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Year: 1870

ideas, it is not accepted out Of the country OF
its birth. We want nothing in Germany that
is not German, and Holland certainly is not
German. Already Posen is looked upon with
no friendly eye by many of my cOuntrym'n
as non-Teutonic province. There is no fear
of our taking Holland-as little as there is OF
the French taking Belgium


Now, fancied / saw quiet twinkle of sat
isfaction in Count Bismarck's eye as he added
the above last word; and perhaps l may as
well let it be the last word of my report.
Year: 1870




The New Orleans Times says:-"The receipts
of cotton at this port lag behind those of last
year at least 10000 bales. This, with every
prospect OF larger crop than that of last sea-
son, is due to various very apparent causes.
First, we have the remarkably favorable pick
ing season, which has kept all the disposable
labor in the fields. There never was before so
early and prolific an opening of the bolis. The
fields never appeared SO waite at these dates.
The labor is not equal TO the demand for pick
ers, and the freedmen have not yet recovered
from the influences which keep SO many in their
quarters, while the ripened crop is exposed
TO loss and destruction from storm and
rain. This, now, is the great peril which may
reduce greatly the estimatesof the general yield.
The weather has been unusually dry and hot for
long spell. A sudden storm and severe rain
would blow down and destroy vast amount of
this valuable product. There is no time, there
fore for pressing and baling. Everybody to the
field! tits pity that this call is not promptly
responded to by all who can pick. Too many
able-bodied freedwomon, who have been brought
up to this labor, prefer loupging and playing
lady about their cabins 20 turning out In the
dew and sun to earn good wages and better
health than they can ever have from their idle
and slattern habits in quarters. This is the
great discount upon our cotton productions, The
capacity of production is only limited by the
amount of labor. The withdrawal of the stout
bodied women from the fields is a losA of
one'Ehird, at least, Of the reallzable crop"
Year: 1870

Our Neutrality Laws.


Despatch to the Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, Oct 10.-Some of the news
papers have asserted that the Presidents recent
proclamation was issued on account of the con-
duct of the steamer La Touche Treville towards
German vessels, but it is known in Washington
that Admiral Lefoie, commanding the chief
division of the kntilles and North America, has
never sought, as alleged to establish species of
blockade in American waters. The vessels of
his division, it is officially known, harbored in
New York only because of damage by a storm
to which they had been exposed. This is the
sole reason for their detention ON this coast.


The Admiral gave strict orders to the captain
of the La Touche Treville to do nothing but
convey the French Transportation company's
packets TO convenient distance to sea and re-
turn Immediately to New York without making
visit to any suspected vessel, or doing any
thing whatever to excite public suspicion of an
intention to violate our neutrality laws.
Year: 1870

In village near the southern State line, a
few days ago, nice young man put sheet
around him to scare Dutchman. The leu
tonic gentleman says: II just jump off my
wagon. and vip der ghost all the time. would
vip him if he was whole graveyard" Some
one asked the young man what allied his black
eye, and he said that he had received bad news
fiom Germany.
Year: 1870

In a tract distributed by the Mormon preach
ers, the following question and answer occur !:
What shall be the reward of those who have
forsaken their wives for righteousness sake :?
A hundred fold Of wives here and wives here
Year: 1870

A Sunday school teacher In New London,
Conn, asked little scholar what he would do
if, on the way to the Sunday school, the devil
should whisper in his ear, and try TO get him
to go off to some bad place. The boy drew
himself up to his tull height and said 81
should say to him, Shoe, Fly, don't bodder me. u
This brought the house down.
Year: 1870

A prosy lay member Of he church rose in
meeting and said My frieuds the devil and
have been fighting for more than twenty min
utes. He told me not to speak tonight, but [
determined that would He even WHISPERED
that [ spoke too often, and that nobody wanted
to hear me, but | was not to be put down that
way and, now that have gained the victory,
| must tell all that have in my heart Then
followed tedious harangeu. Coming out OF the
session room, the good pastor inclined his head
so that Ills mouth approached the ear of the
brilliant member, ami whispered Brother, [
think the devil was right.
Year: 1870

