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Year: 1866

The largest brick-yard in the world
is about to be established at Chicago. 1t
will be eight hundred feet long by four
hundred wide, and will contain machinery
adequate to the manufacture of two hun
dred thousand brick per day A canal
two thousand feet long, two hundred wide
and twenty deep, is to be dug, connecting
the yard with the south branch of the riv-
er, the earth exeavated to be used in the
manufacture of brick. The work is to be
commenced Immediately, and the kilns
will be burning this season.
Year: 1866

Henry G. Gum of Missippi had Sc
cond wife who took more of fancy to a
son of his than to the old gentleman
They accordingly ran off together The
ungrateful SON Of gun (since both gum,
wcnt off together) has caused very sean-
dalous report.
Year: 1866

There is no death! The stars go down


To rise upon some fairer shore;
And bright in Heavens jeweled crown


They shine forever more.
There is no DEATH The dust we tread


Shall change beneath the summer showers
To golden rain or mellow fruit,


Or rainbow tinted flowers.
The granite rocks disorganize


To feed the hungry mass they bear:
The forest leaves drink daily life


From out the viewless air.
There is no death! The leaves may fall


The leaves may fall and fade away
They only wait, through wintry hours,


The coming Of the May.
There is no death! An angel form


Walks DER the earth with silent tread:
He bears our best loved things away,


And then we call them 50 dead"
He leaves our hearts all desolate-


He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers:
Transpanted into bliss. they now


Adorn immortal bowers.
The bird like voice whose joyous tone


Made glad the scene of sin and strife,
Sings now in everlasting song


Amid the trees of life.
And where he seeSsd zsff,g.e so bright,


Or hearts too pure for taint or vice,
He bears it to that world of light


To dwell in Paradise.
Born into that undying life,


They leave it but 10 come again,
With joy we welcome them-the same:


Except in sin aud pain.
And ever near US, though unseen,


The dear immortal spirit tread;
For all the boundless universe


Is life--there is no death.
Year: 1866

A California editor, participating in a
debate as to the best method of building
a certain bridge, objected to Golfer da N
for making the pier. He said he early
formed prejudice against the thing; his
uncle once had a cow choked with tur.
nip, and long time it was thought she
would Golfer dam head off!
Year: 1866

We hear that croaking resident of some prominence in this town gives it as his judg- ment that the country has made no decided progress within the past three years, and that it will not within the next three. Moth ing could be more untrue. The progress of the past three years has been remarkable, in view of all We have had to contend with This sizeable town has grown up within that timei other settlements have sprung intd ex- istence; hundreds of lodes have been found, and many of them opened. The whistle of the steam engine has stirred the hills Roads have been established, ranches have been protitably worked, and now quantities of ma ehinery are here, and the work of reducing our precious quartz will soon be extensively carried on. Fortunately the croakers and alarmists have never influenced the energetic and hopeful men who constitute the great mass of our population. From the beginning, satisfied that the country was rich one, they have turned neither to the right nor to the left. Amid obstacles and annoyances such as few people have ever had to contend ='th, they have labcred without ce.s:n.. and now they are about to reap the reward oi their patience and perseverance. The fu- ture of Central Arizona is promising in the extreme. Despite the outside elsm0F Of h. dian troubles, capital Is finding it's way here. and every day brings fresh proofof confidence in the mines. The various districts are alive with busy workmen, engaged in sinking shafts, opening roads for machinery, or put ting the same in operation.

 The pioneer mills at Wickenburg and Lynx Greek have been entirely successful, and feet in the VUlture and Accidental lodes have been sold at high prices. Both those lodes. and indeed all that have been worked, show Pernanency and great richness, and there is reason to believe that numbers yet undevel- oped are equally good.

 The mill for the Sterling lode, (thanks to the activity of the deserving owners of that remarkable deposit of gold, is already on the ground, and will be ready for use by the 4th of July. The mill for the Big Bug lode, built under the careful supervision of Mir Borger, and spoken of as very superior one is near ly in place. Its whistle will soon startle the Big Bug hills, and give new life to that live ly district.

