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Year: 1866

At the last session Of Parliament there was
Committee Of English Scientifcs raised to
inquire into the cause Of the granulation OF
fbrous wroughtiron rails upon railroads, and
whether any plan can be devised for deter
mining when such rails are unfit for use.
This is new subject altogether, and we
never heard of IL until Mr.. RoEBILSo, the
constructor Of the suspension bridge at Mn
CARA Falls, told the corporators that the
cords must be renewed after few years or
the vibration would granulate the wires and
the bridge would ultimately fall. The fire..
quent breaking Of railway rails in England
as well as America, causing great destruc-
ton of life and property, has finally brought
this subject into notice.


Simultaneously with this, two germane ex-
periments have been going on in this coun-
try, both touching the same subject and
tending to the same end.


l. A manufacturer Of steel implements,
residing near Skaneateles, NY, some twelve
years ago. named Asa r. REYNOLDS, com
menced the investigation Of the hardening
and tempering process by which steel was
given Damascus-spring temper and cut
ting edge. He is on elementary man, who
dives deep down to the bottom Of his profes-
sion. He found that steel was only carbon.
lied iron, partially fbrous; that iron as it lay
in the quarry was not fbrous at oil; that the
fibre given to it was artificial; that the car
bonization Of it, in order to bring it into q
specific condition, whether as iron or steel,
ought to be reduced to system; and finally
that the whole work Of tempering (granulat-
ing) steel could be accomplished by heavy
hammer falling on q vibrating anvil, at q
single blow. His invention is now patented.


The other was Admiral DAHLGREN's ex-
periments at our navy yard on metallic can
non to ascertain how many times they could
be discharged before the metal would gran.
ulatc and burst.


There may have been other experiments
going on, but they have not come to our
knowledge. We mention these to show that
when this investigation shall be completed
it is not likely that English inventors will be
able to appropriate it. The thousands Of
lives annually lost by the breaking of the
rails upon railroads, suddenly without hav,
ing disclosed any previous fractures, is the
public fact which is bringing this subject
forward now in both hemispheres. 1t in.
wolves, however, the whole subject of temper,
ing metals.


We have not examined the Constitutional
question, but we understand that it is claimed
that the power of Congress over internal
trade and commerce is sufficient to warrant
that body to raise scientific commission
upon that subject; and that such commits
sion to act with the British commission on
the same subject will be requested at the
next session. We merely present the sub
ject to our readers as new item Of scientific
news, with the remark that if the breaking ol
rails upon our railroads can be prevented to
any considerable extent, it ought to be
effected
Year: 1866

The PRESIDENT and most Of the members
of the Cabinet, and the CHIEF JusrrcE Of the
Supreme Court of the United States, and the
GESERAr-rS-CHIEp of the army were in con-
sultation at the Executive Mansion last even
ing and Thursday evening, upon important
matters Of State concern.
Year: 1866

"STELLA VAGRANs" is informed that his
shooting-star communication is inadmissibe
A man who attempts to take observations
of the Milky Way through six glasses Of
milk punch can hardly be relied upon for
precise astronomical information.
Year: 1866

EXTRA BILLY SMITH has been summoned
to Danville, Virginia, to testify in suit
brought against the town for the value of
certain liquors destroyed by order of the
Mayor, to keep it from falling into the hands
of struggling soldiers at the time of Lees
surrpndcr
Year: 1866

CONTRACTION OF CRrNoLINE.-It is an
nounced, on fashionable authority, that
the hoop-skirt is to be contracted in its di-
mensions and brought within reasonable
bounds; but there are no practical evil
dences of the fact yet visible. If Parisian
fashion should say the word, however, o


