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Year: 1870

Our ears are every day panied by ac-
counts of kerosene lamps exploding and
killing, or soaring for life, mon, women
and children. A simple knowledge Of
the intlammable nature of the fluid
would probably put stop to nearly all
the accidents. AS the oil burns down
in the lamp, highly inflammable gas
gathers over its surface, and as the oil
decreases the gas increases. When the ell
is nearly consumed, slight jar will Of
ten iDhame the gas, and an explosion is
sure to follow, dealing death and de-
struction. A bombshell is not more to
be dreaded.


Now, if the lamp is not allowed to
burn more than half way down, such
accidents are impossible. Always fill
your lamps every morning; then you
never need fear any explosion. Great
economy can be practiced in regard to
the wicks. There is usually one third
of wick wasted. By sewing one wick
to this unburnt end, and inserting the
same, j. e., the same piece, into the lamp
tube, you can burn more of it; but be
sure to take it out before the part that
joins the wick enters the tube. Now
turn the wick on the other edge and
burn down to the joined edges. Thus a
saving on both wicks IS secured. To be
sure, the sa wing is small, bat the old
adage is very true: "a penny saved is
a penny earned"


Half of a teaspoonfull of salt added
to the oil of lamp which holds pint
will take away the disagreeable odor
sometimes apparent, and it is said, pre-
vent the formation of that dangerous
gas. 1t is simple remedy, easily ap-
piled. 1t is also asserted that the saIt
makes the oil last Guch longer, but we
have only hearsay evidence concerning
it. Kerosene is the best antidote for a
severe burn or scald. Immerse the in
jured part in cold water for a moment;
dry with soft cloth, taking care not to
rub at all. Then battle in kerosene and
terrible pain ceases. We know little
child whoput his foot and leg into a pot
of nearly boiling water. The above
remedy was applied, and in few mo-
ments the child's screams ceased. We
do not know of the philosophy of the
matter, but we do know that is the
most efficacious remedy for severe burns
or sca'ds in the materia mediCa,
Year: 1870

General Mcclellan and wife are stop
ping at the Arlington House Washing
ton. The General is described by an
admiring correspondent as "ssuntering
around the halls and vestibules of the
hotel dressed in q neat-fitting brown
business suit, careless of the notice of
the habitaes thereof"
Year: 1870

The draft of tie bill to be presented
to Congress, making Louisville a port
of entry, was read and adopted in the
Board of Trade there yesterday. The
secretary was instructed to send copy
70 the deleCation in Congress.
Year: 1870

A REMARKABLE INcrpEHT.-Thc
Portland Argus gives currency to
a most remarkable incident. 1t
says that few evenings since, as
a freight train, behind time, was
passing Oak Hill Station, in Scar
boro, at a speed of thirty miles an


hour, it struck against q horse at
tached to sled, which was cross
ing the track at the time without q
driver. The sled. was smashed in.
to kindling.wood, and it was sup
posed that the horse was instant.
~ killed, but the train sped on for
some distance, when the engineer,
looking ont, saw the horse staring
at HIM from the COW catcher with
puzzled look, as much as to say ::
J." What is all this fuss about a"-
The train was promptly stopped.
and it was found that the horse
had been picked up by the cow
catcher and desposited on the plat
form in front of the engine, where,
too much stunned or frightened to
move, ho laid until lifted off and
was found to be comparatively
uninjured. He was led back to
his astonished owner, who stood
gazing at the wreck OF his hob.
sled, and wondering what had be-.
come of the animal. .,t...
Year: 1870

MINING UHpRR THE SEA.-Thcre
is a vast copper mine in England,
where shafts extend many hundred
yards under the sea. Tie moan
ing OF the waves as they dash
against the rocks is forever sound.
ing in those gloomy aisles. When
the, storms come, the sound of the
waters becomes SO terrific that
even the boldest miners cannot
stay below, bnt leave thoir work
and come out upon the earth.
Overhead are masses Of bright
copper streaming through the
gallery in all directions, tra-
verscd by a network Of thin red
veins Of iron, and over all the salt
water drips down from tiny crev.
ices in the rock. Immense wealth
of metal is contained in these roofs,
but no miner dare give it another
stroke with the pickaxe. Already
there he's been one days work too
much upon it, as huge wedge of
wood driven into the rock bears
testimony. The wedge is all that
keeps back the sea from bursting
in upon them. Yet there are
three tiers of galleries where men
work day by day, not knowing but
at some fatal hour the food may
be upon them, rendering all escape
as hopeless as it was in the days of
Noah. The awe stricken visitor
hurries away from the scene with
a heart appalled, in view of the
hourly dangers.
Year: 1870

