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Year: 1867

The Sanitary Police considerably reduced the
mortality lists for the current week, on Satur-
day, by selling more than five hundred carcasses
of immature veal at Washington Market which,
but for the seizure, would have composed many
Sunday dinners amopg the poorer classes yes
terday. How many lives are annually lost ID
this city by the use of such food has not, to
our knowledge, been definitely computed; but
the matter was considered so important by the
Metropolitan Board of Health, that among its
earliest sanitary regulations was one forbidding
the sale of the meat Of any calf which at the
time of its death was less than four weeks old,
any violation of such regulation being punish


able as q misdemeanor. This action of the San


itary Police should be extended not only through
| our retail meat markets, but TO the commission
men, and to the cattle va rds, where live bObs'
are sold every week, which go thence direct to
the cheap meat men, to be sold on the sly.
Year: 1867

men. The difficulty of accepting, sooner or
later, what is unavoidable, does not strike us
as. philosophically, very great one. Step by
sten the South have conceded so many po-
ltical matters -of-course, shameful it would
seem only to those hidalgos who quarrel wi'h
honest living, and fight and beg equally Oh
horseback. There will be many sensible South
erners who will ere long agree with GOV
Brown, that, after having done everything else'
the South had better take the last, best STEP
frankly and in earnest, and return to its place
in the family of the Union. g.
Year: 1867

The substance of ex-Gov Browns address to
the citizens of Atlanta, Ca, is that Recon-
struction under the late act Of Congress is to
the South an inevitable expediency. The North
cannot be escaped in any event, he thinks, and
the South may go further in course of politi-
cal chagrin and idleness, and fare worse than by
accepting the wholesome finality of the Recon-
struction bill. Congress having settled the
question of the enfranchsement of the black
man, it is for the South TO accept the position
and act upon it, so that the ballot will remain
In tho hands Of pine.tA"'s of its Whito
Year: 1867

A few mornings since, Staten Island ferry
boat crashed into the Whitehall-st. slip with
such force as to break strong chains like twine
and 15-nch timbers like dry twigs Had the
criminal accident happened one hour later,
there would have been list Of murdered vic
tins, whose surviving friends would not have
been satisfied without more searching inves-
tigatiOn into the cause of the slaughter than
the Legislative Committee gave to general ferry
mismanagemont. Upon inquiry into the cause
of the disaster, the public was informed that
the engineer was asleep, and did not hear the
pilots bell and in support of this theory the
engineer was discharged 1t was natural for
the Ferry Company to wish to hush up this
reckless disaster, but it has become known,
upon investigation by the passengers and
patrons of the line, that the fault did not lie
with the engineer; that but one bell-the sig


nal to "go slow"-hGas been IIgngi that the
pilot was an unlicensed youth son OF the man
ager of the line that having rung the one bell
to "go SLOW" he apparently became confused,
and rang no more; that the engineer, shut up
in the engine room, could not know whether
the boat was in mid-stream or close to the
dock, but could and did simply obey the one
order from the acting pilot and that the same
pilot has been continued in charge OF the
wheel-house The passengers, having learned
what they considered the facts i'll the case, de-
manded that the engineer be restored to his
position threatening otherwise to set on foot
an investigation, sparing nobody, and tue en-
Year: 1867

MECHANICAL Uses OF CASTOR OIL.-lt is
not as universally known as it deserves to be
that castor oil is as useful in the trades as 1t
is as medicine 1t is much better to soften
and redeem old leather than any other OIL
known; when boots and shoes are CREASED
with it the oil will not at all interfere with
the polishing afterward. as is the case with
lard. olive or any other oil. In Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania the old leather hose of some
of the fire companies was creased with II,
and found to become almo-t as soft and Hex
;ble rs new leather. Leather belts for trans
hitting motion in machinery will usually
last three to five years, according to the wear
and tear they are exposed to; when creased
with castor oil they will last ten years or
more. as they always remain flexible and do
not crack. Besides this advantage. castor
oil will prevent slipping, so that belt three
inches wide, impregnatcd with it, will be
eopaI to belt four and half inches wide
without castor oil. II is necessary. however,
to wait twenty four hours. till the oil has
disanneared from the surface and penetrated
the leather. otherwise the freshly creased
surface will cause slipping. The rats and
other vermin detest anything impregnated
with castor oil. and will not touch it, which
is another advantage.
Year: 1867

