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Year: 1870

An engagement is naturally great phase in


every wOman's life, but it seems to be the epoch


OF German existence. There is no mystery, no


cOncealment about it. As soon as the betroth-


al takes place it is announced to the wOrld-to


the private acquaintances by cards, sometimes


by an advertisement in the papers; to society
in general by the happy pair appearing in pub


nc arm-in-arm. The young lady is bound to


look as if she were in the seventh heaven, and


generally clasps both hands tightly round her


lovers arm, as if to prevent all possibility of
escape. She must also loudly proclaim his per-


fectons and her happiness have no hesitation


In speaking about him, nor in kissing before


folks; reserve in these cases is not understood.


The gentleman seems to take it as easily as he
can, but as usual, is far more awkward iE his
new situation than his fair One After all, it is
not comfortable for poor man, who has al
ways been accustomed to walk alone and swing
his arms, to find them hampered by woman
clutching at them and to have her crinoline al
ways beating about his legs Then, if she be
short, he must not walk upright, he must walk
crooked, as if worn down by the interesting
weight hanging ON him. if she be tall, her bon
net trimmings tickle him so, and he can never
keep step with his fair companion. It requires
great deal of affectation to smile under these
circumstances Until a girl is engaged she
hO'OA OdhOe any IlGu Ill H. L WOuU6T CH0
young ladies do not learn how to do it in their
dancing lessons; it would be great blessing to
their lovers. Their mothers can't teach them;
for as soon as the honeymoon is over, man and
wife go their separate ways. The wonder is
how these attachments are formed, the sexes
nave SO little intercourse, except in the ball
room. Fathers and brothers spend their even
ings in their respective beerhOuses with their
own sets mothers and sisters flock in troops
to their coffee-houses They have their sepa-
rate amusements and pleasures, until suddenly
a couple fall in love somehow, and then they
are never seen apart; they become insepara-
BILE, like poker and tongs, knife and ferk, or
any other implement which is useless without
its fellow AS long as the gentleman remains
in town his charmer dresses much better than
usual; but if he must leave, she renounces all
society, or if she cannot help "breaking reso-
ution," it is essential that she should make
guy" of herself A peculiar tOilette-covered
neck and sleeves, in a ballroom, are as much


gn of betrothal as our widows cap is sign
If bereavement.
Year: 1870

MEMS FAvORITES.-We often hear women
speak with certain curious disdain of one oil


themselves as gentleman's favorite; generally
adding that gentlemen's favOrites are never
liked by their own sex, and giving you to un-
derstand that they are minxes rather than 9th


erwise, and Objectionable in proportion to their


attractlveness. They can never understand


why they should be so attractive, they say; and


hold it as one of the unfathOmable mysteries of


mems bad taste-the girls to whom no man ad-


dresses half dozen words in the course of an


evening being tar prettier and nicer than the


favOrlte with whom everybody is talking and


for whom all are contending. Yet see how ut


terly they are neglected, while she is surround


ed with admirers! But then she is an artful


little firt, who lays herself out to attract while


the others are content to stay quietly in the


shade until they are sought. And they speak


as if to attract mems admiration was sin, and


not one of the final causes of woman as well
as one of her chief social duties. There is al
ways war between the women who are gentle
mems tavorites and those who are not; and if
the last dislike the first, the first despise the
last, and 60 out of their way to provoke them
q thing not difficult to do when a woman gives
her mind to it, A gentlemans favorite is gen.
orally attacked on the score of her morality,
not to speak OF her manners, which are pro-
as bad us can be; while, how pretty
soever men may think her, her own sex decry
her, and pick her to pieces with such effect that
they do not leave her q single charm. She is
to be incapable of anything like real
earnestness of feeling, of anything like true
to be ignorant of the higher rules
of modesty; to be fast or sly. according to her
speciality of style; and if you listen to her dis
sector, you will find in time that she has every
ault incidental to a frail humanity, while her
loblest virtue is in all probability a kind Of
rood nature" which does not count for much.


