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Year: 1870

accomplish the heavy task which it has imposed on
itself In SO spontaneous manner. In rdding OF the
burden the Cabinet whose dep0rable policy has pre-
cipitated us Into such dreadful misf0rtunes


The following extract Is taken from the Un,on:--


This revolution OF the 4th September, which has
been accomplished without one drop OF blood, be-
cause there resistance. throws back to the
34th February; the proceedings resemble those OF
that period 1t Is lS4S, plus the INVASION The re-
public receives frightful heritage. Before even
the fall OF the empire we had established the duty OF
the struggle on the national footing solely at pre-
sent II Is TO be pursued with an impediment the
less, but, alas win great strength lost by defeat.


We extract the following rrom the Constitution
nell


A revolution has been accomplished without ef.
fusion OF blood, without grave disturbance, one
might almost say without contradiction. The en-
pre- had ceased to exist de JuctO and people only
asked how 1t should be replaced-how the transition
would be effected. Certainly We have no wish to
natter any one, and we do not believe that change
OF embleIns sufficient to save the nation. But
when union Is the first OF requirements, when public
order is the first condition OF existence, we unhesi
talingy declare that all preudices and regrets must
be Slenced that only reasons for marching together
must be seen, ang that everywhere must be sought
the motives for confidence which may vet be found
IN the peril into which the country has fallen.
Year: 1870

cane. and said | did not know
as much las a COW; and then
went out and banged the
door after him, and, in sh ort
acted in such manner that l
fancied that he was displeased
at something. But, not know.
ing what the trouble was l
could not be any help to him.


Pretty soon after this a long,
cadaverous creature, with
lanky locks hanging down to
his shoulders and a weeks
stubble bristliDg from the hills
and valleys of his face, dsrtcd
within the door, and halted,
motioniess with finger on lip,
and head and body bent, in lis
tening attitude. No sound was
heard. Still he listened. No
sound. Then he turned the
key in the door, and came elab.
orately tip. .toeing toward me,
when he stopped, and after
scanning my face with intense
interest for q while, drew a
folded copy of our paper from
his bosom, and said:


"There-you wrote that
Read it to me, quick! Believe
mel suffer-"


l read as tollows-and as
the sentences fell from my lips
could see the rellet come-I
could see the drawn muscles
relax, and the anxiety 60 out
of his face, and rest and peace
steal over the features like the
merciful moonlight over a des
olate landscape:


"The guano is a fine bird, but
great care is necessary in rear.
ing it. 1t should not be i'm.
ported earlier than June or
later than September. In the
winter it should be kept in a
warm place, where it can hatch
out its young.


ut is evident that We are to
have a backward season for
grain. Therefore, it will be
we'll for the farmers to begin
setting out his corn.stalks and
planting his buckwheat cakes
in July instead of August.


Concerning the pumpkin.-
This berry is a favo-ite with
the natives of the interior OF
New England, who prefer it to
the gooseberry for the making
of fruit cake, aud who likewise
give it the preference over the
raspberry for feeding COWS, as
being more filling and fully as
satisfying. The pumpkin is
the only esculent ofthe orange
family that will thrive in the
North, except the gourd and
and one or two varieties of the
squash. But the custom of
planting it in the front yard
with the shrubbery is fast 60
ing out Of vogue, for it is now
generally conceded that the
pumpkin, as a shade tree, is a
failure.


Snow, as the warm weather
approaches, and the ganders
begin to spawn


The excited listener spsang
toward me to shake hands, and
said;


| aThere, there-that will do!
| know | am all right now, be-
cause you have read IL just as
/ did, word for word. But
stranger, when | first read it
this morning, ! said to myself,
| never, never believed it be-
tore, Notwithstanding my
friends kept watch SO strict,
but now / believe I am crazy;
and with that | fetched a howl
that you might have heard-two
miles, and started out to kill
somebody, because, you know
it would come to that sooner or
later, and SO | might as well
Begin Tread one ofthem par
agraphs over again so as to be
certain, and then | Ibnrned my
Year: 1870

Herald Steam Marine News Fleet.
The following named yachts which capable OF board
ing inward bound outside OF SANDY Hook and south
OF the Highlands, compose steam marine
feet


Screw propeller yacht HERALD.