A coLoREp woman in Sardis,
Miss, who last week got mp out of
a sick bed and would 20 to the
show" despite every effort made
TO prevent her doing so, became
so much alarmed at the elephant
that she tainted away, and actual
ly died from the effects Of the
fright before she could be removed.
Year: 1870

A HOTEL bell boy in Detroit
proves to be q girl. She has
worked on a canal as driver, on
q steamer as q cook, and in a chair
factory, without her sex being dis
covered. She wears her hair
"shingled,n can smoke, sometimes
drinks, and says that when she
gets very mad she can swear too.
She is a remarkable specimen Of
the wild girl of the West.
Year: 1870

THE ART rF FINANcIER1NG.-A
singular financial transaction oc-
Cured in one of the dock offices a
day or two since. By some means
or other it happened that the office
boy owed one of the clerks three
cents, the clerk owed the cashier
two cents, and the cashier owed
the Office boy two cents. One day


last week the Office boy having a
cent in his pocket concluded to
diminish his debt, and therefore
handed the nick.e over to the


c;crk, who, in turn, paid half of
his debt by giving the coin to the
cashier. The latter handed the
cent back to the Office boy, remark.
ing. snow I only owe Jon one
cent" The office boy again passed
tho cent TO the clerk who passed it
to the cashier, who passed it hack
to the office boy, and the latter in
dividual squared all accounts, pay.
ing it to the clerk, thereby dis.
charging his entire debt. Thus it
may be seen how great is the ben
eft to be derived from a single
cent if only expended judiciousIy.
Year: 1870

A correspondent relates the following
very curious fact in natural history: While
civil engineer was making some explo-
rations In Salisbury. upon n mountain
some 1900 feet In height, his attention was
attracted by rock of peculiar appear
ance. 1t was weight Of thousands Of
tons. and Of the kind called specklcd
granite. II was much tho shape OF half
an egg.-the part corresponding to the
outside shell being very regular and
smooth. The end where It appeared to
have been separated from another portion
Of the rock In part gave indications OF q
scam. and In part exhibited an irregular
surface. rs If the solid rock had been bro
ken. The form and situation of tho rock
were 50 peculiar that tho engineer took
particular notice Of them. In the course
of his surveys no ascended an adjaccn.
mountain some few miles distant. Az
the top Of this he found the counterpart
OF the rock on the other mountain, the
broken end Of which In every respect an-
swered to the broken end of tho other 80
that he could not feel the least doubt Of
their having constituted ut some an i'm
mense egg-shaped pebble. Tho engineers
explanation was that when the surface OF
that portion of the earth was covered with
water this immense rock was liftesi BY
the leo frozen 10 In surface, and split by
the freezing Of water that entered tho
scam, and that Il had been deposited In
parts as the loo melted, ono upon ono
mountain and the other upon the other.
tho break In the Ice corresponding TO that
In the rock. -''''' o
Year: 1870

There Is nothing that clings % pertina.
ciously to an individual rs habits acquired
in early y nth. The boy who lounges
away his evenings on the corner, In the
lager beer saloon, or In idle or unprofta-
ble conversation. Is laying up for himself
a score of misery which will plague him
for the rest of his life. and the youth who
at eighteen makes the humiliating con-
fession that he Is already 50 completely
the slave Of tobacco or ardent spirits that
he cannot give them up, Is to be regarded
with pity. Good habits acquired In early
life nre Just rs lasting IS bad ones. The
young man who spends his evenings Mt
homo In pleasant and profitable study. or
In the company of those from whose as
sociations he will learn only that which Is
good and ennobling, must have depraved
heart and taste II he docs not become q
good and useful man. Such thoughts as
these should be pondered well by the
young men Of tho present generation. %
many of whom arc wasting precious
moments and hours In moro than profit
less pursuits o..
Year: 1870