A SAVAGE GRIzzLY.-On the 18th ult.,
says the San Jose Zadtpeadene, three men,
whose names are unknown, but who had
been keeping dairy on tho San Bsnito
Ranch, came to their death in most hor.
riblo manner. On Thursday one of their
cows strayed away and was lost. On the
next morning. before breakfast, two Of
them started out to take look for the mis-
sing animal. After travelling up the ravine
for some distance they discovered the COW
lying among the brush. Thinking she was
asleep they went up t0 start Acr hs,nc; but
it appears the cow had been killed by
grizzly, who was At this time lying at her
side As the men approached tho bear leap.
ed upon the foremost one, and throwing
him to the ground, tore out his entrails, and
then seizing the second, caught his head in
his mouth, and bit It entirely of, msngling
it fcarfully. The bear then resumed i.s
position by the body of the dead COW. Tho
man who was at first attacked did not dio
Immediately, but had strength enough left
to drag himself short distance from tho
spot In the meantime the man left at the
camp having prepared breakfast, went out
to call his companions. Finding their trail
he followed it until he'saw the COW lying
in the bushes, and thinking he would
drive her homie, he apprc achcd the spot,
when the bear springing upon him, instant
~ killed him, mangling him in the most
horrible manner. The surviving victim,
who was lying in the brush at short dis
tauce from the scene, witnessed his approach
and death, but was so terribly wounded that
he was unable to give any warning. The
bodies were found 4 short time afterwards
and conveyed to camp, where the survivor
died during the ensuing night, after relst-
ing the affair rs we have stated above. Tho
bear is the same one that has been in that
vicinity for the past ten years, It being
known from its peculiar track, having lost
three of the toes from one of its feet
Year: 1870

FROM the Journal Of the Telegraph


The press dispatches from Europe to
New York during the last four weeks mum.
bered about 100, 900 words. New York has
been better posted on the issue Of the war
each day, than LONDON, Paris or Berlin.


Here 10 . man sitting in dark room At
Hearts Content. The ocean cable termi.
mates here. A line wire attached thereto is
made to surround two small cores of soft
iron. As tho electric wave, produced by
two pieces of copper and zinc, At Valentia,
passes through the wire, these corce be.
came magnetic enough to move the slight.
est object A lookiag-g glass half an inch In
diameter, 10 fixed ON bar Of iron one.
tenth of an inch square and half an inch
long. On this tiny glass lamp is made to
glare 80 that its light is reflected on tablet
on the wall The language Of tho cable is
denoted by the shifting of this reflected
light from side to side. Letter by letter 10
thus expressed in this fitting medium, in
utter silence, on the wall.


There is no record made by the machine
except as the patient watcher calls out to
comrade the translated flashes as they come,
and which he records. It seems like mir.
aclc Of patience. There is something of
awe crceps over Us. as We see the evidence
of human touch 1000 miles away sway.
ing that tide of light.


BY such delicate process as this, and
after being repeated from line to line i've
times before its ultimate copy is in New
York, have the late great battles been re-
corded in our daily papers with great par
ticularity, and sent throughout the Union.
Nothing like it has ever before been ac-
complishsd. Tho enterprise of the New
York press has cclipscd that of the wealth.
lest and ablcst presses in Europe. 1t 10
characteristic of the nation to do its work
grandly and well.
Year: 1870

1,033, with measurement of 4O1,0 ,046,
making grand total Ofthe United States
mercantile navy at 27,425 vessels, meas
uring A. 145 366 tons


SOME twelve years ago a well.knOwn
member of the Milwaukee bar, upon open
ing his mail one day, found ten dollar
bill in letter. The letter was not sign
ed, and said simply that the money right
fully belonged to the lawyer, and he must
use it as his own and ask no questions
The lawyer did so. Next year about the
same time, another letter, with another
ten dollar bill and the same request, came;
and every year since that time similar
letter, with a similar bill, has reached the
lawyer Naturally he has felt some
anxiety to know who the donor is. but all
his attempts failed, and until few days
ago, he was in ignorance. At that time
letter came with ten dollars and an ex
plonatlon 1t seems that over twelve
years ago the sender was in the city; got
into trouble, and could get nobody to de-
fend him because he had no money. The
lawyer in question learned of the case,
felt interested in it, defended the man, and
got him clear. His bill would have been
$40, and the client was so grateful that
every year he has sent as present the
amount of the fee
Year: 1870

A GENTLEMAN recently tried to sell,
at q New York iewelry store, beautiful
diamond ring which he had bought there
"A few weeks previous, saying that, as the
engagement was now broken off, he had
no fur her use for it, In consideration OF
his sufferings they allowed him halt price
for IL.
Year: 1870

