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Year: 1866

to enforce it. Whatever language the EN-
peror may have used in 1852, the people of
America may be sure that he can have no
intention of sustaining an Austrian Prince
in Mexico by French bayouets against the
wish of the Mexicans, at'the risk of serious
embodiment with the United States, and, it
may be added, in spite of the constant muir
murs OF bis own subjects. Every probability
indicates that he will peaeeably withdraw,
sooner or later. Either the Government of
the Emperor Maximilian will prove so vel
come 10 the Mexicans as to need no foreign
support, or else it will demand an amount
OF support which the Emperor will be unable
to give In either case the French cannot
i4il to withdraw, and it is the interest of the
United States to suffer the difficulty to be
thus solved by natural means The only
course which would tend to prevent this
natural solution would be the adoption of a
bullying tone on the part of the United
States, which would rouse the sensitiveness
OF French honor. The Emperor could not
consent to retire from Mexico under threat.
nor, if he were disposed to do so, would the
French people allow it. 1t is, therefore,
essential to American interests, and 10 the
interests of the world, that American states
men should abstain at the present time from
inconsiderate expressions of feeling on this
subject. 1t would be worse than folly to
expend blood and treasure in the pursuit of
an object which may be equally obtained by
tsir words and conciliation. European in
reference in the affairs Of America is impos-
't6le IL The Gerry nature IF things, and if the
Americans will but quiet for the while not
unnatural sensitivsness, they will find all
their difficulties on this score disappear, pro-
baby without the necessity of any serious
exertions
Year: 1866

Theyare such impo. iant and much. desired
-personages that they must be engaged some
time before they are wanted; you must also
bespeak the fountain near which you reside,
by mailing on it q piece of paper, on which
is written that, on certain day named,
Madame So-and-so requires the great stone
trough into which the water runs, for her
lessye, and then no one ON that day dare
put finger in it without your leave.


The whole business of the wash lasts four
days. On the first day the clothes are stepped
in cold water only. On the second day they
are all put together in an immense tub, over
which is laid strong linen sheet. On this
a great quantity of wood ashes is placed, and
then boiling water is poured on them till the
linen is covered with the lye. Then they
are allowed to lie an hour, when the liquor
is run off through tap; then more boiling
water is allowed to filter through the ashes,
and this process is repeated till evening
Ihe third day the linen is taken out OF the
lyc, and well washed with hot water and
soap; and the fourth it is removed TO the
fountains to be rubbed and beaten on boards,
rinsed and blued When the linen comes
out of the lye, any one unaccustomed TO this
mode of washing, would be sure to think it
irretrievably ruined, so yellow is it; and it
is not till it has been well thumred and
rinsed in the fountain that it regalns its color
and becomes beautifully white


These washerwomen are peculiar and
distinctive race. They are the greatest gos-
sips, the loudest takers, the biggest eaters,
and sometimes drinkers, Of any in the can
ton. They are all ugly, old and bent, with
lean hands, wizened faces, and thick limbs.
All wear immense hats, with knob at the
top, and their old petticoats and jackets look
as if they had been buried hundreds Of years
and then dug up again. The three or four
days that, twice in the year. they are on a
visit to your house, your servants have quite
enough work to do in cooking variety Of
dishes TO suit their fastidious appetites, foI
they have diet peculiar to their body; ana
if you don't oblige them in this respect, you
are left in the lurch, and your linen must go
unwashed.


After all is dried, there is ironing for sew
eral days, during which every female in the
house is pressed into service, as well as two
or three laundresses, and then, when all is
aired, meuded and put away, there is quiet
in the house for five months and more; aud
am not sure, it we had but the same inn
mense supply of linen, we should not find it
better plan, both as regards the bleaching
Of the Clothes and the comfort of our house
holds, than our everlasting unsatisfactory,
Notwithstanding weekly washes. All my
life l shall think OF those weird-looking
women Cabling and bawling away at the
fountain, and am convinced that, could
return to Switzerland two hundred years
hence, the race would be unchanged, and
that one of the first things my eyes rested
on would be, to all appearances, the same
crooked, wizened hags standing in the mud
round the fountain. Village Life in stoitser-
land.
Year: 1866