THE CoLoRs oE FotIAGE.-The Lon
don Athensum says: Experiment has
confirmed the conclusion Of an American
scientist that leaves turn red Mt the end OF
the season through the action OF an acid.
since one Of tho elements producing the
green color must be u vegetable blue.
Autumnal leaves placed under n receiver
with vapor Of ammonia. In nearly eve
nv instance lost their red color and re-
newed their green. In some, such rs the
sassafras. blackberry and maple. tho
change was rapid and could be watched
by the eye, while others. particularly Ger
tain oaks. turned gradually brown with
out showing any appearance oil green.
Year: 1870

Traces Of the ferocious energy with
which the French had sought to hurl back
the overbearing legions Of Germany were
still to bs seen IN their dead faces. A
few had the look Of meekness and resig-.
Year: 1870

The Gold Investigation Committee
in Washington will not allow witnesses
to answer questions propounded to Them
touching the Presidents connection
with the New York gold swindle. Whyi
Rumor, as genial and all-enbracing as
the air, has connected General GRANT
with the speculation referred to. That
is a serious charge, and the Chief Ex-
scutiye of the nation ought to have a
fall and fair chance to clear his skirts
of the damaging imputation. This the
Committee will not suffer, and, as a
consequence, the President must remain
under cloud of popular condemnation.
As q majority of the Committee are
Radicals, the dart is hurled at the Pres
iaent by his own friends.
Year: 1870

The Judges of the Superior Court at
Cincinnati have rendered decision in
the case involving the reading of the
Bible in the public schools. The action
was to dissolve the injunction hereto
fore granted restraining the operation
of the resolutions of the school board
providing that the reading of the Bible
and all religious instruction in the pub
lie schools shall not be permitted.
Judge Hagans held that the provisions
of the constitution recognized the rell.
gions of christianity and acknowledged
that religion and morality were neces-
sary to good government; that the State
used religions as a means to promote
good government and therefore the ex-
clusion of all religious instruction from
the public schools was contrary to the
provisions of the Bill of Rights. Judge
Storey concurred aud the Injunction
was made perpetual. Judge Taft dis
eented
Year: 1870

1t was predicted pending the ratifica
tion of the Fifteenth Amendment thai
should it be adopted Congress would
run the elections in the various States
The loyap folks booted at the idea
Now promptly on the passage of the
Fifteenth Amendment comes bill fol
the appointment of election officers al
over the United States, by the Secretary
Of the Interior! The Secretary of WaI
is to sustain him with trepps. Truly nc
time is lost in preparing for war against
the States.
Year: 1870

A resolution having been adopted by
the House of Delegates some days ago
inquiring into the condition of the
Merchants Bank of Charleston and the
propriety of continuing said Bank as q
State depository, the committee on Tax
alton and Finance took the resolution
under consideration and after investl'
CATION reported thereon, through Mr.
GoFF, member of that committee. By
request we print the report, which is as
follows:


That the committee have carefully
examined into the condition OF the said
Bank, and are clearly of the opinion
that the funds of the State are safe IN
said Bank, and that it would be lnexpe'
dent and improper to remove the depcs'
its of the STATE from the said Bank.
Year: 1870

SPEAKING of the proposed change in
the manner of hearing and deciding
cases of contested election, the Boston
Adrsrtiser, the leading Radical organ in
New England makes the candid confes
sion that the present system is public
scandal. In most of the cases where it
is brought into operation it makes our
boasted government by the majority a
farce, and degrades the proper judicial
function of the House into mere regis
try of the party opinions of the mem
barsv
Year: 1870

Thoughtful its length and breadth from shore to Shore
The golden harvest-felds OF Our blest land
Have yielded up their increase and the store


Strown by the great Creators open hand
Is garnered so prayer for daily bread
Is BY our Father heard. and answered.
But France oh weep for France In place OF grain
Behold the bloody harvest that she yields
Instead of binding sheaves, she heaps the slain,


Scattered by tens of thousands on her fiedsl
Her and Germana's best and bravest lie
BrothersIS DEArH-beneath the peaceful sky ~
Aud where, when falls the mellow autumn day,


Homeward should creak the OverlOwing wains,
piled high with goody wheat. there roll away


The wagonlUads Of wounded DER the plainsI
And where her grapes ripening in the sun,
More purple still-beh0ld her life blood run!
Oh sister France! and thou. brave Father-land,