fashion that has defied ridicule and scorn-
ed inconvenience will give way, and the
skirt once more cling to the wearer. The
hoops have been satirized to no purpose,
ana have preserved their sway, although
ill-natured masculincs have been fond of
holding them up to ridicule. How long
the unsightly and monstrous protruberance
attached to the rear of the ladies' head
dresses will continue to offend the eve is
another question. The adoption of sucff
style was simply an experiment adopted
by the lovely sex just to see how much ar
tificial deformity they can assume without
relinquishing their empire over the lords
Of creation. If IN artist should paint an
angel or madonna with such head gear,
the picture would not be admitted into a
bar-room, and the object represented would
be deemed more hideous than if it had
been furnished with a pair Of horns or
tail. But the lovely sex could afford to
hang rings in their noses, or assume a cos
tune of red paint, if their whims should
so suggest, and yet exert the same absolute
sway over the coarser segment of hu-
manity.
Year: 1866

AN INCIDENT AT THE WISCONSIN STATE
FAIR.--Among the interesting scenes wit
messed on the state fair grounds Yesterday
was an interview between q young man
and a pretty, modest looking country girl,
whom he had the previous day run away
with and married, and the young lady s
mother. The parties reside, we hear,
somewhere in the neighborhood of Mon
roe, Green county. The girl being under
age, and the parents not liking the lover,
had refused to permit the marriage. But
the attachment of the young people was of
that ardent nature that it could not be thus
easily satisfied. They gave the old folks
the slip, had the irrevocable knot tied, and
went to the state fair to see the sights.


We regret to be obliged to confess that
under such circumstances the groom, not
content with ample bliss of his new rela-
tions, had apparently been attempting to
increase his happiness by a resort to what
the poets and temperance lectures call the
" flowing bowl" Hc sat in buggy upon
the fair grounds, in the midst of the crowd,
with his young wife by his side, as happy
as the first effulgence of the honeymoon
and--say about three-whiskey cocktails
could make him. His face shown with de-
light, and his eyes swan in soft maudlin
ecstacy of double-rcfned xxx. bliss. His
wife looked innocent, pleased and content.


In this condition they were suddenly
discovered by the wrathful maternal rel
ative of the young woman. The old lady
was voluble in the expression of her senti-
ments to the young man. There was a
puckery ascidity in her homely words that
would have made the young man vince if
he had not been fortified as before men,
toned. As it was, he listened with defer
ence at times, and at others was disposed
to take humorous view of the situation.
His wife did not seem much concerned
in the affair, and looked pleasantly around
over the crowd, watched the wind
mills and the revolving swing, us if she
enjoyed the spectacle. The irate mother
finally concluded by declaring that the
girl was under age, the marriage invalid,
and demanding that he should return her
daughter. 10 this demand the happy hus-
band responded with genial smile and
the expression of very decided opinion
that his claim upon the daughter was one
that would hold.


A few hours later the happy pair were
seen still together, and partaking of stew
ed oysters at '' Freedoms dining hall. -
Wis. State Journal, Sept. %.
Year: 1866

There is going to be enough of every
thing except fruit throughout the North,
although we hear rumors of prospective
distress from the South and Southwest,
where cotton and corn are represented as
being pretty much failure. 1t is held
that in some extended sections of the South
there will be positive suffering next win
ter, unless special provision is made for
alleyiating the wants Of the population
If we are to have enough and to spare in
the North, it will seem hard if our breth-
rem in other parts of the country will have
to do without. 1t may be that associations
will have to be formed for distributing the
crops as they should be.
Year: 1866

NEcK-TwIsrING IN CHURc IA good
story is told of an eccentric old parson,
who was sorely annoyed by habit his
people had acquired land which prevails,
now and hereabouts to some extent) OF
twisting their necks around every time
anybody entered the door and passed up
the isle of the meeting house, to see what
manner Of person it might be.
Wearied with the annoyance the old man
exclaimed one Sunday:


s.Brethren, if you will cease turning your
heads around, whenever the door opens
and will keep your attention on me, will
promise to tell you as preach who it is
that comes in"


Accordingly he went on with the sell
vices and presently made a stop as one of
the deacons entered, saying:
''That is deacon who keeps a
grocery opposite"


And then he announced in turn the ad-
vent of each individual, proceeding the
while with his sermon as composedly as
the circumstances would admit, when q I
last stranger walked in, when he cried
out:


ga little old man in green spectacles and
drab over.coat-don't know him. You
can all turn round and look for your
selves this time.''