A RECRUIT FROM THE GRAvE.-The war
has produced many strange stories, but few
more singular than the following one, related
by Colonel Ellis, late of the First Missouri
Cavalry, in St. Louis paper;-~''A few days
after fiercely-contested battle a party Of
soldiers belonging to the First Missouri took
a jaunt over the battlefield and came up to
a spot where the Rebel dead were buried,
In one place the hair OF a mans head was
seen sticking out of the ground like u tuft of
grass, and near by a hand was seen protrud-
ing upwards, which evidently belonged to
the corpse that owned the head of hair
One Of the cavalrymen remarked to his
companions, in spirit Of thoughtless levity,
See, there's dead Reb reaching out for
something let's see what he wants In the
same spirit OF wanton mischief, almost reck-
lessness, the cavalryman took hold of the
mans hand and hauled the body out of the
grave, the loose dirt falling back into the
shallow hole Soon after the man began to
stir and manifest signs OF life, TO the utter
astonishment and horror OF the resurrec
tionists. The man was taken by his rescuers
to their tent and was rubbed down, washed
of, and in few days became as good as
new. He said that in the battle he was
stunned by the passage OF shell which
knocked him senseless. He was picked up
among the dead and buried like the rest
Not a scratch was found on his body. He
said that lie had Joined the Rebel army and
fought the Felerals long and well, but as
this was his second appearance on earth, he
would now join the Federals and fight for
them. He accordingly enlisted with the
First Missouri did good deal OF tough
marching and hard fighting, and last Sep
paid of at Benton Barracks"
Year: 1866

A correspondent in Indiana recently wrote to
US to inquire respecting the cure of cancer oy
Mr. Mason, which was published some years
since 10 some of the city papers. The SPRING
field Republican has been furnished by sub
scriber with the following extract from the
Milwaukee Free Democrat which, we presume,
will furnish the desired information


Our attention has been recently called to
cure for cancers, which is of so much importance
that wish to make it known as widely as
possible. Some eight months ago Mr. T. B.
Mason-who keeps music store on Wisconsin
street, and is brother of the we'll known Lowell
Mason-ascertained that be had cancer on his
face the size of pea. 1t was cut out by DR.
Wolcott, and the wound partially healed. Sub
sequently it grew again, and while he was in
Cincinnati on business it attained the size of a
hickory nut. He has remained there since
Christmas under treatment, and has come back
perfectly cured. The process is this:


piece OF sticking plaster was put over the
cancer, with circular piece out of the centre
little larger than the cancer, aud small cir
cuar rim of healthy skin next to it was exposed.
Then plaster made of chloride Of zinc, blood
root and wheat -four was spead on piece of
muslin Of the size of this circular opening and
applied to the cancer for twenty-four hours.
On removing it the cancer will be found to be
burnt into, and appear of the color and hardness
Of an old shoe sole, and the circular rim outside
of it will appear white and parboiled, as if scald-
cd by hot steam. The wound is now dressed,
and the outside rim soon supurates and tae can
Ger comes out a hard lump, and the place heals
up.


The plaster kills the cancer so that it sloughs
out like dead flesh, and never grows again.
This remedy was discovered by DR. Fell, of Lon
don, and has been used by him for six or eight
years, with unfailing success, and not case has
been known of the temperance of the cancer
where this remedy has been applied. 1t has
the sanction of toe most eminent physicians
and surgeons of London, but has not till recent
ly been used in this country, and many Of the
faculty, with their proverbial opposition to in
novations, look upon it with distrust. We saw
MIR Mason at church yesterday, and have since
conversed with him and took particular notice
of the cicatrzcd wound, and can only say, tha.
if the cure is permaneht-and, from the evil
dence Of six eight years experience in other
cases. we have no doubt it is-the remedy ought
to be universally known. We have referred to
this case, because MIR Mason is we'll known both
here and at the East. The experiment excited
much interest in Cincinnati, and We call the at
tention of the faculty in this State to the remedy
IF it is what is claimed for it, this terrible dis.
ease will be shorn of most Of its terrors. The
application is painfal, lut the pain is of COM
paratiyely briet duration, which aoy one SO af-
ficted would cheerfully endure.
Year: 1866