 The shaft on the Bully Bueno lode, in the Turkey Creek district, shows quantities of good ore, and, it is reported, that there is to be no further delay in the erectioB of the y'ckroy mill. Colonel woolsey's water mill.
Year: 1866

SALE or MINING LAsDs.-The following extract from letter written from this place by the Governor, to citizen of New York, is printed in the Eusniag Post of that city:

 The action of Congress in reference to mineral lands is keenly watched by our peo- pie. Without exception they are opposed to a sale of the lands, believing that it will lead to monopoly and speculation. It will require all the wisdom of our national legislators, 1T the present laws are changed, to devise a plan whereby the people will be satisfied and the best interests of the country consulted. That the nation has . right to look to it's mineral regions for a larger return is not questioned, but that such return is to be had by sale of the lands is not yet apparent. Whatever legislation is had, it should be gen erous in its dealing with the hardy and ad. yenturesarne men who have risked their lives. and encountered untold priyations, in opening and occupying these remote wildsn
Year: 1866

THE APACHE QUEsTIos.--The letter of the Governor to Secretary Stanton which ap- pears in full in cur columns to-day, and which is the second he has sent that official (within the present year) regarding the employment oi native volunteers 10 light the Apache, will, we think, meet the views of the mass of our people. There is no ccncealing the fact that while we have had many good off, cers and brave men here, both in the regular and California volunteer servlce, comparative ly little headway has been made in whipping the Apache. No work can be thoroughly done without using the right agency It is the fault of the country, more than of the American troops, that they have not been successful. The natives have advantages for pursuing the Apache which they can never possess, and we make no doubt that the prosecution by ten companies Of them (the posts being held by the regulars, of such an aggressive, unintermitting war as the Cover. nor suggests, would result in the complete subgugation of the sayages. The Governors estimates of the number of hostile Apaches in the country, and of the troops required to fight them, will doubtless strike outsider. as surprisingly small, but they are reliable and will tend to disabuse the popular opinion abroad regarding the formidable character Of our Toe and the expense of conquering him.
Year: 1866

We were mach struck, not long ago,
with small paragraph in 4 country eX-
change, to this chpct: ''say nothing,
do nothing, through life, which good
mother would not approve


The truth is, if every man Oh the
verge Of doing 4 mean thing, or an un-
ecntlomanly thing, or tempted to com
nit an act that would be stamped with
q worse name, were to ask himself the
question: "What would my mother
say p it would be powerful check
For the most abandoned and vicious
man must cherish affection and regard
for his mother and the fact that he does
not, is the best evidence that she was
not, or is not, good lnother.


The question may here be irreverent-
ly asked: Glow if q man never knew
his MOTHER THan he is q most un-
fortunate man indeed.
Year: 1866

\ certain man finds fault with nm ar
ticlc in the Home journal! AS he is
not q subscriber, we don't recognize
his right to say worth and we have no
words to waste in argument with him.
Were he subscriber, we might say
Give us some credit for the good arti,
clcs that appear. Don't be 50 mean as
t3 make one article that is not exactly
to your notion an Offset again2t ho''
tha do suit YOU
Year: 1866

The great oil sensation has died out
We no longer hear of fortunes being
made in a single day, and d ten acre
tract of land selling for fabulous
nrice The oil regions of Pcnnsylva-
nia are all but deserted, and property
which sold for thousands upon thons-
ands of dollars year ago, can now be
had for Il song. n
Year: 1866

The Emperor Of Austria is not salts
fed with the result orthe late war. lie
has learned no other lesson from his
defeat than that Of an ulconQncrable
hate and an uaj!ying desire for revenge.
He is already missing once more his
lcgions. Every man, and almost every
child, capable Of bearing arms, is to
be taught The art ol war, and measures
are being. taken to render possible q
vast conscription Of the entire popula
ton Of the Austrian empire. The dog
ged obstinancy Of the Hapshurgs is rs
rampant rs ever, and the otherwise EN-
neatly praisowort:y young emperor
is determined to strike one more blow
for the restoration of his once mighty
empire to hold her old rank in th'
councils Of the nation.
Year: 1866

PAY Up.--Pay up your little bills


Nothing helps the money market more
than the prompt payment of little bills.