1t is hardly necessary to add that tn
good man carried his point, and there wa
but little neck-twisting seen in his congre
! cation after that.
Year: 1866

disturbance in the country grew not out of
anything republican, bat out ofslavery, which
is u part of the system Of hereditary wrong,
and the expulsion of this domestic anomaly
opens to the renovated nation . career Of un-


thought of dignity and glory. Henceforth our
country has moral unity - the land of free
labor. The party for slavery and the party


against slavery are no more, and are merged
in the party Of the Union and freedom. The
States which would have left us are not
brought back as conquered States, for
then we should hold them only so long as
that conquest could be maintained. They
come to their rightful place under the Consti-
tuition ~ original, necessary and inseparable
members of the State. We build monuments
to the dead, but no monuments of victory.


We respect the example of the Romans who
never, even in conquered lands, raised the
emblem of triumph. and our Generals are not
Aclassed in herd Of the vulgar3 3conquerors, but
are of the school of Timoleon and William
Of Orange and Washington. They have used
the sword only to give peace to their country,
and restore her to her place in the great
assembly of nations. Our meeting closes in
hope, now that people begins to live accord


ing to the laws OF reason, and republicanism
is intrenched in a Continent.
Year: 1866

A shocking disaster occurred shortly before
eight clock this morning on the Bloomfield


Newark railroad, at o bridge near Bloom
field. The lives Of from eight to one hundred


persons who were on the train were imperiled
| and that only one passenger was killed out
right is one Of the unaccountable facts con-


nected with this affair.


The particulars of the occurrence, which we


give upon excellent authority, show that in
the catalogue Of railroad disasters it has few


parallels. The bridge where it took place was


about three hundred yards above Bloomfield,


and was so old and "shaky' that the pessen-


gers have feared that it would 60 down; and


month ago, it is stated, the engineers


Of the road complained 10 the company in re-
gard to it.


The grade of the road beyond Bloomfield Is
descending, the inclination being about nine
ty feet to the mile. The speed Of the train,
partly on account of the ice on the track, was
comparatively high; though the engineer was
breaking up for the purpose of stopping at
Bloomfield When the engine, which was
very heavy one, went on the bridge, the wood


work began TO break. but the speed
of the train carried the engineer safely


over The tender was caught and injured


somewhat. A passengercar came next The
bridge sunk under it, and the car trucks.


with the wheels, parte i from their iastenings
and fell. By the swift motion of the train AID
by the coupling iron of the tender, the front
of the car was carried to the track at the end


of the bridge. In this manner he was safely
dragged on solid groupd. Scarcely person
in this car was injureA


The second passenger Car was shattered
and hurled cndwise from the line of track.
As it passed upon the falling bridge, the end
of i; was sufficiently depressed to strike the


stone abutment of the bridge. The first effect


was the crashing Of the car; but the car be-
hind it, which was the smoking and baggage


car did not pass through il, and the situation


OF the train vas such, the bridge being no,


more than forty feet long, that the rear end


Of the car that strck the abutment was carried


over sideways, and So the passengers of whom
there were but few escaped with their lives,


with the exception OF one, ayoung man named
Milton Holt, of Montclair. who was instantly
| killed. His head was nearly severed from
his body, and the remains were terribly
| mangled. Afterward, when his body was
dragged out of the wreck, it was mistaken for


that of his brother, Henry Holt, who was
| thought to be on the train. The car in which


he was, is entirely wrecked, apd the escape OF
any person is regarded as little less than mi
raculouS.
Year: 1866

