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Year: 1878

As We sit on the massive walls and look
out upon the fields which have been
stained with the blood of thousands,
now waving with rich and plentiful
harvest, as we explore into the massive
dungeons formerly filed with the groans
Of tortured prisoners, now only ecbOing
the footsteps Of some curious traveller,
we cannot but rejoice that those days
OF misnamed chivalry are passed, never,
as We hope, to return, and that man has
found something nobler aud better than
to clothe himself in plated steel and
take by might that to which he has no
right. The train for Edinburgh soon
carried US out of sight of the lofty castle,
which, as wesped away from it, seemed
to stand like a grand monument to the
heroic deeds which it had witnessed in
the past O. r.. BURCHARD.
Year: 1878

The use Of English ivies for the pur-
pose Of decorating rooms is becoming
more extensive every year, and cannot
be too highly commended. Being very
strong, they will live through any
treatment. But study their peculiar
ities, and manifest willingness 10 graf
ify them, and they will grow without
stint. Many houses are too hot for
them, as indeed they are for their own
ers. Neither plants nor people should
have the temperature over sixty de-
grees Fahrenheit. Take care aud not
enfeeble your ivies by excessive water
ing or undue heat, ana you will see that
they will not seem TO mind whether the
sun shines or not, or In what direction
you train them. Indeed, so much will
they DO themselves TO render a room
charming, that we would rather have an
unlimited number Of them TO draw upon
than anything else in nature or art. Do
you wish the ugly, plain doors that shut
of your tiny entry from your parlOr to
he arched or curved like those in the
drawing-rooms of your richer neighbOr
Buy "A couple OF brackets, such as lamps
for the burning Of kerosene are some
times placed IN, and screw them 10 the
sides Of the door Put in each "A plant
c. Elgli-'t ivy, the longer the better;
then Train the plants over the TOP,
against the sides. indeed, any way your
fancy dictates. You ueed not buy the
I beautiful, hut costly pots the flower
dealers viii advise. Common glazed
ones viii answer every purpose, for, by
placing iu each two or three sprays Of
] Coliseum ivy, i'm months time no


vestige of the pot itself can be Ciscerned
/ through their thick screen. The
. English ivy growing over the walls Of a
building, instead OF promoting damp


ness, as most persons would suppose, Is


said 10 be a remedy for il, aud il Is men,


toned as "A fact in the PdpCr-hdHgcr'
Companion, that, IN a certain room


where dampness had prevailed for d


length Of time, the affected parts inside


had become dry when ivy had grown uI


20 cover the opposite exterior side. The


close. overhanging pendent leaves pre-


vent the rain or moisture from peue


trating to the wall. Beauty and utility
in this case go hand in hand.-J01Hnd


of horticulture.
Year: 1878

WRITING For THE DAILY Pass
Did you ever stop To consider the
pressure under which modern
daily newspaper is produced? When
you find a writer tipping over some
simple rule Of construction, and getting
himself into a verbal tangle which En-
ersOn would have avoided, does il occur
TO you that newspaper work is a pc
euliar and distinctive class Of labor
The greater part Of each daily issue of a
paper is composed, arranged and given
to the public between sun and sun.
There is no leisure in the life of a jour
nalist. There is no opportunity to Te-
wise, remodel and correct the hasty
workings of his brain and hand. Topics
become stale if not treated simultane-
Ously with the occurrence of the events
which give them birth. In the turning
of a hand, writer for the press must be
transformed into politician, a satirist,
an essayist, or a critic, as the exigencies
of the moment demand. His pen must
be facile, his mind versatile, his iudg-
ment good. A glimpse of the record OF
daily events must be sufficient to furnish
him food for mental processes, the re-
ductions from which, without the de-
tails OF his reasOnings, are to form the
themes of his work. Whatever his con-
clusions are, they must be given rap
idly, freely, boldly. There is no time to
analyze and re-aTrange.
Year: 1878

A true heroine has come to light at
Washington, who, when she found out
recently that the $1,000 salary Of a man
with a family was about to be cut down,
went quietly to the authorities and
begged that the reduction might fall
upon her 81, 200, as she had no others TO
support, and could bear reduction bet
ter. She requested that her name
might not be mentioned, but It leaheu
out, and she was much confused "neh
her fellow-clerk came to thank her. 20
far as is known, no young man mas YET
asked for a reduction Of his salary IN
order To increase the compensation OF
widow who has a family to support.
What is sauce for the goose should De
sauce for the gander.
Year: 1878