JEFFERSON DAVIS AND THE SUNDAY
School CH1LDKEy.-The following is the
recent sunday-sohoOl speech of Jefferson
Davis -


Friends: There was time when could
say fellow-citizens. 1 congratulate you upon
the demonstrations of this day in behalf of
Sabbath. Schools. It Is a great and noble
work, that of giving moral and religious train
ing to the rising generation. To them we
must look for the resurrection Of the buried
hopes of the past. l am fa.tered by the
compliment you have paid me; but feel
that it is not paid to me so much as an indi-
viduai as the representative Of the cause of
constitutional liberty, for which our fathers
fought and bled, and which is still dear to my
heart. thank you.
Year: 1870

WATER THE HoRsEs.-It is during such
weather as we are now having that drivers of
horses can make display Of real humanity TO-
wards these faithful beasts. There are many
drivers who never think of giving their horses
a drop of water from the time they are
hitched up in the morning until they are ta-
ken from the shafts in the evening This is
simply heartless cruelty.
Year: 1870

WTHEN was sixteen years of age, I


w was sent for a couple of years. SUI
perior polishing, to an establishment for
young ladies, kept by a very distinguished
lady whom will call Mrs. Furnival.


Mrs. Furnival prided herself on receiving
pupils of the first-class only, and of educa-
ting them in such frst-rate style as to rem
der them polished ornaments of the most
fashionable drawing rooms on passing from
her school-rooms. The horror of. her life
was not ignorance, but gaucherie !: the OBJ
ject of all her teaching not so much wis
dom as elegance. To be awkward or yul-
gar was, in Mrs. Furnival's eyes, almost
criminal.


We naturally took kindly to life at NAL
don Lodge, and l think there were none
who looked forward with any eagerness to
the time of leaving school.


A rebel, however, found her way into the
orderly ranks of Mrs. Furnival's young la
dies-a daring little rebel of seventeen.
fresh from the wilds of Australia, the
daughter of some distinguished person out
there, and the heiress, we were told of an
almost fabulous fortune.


l remember her well, in spite of this lapse
of years remember vividly every feature
OF her beautiful young face, seem to see
her before me again, with the ever-chang-
ing light in her glorious wild eyes, the rose
color coming and going on her delicate
cheeks, the sunlight losing itself in the rich
red gold of her wavy hair. To look at her
springing about in her daring disregard of
all rule, grace in every movement; to listen
to her sweet fresh voice singing in the very
luxuriance Of gay-heartedness who would
have guessed the miserable future, or the
doom hanging over her?'


And yet, with all her airy loveliness, all
her wild sweet grace, Myra Richardson won
few hearts. She was my room mate, and
was certainly the most affectionately-dis-
posed toward her; nevertheless / never
reached the point of loving her-I never
felt my heart thoroughly warm toward her.
There was something uncanny in her wild
eyes, something that repulsed me in the
tones of her voice, even in her Quietest and
most affectionate mood. Amongst the rest
OF the girls she was regarded with mixed
feeling OF jealousy and wonder; jealousy of
her wild beauty, wonder at her wild ways.


1t was bright soft evening in early June
"a Saturday ! recollect, for both Myra
Richardson and myself had been spending
Year: 1870

cgram:


yesterday evening the telegraph said the
Prussians had four arny corps on the Rhine,
and that they bad mined the river bank"


What do they mine the river bank for !
To blow pthe river? Or TIE banks? There s
a great field here for speculation aided by
great common sense.
Year: 1870

DoNN PIArr thus does up a clerical
guest at Saratoga Look at the huge an
imal at the next table. He is a clergy
man of distinction, who is here to benefit
his health, after the arduous labors of his
parish. He weighs $50, if pound. See
how the oily flesh plaits and folds under
his double chin, and, Lord help us. see
him eat He is known to the profahe here
as the holy hog, from the way that he
travels from soup to desert. He exhausts
the bill of fare, and the very walters grin
and wink to hear him talk about his ILL
health. He married rich widow, has a
heavy salary from his congregation, and
here he is with the best rooms in this ho-
tel, putting around through this whirling
sea of sinful folly like PorPoise in rolf
ing sea,"
Year: 1870

One hundred and fifty-one million, sew
enty thousand three hundred sand eighty
seven acres given to railroad companies
since the Republican party came into
power in 1861 How much does that
mean.
Year: 1870