IN return, the favorite sneers at the wallfewer,
whom she calls stupid and spiteful, and whom
he reioices to annoy by the excess of her pop
llarity; nothing pleasing her so much as to
make herself look worse than she is in the way


f mems liking, except it be to carry off the
ne eve lamb belonging to wallhower, and


rand him as of her own multitudinous herd.
Year: 1870

There is nothing in municipal affairs more
singular than the fact that the metropolis in
variably has such urgent need of extensive re-
pairs during the four weeks preceding the first
Tuesday in November. Large gangs of men
are found everywhere but doing so very little
of the work at which they are ostensibly en-
ployed as to raise the suspicion that voting the
Tammany ticket as often as may be required
is the real return they are to make for their
wages. The swindle is so manifest that it
would be laughable were it not a reminder of
the manifold methods by which Tammany
fleeces us. ScavengeTs are, however urgently
needed to cleanse the political Augean stable
under which the city groans.
Year: 1870

The World first argues that the affidavit of a
convicted slave-dcaler testifying in Gov.
Woodford's favor, is unworthy of moments
credit, and then proceeds to cite testimony
from the same person against Gov. Wood
ford and in the interest of Mayor Hall, which
it holds to be perfectly credible Bhe only differ
ence in the circumstances seems to be that
Oaksmith when he spoke in favor of Gov.
Woodford, had apparently no personal end to
gain, and was not trying to clear his own
character and when he spoke against him he
was offering his testimony as an inducement to
the Government to let him out of Jail. But
The World thinks we ought to believe him
when he had plain motive for lying, and to
disbclieve him when apparently he had not.
Year: 1870

Voters who have moved from one district to
another in the same State within 30 days are
still entitled to register and to vote for the
State ticket. The law requires that the voter
shall have lived $50 days in the district from
(which the officer for whom he votes is TO be
"chosen." Thus if you have removed within
a month from one Assembly District OF tins
city to another, You cannot vote for Assembly
man, but you can vote for Governor ana other
State officers, for Mayor and so on
Year: 1870

The appointment made by the Board of
Police to ill the vacancy caused by the death
of Superintendent Jourdan is one upon which
no decided opinion can at present be made
Superintendent Kelso has never been placed
fn position where bis fitness for the Onerous
and responsible duties 10 which he has been
called could be manifested and it is only just
10 him that he should not be prejudged. 1t is
10 his credit and that of the Board, however,
that so far as he has been known at all it is
rs policeman rather than politician.
Year: 1870

The bombardment of Paris is said to have


begun on Friday last, but as only three shots
were fired the damage to the city cannot have
been serious. The French reports speak of a
great battle in which 5000 Prussians were
slain before Paris on Saturday last; but French
reports have of late proved so wholly untrust-
worthy that we do not hasten to credit this
Year: 1870

Prison Reformation begins to command the
attention which the importance of the phi
anthropy demands. The Reformers at Gin
einnati yesterday resolved TO hold an
international Congress, and invite the phi
lanthropists of Europe who have engaged in
his work to an exchange of experiences and
a1Il,n finna
Year: 1870

The remarkable success which attended
our negotiation of the Loans of the CENTRAL
PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY and the WEST
ERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, and the
popularity and credit which these Loans
have maintained in the markets, both in
this country and Europe. have shown that
the First Mortgage Bonds OF wisely-located
and honorably-managed Railroads are
promptly recognized and readily taken as
the most suitable, safe. and advantageous
form Of investment, yielding more liberal
income than can hereafter be derived from
Government Bonds, snd available to take
their place.


Assured that. in the selection and negotia-
ton of superior Railroad Loans, we are
meeting great public want, and rendering
a valuable serviee-both to the holders of
Capital and TO those great National works Of
internal Improvement whose intrinsic mer-
it and substantial character entiIle them TO
the use of CAPITAL and the confidence Of in
vesIors-we now offer with special conf
dence and satisfaction the
Year: 1870

To what, then, must the increased
revenue be attributed ? Plainly to the
execution of the laws ; to the efficient
manner in which they have been en-
forced, although most of the officers
were men unused to the business.
Great credit is due to the present able
and efficient Commissioner of Inter
nal Revenue, aided and supported as
he has been by the Secretary of the
Treasury, for this large increase of
revenue. a complete and thorough
reorganization OF that department has
been made with a view to defeat
frauds and combinations to cheat the
Government, and more vigilant col
lections for the coming year, as well
as to relieve tax payers from needless
requirements. The same efficiency
has been introduced by the Secretary
of the Treasury in the collection
of the customs revenue. Frauds
have been detected and great and
valuable reforms have been introduced
in that important branch of the
public service.
Year: 1870