1t keeps up trade, keeps money moving
and.creatcs a bctar fceliNg among the
people. When everybody holds on to
all the money he gets, because he fears
times arc going to be worse, he lelps to
make them so. We write these words
for the public in general, for the benefit,
even, of men who have SO little public
spirit as to refuse three dollars year
towards the support of a good county
paper, while they spend ten times that
amount for tobacco and whisky. But
especially do we write for the attention
of those who owe as little bills, and we
thinI; very hard Of their ungencrous
neglect Of us. We want to be paid so
that wc can keep Tie money moving
Year: 1866

SEC. &c. And be it further enacted, That in all
of distraint and sale of goods, or chattels,
for non payment of taxes provided for in this act,
the bill of sale of such goods or chattels given
by the officer making such sale to the purchaser
thereof shall be conclusive evidence OF the right
of the officer to make such sale, and of the cor
rectness of his proceedings in selling the same.


SEC. 81. And be it further enacted, That if for
any cause, at any time after this act goes into op
Grafton, the laws of the United States cannot be
executed in a State or Territory of the United
States any part Thereof, or within the District
of Columbia, it shall be the duty of the President,
and he is hereby authorized, to proceed to exc
cute the provisions of this act within the limits
of such State or Territory, or part thereof or
District of Columbia, soon as the authority of
the United States therein shall be re-established,
and to collect the sums which would have been
due from the persons residing or holding proper
ty, goods wares, merchandise, object or article
therein liable to any duty, license, or tax, with
interest at the rate of six per centum per annum
thereon from the time such duty license, or tax
ought to have been paid until paid in the manner
and under the regulations prescribed in this act,
SO far applicable, and where not applicable the
assessment and levy shall be made and the time
and manner of collection regulated by the instruc-
tions and directions of the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, under the direction of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury.


Sec. So And be it further enacted That the
officers who may be appointed under this act, eX-
cept within those districts within any State or
Territory which have been may be otherwise
specially provided for by law, shall be, and here
by are, authorized in all cases where the payment
of such tax has not been assumed by the State,





tire assessment and collection Of the direct tax
imposed by an act entitled "An act to provide
increased revenue from imports, to pay interest
on the public debt, and for other purposes" ap-
proved August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty
one, or any direct tax which may be hereafter
enacted Provided That the sum of nineteen
thousand three hundred and twelve dollars, direct
tax, laid upon the Territory of Nebraska by said
act shall be paid and satisfied by deducting said
amount from the appropriation for legislative
expenses of the Territory of Nebraska for the
year ending thirtieth OF June, eighteen hundred
and si4tythree, and no further claim shall be made
by said territory for Legislative expenses for said
year: Provided, further, That the State of Ten
nessee shall have until the first day of December
next to assume the payment OF her portion OF said
Year: 1866

A few years ago a man under trial for
murder In Western New York asserted
that blood stains on an axe found in his
possession were from dog hica he bad
killed. The case was referred to Pro
lessor Hadly, who was purposely kepr
n ignorance of the circumstances. Sub
initting the blood stains to microscopic
inspection, he decided they were from
dog, thus confirming the poor mans
testimony.
Year: 1866

Have been used with the greatest success. Their
mission is not only to prevent disease. but to
cure. They search out the various maladies by
which the patient is suffering, and re-invigorates
the failing system. TO the aged and inirm few
doses OF these valuable pills will prove to be
Year: 1866

The Bangor Democrat severely censures
the action of the Democratic State Committee
in postponing the State Convention of that par
ty to the 7th of August next, declaring that this
announcement, almost on the very eve of the
day designated for the assemblage of the De-
mocracy of Maine by their delegates, strikes
the people of this section of the State with
astonishment and modification"
Year: 1866

MRS. DIR. WALKER IN COURT.-The case
of Mrs. DR.. Mary K. Walker, who was arrest
ed in New York for wearing male attire, came
up in Court last Wednesday. The charge
preferred against her was for improper con-
duct in wearing this costume, attracting the
attention of a mob of boys and men who fol-
lowed her through the streets, and she was
arrested as the only means which the police
men knew how to adopt to disperse the mob.
In her testimony, she stated that she was
practicing physician and had served in the
Union army, she had worn that style of dress
for several years, and many medical students
had done the same and had always been treat
ed with respect. The case was dismissed, and
the officer instructed as follows: "Don't ar
rest her again, officer. Let her 60. She's
smart enough to take care of herself. Never
arrest her again."