When field is sown 10 the fall iI wheat, rye,
or any other small grain, and we'll narrowed
over, the clover seed is sown very thinly broad
cast; eight pounds to the acre is sufficient 1t
needs no covering, as It will easily work itself
down into the ground. By next spring, the
clover will grow up beautifully in the shade of
the grain crop, and when the latter is moved
of, the clover will be found grown from six to
twelve inches high. All leguminous plants, to
which the clover belongs, are always greatly
ben Gifted BY plaster"
Year: 1866

HUMANE DEcIs1oN.-The English bench lately
decided at Westminster that it was principle
of common law that counsellor, in questioning
a witness, should address him in ordinary tones
and in language Of respect, such as is employed
by one gentleman in conversation with an other;
that such lawyer has no right to question the
private business or moral character Of witness,
any further than it is apparent they absolutely
affect his reliability, or touch the case in hand;
and that witness is not bound to answer ques-
tons put TO him in an insulting or annoying
manner.
Year: 1866

Tue TnAvEL.-Parties who have reached Walla
Wsla within a day ortwo, direct from Montana,
report very little snow, and represent the trip as
being made without serious difficulty or expos
sure. At this season of the year all the travel
comes by way of the Lakes, the road over the
mountains being blockaded by snow.
Year: 1866

THE SEAsoN.-This has been so far,
about the mildest winter ever experienced IN
this latitude, the snow covers the earth but
a few inches, and the weather at present
thawing if it will only be so accOmmOda-
ting as to keep up its lick we will, in the
exuberauce of our gratitude, bow our thanks
to him who "tempers the wind OUyhee
Bullion
Year: 1866

When you walk in the street With lady
keep your bands out Of your pockets, aud
your cigar out Of your mouth. We would
sooner be caught stealing than in the act Of
smoking while walking with lady. Don't
change sides on crossing the street; it is
quite as proper that you. should fall through
cellar doors and other traps set by seayelsss
people. as that she should. Always take
the right hand when you meet another per-
son, and don't stop. At the table take the
dish the host offers you, and don't pass il to
the nearest neigbbor, even il lady; itTh
to his or her face. There is point where
self abnegation becomes rudeness, and this
is precisely that point. The person who
gives the entertainment has perfect right
to say who shall be served Arst. Don't of.
fer your chair to q new conner, unless it is
the only one Of the kind, and the best in the
room. Rise when another guest leaves the
house where you are entertained, but do not
follow to the door-you may spoil more
cordial leave taking. Don't sit cross legged
in the presence of ladies or in company of
ceremony. Keep your fingers out Of your
button holes, and your hands off your lap
Make yourself as comfortable as you can
without incommoding any one. Your host
if gentleman, always likes to see bis guests
comfortable and contented. Be neither q
pump nor pumper, but alternately resume
both conditions. Ask and answer questions
with diplomatic proprie,y. Speak we'll Of
people, or speak not at all. Nothing indi.
Gates greater defect Of colloquial ability than
vi,uperatious, ISLANDERS, or angry declama.
ton. Maintain repose if the earth quakes.


Always wear clean shirt and collar, and do


not fail to use tooth brush. All Of which


is respectfully submitted to those who would


be recognized as persons Of good breeding
-Erchange.
Year: 1866

CALIFORNIA AHEAD.-Tbe mines OF Cali
foruia have been the subject Of continual
misrepresentation and dectraction ever since
the first manifestation of the Wasboe fever;
yet hundreds of mining sections in Nevada
have proved to be vaueess, whose shares
once stood at high figure in the market;
while California quartz is once more yielding
fortunes We read in an exchange that the
Allison Ranch mine is turning out gold in
almost fabulous quantities, the rock, at a
depth Of seven hundred feet, yielding at the
rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars
ton! The yield Of the rock crushed 10 the
mill for the past month is said. to be at the
rate of two hundred thousand dollars week
that amount having been cleaned up each
Saturday night for the four weeks past. At
this rate the mine would turn out ten mill
lions year! Even the Gould and Curry
could never beat that in regularity Of yield.