Screw propeller yacht JAMES


Screw propeller yacht JEANETTE.
The marine oce at Whitehall slip, where all
nuncaions from and consgnees TO the masters Of
will be received and forwarded free OF charge
Year: 1870

New PAPER.-We have received one of the first
numbers of the Northern Record, paper lately
begun at Orleans Bar klamath county. 1t is
neat in its Typography and quite readable in
contents. Klamath ought to have paper, and
we wish prosperity to the Record
Year: 1870

THE newIy-discOvered diamond fields
in South Africa, if report be true, must
nearly realize the marvels related in the
Ard6id Nights, of Sinbadis enchanted
valley. They are even much more al
Turing than those of the story, rs they
are more accessible than the latter
which, the reader will remember, in
addition to being infested with numbers
of the most VenOmOus sernents; were
shut in by precipitOus mountains. But
here we have real bono fde enchaut-
ed valley, so rich in gems that for scores
of years to come, it is estimated the
precious store can scarcely be exhaust
ed, and with no seTpents worth men
tioning.


At least we find none mentioned in
the published accounts, and infer that
if they exist they have shown their
prOverbial wisdom by declining to in
terrier with the necessities of commerce.
What IS more wonderful still, among
the hundreds of people gathered to this
curious harvest, there is less fighting
than diversifies a primary election or a
trip to COney Island. For once, the uUrj
8dcrG flames seems to have failed in the
wOnted Inspiration of battle and blood.
There they dig peacefully side by side
these patient husbandmen, for such
fruits as the earth has surely never yield
ed up since the plOwshare first veXt her
patient bosom. If one luckier than his
neighbOrs, finds a stone that might serve
for a kings ransom and makes him at
one stroke rich beyond his widest hopes,
the rest are animated by the sight, not
to malice and murder, but to more Wig
orOus eXertiOns. 1t is like picture of
the golden age,


It produces a strange sensation to read
of these priceless jewels lying as thick
as pebbles on the sea shore. Diamonds
have been found of thirty carats weight,
and of thousands of value. 1t requires
more than HOratian philosophy to look
without emotion upon such stores as
these. And it would not be surprising
if, when this discovery is generally
known, South Africa should become the
objective point of such another tide of
invasion as swept over the Pacific Slope
when California was first found to realize
the fabIed FL Dorado. PniIe River is on
further from New York now than San
Francisco was in the memorable day of
AS. 1t is but month or so of ocean
vOyaging, and then all GOlecOnda lies
at our feet.


And all the necessaries of life are there
infinitely more accessible and cheap than
they were in California in the early
times. Meat, for instance, is plentiful
and good at four and five cents a pound,
and other things in proportion. If much
of our restless floating population does
not drift speedily to Pniel River, it will
be because its magnificentpromfse is too
obscure, or so prOdigiOus as to seem iu-
credible.


Americans of some sort, however,
sooner or later, will be sure to find their
way thither, and with them, we fear,
will cease the tranquility Of the little
settlement. With them will appear
those most efficient of mining tools, the
Bowie knife and the revolver. But,
with these weapons, they will bring in
genuity and energy, and these advant-
ages may somewhat compensate for any
little eccentricities of behavior.-NeJO
York Times,
Year: 1870

! Unless we entirely misapprehend the
growth Of public opinion upon the sub
| 1ect of irrigation, there will be consider
/ able attempted in that line within the
next twelve months all over the older
settled States.


The fall is the best time to make prep
aTatiOn. Across every brook that has
in any Of its windings an altitude above


any other portion of the farm, build
dam, which shall be so constructed chat
the pond thus formed can be lowered


one foot if it is large, and tv o feet ifit is
small, in short space of time.


The theory is this Few streams ON
ordinary farms will suffice to keep CON
stantly wet fwere it desirable) any verv
large portion of land. Wetting twice
each week, or three times, is better than


nothing; and if you can accumulate
sufficient water to make a stream that
will flow to the end of your channel. and
thoroughly wet all the section intended
once in fOrty-eight hours, or once in
twenty-fOur, it is far better than to have
the little stream spend itself on the
ground contiguous to the dam.and ada
cent to the two or three first openings
in the sluiceway.