The discovery has been made that the
world does not revolve with the same
motion that il did a thousand years ago;
but il still swings around fast enough to
satisfy the man with a heavy bill COM
inc due
Year: 1878

In one of the caves recently found


ut the Richmond mine, rich ore was
discovered encrusting the roof to
considerable thickness, fact that has
never before occurred in any of the
numerous cavities in the limestone
opened on the hill. Ore is always
found on the floor, and sometimes on
the sides, but never, until the above,
in the upper part. Many of our best
miners are of the opinion that all Of
the ore bodies found in the lode were
at one time caves in the vein matter,
afterwards filled by Natures wonder
full processes, and that the work of
by percolation and inflter-
alton, is still going on. Some color
is given to the theory by the invaria-
BILE presence Of rich ore in the open
ings Of the vein formation.-[E Eureka
Sentinel.
Year: 1878

"WHY do honest ducks dip their
heads under water? asks the Grass
Valley Union, and by way of explana-
tion "To liquidate their little bills, of
course This is very well as far as it
goes, but our contemporary does not
suggest any reason for said ducks
taking their heads out of the water.
Mightit not be for another run On the
bank?
Year: 1878

From end to end, Charleston bar, along it's
crest, is ten miles long. The opening between
the jetties now to be built will be half a mile
wide. Through this gap will be thrown the
whole body of water that is now diffu9ed over
a line of ten miles, less whatever water may
pass over the submerged sections of the jet
ties. The estimate is that the overflow be-
tween the ,ietty heads will he eight times as
great in force us the flow over the bar as it
stands. Some dredging will probably be nee
essary, but the deliberate Judgment of the
enHnrsrs is that in the now channel between
the jettie9, and out to sea, there will be q
depth of from twtntysbite TO twenty-four feet
at mean low water, equal at the maximum,
to nearly thirty feet at mean high yEa Taater' and
to thirtyfive feet at spring tides. The depth
in the channel across the bar, at preSent,
ranges from seventeen to nineteen feet at
mean high water. Ten or eleven feet Of water
will be gained by the projected improve
ments. This means that the largest vessels
afloat can then come across Charleston bar,
running into land-locked port spacious
enough and deep enough to accommodate the
navieS Of the world.
Year: 1878

II Baton Rouge is really desirous Of becom-
ing the State capital, her people have certain
y Re s95e Red ING st Wrong N way aoqnt IT, AfavR al
we're waited on by about $50 men and small
boys, mostly colored, each OF whom insisted
upon US going to some particular hotel or
boarding-house, and all appearing to have an
full use of umbrellas and walking canes, we
managed to escape from the crowd of runners
and gained shelter under the roof of the
boarding house. The fare and accommodation
We're about the worst that could possibly be
desired; the rate of board ranging from So so
to So per day. according to the elasticity of
conscience of the host. Oh how we wished
for a square meal at Austin Lacombs. If the
people want the State capital removed to a
country town, better bring it to ODeousas
where strangers will be we'll served at liv-
ing prices. No Baton Rouge in ours.
Year: 1878

CouRAGE.-1t is easy to say "Neve'