Sac. Bee.
Year: 1866

GUARDED.-The vaults Of the Bank Of
France, which contains more treasure than
any other single spot on the face Of the globe,
are accessible through an iron door, which
has three keys, and these three keys are kept
by three leading officers The iron stair case
which leads to the vault can be detached and
by chemical apparatus, a supply of deadly
gas can be made to penetrate every part,
destroying human life in few seconds, while
the whole vault can be submerged in ten
minutes.
Year: 1866

REMARKS OF Mr.. SAULsBURy-The fol-


lowing condensed report of Senator Saulsbu'
rvs speech on the Freedmen's Bureau Bill
will be read with interest at this time.


Mr. Salisbury said he had not intended


when he came to the Senate this session to
participate in the debates relating to slavery,
but the Senator from Illinois (TrumbulD had
said the other day that there was a necessity


in Delaware for the operations ofthis Bureau.
1t was not deemed necessary then to extend
the operations Of this Bureau TO the States
not in rebellion, although war ragged in the
land. But as success has crowned the per.
sistent efforts Of the friends Of the negro race,
these aggressive movements have become
more rapid and extensive. Although the
Freedmen's, Bureau as originally est abIished,
was only intended, according to its provis.
ions TO extend to The States in revolt, yet we
cannot shut our eyes to the fact that II Ia
bound to become an extensive Bureau. l
shall enter into no computation Of the cost
which the country has already incurred in
the support of that Bureau. One thing We
know, and that is that hundreds ofthousands
of the negro race have been supported out
of the United States Treasury, and the white
people OF the country are taxed to pay that
expense. For the first time n the history Of
the country has the thing occurred that the
real mass of the people have been taxed to
support in idleness class Of people too lazy
and too worthless to support themselves.


Look around at these galleries at any time
of the day, and you will see the benefciares
OF this bureau crowding them, and listening
to the debates of this body. How many Of
the honest, hard working white men Of this
country are there who can afford to come
TO the city Of Washington, and sit day after
day, week after week, and month after month,
listening to your deliberations They cannot
afford to do it, but under the protective care
of the Freedmen's Bureau, your galleries can
be crowded every day with negroes listening
to your deliberations, but doing nothing to
support themselves, and being supported out
Of The taxes levied upon the whole people Of
this country.


The bill under consideration proposes to
enlarge the powers Of the Freedmen's 3 Bureau
!: does enlarge them wonderfully. think
| can demonstrate automatically that this
bill gives to the President Of the United
States, and to those connected with the dis
charge Of the duties Of the Bureau, the pow,
or Of expending, at least two hundred and
fifty millions Of dollars. 1t cannot be the
intention OF the friends of the bill that such
an enormous expenditure shall be incurred.
But we are to look at what may be the re
suit Of this Bureau going into operation to
ascertain what the expenses may be, and we
are not to consider that those intrusted with
the discharge Of the duties of the bureau will
not incur this expense.
Year: 1866

A HEAVY GAME OF PoKER!-Few people in
this quiet city little dream or know of the many
singular and curious events which are daily
occurring, were it not for the "locar of the
public press, whose hundred eyes" see, and
delicate ears catch even the slightest sound of
what is going on. A most mysterious thing
happened few days since, which, had it been
known beforehand, would have stirred the
hearts of every one with concern, and livli-
est sympathy We allude to the sudden de-
mise and subsequent burning of the remains
of an old and highly esteemed public function
ary, whom every one knew and lived with a
love nearly akin to that of brothers. 1t seems
that one day last week q peculiar procession
was seen to issue, in the afternoon, from the
door of public business place on Fore street
First there came an officer, bearing upon hi
shoulders a long white sack, tied at the mouth
which contained a body (as subsequently ascer
tained) followed by an ex-senator, Insurance
Agent a Common Councilman, two venerable
Bank Directors, and the "Old Harry" to sweal
them, brought up the rear.