All that can be done in the dry season /
is to prepare the dam. This can be
made probably cheapest On farms where
stone is abundant hy digging a trench
anywhere from two to four feet wide, as
the height of the dam is to be, and then |
in this trench laying a wall as solid as |
may be, slanting from the bottom to the |
top or both sides, and then filling in the
upper side from four to six feet with |
gravel.


If the water is to be taken out both /
sides, little fumes must be inserted in /
the wall, which around their OutermOst |
edge will need a sheet of board piling to 1
prevent the water from working under, |
and thus doing damage


Where there are no stones, earth will 1
answer if the overflow is guarded by a /
section of boards laid on the top of the
dam with board on each side, exactly /
in the shape of wide spout. The upper |
end of the platform must be piled to 4
prevent the water getting under it and /
carrying away the structure.


When the early fall rains come and
the pond is full trace your bitches, Civ
ing them six inches fall to the sixteen
feet. The water let into little f1rrow /
made with the corner of a hoe will indi-
cate the proper level, which, when ae-
complished, the plow and the shovel viii /
finish the ditch, and the work is DONE
Hearth and Home.
Year: 1870

ton. But from this it follows that his


will usually displays the real man.


The ruling passion is most irresistible


when it presents itself unber the most


serious circumstances. The hard and


unforgiving man is most hard and most


UnfOrgiving when he knows that the


consequences of his disposition are inca


pable of change. The bOastful and the
swagger and the liar will swagger and


lie more defantly when he knows that
even if he is found out, it will be when


Indignation and censure can no longer


effect him. There is many man who


has gone out of this world with a lie in
his right hand for the mere pitiful salts
faction of bOlstering up te the very last
the false position in which he has lived
with his fellow-men. If will, as 1t of
ten does, brings out the best of a good
man, it brings out the worst of a bad
man. What is the bottom of it all, we
suppose, is the difficulty OF realizing
what the after lie is. 1t is not life but
death, which settles the most weighty
responsibility. The saCredness which
civilization attaches to the dying mans
bequests, intentions and declarations,
attests the force which human nature
recognizes in the sOlemnity of death. 1t
is only under most extreme and rare
that the provisions of a
will are set aside. Ii we do not admit
that dying man pTophesies, we attri-
butte to him something of that divine
power which makes the future immuta
ble. These are some of the more Obvl-
GUS considerations which invest the
voices from beyond the tomb with spec
ial interest.-SGtITddy RCUjetC.
Year: 1870

I never had one Of them, thank hea-
ven, but know they must be dreadful
these heads Of families who are for
ever popping up in new localities, with


q Lo! I'll build here. Here's o rising
bit of propertyv or, This old cottage
I'll renovate-clap on a wing and pi-
azza, live in it six months, and sell out
at a bargain Then those husbands
who are forever shifting their business
from place to place-now to village
now to a city-now to the backwOods; a
delightful time must wives have of it


Never mind how faithful, devoted
and enterprising a-woman may be, it's
a great trial for her to be continually
Year: 1870

The following is given by an exchange
as specimen of printers technical
terms. 1t don't mean however, as much
as it would to the initiated


Jim, put General Washington Oh the
galley, and then finish the murder YOU
commenced yesterday. Set up the ruins
of Herculaneum and distribute the small
pOx; you needn't finish that runaway
match; have the high water in the pa
per this week. Put a new head on Gen.
Grant, lock up JEFF Davis, and slide Ben
Butler into hell, and let that pie alone
until after dinner. Put the ladies' fair
to press, and then 20 to the devil and
put him to work on Deacon FOgy's arti-
Gle on eternal punishment =
Year: 1870

1t was told us thusly: "A young lady
and gentleman strOlled out into the
woods last Sunday in quest of muIber-
ries. They found tree that suited
them and Immediately set to work de-
vising means for getting some of the
beautiful berries without bruising
them and finally concluded that they
would climb the tree; so up they went.
After which the gentleman descended,
and soon the lady attempted to follow
suit, but some of her suit got fastened to
limb and she came to a halt. She
tried to back up, but it was no use, so
here was Il fix for her beau to catch her
in: but even while she cOgitated he
hove i'm sight. She screamed at him to
get behind tree. He Obeyed orders,
but that did not help her case for she
remained fast. She would not allow him
to come TO her assistance, and she could
not get away. \ thought struck him.