give up the ship" 1t is so easy to hold


your head up and step firmly, to laugh


cheerily and have a pleasant word fol


every body, when safely hedgad in form


sorrow and poverty by the love CT friends


and bottomless purse. Whom sickness


passes by and knocks at some other door,


when home is the one "sweet, safe corner


IN all the world, when there are those who


would suffer that you might go free--ah


then it is so easy to feel as if nothing could


ever make you quite discouraged. This
is beautiful world and there are lots of
good things in it. Yes, many son and
daughter, few wives and mothers, and
about the same proportion Of husbands and
fathers, do not live more in the shine than
in the shadow of life. But there are SO
many, so many more, who have to buckle
on their armor, and spend their best hearts
blood in the daily life. Such bitter trials
rs men and women do live through Who
can doubt that Heaven sends them their
fortitude? 1t cannot be Of earth. Snch
strain of heart as hearts and brains do bear
up under! Is it any wonder that weary
hands sometimes fall despoudingly, and
weary heads bow discouraged P? Oh, ye
whose paths are in the peasan. places !!
whose faith was never tried by Heavens
seeming disregard of your prayers and
tears F! who never knew the lack Of tender
home love and protection, exu|t in your
happiness and thank Providence! But
while you drink from your cup of life such
honey sweet draughts, give thought now
and then to those whose daily portions
SAVIOR 80 strongly of wormwood. and re
member that kind word and helping
hand-wb;ch cost so little may make
lighter the burdens of one now almost dis
Year: 1878

Truth will never die; the stars will grow
dim, the sun will pale his glory, but truth
will be ever young. Integrity, uprightness
honesty, love. goodness, these are all i'm
perishable. No grave can ever entomb
these immortal principles. They have
been in prison, but they have been freer
than before; those who enshrined them in
their hearts have been burned at the stake,
but out of their ashes other witnesses have
arisen. No sea can drown, no storm can
wreck, no abyss can swallow up the ever
lasting trnth. You cannot kill goodness
and integrity, and righteousness; the way
that's consistent with these must be way
everlasting.
Year: 1878

A KIND HEARTED OLD MANA young
pianist was giving concerts through the
provinces Of Germany for her'support, and
to enhance her reputation she advertised
herself as pupil of List. In little town
in the interior Of Germany, where she had
the day before the concert was to take
place by seeing in the list Of arrivals, at
the very hotel where the concert was to be
given, IN. Liable List" Here was a
dilemma, and what to do she knew not
Her fraud would be discovered; she would
be exposed she could never give another
concert; she was ruined.


TrembIing'y she sought the presence Of
the great maestro, determined to make a
clean breast of it and cast herself on his
mercy. Coming into his room with down
cast eyes, she knelt at the old mans feet,
and with many tears told her story-how
she had been left an orphan, and poor,
with only her one gift Of music with which
to support herself; the difficulties she had
encountered until the fraudulent use of bis
great name had filled her rooms and her
purse. "Wel, WE'LL" said the great man,
gently raising her up, "let US see, my child,
what we can do. Perhaps it is not SO bad
as you thought. There is a piano; let me
hear one Of the pieces you expect to play
to morrow evening"


Trembliugly she obeyed, the maestro
making comments and suggestions as she
played, and when she had finished be ad-
ded, SNOW, my child, l have given you a
lesson; you are pupil Of Liszt." Before
she could find words to express her graft
tude, Liszt asked, "Are your programmes
printed 3" mo. sir" was the answer, mot
yet" ''Then say that you will be assisted
by your master, and that the last piece on
the programme will be played by Able
Lszt. [Spring6eId Republican.
Year: 1878

There was more activity among the grain
merchants of the Produce Exchange yesterday, than
the day before because Of the pool which s said to have
been recently formed i'll "NO. Spring. wheat. There
was an advance IN Chicago Of this grade above the
prices OF Tuesday, Of Iii cents tho price being S4lo
cents a bushc Rufus Hatch, said TO be the broker Of
the pool, the grain floor Of the Exchange. His
presence not OF frequent occurrence, although he Ia
member OF the Exchange, and while he was apparently
dong business, reports were current that he was
making few sales through his agents the small ad
vance. J. K. Fisherand J. NJ Rumscy, two prominent
pool were the floor during the first and second
call
Year: 1878

The San Francisco Stock Report, in speakeng Of the Golden Star Mining Company says: It IS very seldom that we endorse mining proposition, and when we do we expect to have our endorsement fully justified. In the case of the Golden Star Mining Company, we remarked that the man. agement lad placed a considerable quantity of the stock in Philadelphia, and that it was their intention to make the investment profitable to stockholders by the payment of divi- dends. Since the publication of our article, the company have erected a tens;ampmill, with capacity of twen ty more stamps, and have set up afif ty horsepower engine. In short time the mill will be running, and as soon as it starts the company will be- gin grading for 40-stamp mill. A contract for this mill will be entereG- into with one of the San Francisco foundries. The company have an abundance of free-milling gold ore, all ready to be extracted, and there is no doubt but that these milling facilities will be tested to their utmost capacity The ore can be worked dirt cheap say 8 ton. The delivery of the ore at the mill costs only soc per ton, and wood is s per cord. Under such ia vOra5le circumstances, and consider

 ing the immense deposit already ex- posed, we expect the company to

 fulfill their promise and pay divi- dends from the very start The infor- nation regarding the present condi- tion of the mine we got from disinter- ested parties. But we know it is cor

 rect, and we expect the management to keep its word to the very letter.
Year: 1878