After taking in the coils the tele-
graph feet viii sail for the spot where
the cable was lost last year, to recover
the end and complete a second line
between Ireland and New Foundland,
and then the Medway will proceed to
lay the new cable across the Gulf Of
st. Lawrence.
Year: 1866

the only chances of his success
es being that the old man would
keep him up. This chance we
used to hear often discussed,
and on its probabilities his pa
per found q market. But the
old man did not keep him up,
and he showed himself too
sharp to be gulled by so near a
relative. MIR. Whitney was
something of a politician, and
on one occasion the leaders of
his party came with an appli-
cation for funds for electioneer-
ing purposes. Gentlemen, =
was the reply, 81 am with you,
heart and body. AS for money,
| have none; but to help along,
| will come and sit up all night
and fold ballots"


Some of these New York
misers are utterly recluse, while
others aresocial, and often meet
to discuss methods of money
making. The group occasion
ally seen in a certain old rook-
cry, where a few millions are
represented in hungry forms
and seedy raiment, would be a
study for an artist. The great
complaint with this class is that
interest is down, money is
cheap, and the country is going
to ruin. Only five per cent on
good paper, and six on bond
and mortgage; and as for seven
thirties, they pay well enough,
but one may got his throat cut
taking care of them. The
worlds made up Thieves and
beggars, and there is no use Of
trying to get along. II Neu
York Citizen.
Year: 1866

Minnesota Munchausens will Z
have to look to their laurels.
A traveller in Montana relates
that in some of the streams at
the source of large rivers the
speckled trout are so ravenous
that they bite at anything.
He says that they even followed
him into the woods and bit at
the spurs of his boots as he rode
away. 4aa
Year: 1866

A HAPPY WOMAN.-Is she
not the very sparkle and sun
slime of life? A woman who
is happy because she can't help
it, whose smiles even the cold


est sprinkle of misfortune can
not dampen ? Men make a ter
rible mistake when they marry
for beauty, for talent or style,


The sweetest wives are those
who possess the magic of being
contented under any circum-
stances. Rich or poor, high OF
low makes no difference, the
bright little fountain of joy
bubbles up just as musically and
purely in their hearts. Do they
live in a log cabin, the fire thai
leaps up the humble hearth be
comes brighter than the splen
did gilded chandeliers in Alad


din's palace. When is th'
stream Of life so dark and un
propitious that the sunshine o
a happy face falling on the tur


bid tide would not awaken a.


answering CLEAN /? Why, thes
Joyous happy people dom
know half the good they do
Year: 1866

FOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


y vou AdSe.iisc in your County Paper
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


If YOU Advertise in vour G lunty Paper.
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


If yau Advertise in your County Papec.
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


If you Advertise in your Comfy Paper
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


II YOU Advertise in your County Paper
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


IF YOU Advertise in YOUR County Paper
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


If YOU Advertise in your County Paper
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


If you Advertise in your County Paper
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


If you Advertise in your County Pager
Year: 1866

owning such spirits, and refusing or neglect
ing TO notify the collector, as in this section
provided, shall forfeit the same and pay the
sum OF i've hundred dollars, to be collected
IN the manner provided by law for the coll
lection of other penalties. No distilled
spirits on which the tax has been paid shall
be stored or allowed to remain ON any distil-
lery premises, under the penalty of forfei-
ture of all spirits so found. And all spirits
after being removed from the original pack
age in which they were inspected and gauged
into other packages for purposes of rectifca-
tion, rehabilitation or change of proof, shall
again be inspected and guaged and properly
branded and the absence of an inspectors
brand shall be taken and held as sufficient
cause or evidence upon which any spirits SO
found NAV be forfeited And any Derson
who shall change the character of anv spirits.
either by rectification, mixing or otherwise.
after they have been duly inspected and
marked as hereinbefore provided, and place
the same in other packages for consumption
or sale without first stamping or branding
upon such package, in such manner as the
Commissioners of Internal Revenue may pre-
scribe, the word "Rectifed," shall forfeit
such spirits, and the same may be seized by
the collector or deputy collector of the dis
trict where such spirits may be found, or by
such other collector or deputy collector as
may be specially authorized by the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue for that purpose
And any person who shall so brand any
package containing spirits, knowing the
taxes thereon have not been paid, shall for
teit such spirits, and shall be deemed guilty
Of misdemeanOr, and upon conviction shall
be imprisoned for not more than two wears.
at the discretion of the court