Now said the gallant youth you
must stop your hallOr'n, and I'll tie my
hankeruhief around my eyes aud throw
sticks at the limb that's holding you uu-
til break it,


The last we heard ofthis happy pair.
the boy was about half mile from the
mulberry, blmdfOlded, and throwing
stiees, and the girl was on her way
home,
Year: 1870

We are not able to share in the regret
expressed by some of our cOtempOraries
over what is called the decline in Wes-
tern inland navigation. 1t is undispu-
ted that the increase in the population
and productive industry of the country
drained by our Western water-courses
has proceeded within twenty years past
with n rapidity never before equaled in
the history of any nation, and which
could not well have been exceeded in
our own. Yet from 1916 to 1869 the ag-
gregate steam tonnage on our Western
rivers increased only from 948,085 tons
to 27l, ,507 tons, while the barge, canal
and sail transportation fell off during the
Year: 1870

The AaioricdR Union, the organ Of
the Radical party for central Georgia,
complains grievously about the trouble
some negroes who are anxious to go to
Congress from Georgia. Says the onion,
we hear it asserted that cOlOred men
are aspiring i'm almost every district in
the State. While we do not object
when he is unfit, the same rs we would
il an unfit white should present himself
and especially when his color will ieop-
arlizc the success of the party
Year: 1870

Do not estimate the worth of a young
man by his ability 10 talk soft nonsense,
nor by the length Of his mustaehe.


Do not imagine that an extra ribbon.
tied ab0Ut the neck, can remedy the de-
feet of solid collar or an untidV dress.


If your hands are Drowned BY labor.
do not envy the lily fingers of Miss Fuss
and Feathers, whose mother works in
the kitchen while she lounges in the
parlOr,


If a dandy, with cigar between his
fingers, asks you if smoking is offensive
to you, tell him emphatically, Yes
The habit should be, even though the
OdOr may not.


Always cherish a partiaIity for the
smell Of dishwater. It is more eOnduc-
i've to health and far les expensive than
Bouquet of Eden
Year: 1870

NEVER DErAcE Cons IMAGE.-How
much beauty and sentiment are em-
bodied In the above few words. They
suggest a moral foi both old and young.
Never raise your hand in anger against
a fellow being, should be the principles
early taught to the young. What vast
amount IF crime and suffering could
be averted if we could but adopt this
moral instruction, Never deface Gods
image" From the nursery to the
grave, too many ignore this truly good
motto, and their hands are ever raised
to resent the slightest injury, or even
an imaginary wrong, with blow, a
kick or some such brutal act. Young
men, to you let these. few words be-
come deeply impressed on your hearts ;
and should you be placed In position
TO resent an insult or injury, think
we'll before you act; you will never
regret, but avoid much misfortune aud
unhappiness. Words are decidedly
the safest weapons, for they do not
Kill outright, but leave some chance to
make amends, if We find We have done
4 brother q wrong. But to use physi-
cal force against another, will cause a
breach most difficult to heal. Had
our first brothers possessed this chris
tian sentiment and been governed by
its teachings, murder would not have
been chronicled at so early period In
the history OF the world. God never
created men 10 deface one another.
These words should have place in
every school room. but every school
book should bear the imprint. Let all
keep this motto in their minds until 1t
becomes indelibly impressed thereon
Never deface Gods image"
Year: 1870

By the brink of the river our parting was fond
But whispered the words soft and low;
For band of bright angels were waiting be


yond,


And my bride of a day was to go:
Was to go from our shore, with its headIand o


years,


On a water whose depths were untold;
And the boat was to float on this River o.