EYEING WoMEN.-The editors gossip of
the New York Galaxy makes this fitting re-
buke:


The cycling of women by women is enc of
the most offensive manifestations of supercl
iousness now to be met with in society. Few
observant persons can have failed to notice
the manner in which one woman, who is not
perfectly well-bred or perfectly kind d-hearted,
will eye over another woman who she thinks
is not in good society, and above all, not at
the time being in SO costly dress as she
herself is in. 1t is done everywhere-at
parties, at church, in the street. 1t is done
by women of all conditions Of life. The
very servant girls learn it of their mistress
1t is done in an instant Who cannot recall
hundreds of instances of that sweep Of the
eye which takes in at a glance the whole
woman and what she has on. from top knot
to shoe tie? 1t cannot be fashion of be
favlor but the daily increasing pretence of
people to superiority. because they can afford
to spend more money npor their backs than
others can, makes it at once more common
and more remarkable even than it was ten
or fifteen years ago. Men are never guilty
of it, or with such extreme rarity, and then
in such feeble and small souled specimens of
their sex, that it may be set down as sin
not masculine, or at least epicene But
women of sense, of some breeding. and even
of some kindliness of nature, will thus en-
deavor to assert a superiority upon the mean
est of all preten :es, and inhict a wound in
manner the most cowardlv. because it can
not be resented, and admits of no retort If
they but only knew how unIovely how pos
itively offensive they make themselves in so
doing, not only to their silent victims, but
to every generous hearted man who observes
their maneuvre, they would give up a tri
umph at once so mean and so cruel. which is
obtained at such a sacrifice on their part
No other evidence than this eyeing is need
ed that woman, whatever be her birth or
breeding has small and vulgar soul.
Year: 1867

enter upon the performance of his ofirial duties
for the current year. He would call particular
attention to the following section of the Revenue
Law:


'' If any person shall willfully make. or give,
under oath atirmation false list of his or her,
or their taxable property, false list Of taxable
property under his, her, their control such per-
SON shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished therefor. as
Is by law provided for the punishment of perjury
and any property wilfully concealed. removed.
transferred, or misrepresented, by the or any
agent thereof, to evade taxation shall upon iseOv-
cry, be assessed at times the amount Of tax for
that year. which would otherwise have been assess
ed upon it f; and fifty per cent. of the amount of
such additional tax, when collected. shall be paid
to the person or persons who shall furnish the
information which reveals the property conceal
ed transferred, removed misrepresented. and the
remaining fifty per cent. after dedueting the usual
per eentage for collection, shall be paid into the
Treasury. for the benefit of the Common School
Fund Of the State


If Tax Payers were to have list of their pro-
perty prepared, ready to be sworn to, as the law
directs. by the time Of my reaching them, they
would thereby themselves some annoyance,
perhaps, well as facilitate my work


A. P. LiDD,


Assessor of Shasta County.
Shasta, Feb. %. 1867. f23
Year: 1867

A Scotch paper the Haddin0ton


Courier has an extraordinary story
of the escape of a miner who foil down
the shaft Of a coAl-pit near Trsuent.
An old shaft was made use of to open
= communication with q now pit re.
Gently sunk About half way down the
shaft, which was 276 feet deep, a
wooden staging, composed Of strong
two-inch plAnkS, was built, completely
intersecting the down shaft, to afford
firm footing to the miners entering
the sideshaft. At the bottom Of tao
down shaft was a considerable aocu.
m ulation OF wator. as is usual in pits
whioh have not been worked for somo
time. On the occasion in question, a
yoang man named Mylne, rather than
wait for the comparatively tedious
process of being lowered down by the
windlass said he would slide down the
ropo. Disregarding the advice of
companions, he got upon the rope, and
they were in another moment horrified
to see that he had lost hold fit. The
crash Of his body against the wooden
staging was heard, and thsy werO
making preparations to descend for
the mangled remains, when a cry for
assistance was heard coming up from
the very bottom of the PIT. The rap
idity of his decent of 170 feet had pro.
pelled aim through the two-inch
boards as neatly as if his body had
been a rifle bullet and with about az
little injury, for not bone was bro.
ken, and, except small scratch on
the chin, his person did not bear the
slightest mark Of coming in con tact
with anything during the descent. fall
ing into ths water at the bottom, ne
had, on coming to tho surface prov
identially thrown his arms over some
wooden framework which happened
to be there and had thus been saved
The man was found here, and was
conveyed home quito Oonscious, and
under medical care will soon be able
to go out Of doors.