Tie mines of Globe district gener- ally are looking well. All that is necessary to bring them to fruit is work, and if once one or two have been paying steadily for time, capi- tai will be less timid and come to our aid. Of the great ultimate prosperity and productiveness of our camp, no fears need be entertained, but it will take two years yet before the outside world comes to know how great our mineral wealth really is.
Year: 1878

THE Yuma E'rposifer of the 1tlh says. The Southern Pacific railroad company are importing here large quantities of construction material and coal. There have also arrived in the last two days some sixty Ameri- can employees and nearly as many Chinamen, with some one hundred and fifty more of the latter to arrive in a few day,
Year: 1878

IT is said that General Grant has decided to shorten his European tour, and is coming home early in accord. ance with the advice of his political friends. The knowing ones also say that there will be a conference of leading republicans just before the next session of congress is convened, when steps will be taken for a thor ough re organization of the radical wing of the republican party.
Year: 1878

THE necessary funds have been raised in San Francisco to bring back Denis Kearney to the Pacific slope. Denis telegraphs that he will be there in ten days. It seems to us that the great sand lot orator. was not sue cess among the Yankees.
Year: 1878

THE question of Mormon polygamy was opened before the Supreme Court of the United States, on the 18th inst. This brings the vexed question before the highest tribunal in the land, and the decision of the court is looked for with much interest
Year: 1878

1t usually happens that the man who has no faith
in banks and safe deposit companies has chdlike
confidence in a woolen stocking or hole under a
rafter in the garret a fire and burglar-proOf
eeptacle for his coin and currency Or rather he has
a serene trust in his own sagacity, and no is
moved with something like commiseratiOn for his
fellow beings who can't take care of their own
money, and have the weakness to intrust bankers
and Others with the task of keeping it securely. 1t
is only month since $4,000 was picked out of tho
belt vi hich of these shrewd fnanciers had been
wearing under his shirt for nearly year. He was
a cautious gentleman. and he lived in Indianapolis,
but one night he dropped into slumber in sleep
ingcar, aud when he awoke his hoard had vanished.
still fresh in the memory of everybody is
the cass of the frugal piekledealers of Veseyst.,
whose $4,000, although neatly hidden in a closet
upstairs, was discovered aud appropriated by an
Year: 1878

We shall publish tomorrow further in
stalment of the cipher kilograms, disclosing
the secret operations Of the Democratic
managers for the capture Of the Presidency
in 1876. This part of the correspondence
relates to South Carolina, and LAYS bare a
scheme not different IN its general character,
but perhaps even more extraordinary in its
details than the plot for the purchase of the
electoral vote of Florida which we described
the other day. We shall give the text of
the cipher kilograms as well as the
translation, and we shall offer the public
every facility to test the accuracy of our
Interpretation, and to learn how we arrived
at it.


We have waited week since the publica-
ton of the Florida story IN the expectation
that some of the persons implicated in the
scandal would make an attempt 10 exculpate
themselves, either by dIsclaiming any know-
edge of the transactions described, OF by ex-
planning dark messages to which everybody is
putting an eyil meaning. Not one of them
all has spoken. The general verdict will be
that it is now too late.
Year: 1878

The past few weeks have made a very great
difference in the prospects of parties and
candidates. To realize this, we have only TO
recall the situation which Immediately fol-
lowed the Maine election. BY almost every
one the complete overthrow of the Republican
party was assumed as a fOregone conclusion.
The few who still hoped were those who in
sisted that Grant could be elected, but no
other Republican, and that bis election would
become National necessity to save the cOun-
Try from repudiatiOn aud Communism. 1t ID
Year: 1878