Tears


Till it blent with an ocean of gold.
Our farewell was brief as the fall of tear;
The minutes like wing'd spirits flew;
When my bride whispered low that shallor


drew near,


And the beck of the boatman she knew.
Then spoke in one kiss all the passion of years
For knew that our parting was nigh;
Yet saw not the end-I was blinded by tears,
And light had gone out from the sky.
But caught the faint CLEAN of an outdrifting


sail,


And the dip Of asilver-tipped oar;
And knew, by the low rustling sigh OF the


gale,


That spirit had gone from the shore.
Alone in my grief now sit on the sand,
Where so often she sat by my side;
And long for the sballop to come to the strand
That again may sit by my bride.
Year: 1870

A gentleman from Messy Creek
Jefferson county, yesterday presen
ted us with a photograph of snake
at full length, of which he gives sub
stantially the following history:
| A few days since the snake was
found suspended in spiders wei
under shelf in the store of Messrs.
johnson d Branner, at Messy Creek.
On inspection it was clearly ascer-
tanned that the snake, about a foot
in length, and still alive, had been
literally captured by spider about
the size of q common house fly. The
spider had spun his web tightly
around the neck and entire head of
the snake, and drawn him clear from
the floor, making him a close pris-
oner. The snake was taken, whilst
yet in the coils of the spider, to Mr..
Ruftner, a photographer, and the
picture is before US as we write. The
facts are curious, and suggestive of
various theories. After the photo
graph was taken the web was re-
moved from the snake, whereupon
he exhibited his wicked instincts by
striking at those present, evidently
showing a desire to avenge himself
for the terrible indignity put upon
him by so insignificant a creature as
a spider not much larger than a
grain of wheat. We regret that the
snake was finally killed, instead of
being saved that hispeculiar species
might be identified. 1t was evident
ly a venomOus reptile, which had
crawled into the store unobserved,
to be thus ANONYMOUSLY captured
and brought to grief.-Kno4vile
Whig.
Year: 1870

Parents, strive to make you
homes pleasant and attractive! l
you would have your children grow
up pure, healthy, and beautiful, at
tempt not to destroy their love fol
beautiful things and healthy recrea
ton. Do not labor with such cold
rigid, self-denying economy to hoard
up money to bestow upon them Al
your death; rather devote portion
of your surplus income to embel
lishments and beautifying youl
dwellings, and to furnish your boys
and girls with the means of home
enjoyment. Introduce into your
family circle innocent amusements;
and, above all, yourselves join and
assist the young in their recreations
and plans for social diversion,
Teach them that most beautiful and
soul-inspiring accomplishment, mu-
sic; and allow them to mingle in the
graceful and health giving dance.


Many parents will crush with q
frown every attempt at hilarity on
the part of their children; they will
Danish all amusement and gaiety
from the family circle, and cause a
shade of gloom to settle over their
homes. What is the course of the
children of such parents? To es-
cape from the oppressive atmosphere
of home becomes the governing mo-
tive of all their actions. When
away from the immediate care OF
their parents, they will secretly 60
to places which they have been for
bidden to visit, and mingle with
children with whom they have been
told not to associate; then they will
Immediately become more bold and
hardened, and plunge deeper and
deeper into the sea of forbidden
pleasures, and resort to falsehood to
shield themselves from detection.


Are not such parents, in meas
ure, responsible for the sins OF their
children? The young will have en-
joyment; and if they cannot find it
at home they will seek it elsewhere,
in doubtful places and in doubtful
company. They are full of vitality
and gaiety; they have natural and
ungovernable desire for amusement
and social intercourse, and that de-
sire must be gratifed-legitimately,
itmay be, or illegitimately. Attempt
to suppress it, and you will ruin
your children; direct it in the proper
channel, and you will cause them to
grow UP happy and contented into
the best and noblest of men and wo-
men.


You who have children to train
up, think of this! Devote portion
of your time and money to crafty
ing their love for social amusement.
lfyou do not get rich very fast, what
matters it? You will he compensa-
ted hundredfold for the pecuniary
loss by the joy and pleasure you will
experience by seeing your children
grow up noble and virtuous, hon
ored and respected by those around
them.