The story has certainly the appear
Ancs of fable, yet lift is possible to
shoot candle through an inch board,
why cannot a man bo shot through a
two inch plank2 The narrative is at
least amusing, and anybody who
chooses can have the liberty of doubt /
ing that IL 10 we'll Authenticated.
Year: 1867

pS- A New vehicle in Paris, IL
mounted on very large wheels. The
horse is placed between tho wheels,
while the driver and the carriage body
are over the horse. Such q vehicle as
this takes up but little room and is
very convenient in crowded thorough
fares tf
Year: 1867

\ Georgia exchange which a while since
had nothing hut praise for ANDY johnson,
now says Of bis last message


The President is nun on the suffrage ques
tlon, numb on the election question, and dumb
on the amnesty question:
Year: 1867

Good Prospecs for = Black MAYOR In Washr.


Under the law Of universal suffrage in WASH
ington the registry Of voters Is going on there,
and as far as II has progressed (three wards
out Of the scven) the registered negro voters
are largely In the majority. The population
Of the city, in round numbers, is perhaps sew
enty thousand whites to thirty thousand blacks.
The whites, however. II is reported, are so
largely disguised with negro suffrage and the
oath Of loyalty that they are letting the registry
20 by deiault II they choose to continue this
game, the next thing win be negro Mayor for
Washington by default Of the disgusted whites.
And II they will have it so, even SO let II be.
The national capital is the proper place for
the practical Inauguration Of the new epoch Of
political equality, and an American Mayor Of
African descent would not be q bad begin
ming. If we are, then, to have the millennium
thus inaugurated in Washington, is not Andrew
Johnson at hand ready to volunteer as the
orator of the dayf
Year: 1867

A great many persons are at loss to UNDER
stand and curious to discover the reason Of
Governor Fenton's hostility to Police Commis-
sioner Acton. Acton is the most efficient mem-
ber Of the Metropolitan Police Commission,
and he is remarkably faithful in the discharge Of
duties. He deserves to be sustained rather
than to be snubbed and opposed by the Execu-
tive of the State. We hope that Governor
Fenton will give this subject serious consider
alton, and that he will be willing, upon reHec-
ton, to take OF some Of the rough edges Of mis-
enmity to very diligent aud capable public
officer,
Year: 1867

The receipts from customs during March
were unusually large, amounting to sixteen
million dollars. Last year during the same
month they were only . trife over eleven
million dollars. This great increase is sure
sign that our merchants have felt encouraged
to prepare for an active and extensive revival
of trade.
Year: 1867

The Fire nc tho Academy Of Music Curious
Conduct Of the Psiice.


There is something very curious about the
conduct Of the police In connection with the
explosion at the Academy of Music on Monday
evening last The people are peculiarly in
terested in all that relates to the safety and
proper management of our large theatres, and
wren an act Of carelessness occurs at any Of
them, threatening danger to the public, it
should be exposed rather than concealed and
covered up by the authorities, in order to in
duce more caution on the part Of proprietors
Here was an accident, the result of gross neg
hgence, which might have oceasioned dis
asrous fire, and which almost certainly would
nave been attended by fatal results had it oc-
Cured half an hour later than 1t did. Yet the
captain Of police Of the district professed to
know nothing whatever about II, and his men,
probably under instruction, were in similar
state Of ignorance. although two OF them were
on duty on the spot, and must necessarily have
been aware Of the accident II. Is rumored
that the police actually turned back the FIRE
companies called out BY the alarm. md kept
them in ignorance Of the nature and location
Of the Gre.