This select company Of relatives and friends
walked in sort of funeral procession, some
distance up the street to the basement of 9
building, where a large fire had been previous
ly built, and after removing the sack and dis
membering its contents, cast them into the
glowing furnace. While they were being con
sumed, these men, Incredible as it may seem
with hardness of heart little thought of by
others, actually did play poker" for for an
hour, the "stales" being one hundred and six
ty-six thousand dollars. ,r.5. -.,.t


r ONE WHO SAW IT.
Year: 1866

In the collection of curiositieS preserved in the
arsenal at Venice there is key, of which the
following singular tradition is related About
the year 166O one of those dangerous men in
whom extraordinary talent is only the fearful
source of crime and wickedness beyond that OF
ordinary men, came to establish himself as q
merchant at Venice The stranger, whose name
was Tebaldo became enamored of the daughter
ofan ancient house, already afianced to another
He demanded her hand in marriage, and was re.
fused Enraged at this, he studied how to be
revenged. Profoundly skilled in the mechanical
arts and be allowed himself no rest until he had
invented the most formidable weapon which
could be imagined. This was a key of large
size, the handle Of which was so constructed that
it could be turned round with little difficulty.
When turned, Undiscovered spring which, on
pressure, launched from the other end needle
or lancet of such subtle ineness that it entered
into the flesh and buried itself there without
leaving external trace.


Tebaldo' waited in disguise at the door of the
church in which the maiden whom he loved was
about to receive the nuptial benediction. The
assassin sent the slender STEEL unperceiVed, into
the breast of the bridegroom. The wounded
man had no suspicion of injury, but, seized with
sudden and sharp pain in the midst of the Ger
mony, he tainted and was carried to his house
amidst the lamentations of the bridal party
Vain was all the skill Of the physicians, who
could not divine the cause of this strange illness,
and in few days he died. Tebaldo again de-
manded the hand of the maiden from her pa
rents, and received a second refusal. They too,
perished miserably in few days. The alarm
which these deaths, which appeared almost mi
raculous, occasioned, excited the utmost vigi-
lance Of the magistrates and when, on close
examination of the bodies, the small instrument
was found in the gangrened fesh terror was uni
versa every one feared for his own life The
maiden thus cruelty orphaned bad passed the
frat month Of her mourning in q convent, when
Tebsldo, hoping to bend her to his will, entreat-
ed to speak with her at the CRATE. Her reply
was most decisive in the negative. efsiH ~


Tebaldo, beyond himself with rage, attempted
to wound her through the CRATE and succeeded ;
the obscurity of the place prevented his move
ments from being observed. On her return to
her room the maiden felta pain in her breast, and
uncovering it she found it spotted with single
drop of blood. The pain increased the sur
geons who FASTENED to her assistance, taught by
the past, wasted no time in conjecture, but cut
ting deep into the wounded part, extracted the
needle before any mortal mischief had commenced,
and saved the life of the lady. The State Inqui-
sition used every means to discover the hand
which dealt these insidious irresistible blows
The visit of Tebaldo to the convent caused suS-
picion to fall heavily on him his house was
carefully searched, the infamous invention dis
covered, and he perished on the gibbet aH s
Year: 1866

1t is only in love that the soul finds weather
as summer-like as that of the cline whence it has
been transplantedJ land can put forth its blossoms
and ripen its fruit without fear of nipping frosts


Never was falser doctrine preached than that
loves chief delight and satisfaction lies in the
pursuit Of its object, which won, the charm is
already futtering its wings to seek some fairer
height. This is true only when love has been
bat one of the. thousands vizars Of sel6shness,
when we have loved ourselves in the beautiful
spirit we have knelt to that is, when we have
merely loved the delight we felt in loving =
Thenit is that the cup we so othirsted after tastes
bitter or insipid, and we fling it down undrunk


Did we empty it, we should find that it was the
poor, muddy dregsof self at the bottom, which
made our gorge rise. If it be God whom we
love in loving our elected one, then shall the
bright halo Of her spirit expand itself over all
existence, till every human face we look upon
shall share in its TRANSPORTATION, and the old
forgotten traces of brotherhood belit up by it !;
and our love, instead of pining diseomforted,
shall be lured upward and upward by low, an
gelcal voices, which recede before it forever, as
It mounts from Frightening summit to summit
on the delectable mountains Of asnirafion- and