!

 begin with the question which closed i the last article-What is woman? equal or inferior? I answer unhesitatingly, equal For cannot for moment suppose that God could, by the very tenure and terms of her creation, make woman to be ''help meet for man," as an inferior order of be- ing; non-descript work half way between animals and man. No! Nature made man and woman equal. Sin has made woman the oppressed and man the oppressor But the Son of God, born of WOMAN, has come into the world to redeem her from sin and it's oppressive effects in this eris- tence, and not for the future life only. I have no patience with those ministers who shift over to another world what is their business to help make right i,a hhis. It is a mystery to me that the clergy should, as a body, always play into the Devils hands, by forever opposing, at the start, all SO. cial reforms. Their Master and his disci- pies "turned the world upside down" /" wherever they went. Let us have more such. And if it will turn the political world upside down to send woman to the polls, then in Heavens name send her and that right speedily; for the ballot-box. es need overturning and the changers thereof to be driven from the temple of of liberty.

 The people may be slow in learning the lesson, but come it will for a that, the time when christian democracy shall not distinguish between Caucasian or African, bond or free, male or female; but as all souls stand on the same level before God, SO shall all persons stand on the same equality before law. look to see gov ernment in which no class shall be pro scribed and disfranchised because of race or sex.

 And now will you who oppose justice and equality through your fears, be pleas ed to decide in what light you view wo- man, and having decided, act accordingly? If she is inferior, then do not allow her to educate herself for places she can never fill. If the old idea that woman is fit only for the harem, is the true one, then send her back where she belongs. But if she is a power, endowed with soul, mind and fac- ulties, like your own, when developed by education, with the ssme God to glorify | and serve, the same duties in social and public life to fulfil, interest alike in all the veal and woe of our common humanity, then act like men, strong-minded men, and let God care for results.

 E. W. WOODRUFF. Washington, Aug. 15, 1870.
Year: 1870

AUBURN MINsrKEL,.-Ihis troupe give q sec
ond performance at Armory Hall on Monday
evening next. We suppose there will be change
Of programme, and that there will be full house.
Most of our readers in this vicinity witnessed the
ormer performance and need no urging from
to attend this one as all are fully informed OF
The merits and talents of the company. We
lope the boys will have a good house and acquii
themselves as well as on the previous occasion,
Of which there can be little doubt. This will be
che last performance in Auburn of this troup
All are requested to remain and join i'll a .cia-
lance.
Year: 1870

UNFURTUNATE.-Dr u. X. Crandall, Of this
place had superintended the construction of a
new refrigerating fruit car, on the principle Of
Fishers Patent family ice chest, which was
loaded with fruit in Sacramento for the eastern
market, and started, accompanied by the Dr.,
but was caught this side of the burning snow
lay will give the car q thorough test, and may
entail heavy expenses in the loss of fruit but ii
must rot be accepted as proof of the merits Of
the car as three days time on ripe fruit in as one
,a,trip as this must tell heavily, We are anxious
to hear from the results of this experiment, foI
ii it should prove q success under these disad
.vantages it will be great thing to fruit raisers
ON this coast and especially to the foot-hill por
ton of Placer county.
Year: 1870

Leaving modern times, We find in
Plato the most perfect example of the
art and method of conversation-the
method which makes the art possible
even to unfrendly temperaments. We
scarcely find in any modern companies
such respect and Difference as IN Plato
Dialouges. We see in them .he pow.
er Of calling out each one, making him
feel that he is part of the occasion
Plato was urbane, and uTbanity is some.
thing which is more than politeness.
Urbanity comedies perfect freedom to
each one. Hence, in all energy of ut
terance, an urbane person bears in
mind that his interlocutor is also a
thinking being, and therefore be does
not browbsat, 10 not arrogant
Year: 1870

A letter from Delaware, Ohio, to the
Cincinnati Commercial, tells Of {
double child with two perfectly formed
heads, one on either end of the spina
column. To give a clear idea of it
just suppose that you sever the bodies
of two men at the lower part Of tn,
abdomen, and then put the two upper
parts together, and you have the trunl
of this child.
Year: 1870