We have been in favor Of the Metrupol
Police generally, and we regard the force as
good one. The men acted well at the recent
riot on Grand street, and have on several other
occasions displayed courage and efficiency.
But we believe there is great room for i'm
provement among the captains and probably
some other of the officers. Kennedy is an OK
celient superintendent, although occasionally
disposed to assume the character Of an auto
crat; but he should not undertake to hush up
such a matter as this Academy Of Music fire
nor should he suffer any of his subordinates to
do 50. That is an offence against the pub
lie and cannot be tolerated. In despotic
countries the police may be as arbitrary,
tyrannical and mysterious as they please,
but here they must conane themselves to
their duties, and their action must be open
and above board. They arc the servants Of
the public, not Of the proprietors Of theatres,
or of any other special interests, and when they
lend themselves to an attempt to impose upon
the people and hush up an affair like the
Academy Of Music fire, in which every citizen
has suoh vital interest, they greatly exceed
their duty and are guilty Of very grave
offence.
Year: 1867

The Legal Gazette Bill In n Bad Way.


The bill to establish q new legal gazette,
which passed the Assembly ct Albany, will,
we learn, meet an adverse fate In the Senate,
the Judiciary Committee having decided to
report against it This result has been accom-
plished through the efforts Of persons inter-
ested in the Transcript, Of this city, concern
that has been rich placer for some Of the
"rings" Of Tammany Hall. Our friends Of the
Tribune have affected to be in great trouble
and distress Of mind for some time over this bill
and might be supposed to feel gratiied at its
defeat 1t was certainly novel idea for Legisla-
lures to start new papers, that amusement
being generally supposed to be confined to the
wealthy simpletons of Wall street. But, pro-
badly, the Assembly had more solid reasons
for its action than appear upon the surface.
It seems that some Of the persons named in
Che Albany bill were originally associated
with the Transcript. Another Of them was
long haired philosopher of the Tribuner who
goes about with his hat stuffed full of aboli-
ton tracts and free love speeches, and who
looks 90 much like hackman that he-is gene
rally accosted with "How much for q ride !"


The fight has evidently been one. between
the Transcript and outsiders who are envious
of its profits. 1t would be very curious
result If 1t should turn out that all the fuss
made by the Tribune over this affair was
only for the purpose of hoodwinking the
Legislature and the public, and that, after all,
the new legal gazette was the very thing the
Tribune wanted. The large bills of Corporation
printing that have fallen to the share Of the
Tlunscript, have, no doubt, been looked at by
the Tribune with hungry eyes; and, as there is
generally considerable twisting and turning
in political newspapers and Legislatures, 1t
would not be surprising to find that while
pretending to oppose the bill to establish the
legal gasette, the philantnropic Tribune was
in reality expecting to secure the largest
nugget out Of the anticipated placer.
Year: 1867

n we are to believe the reports from Albany
the operations Of the lobby in the present
Legislature surpass the experience of any for
mer session. 1t is said that scarcely bill =
brought forward that is not pounced upon BY
these gentry and made to pay from five thou
sand dollars upwards before it has chance oe
success. The members are generally cheated
BY the lobby, who keep all. they get for them
selves. The former owe it to themselves ana
their families to look into this matter and make
the /" third house" pay up. The lobby demand
money upon every bill, under the ppetencs
that they pay it out to members, and the mem
bers should therefore insist upon having g ths
game as well as the name"
Year: 1867

going on in the South, there is much to be
done yet and many things to be avoided.
The South has always been afflicted by set
of small, narrow-minded politicians, bummers
and long haired, brainless and sophomorical
young men Of the press. These men, like all
men Of small mental calibre, are very fussy,
noisy, impudent and irrepressible. It will be
difficult to keep them in the background, but


they must be kept there or they will prove


very mischievous and may retard the good


work so happily begun. Let the Southern
people, white and black, ignore these pestilent
and noisy agitators and trust in such men as
Wade Hampton, Lee, Longstreet and others
like them. AT the same time they should give
the cold shoulder TO the crack-brained and
equally pestilent emissaries of the New Eng
| land radicals; for these will be sure to SOW
discord and hatred between the negroes and


whites. BY all means let them avoid the rsdi-
cal parsons and strong-minded women Of the
East, who will spread over the country Nike
locusts to devour their substance and pro-
| duce mischief.