BILLY AND FALsE.-We learn that story is
being circulated on the Forest Hill and Iowa
hill divides that the injunction suit restraining
the Supervisors from pocketing $4,000 of county
money, is interfering with the action of these Of !.
GERS in redeeming our Railroad Bonds, and get
ting possession of the S25000O, in the name Of
the county. This is miserable, silly and whole
sale falsehood, let who would start it. This suit
has no more to do with the Supervisors or the
Railroad Commissioners, as agents of the coun-
ty, than we have to do with the war between
Prussia and France. 1t must be bad cause
that would drive men to the utterance of such
utter and contepmtible subterfuges to blind the
public vision
Year: 1870

LAND LAws.-We publish on our fourth
page to-day the law of Congress passed in
1866, providing for the right of way for wa
ter and ditch companies, and for the sale of
quartz mines. and also the supplemental and
anendatory act to the same, providing for
the sale of surface and placer mines. The
owo acts must be taken together to be fully
understood, hence we publish both, so that
our readers. can have the law complete. A
very large portion of the people of Placer
county are interested in the provisions and
requirements of these laws, and this copy of
the HERALD should be filed and kept for flu
ture reference. The act just passed provides
for the sale and patenting of placer mines at
50 so per acre, where the claimant or claim
ants, his or their grantors, have held and
worked said claim or claims for two years,
sod expended 81, 900 on the same. 1t also
provides for joint entries-that is, two Or
more claim owners may join together and en-
ter their claims, and then divide them to
suit themselves. Ten acres is the least num-
Der that any one claimant can purchase, and
one hundred and sixty the highest. There
IRE some Objectionable features to the act,
bat it is now the law, and the people will
have to accept it as it is. 1t authorizes the
surveying and subdividing of all mineral as
well as agricultural lands, which is good
provision. A large majority of the people in
the mining districts will be affected by these
hws, and such should study their provisions
carefully, and, as we said above, preserve
the paper for future reference.
Year: 1870

SCHOOL BooKs-Read the crusher on this sub
ject to be found on the first page. Our Mongrel
cotemporaries who have been displaying their
ignorance and vieness on this question, should
now feel like hunting small sized kpot-hole.
Year: 1870

RILED INNOCENT. Nevada transcript is
wrathy at us because wo warned the Collectors
of Foreign Miners Licenses that trap was being
laid for their arrest, and trial in United States
court at San Francisco, and likely to end in heavy
expense ana probably fine and imprisonment
Ihe transcript man Is too verdant for earth, and
should keep his eye skinned for that old fellow
who Is said to pass around once a year and slay
all the adult innocents. The transcript says:


If Marshal Morris had determined to initiate
steps TOR the prosecution of Collectors of foreign
miners licenses, what object would he have in
Keeping it a profound secret, or of having the
Collectors all arrested on the same day."


SIMPLY to let the Collectors 90 on until the
positive proof could be procured, and arresting
all at once, 50 as to make the more mileage and
fees, before the hubbub created ended in orders
to stay the arrests, 1t is the duy of Morris and
every other U. 5. official, to notice and make
complaint of violations of the Federal laws, and
who ever knew latter day Federal officer to fail
in his duty when Chnaman was to be made the
equal of a white man, the will of Congress be
suhserved, and as much money to be pocketed as
this case offered The Transcript intimates that
Census Marshals cannot be authorized to per-
form other duties than take the census, which is
simply silly. There may be nothing in the ru-
NOR, or in the distribution of circulars in Chi
nese characters all over the mines, but collec-
tor in this county travelling with the Census
Marshal thought proper to get the opinion 6i1he
District Attorney on the subject. The Tran
script admits that complaints will be filed and
arrests made, if the collections are continued,
and yet srowls at us for warning the collectors
Of their danger and their duties
Year: 1870

Many writer these lines and invalid physician while visiting the
crz for their health experienced and witnessed surprising and
beneficial effects Of the Rum there produced Of thoinvad who were ke


health and inquiry and investigation obtained full history


He delighted and surprised and after his
occurred determined possible the sole right manufacture
and sell it in the United States