We urgently call the attention of our readers
to the appeal of the Surgeon-General of the
Marine Hospital Service, for funds to defray
the expenses of the committee Of scientific
men who are now investigating the causes
and probable means of prevention Of the yell
low fever. Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, it will
be remembered, generously offered to bear
the whole expense OF this commission, should
no help be given her. But surely, when the
whole Nation is TO profit by the work, it
will not suffer one woman to carry the
entire burden. lt Is proposed, too, if suf-
ficient aid he extepded, to add 10 the COM
mission the services of Two or three competent
experts who will thoroughly examine into the
phenomena of the disease by means of those
instruments of precision which. in the hands
of science, are doing so much 10 hold death
at bay for this genclation. This very essen
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, March 4.-The bill reported
from the Senate judiciary committee today.
providing for the creation of sinking fund.
to liquidaie the principal aud interest of the
Pacific railroad bonds endorsed by the United
States, is measure originally introduced by
Senator Thurman, amended SO as to confne it's
operations to the Union Pacific and Central
Pacific Indebtedness, and to embody the fol-
lowing propositions The net earnings are to be
ascertained by deducting from the gross
earnings the expense of opera
ting and keeping the road in repair and also
payments for interest the first mortgage
bonds, but deductions shall be made on
account of the payment of interest or other in
debtedness. The treasury department is to re-
tain the total amounts earned from time to
time Tor government transportation. One
bali of these amounts are to be forthwith ap-
piled to the liquidation of the amounts paid or
the company's bonds and the other half
to be placed to the credit Of
the proposed sinking fund. Five
per centum of the net earnings above de-
fined are to be paid into the treasury of the
United States semi-annually to be placed to the
credit of the sinking fund. and in addition to
the foregoing sums the companies are to pay
into the United States treasury in semi-annual
payments not less than $3.50, OO0 each year for
the Union Pacific and 81 100000 for the Cen
tral Pacific company. The semi-annual pay
ments and other amounts placed to the credit
of the sinking fund are to be invested in
United States five per cent bonds and the accu-
mutations of interest on the bonds are to be
likewise invested semi-annually at the same
rate of interest. The act is to take effect the
first of June next.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, March f.-Hon. Albert Gallatin
Porter, who was to-day nominated by the Pres
ident for appointment as first comptroller of
the treasury, is one OF the most prominent
lawyers of Indianapolis, and represented that
district in the 36th and 37th Congresses, in
which he served on the Judiciary committee.
He retired from politics after this service, and
devoted himself to his legal practice and to the
management of his own large property. He is
distinguished for diligence and the orderly
transaction of business. He was at tho head of
the Republican electoral ticket in Indiana at
the last Presidential election.
Year: 1878

Articles exhibited by the House of Represen-
tatives of the State of Minnesota, in the
name of themselves and of all the people of
the State of Minnesota, against Sherman
Page, judge Of the tenth judicial district, in
maintenance and support of their impeach-
ment against him for corrupt conduct in
office and for crimes and misdemeanors in
office
Year: 1878

Glover, oi Missouri, the lure fisherman
who ran the dIasret and caught so many
Of his brother Democrats by the seats Of
their pantaloons, has been unfortunately
relegated to private life by the late elections.


The Georgia legislature has reelected
Senator John & Gordon by an almost
unanimous vote, though be Is badly impli-
Gated in the Smith Weed cipher dispatches.


The President is represented as having
said to Senator Eimunds that he was dis
appointed in his faith in the sincerity OF
Southern leaders, but did net regret that he
had tried the experiment Of trusting them.
as the people will now lie able to Judge of
the real sentiment which prevails in the
South. There may lie some truth in this,
yet it is none the less fact that the Ad-
ministratiOn needed this experience mole
than the people did. The Old Line Whig
revival was never blessed with much popular
sympathy of belief.


Ben Butler and kearney had a high old
row before the latter shook off the dust of
Massachusetts from his feet At the final
interview, when kearney sought out the
great defeated to pour oil upon mis- bruises.
Butler treated him very coldly. and poor
Dennis went away, declaring that Butler
was d humbug and demagogue. and that he
was surrounded by the very worst class of
thieves, bunmers and bilks.


Mr.. Eyarts admits that the President has
been disappointed, in the fact thai the as
surances of Southern leaders have not been
kept, and he now intends to prosecute these
who have violated the rights citizenship.