"Mrs. Walker was dressed upon this occa-
sion in a costume similar to that in which she
was arrested. 1t consists of kind of gored
sack, fitting closely at the waist, and reaching
few inches below the knee. Below this
point all that is visible suggests an under gar
ment similar to the pantalOOns worn by males,
but fuller, and gathered neatly about the an
kle. The sack is made of broadcloth, with
very little trimming, and is ornamented with
single row of jet buttons reaching from the
throat down the front to the bottom OF the
dress. There is certainly nothing immodest
in the costume, which would attract no atten-
ton, we fancy, were it not for the fact that it
entirely conceals the limbs of the wearer."
Year: 1866

A MAN painting the cornice of house in
Hartford afew days Since, fell from the ladder
and it was supposed he was badly hurt. Inn
mediately after his fall young man ran to
the store to inform the. painter of the misfor-
tune that had overtaken his workman. The
"boss" listened to the description of the fall
and with the ruling passion still strong in him,
asked anxiously, "did he spill his paint ?7 ~
Year: 1866

The RICHMOND EXAMINER AND THE Gov
ERNMENT ADvERTIsING.-Ar resolution has
been put through the House calling on the
Secretary of State and Postmaster General to
show why the advertising of their depart
The answer is looked for with considerable in
tarast t-s-.. ...
Year: 1866

UNION CAUoUsEs.-We trust the Union
Republicans will bear in mind that the Ward
caucuses to elect delegates to the District Con-
vention, to nominate a candidate for Congress,
are to be held this evening. Let there be a
good attendance in every Ward.


We will thank the Secretaries of the meet.
ings to send the names of the delegates to the
office Of the Press Immediately after the meet
Year: 1866

TRULY DELIcIoUs.-We have reached the
summer solstice, and the heat of the weather
seems quite "worthy of the occasion. Any
one who wishes draught for these hot days,
AZ once refreshing and delicious should step
lneo 0rosman & Co.'s and try their Chocolate
Soda, which is the incest thing invented yet
And we don't ask any one to take our word
for it, but recommend all to go and see for
themselves
Year: 1866

The London Telegraph gives the fol-
lowing anecdotes of the great battle
where the Austrians we're so badly
beaten;


In the fierce fight Of Trautenau the ad-
vancing Prussians came upon a ditch
half filled with dead and wounded Aus
TRANS. Among the latter was young
officer, evid emily hard hit; he was lying
on his back in the wet ditch. Moved
with manly compassion, the Prussians
were about to remove the wounded man,
that his case might be attended to by the
surgeon, when he entreated them to let
him lie there, as be felt quite cool and
comfortable. He expired shorty after.
When the dead body was removed it was
found that, even with the life ebbing
from it fast, it had still served to protect
'the bit of rag" which in the morning of
that bloody day had been the standard
of the regiment He had carefully
folded it up, and then laid down upon it
to die. His noble foes forbore to touch
the trophy. They wrapped it around
him, and let him take his rest in 1t. The
Prussian General who told this story
told it bareheaded He had lost two
nephews in the fierce fight One of
them, Baron Won Wurm, Adjutant to
Lieutenant. Colonel Won Panewitz, had
been killed by the same grenade which
struck down his chief


There is another story gathered on the
same awful field which would rather
not tell, but it shows one of the worst
and most forbidding reverses Of the
bright medal of military glory. 1t was
during the combat Of the 9th ult., at
Trautenau, that the forty-fifth Prussian
Regiment Of Foot, one Of the Dantzig reg
lments, sent a line Of fskirmishers forward
They were driven in by an Austrian at
tack in force. One Of the officers, a
Lieutenant Treuge, a great favorite with
the men, received bullet wound in the
neck. he fell, but endeavored to rise
again, when an Austrian officer thrust
his sword through the chest of the
wounded man, and then seiEing mus
ket from the ground, beat in the Prus-
slams skull with the butt end. The re
treating skirmishers, already vengefully
disposed, il appears, as they had already
lost two other favorite officers Of theirs
Year: 1866