Looking to the future and TO harmonizing
the NOrtn ana SOuul, making US Que peOPh0
again in heart, as well as in our political rela-
| tions, the Southerners should at once adopt q
ticket for the next Presidential term. General
| u. s. Grant and General Robert E. Lee should
be that ticket, and it should be at the head o.
| all their newspapers and inscribed everywhere
Independent OF the excellence and popularity
OF this ticket, it would operate as q splendid


flank movement upon the politicians and


would give TO the South powerful influence


We advise the Southerners, too, to carry on


the ideas Of the radicals to the fullest exten


and push the revolution these radicals inau


gurated TO the utmost limit In doing this the.


should send large delegation Of negroes Y


Congress. If taken In proportion to the blacl
! aud white population the negro representative
Year: 1867

Tho deposits in these banks s about hal. million
dollars less than April but has been recently gain
ing and will il Is hoped be at the samo level as it
stood at prior TO the financial alarm OF few weeks back


The earnings Of the uuiermentonsd railroads Tor the
THIRD week in May were a. follows
Year: 1867

considerable benefit 10 this city. very much In need
OF money and bank accommodation


subjoned Is tho business statement OF the United
States Assistant Treasurer al phiadpha for the month
or May


Balance hand on May H.. SIS, s2s, sil
Year: 1867

DECISIONS BY JUDGE BLATCBFoRD.


Elra Aenheim, bankrupt


REGISTER ketchum, TO whom the petition or
the above named bankrupt was referred Informs Judge
Batchford that the first meeting OF the creditors three
OF them appeared and hed proof OF their claims Ihe
counsel of William B. Astor named in petitioners sched-
ue as creditor by virtue OF mortgage on certain real
estate OF the bankrupt, executed by former owner
thereof asked leave put file protest the part ot
for petitioner objects thereto. because the paper Is not
sworn TO- The Register considers that Mr. Astor does
not appear person by attorney and has not proven
Mr. insists his claim and demands that the
question be certified 10 the Judge Judge Batchford de-
cdes that the Register correct Ia the conclusion ana
in the grounds on which he placed IT,


THE QUESTION OF AN ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE.


In re John Bslamy, bankrupt


Belamy, who had been adjudlcated bank
rupt pettoned the Register in due form for an order 10
debts The Register informs the Judge that hc is IN doubt
az to power of the ORDER whether 1t should be made
retunable before him or the Court and II before the
prospect any opposition TO the discharge the bank
rupt insists order should be made reurnabe be-
fore the Register and that IL give notice OF the second
General Orders OF Bankruptcy" The Register also
that in his opinion when discharge is inevitable,
the Court should not be troubled TO Fix day to do
nothing.


Judge Batchford holds that the ordermay be made
turnable before the Court the Office Of the Register
such day and hour the Register determine allow
time the proper publication OF notice The order
must the newspapers in which the order Is TO be
published and the selection OF the newspapers 10 be
made by Register with due regard 10 section % OF
the act The Clerk Will in every case when peu%uoh %
referring IL 10 the Register in charge OF the case 10 make
order show thereon, and 10 SIT IN chambers
the bankrupt II there he no opposition. These regua
onS shall be considered standing rules hereafter No
discharge viii granted until all the papers relating TO
the filed by the Register In the once OF the clerk
nf he
Year: 1867

The demand for money not pressing today ana IN
Some quarters IL was reported quite light but taking one
day with another the banks have as much paper onefed
IN Them as they able 20 take and the character OF te
demand Is virtually much in the shape OF rene Wals
Tor strictly healthy market Currency Is daily WORKING


closer and OF Interest firm at odlO per cent iOr
class paper In the open market money II ready
taken at l6ei2 per cent on ample security Exchange
I'M Good demand with diminished receipts, ana rates are
frmcr al par buying and 5Oc. premium selnhe oohe
checks we're drawn at One-tenth premium


fhn ueellV statement OF the con.