Judge McKeon, OF Utah, refused to
accord the rights of citizenship to sun
dry Mormons because they were not
of good moral character. A Southern
editor thinks # the Radical men in
power would apply the same rule in his
region, and exclude every negro whose
standard of moral character is not up
to that required of the Mormons, tue
Radical vote would be very materially
diminished.
Year: 1870

In recent speech in Boston, Sena
tor Wilson Inadvertently announced
the purpose of his associates when he
declal ed: ave have got the Congress,
we have got the President, we have
rot the Supreme Court, and we mean
to keep them all,'-thus showing that
i'm their frantic efforts to obtain ne v
lease of political power and patronage
the Radical leaders are counting on a
partisan Supreme Court.
Year: 1870

Those who reason from the expert
cnce of the past, that the French can
soon organize new forces of sufficient
strength to drive back the victorious
Germans must not lose sight of the
importance railroads now bear to mil
itary operations. With the control OF
them in German hands, the work OF
expulsion becomes q most, pdtficull
task
Year: 1870

The Mont Gents tunnel, the mos
wonderful piece Of railway enterprise
ever undertaken W i'll be completed nfxt
year. At one part it is 5000 feet be
low the surface of the earth, In ma
king this tunnel several useful dlscOv-
erlcs which render mans progress
through the bowels of the land much
easier than it was before, have been
made and successfully tested. Boring,
by the aid OF compressed air, is one OF
them.
Year: 1870

AMATEUR WRITER'S Many youth
lul composers think they have call to
write because they can dash ott col
nun article about as quickly as it would
require to copy the same amount OF
writing. Such rapid compositions
however, are seldom of much value
for even when a trained writer, with
full knowledge of his subject, sits down
to commit his thoughts to paper, the
process is co nparatively slow and la.
borious. Facility is desirable quail
ty in journalist, but power Of thought
and cultivated imagination are much
more valuable. Let those therefore
who aspire to, appear in print be frs
solicitous that they have something tc
say worth hearing, remembering thai
nothing is so conducive to clearness Of
style as clcarncss ofthought.
Year: 1870

A new style of rocker, "which will
make the rocking chair II greater favor
ite than ever" is announced as a recent
New Haven invention. Society would
be better off without this invention.
OF all the damaging things. in daily use
the ordinary rocking chair is one to be
generally ly avoided.
Year: 1870

The Chinese rebellion has been in
active opposition to the Imperial dy
nasty of the Celestial Empire for ovel
half century. Yet, with 100000 mel
ranged under its banners, it does not
appear to be any nearer conclusion
than when it first started in the field.
Year: 1870

A number of Japanese ofhigh rank
leclutl ly arrived in San Francisco ;
among them was the Prince Imperial,
heir apparent to the throne, being the
first of the royal family who had ever
left japan.
Year: 1870

Iyou have an enemy, act kindly to
ward him and make him your friend.
You may not win him over at once, but
try again. Let one kindness be fol
lowed by another. until You have ac-
compUshed your object.
Year: 1870

1t is not only a common. but very
wholesome practice, to use whitewash. 1t
preserves wood work, renders it disagree
able as the habitation Of insects, and pro-
notes health. Thousands of dwellings are
made cheerful by its presence on the cell
ings of their rooms, and even the walls
are often indebted to it, where paper and
paint cannot be afforded. 1t is cheap and
easily applied.


The outsides of barns are sometimes
whitewashed, and leantos and horse stalls
are quite frequently covered with it, and
are kept clean and wholesome by its use.


One objection to it, as commonly used,
is that it rubs off easily when touched, and
spoils the Sunday coat or best hat. 1t Is
annoying to 90 into church, or through the
street, with broad lines of white drawn on
ones back, to say nothing OF spelling the
cloth. To prevent all this, if'thc wash is
to be used indoors, mix half a pailful Of
lime and water, take half pint of flour
and make starch of it, and pour it into
the whitewash while hot. Stir it well and
make it ready BY thinning it for use. A
little glue will answer the same purpose.
If for outdoor work, add little salt and
boiled rice made thin. Scarcely particle
of the lime can be rubbed off when pre-.
pared in this manner.
Year: 1870

that will be able to sell the best class of goods
cheaper than inferior goods can be bought for
Dealing exclusively in but few lines of goods, have
the advantage over all other competitors (who are
dealing in all branches Of merchandise) Grsm this
simple reason, that the most obtuse mind mind may
comprehend. / give my whole attention to these
classes Of goods, and therefore, always have nice
selection and complete stock.