
price OF grain and the high price OF labor, 60.
IS creating panic among the farmers that NAV
cause some Of them to act hastily in quitting.
though the prospect is not now very promis-
ing we fear that many are about to relinouisu
1t for a much poorer one.
Year: 1866

1t is expected that the next peach crop will
be carried to market via. Lewes, and from
thence by steamboat to New York. 1t is
claimed that this route will carry for one halt
the price we now pay, and besides will get the
fruit In market in shorter time and better or
der than the old route via. Philadelphia. In
deed some Of our largest peach growers assert
that the value of Peach orchards in this vicini-
ty will be doubled by tie opening of this route.
--LjncOln HeraH
Year: 1866

CARS OFF THE TRACK.-The morning train
north on the Delaware road ran off the track
when within about mile and half this side
OF New Castle on Monday last The accident
was caused by the sudden thaw and heavy
ram, which, washing the dirt from the track
caused 1t to give way. The locomotive plunged
into the bank, burying herself nearly half over,
and about putting an end to her career. No
one was hurt. The trains were delayed con-
slderably, and we were WHO t northern mail
until tuesday noon. The track has be n push
ed aside, 50 as to allow the trains to pass "
the wreck.
Year: 1866

a man who had v case in court said "that
II he lost IN the court OF common pleas. he
would appeal to the supreme court, and from
thence to heaven. And there, replied .
gentleman. "you will be sure to lose, for you
will not be there to answer for yourself, ard
no attorney 10 ever adnittsd there I"
Year: 1866

WHAT GENERAL JOE JOHNSTON SA1D.-It
is stated that in recent trip up the Mississip-
passengers in the same steamer. One remark
from General Johnston was worthy of note,
which was to the effect that under the Presi-
deat's LIBERAL humane and truly Democratic DO
llcy of reconstruction, the South would soon get
over the visible effects of the war, and that in
four years time the United States would be the
most prosperous and powerful of all nations and
of all governments
Year: 1866

Death is the most certain Of events. That it
will come no one can question; but when, no
one can decide. The young behold it afar in
the future the aged regard it still at distance;
but both are smitten suddenly as a bolt from
the cloud-a serpent from the brake-or shaft
from the unseen quiver. There is no safety,
therefore, save In that habitual preparation
which nothing can deceive, and nothing can sur
prise.
Year: 1866

The race of mankind would perish did they
cease to aid each other. From the time that
the mother binds the child's head till the mo-
ment that some kind assistant wipes the death
damp from the brow of the dying, we cannot
exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that
need aid have right to ask it of their fellow
mortals no one who holds the power of grant
ing can refuse it without guilt.-.Sr Waiter
.NcOft
Year: 1866

CoLDs IN THE HEAD.--As this is the season
for these troublesome and ANNOYING little mala.
dies, remedy pointed out by the French Hos
pital Gazette may be ofconsiderable interest and
use on this side of the Atlantic. 1t consists in
inhaling the tincture of iodide by holding vial
of the tincture under the nose. The warmth of
the hand volatizes the tincture 1t to be thus
breathed at intervals of three minutes, and the
malady is soon conquered
Year: 1866

NATURAL BEAUTY.-The impression of hui
man beauty, either in marble or in canvas, is,
to those who can feel it, great delight; but the
living and the actual is rapture which admits
OF no defining: All adyentitiqus!, M distinctions
are nothing in its presence The youth bare
footed on the mountains, clad iii the godlness
OF nature, is a,true prince and peer of earth
The good girl by the spring, robed in homespun
cotton, with the light of loyeliness around her,
is queen with right divine from Heaven.
Year: 1866

They claim to degrade, debase and prescribe as because of our patriotism.

 Speaking here to-day in the name of the loys Ealists of the South, we affirm Congress, in or der to avoid disc,rd aud conflict, has actually abstained from doing much which 1t ought to have done and possesses the power to do. We affirm that the loyalists of the South look to Congress with affectionate gratitude and confidence as the only means to save us from persecution. exile and death itself; and we also declare that there can be no security for

 us our children. There can be no safety for the country against the fell spirit of Slavery now organized in the form of serfdom, unless the Government, by nation and appropriate legisletion. enforced by national authority, shall confer on every citizen in the States we represent the American birthrigbt of impar- tial suffrage and equality before the law This is the one al-suf6cient remedy This is our great need and pressing necessity. This is |the only policy which will destroy sectional ism by bringing into effective power prepon derating force on the side of loyalty. It will lsad to an enduring pacifcation. because bas- ed on the eternal principles of justice. It is policy which will finally regenerate the South itself, because it will introduce and establish there'a divine principle of moral politics

 which, under Ged's blessing. will, in elevating humanity, absorb and purify the uRchrlslian

 hate and selfish passions of men. It will bless those who give as we'll as :hose who receive It will bethe crowning act of glory to our free Republic, and when done will be received as was the act of Emancipation, with joy and praise throughout the world as the final reali- zation of the promises of the Declaration of American Independence. E
Year: 1866

t a

 In common with every sensible man in the country we wish this publi c exhibition of our chief magistrate might be stopped, forthwith.

 Although the course MT Johnson pnrsues is driving away all the friends he once had in the Union party; although every speech be has made on his Western trip has gaincd us many votes; we cannot but remember that he is President of the United States and would gladly forego our party advantages for the sake of our national reputation. How so shrewd a politician as Secretary Seward can permit the head of the new party to bring it into such early disrepute, is great mystery. unless, as has been suggested, he wishes an obstacle to his own nomination m 1868, to remove itself. If such be his design, now that the business is finished and President JohCsous suicide ac compIsbed, can he not be withdrawn from public sight as MT Blair withdrew him after that lamentable exhibition at his inaugura- tion.-That be should be allowed to go on in- acting further uuseemly wounds on his reputa- tion, and di.Eracing beyond measure his high office. shows that, with their loud professions, the persons surrounding him are no real friends.
Year: 1866

He has greatly endearsd himself to the the committee by all his intercourse with them. They have found him an able, earnest and ell. oauent advocatsof temperance, . brave and noble man. and Christian gentleman in all things. Their wsfm friendship and best wishes will attend him in his future work They. doubt not that like his temperance work it will be well done -
Year: 1866

One had seen him fall dead. Another
had helped him to an ambulance, badly
wounded. Another had carried him to
an hospital, and the enemy had fred the
building, and all within had perished.-
Then, again, she learned that his dead
body was left in the skirt of pine woods
IN front of whe'e she stood. So fully did
she believe this that at one time she had
mounted horse, and was starting back
from Alexandria, in hope of getting
through the lines and finding him, when
she was met by Colonel Burnside, who
assured her that Robert was unhurt, and
she should see him in few hours.


The first was three months regiment,
and its time expired on the first OF Au-
gust. M


She returned with it to Providence, where
she received a regular discharge; but it
was only to re-enlist with her husband in
the Fifth Rhode Island.- Women of The
Var.