TO BE CONTINUED.
Year: 1866

MERIDIAN, MISS. on the Hill on the East side
vi of the Railroad is always open for Transient
AMI Permanent Boarders, day and night. Its rooms
are large and commodious, and the Proprietor is
making ad 7itions and Improvements continually.
REMEMBER


ssRAGSDALE HOUSE,


N az East and ne ar the Railroad track.
Year: 1866

HAVE proved, from the most ample experience, an
IL entire success Observation-Disclosures and
Resble. Tney the only Medicines perfectly
adapt popular use-so simple that mistakes can
not be made in using them harmless to be free
from danger and SO efficient to be always reliable
They have raised the highest commentator from all
and will always render satisfaction
Year: 1866

THE Amador Dipatch very Democraticl in
an article about the Registry Law, said:


ave must fight the devil with fire If We ex.
pect to whip him, and we hope that every Demo
crat will have his name placed upon the roll
properly, wheel into ine fill hi. knapsack fnll
of democratic votes, and march up to the polls
at the next election and FIRE such volley into
the abolition ranks as will totally annihiate
them from the face of the earth"


We take it that one great object of the Regis.
try Law is to prevent Democrats from shooting a
knapsack full of tickets into the ballo:-boxes in
future
Year: 1866

POSTPONED AGAIS.-It is reported that
the trial of JEFF. Davis will not take place until
Somehow we have n notion that the Judgment
Day is perhaps near at hand as the trial ofthe
trcason-king.
Year: 1866

THE PLACE TO BuY.-Read the announcement
of Hoslnger &Co., and then give them trial
They have lately added to their manufacturing
department a Crimping machine and Sewing
machine, with which boot legs are got in shape
and sewed in one-fourth the time formerly oc-
cupied This enables them to manufacture
Boots with greater expedition and at lower prices
than heretofore.
Year: 1866

10 Hope for the Amicted.-IS another part OF
this paper will be found the advertisement of the celebrated


Institute established by Dr. j. c. Young in 1850 in this age
charlaans it is boon to the suffering to
point them where they of obtaining the wish


Under the the sklful Doctor
sick troubled vet themselves of their burdens
pain and shame lay aside their and secure health
and happiness Ii sick nr in trouble, do not hest
tate ead the advertisement and follow The advice Do
forget the number the Of directing your letter
CONSULTATION OFFICE. $40 Washington street San FraH
cisc
Year: 1866

New RlvER.-It is gratifying to notice that the
attention of people in other sections of the State
is being attracted to the yet but little explor-
cd New River mines of this county. Within a
fortnight we have received letters of inquiry from
persons in Humboldt county, and at Horsetown
Shasta county Below we give a portion OF
letter received this week from a gentleman at
Yreka, desiring information on the same subject:


Judging from the tone of your paper that
YOU feel a lively interest in the Development of
the resources of Trinity county, assume tie
responsibility of soliciting information from you
in regard to the New River section of your
| county. Quite number of enterprising and
/ nublc-spirited citizens of this section max
| ing preparations to leave for some other part OF
the country, and being undecided where they
will locate, may, think, if they can be satisfied
of the wealth of New River, be induced to give
it trial speak for some half dozen of them,
who personally assured me they would rather
prospect some locality in California than to GO
! North propose to go there
myself within two weeks and fthe inducements
are sufficient will take half dozen practical
miners with me, who can vouch for rs being
sober and industrious men,


+ In the next issue of the JOURNAL we shall give
all the reliable information to be obtained in re-
gard to that locality. st present we shall mere
ly state that all the miners employed there now
are making money, that water is plenty, and that
the opinion of old practical miners is that there
are mines enough on that stream and its tributa
ries for a thousand additional men. The dig


gings can be reached in two and a-half days from
Trinity Center, or two days from Weaverville.