The Of his s glorious for himself and suffering humanity
known the world PLAN
TATN BTTTEas being article Of merit founded principles and
world for its medicinal effects worked rapid revou
history medicine and became household word all the civilized
cabasc 13SoZ tasnaH health and the demand for
the PLANTATION RITTERS far exceeded the ~ the rro supply
Notwithstanding the large importation Of St. z Rur made expressly for the
pounding these B the quantity Inadequate therefore became
that extensive scale abroad should made
dispatched St. Thomas for that purpose He fortunate in securing and


leasing several plantations the largest and most productive estates the
island Houses stills and presses erected M which utterly aston
hed the natives The experienced and natives the island
cured and the prs Of the PLANTATION 3TERs n position
suppy their laboratory with all the perfectly St. cz Fun needed manuac
turing GREAT DYsPPTc represents
the natives crushing the ane and otherwise preparing for the stills and presses


s ando Fever and Intermittent and Glous Fevo Dyspepsia and
kindred unsurpassed
history the world Over FIVE million disposed They
adapted old and male and female Ty agreeable and always
produce immediate beneficial result
Year: 1870

LoP 1T OFF.-A bill is before the United States
Senate to abolish the franking privilege 1t is
supported by many Of the most influential SEN
ators, and there is reason to believe it will pass
without much resistance. The House is sup
posed to have been ready for the measure long
ago. If this reform is made it will save over
80, OOO, 600 to the postal department, and cut
down the bills Of the public printer by million
more. The total saving will not be less than six
or seven millons-enough TO pay the interest on
100000, 600 fve-twenty bonds enough to JUS
tfy reduction Of the execrabe income tax from
five TO three per cent. BY all means let it pass.
Sacramento Union. ...
Year: 1870

After paying the expenses of the entertain
ment, and making the distribution of the gifts,
as above announced, the balance will be ap-
piled to extinguisbing the present Indebtedness
of the Mercantile Library Association.


The Concert and Distribution will take place
under the immediate direction of the Board OF
Trustees of the Mercantile Library Association
assisted by a Supervisory Committee, selected
from State, City and County officers, and well
known citizens of San Francisco


Holders of tickets to which gifts may be
awarded, will receive the same on presentation
of such tickets or coupons to the Business
Agents of the Board of Trustees, at their office,
Year: 1870

law, to which it should have conformed,
was grossly disregarded and violated in i'm
portant and essential provisions.


Respondents are informed and advised,
and they believe that, both according to the
lawful returns made to the commissioners
of the election and according to the number
Of legal votes cast at said election, they are
entitled to the certificates respectively
awarded to them by the commissioners of
election, and the officers therein specified,
according to the Constitution and laws of
this State, and that this honorable court ,
upon the merits of the election, should so
decide.


Respondents, each for himself, submit
that they should not be involved in con-
test over title to an office except with some
one who claims the Office himself, and who
asserts right to the certificate and pur-
pose to exercise the functions Of the office,
and that the certificate issued by order OF
said commissioners should be deemed and
stand as valid and effectual unless i'm
peaehed and vacated by the superior and
valid claim of one lawfully and equitably
entitled to demand, possess, and exercise
the office IN question"


The case will come up before Judge
Guigon this morning at II o'clock.
Year: 1870

LADIES' FEAsT.-The ladies of Clay-Street
Methodist Episcopal church are holding "a
feast to raise money to liquidate debt due
by the church. Everything good and sea-
sOnallc may be found on their tables.
Year: 1870

The Rice divorce suit FOR fraud In age is causing
great excitement In Boston. 1t should warn young
mcn not to marry In haste. Rice Is but twenty
two, his bride thirty-seyen. He swears That che
Year: 1870

pursuit of it. perceive that 1t is the
symbol of universal activity. and the key
to incalculable enjoyment, if rightly en-
ployed but man who believes he can
sacrifice every manly quality to earn
wealth, and that he can take that wealth
and make himself happy, is beguilcd by
the devil, and over reached by him.