Hear, hear the prayer send from this far shore;
Oh sheath the sword, and stay tn uplifted hand


Ere yet unsated Death reap more and more
Surely THY harvest finished
God help thv children when they cry for bread
Year: 1870

BULL Run BATTLE FIELD, 11th. Mo. ,12, 10.
To the Editor Of the Journal:


ESTEEMED FRIENDS II left Richmond on
the 10th, stopped one night at Louisa Court
House, then proceeded, arriving at the ill-fated
Manassas last evening, which Phenix like
has again become quite place. With private
team awaiting, took passage to the present
spot of writing. To-day, with guide en-
gagged in the contest have visited the spot Of
each scene of conflict in the first great battle
of this place. In rainy weather the stream
here takes such a sudden rise and the waters
come rushing down with such roar, hence
its name, Bull Run. While seated on the
very spot where the famous black horse cav
airy met with such fearful slaughter, l Iremem-
bered the law of philosophy ''that action and
reaction are equal in opposite directions"
Evidently since the terrible din of the cannons
roar and musketry of that day, nothing has
disturbed the solemn stillnes of the place save
the silent plowshare and pruning knife. We
found many relics of the war on this spot,
and many human bones are still bleaching in
in the sun upon this field. My guide was in
an Ohio Regiment and were l to record all
that he says he saw, in detail, it would weary
you and think you would agree with me that
he saw too much for one man. The house
and trees in the vicinity, however, speak very
truthfully of the hard knocks received. One
oak had hole directly through the center of
its trunk-probably a six pound ball passed
that way. visited the house where wo-
man was killed, in her bed by cannon ball,
she being sick at the time.


The day has been one Of the finest, and
have walked many miles, tracing the track Of
the army from Centerville along the War
rington pike to the scene of combat and lis
tened to many minute descriptions of the Va.
rious positions and work of the contending
forces.


With this account you will believe me when
say am too tired to write much, so must
beg to be excused.


With the kindest regards, your friend.


SAMUEL H. JOINS.
Year: 1870

ALBANY, Apl1l Sl.-O0V. 1lO1Illdn tO-uay sent
the following message TO the State scnate


"IO the Senate respectfully call your attention TO


subject OF great Importance on which Etrust will
act before adiournng In my annual message called
upon the Legislature 10 put end to the policy of prc
teal reputation, under which, for seven years, the
State has paid III deprecated paper the interest its
coin debt The contract with creditors. t0 all
debts incurred prior 10 the Bounty Loan plainly calls for
gold resolution introduced in the Assembly early
III the session. action which delayed until after
the decision of the Supreme Court OF the United
States that Of private debts incurred before the
OF the Legal Tender act must be made in COIN
A preamble then preixed 10 the resolution,
citing that the reason for state returning 10 the
honest payment of her debts simply that she might
comply with this decision. Thi. preamble il wrong but
the resolution ITSELF directing all future payments " In
teTest on the principal of the State debt except the
Bounty Loan, which negotiated for deprecated
to he made III cOin Is right Ii is Of secondary
consequence, however what reasons he sgned In
the preamble, but il is of great and primary
only that the State shall pay this portion OF her debt
in coin as the Controller is already doing but also that
her public record on this point should made
right by authoritative declaration of the LEGISLATURE
This especially important that great and impor-
tant efforts making 10 induce the Supreme Court TO
reverse its solemn and deliberate judgment. / plead the
importance of action upon this subject 10 The honor
and good name Of this, the great state Ia the Union


my for making 10 you this special communication


recommend that the resolution on this subject, which
has already passed the Assembly be promptly passed 10y
your body JOIN 4. HOFFMAN"
Year: 1870

1t is particularly refreshing to find Mr.. Will
liam NJ. Tweed engaged in practicing charity
and good works, instead of indulging in the
more familiar labors of levying taxes and
stuffing ballot-bOxes We did not dream for
moment that any portion of the misappied
millions of the public funds of New-York
would ever be directed, by the charitable hand
of the real ruler of the city, to the relief of
the misguided Fenians on the border. They
are to be returned to New-York, we are told,
at the expense of Mr.. Tweed-dear old Mr..
Tweed! But even as we congratulate our
selves that all virtue is not extinct, comes the
dreadful suspicion that in the end it will be
the taxpayers on whom the burden of this
special charity of generous Mr. Tweed will
foil
Year: 1870