From the Mobile Tribune.1


During the past few days very in
credulous and tough story hes been cur
rently circulated in the city and is hourly
gaining credence, particularly among
the negroes, and is growing into huge
sensation. A negro woman named Fran
ces, who resides on State street, one door
from Dearborn, has been reported to
have given birth to live frogs and snakes,
which have been preserved in spirits
and are exhibited to visitors. Since this
affair has become a subject Of general
conversation we have concluded to lay
the facts before our readers Upon ar
irving at the house, we were conducted
to the sick woman, and she positively
declared that we had been correctly in
formed in regard to the matter She
came here from West Fowl river about
three weeks ago, and believes that the
reptiles were given her by some mali
cious person in powders


The woman tells a strange and incon-
sistent story, and one that savors very
much of humbuggery tits undoubtedly
q Hoodoo humbug gotten up to play
upon the incredulity of and swindle the
negroes. The old negro doctor who is
in attendance, is known by the name Of
"Hoodoo John,' but the woman told us
she neither knew his name or where he
lived and never saw him until he was
called in. The true object Of stating
this improbable story leaked out through
the old woman in attendance, who re-
marked that the girls father had been
advised hereafter to charge fifty cents
admission to the show The mother of
this strange family, singular 10 relate,
appears to be in great agony and in
formed us that she was looking for fur
ther addition to her peculiar flock
Year: 1866

My Lord Hardwich, the late Lord
Chancellor, who was said to be worth
81, 900 900, sets the same value on half
a crown now as he did when he was
worth only $500 That great Captain,
the Duke of Marlborough, when he was
in the last stage of life and very infirm,
would walk from the public room in Bath
to his lodging on cold, dark night to
save a sixpence in chair hire. Ifsthe
Duke, who left at his death more than
million and half sterling, could have
foreseen that all his wealth and honors
we're to be inherited by grandson of
Lord Trevor, who had been one of his
enemies, would he have always saved a
sixpence


Sir James Lowter, after changing
piece of silver in St Georges coffee
house and paying for dish of coffee,
was helped into his chariot--for he was
lame and infirm-and went home; some
time after he returned TO the same coffee
house, on purpose to acquaint the wo-
man who kept it that she had given him
a half-penny, and demanded another in
exchange for it. Sir James had about
S240, 900 per annum, and was at loss
whom to appoint as his heir.


| knew one Sir Thomas Colby who
lived in Kensington, and was, think, IN
the Victuaing Office; he killed himself
by rising in the middle of the night,
when he was in profuse sweat, the effect
of medicine which he had taken for that
purpose, and walking down stairs to
look for the key of his cellar, that he
had inadvertently left on table in his
parlor; he was apprehensive that his
servants might seize the key and rob him
Of bottle of port wine. This man died
intestate, and left more than S6,000000
in funds, which was shared between five
or six day laborers, who we're his nearest
relatives.


Sir William Smythe, of Bedfordshire,
was my own relative When he was
near seventy he was wholly deprived of
his sight; he was persuaded to be
couched by Taylor, the oculist, who by
agreement was to have sixty guineas if
he restored his patient to any degree of
sight. Taylor succeeded in his operation
and Sir William was able to read and
write without the use of spectacles
during the rest of his life but as soon as
the operation was performed, and Sir
William saw the good effect of it, instead
of being overjoyed, as any other person
would have been. he began TO lament the
loss, as he called it, of his sixty guineas
His contrivance, therefore, was how to
cheat the oculist he pretended he could
not see anything perfectly; for that rea.
son the bandage on his eve was continued
a month longer than the usual time,
By this means be obliged Taylor to COM
pound the bargain, and accept oftwenty
guineas; for covetous man thinks no
method dishonest which he may legally
practice to save his money.-Ezchdnge
Year: 1866

In very learned and clever article on
kissing" Charles Astor Bristed says .
Finally, the man who really enjoys this
beau tiful interchange of lips and hearts
must not practice it promiscuously.
There should be no limit to the number
of kisses, but very decided limit to the
nu mber of kissed. Make it common and
you debase and destroy it at once.


We do not know but what Bristed is
right. We are making upa small and
select circle to whom we will conhne
our kissing attentions. There is room
for few more ladies in it, who may
leave their names, residences, and car
les de uisite at the Democrat office until
further notice. The Bristed theory may
be correct one--ve propose to give 1t a
fair test.-Ld Crosse Democrat.