You cannot do it, and yctin the cemmu-
nifty how wide is the impression OF many
young mcn--that if you only get money
you can get anything. No you cannot
tell you that money with truth, with
honor, with pure character, and with
good reputation following it. will be Of
incaculabIc benefit TO you; but the mon
ey you have got by selling your clarac-
ter Will be Il curse TO you ~ long rs you
live. Living men will despisc you. and
dying curses make yonr monument.


I'll w Beccher.
Year: 1870

Go with me TO Philadelphia, and | will
take YOU to the mint there; and | will
show you a vast wheeled machine-a
steam engine and die. There are bars OF
gold and silver put in, and every time tho
stamp goes down it cuts out dollar, or
five dollars, or ten dollars. And that ma
chine is just like many men. can point
YOU to dozen men in New York that aro
nothing but great iron machines. That
is. their whole life is nothing TO them bul
a continual effort to get rich or richer. -
Take from them the simple power ol
making money. the simple stamping pow
er, and all the rest is Of no more value
than iron machinery.


Suppose you should go and sit down at
the mint with this machine-this die I? You
say. Good morning, sir. How is your
health? What is your impression in re-
gard TO politics What is the condition
OF your conscienceP 1t keeps on punch.
ing. All that it knows is how to punch,
punch, punch, all its life long. And
there are men in New York that you
might talk to about everylhing in the uni
verse, but they know nothing but how to
punch out money, and when they havo
made it, it is no more to them than il it
was in the bed ola stream, or in the veins
of mountains. Would you become rich
at such an expense as that?


| am far from deriding wealth or thn
Year: 1870

The money market has been without essential change,
the supply continuing ample TO meet the demand at
and per cent the ruling rates call No important
amounts of currency being remtted, either to the
West South the Of domestic exchanges being
steady The city banks still report active applications
for discounts, though their lines fun in accommo


datons to regular customers outside paper is being
discounted. There is fair demand in the outside
ket prime mercantile aeceptances which read
Year: 1870

THURSDAY, Nov. 3-P. N.


The features of the Stock market to-day were
very similar described yesterday the Tans'ic
tons indicating no positive direction in the speculative
tide and leaving operators in doubt as to whether an eDp
or food had commenced Judging the current by the
volume OF business and the profound Indifference OF many
OF the veteran SPECTATORS Of the street. 1t would seem
more appropriate to call it slack water AT all events we
can neither call the market rising or falng one Ior
the day. An occasional spasm OF advance interrupts
the mouotony OF transactions but this Is soon Followed
by an equally spasmodc decline. II looks as the bus
and bears had agreed upon armistce, an interruption
not much relshed by the numerous small specuators TO
whom fucuaton in the market values is OF vital lpor-
tance and who therefore, prefer at the STOCK Tx
change rather than peace or temporary SUSPENSION vi
hostitles Reading advanced to l0ll In the morning,
but lost fraction of the Improvement afterWaru'
Western Union has been steady at about S9 the con-
trolling powers in the recent movement not desiring
apparentiy TO give the stock any new impulse CIeVe-
land and Pittsburgh has been galvanized recently upon
the strength of report that negotiations for lease OF
the line TO the Pennsylvania Central were pehuiuS'
Whether there Is truth in this mor, or whether u j.
mere upon the part Of the large holders TO attract
speculative attention to the stock, II Is dct 10 say'
The Vanderbilt stocks have been duh, and upon the
whole rather heavy without material change In prices
as compared with yesterday. Some capital has been
made against the Central upon the report OF new
quarrel between that Corporation and the repressibe
Erie the stock which last named has by the way re-
Gently attracted little more attention at slight adj
vance, In the Preferred, there has been even more
perceptibe stir, based upon the expression OF faint
hopes OF a dividend from some anticipated increase
of earnings. Street gossip has it that one OF our
street operators, quite prominent in the specula-
tons Of the street few years since has been sent
to London by the Erie Sachems to manipulate
the stock in that quarter. They have probably
made up their minds, like the man in the sinking boat
who could not pray, that something must he done
quickly" In the afternoon there a moderate rally
several Of the leading stocks, among which Cleveland
and Pittsburgh, Reading and Western Union were
spicuous and very firm. Investment securities were
strong, with sales OF Delaware, Lackawanns and West
at Express shares neglected The follow
ing table shows the highest and lowest prices Of active
stock made today