1t may or may nOtNhave occurred to those
who read about the polygamy of the MormOns,
that a plurality of wives is luxury in which
only an unusually rich man can afford to in
dulge. For instance, Brigham Young took his
whole family, spouses and pledges and all, to
the circus the other day, and the tickets cost
him $75 Now from this, if we compute the
cost of clothing, food, and the other domestic
expenses of this wide domestic circle, we shall
see that polygamy is chargeable. In the con-
sideration of this, there is something really
consolatOry. A State even sufficiently demOral-
lied to look favorably upon the barbarism of
polygamy, would yet be obliged to prohibit it
to save the taxes which would otherwise be
needed to maintain hOrdes of pauper children
and widows. People who think that mono
gamy Qike the exclusion of women from the
suilrage) came into the world and was estab-
lshed as a feature of its civilization merely
by accident, have very short sighted way of
looking at social phenomena.
Year: 1870

The reports made by the precinct captains,
in compliance with the late order of the Board
of Police, of the omissions of Contractor
Brown to clean the streets according to the
terms of his agreement, have been buried in
Committee of the Board of Health, Of which
Matthew +. Brennan and John Mullaly cOnst-
tute the majority If these gentlemen do not
desire to be considered as partners in the sys-
tcmatic robbery to which the city has so long
been subjected in the matter of stTeet-cleaning,
these reports must be speedily exhumed They
probably do not contain the whole truth, but
there is enough in them to compel the Tam
many Street Cleaning Commissioners to refuse
Brown his pay until his contract is kept. The
last Legislature, being of a Democratic and re-
henchng tmn OF mind, flung an additional
half million of dollars into the hands of this
strcet-cleaning Ring, and this fact makes the
shortcomings of Brown less endurable than
heretofore. The police supervision of his work
was supposed to he ordered in the publ in
terest, and we insist that it shall not be per-
vorted to the use of the Ring which last year
used $498 500 in not cleaning the streets, and
is now endeavoring to repeat that feat at a
cost Of : 100000.
Year: 1870

The bill reviving navigation interests goes
over to the next session-recommitted to the
Select Committee, without hope of its being
reported again this session. The subsidy clause
and strangely bitter sectional antagonism
have killed it, But the Committee is con-
tinued, and we understand that the work of
preparing a substitute under the best advice
of practical, patriotic American shipping mer-
chants and ship builders is to proceed without
interruption. The interests at stake are too
vital, and the necessity for national aid and
legislation too apparent, to admit of the total
dismissal of the subject.
Year: 1870

1t is probable, but not positively certain, that
the Electors of the First Congressional District
of South Carolina have reelected Mr. b. f.


Whittemore TO the seat i'll the House of Repre-
sentatives which he so shamefully disgraced
by selling eadetships and by other acts un-
becoming Congressman and citizen. We
commend to the perusal of THE TRIBUNE read
ers the letter Of our Special Correspondent,
who evidently writes in candid and impair
tial spirit, concerning the canvass in this Dis
triet; and can only express the hope that in
Year: 1870

We are glad to know that aid is to be ex-
tended to the Pacific Cable enterprise, which
MIR. Cyrus w. Field, the worthy pioneer in
such movements, has been pressing upon the
attention Of Congress. We should have been
better pleased with land grant instead of the
contract for a certain annual amount of Gov
ernment telegraphing; yet it must be con-
fessed that the wants of our naval service,
together with our constantly increasing re-
lations with the far East are likely to make
this latter no ineonsiderable advantage to the
GoyerDiaent
Year: 1870

to make change at ala matter that has not
hitherto seemed absolutely clear-he will make
1t with reference to these plain and perfectly
understood wishes of his supporters; and 1t IL
among those who may be found described
above that we are to look for the name OF the
next Collector of the Port of New-fork
Year: 1870

The House has finished about half the bill
reducing taxation, with few amendments, and
there is hope of its final consideration at an
early day There has been nothing in the de-
bate thus far to indicate its fate, and, we
regret 10 add nothing 10 inspire hope that
the repeal of the income tax will form a clause
Of the nrCsent bill
Year: 1870

case this shameless adventurcr ana trader III
politics shall be returned to Congress- that
body will decline to receive him as member
if it can possibly find justification for such a