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Year: 1871

ET- The New Orleans Packet Import
sr, will be here the last of the week 1t
will only be necessary for shippers of
bottom to know that the favorite I'M.
porter is coming, for them to begin to
Concentrate their cotton for the New Or
leans market.
Year: 1871

nrWe have for sale, half dozen
hrge superb Steel Engravings of Gen


ROBERT f. LEE. tits pronounced to be
tbe best executed and most perfect like
ness of this distinguished General ever
Executed. 1t is a picture that will well
adorn any parlor Apply at this office.
Year: 1871

A large numsor of the leading wool.
len manufacturers of Massachusetts have
issued an appeal for the importation Of
their raw material free of duty. They
say explicitly that they were formerly
protectionists, but that the inequalities
which seem to be iuseparable from
high tariff have forced upon their minds
doubt of its ezpediency 1.-THE time
seems to have arrived when the mauu
facturers OF New England should de-
maud that their raw material shall be
free. Give us our raw materisls free
and We can afford TO manufacture our
goods under low revenue duty Tbs
is a most significant concession aud
it is one which viii drive home the
wedge that will relieve our Industry G.
Is greatest burden. - Ciicago los..
Year: 1871

At the banquet OF the Army Of the
Tennessee, in Cincinnati, General
SWayne responded TO the toast, "Our
dead not dead, but gone before" in
the following impressive words.


''Our dead IS the true cost Of the
war. Silver and gold still.multiply,
and art and science grow. The naS
ton has new life in all its channels,
and free and equal lives forever in
the flag where all the world NAV read.
Only the dead are dead, Sometimes,
perchance in trial or distress, a visit
ful thought has gone in seaeh Of them,
as those who were permitted in one
hour to sum up and dischargeall that
remained for them Of life, and then
realized that since antiquity it has
been said that it was sweet as well as
glorious to die in arms for country.
Still they are dead, hOpelesly dead,
for the mother and wife; mOurnfuily
eleltd % the WayWard boy; bitterly
dead 70 the hour Of want and need Of
q strong hand dead also to our love (;
and yet they live as those whose
works do not follow them.


I InnumerabIe eOiored children south
Of as are learning busily the shape and
structure OF the world; learning to
love their country and live like men.
Many time have I seen them, and
remembered that our dead men teach
those schools So, too, it has been
taught pretty speech that liberty
and union were inseperable and were
one, and it was whistled down the
wind until death followed the denial,
and men read the oracle involved.
Let no man doubt it for the evils Of to
day. They are only the mill Of the
gods, slow grinding, and these dead
may yet teach the truth to all the
world. We count them dead, an
reckon up Onr loss. God simply
seems to make them Of more use
Year: 1871

OF FOley's enterprise a romantic
story is told. He commenced life
about two centuries ago as an timer
ant musician in StOurbridge, and was
familiarly known as Foley the fid-
dler." Hearing that the Swedish
irOnmasters had a machine for Sitting
iron into bars, a process which in
England was most labOriOusly per
formed by hand, and that the con-
structi6n Of this machine was a secret
jealousy guarded, Foley set of one
morning on a bold and Ingenious eX-
petition. He fiddled his way to Hull,
worked his passage across to Stock
holm, and thence by the aid of his
fiddle penetrated the Swedish iron
district. Here, like a true disciple OF
Orpheus, he so charmed the iron
workers that they admitted him to
the very mills he mad gone expressly
to see, and while his fingers were
busy with the fiddle, his eyes and
head were at work in mastering all
the details Of the machine. In due
time the long lost fiddler again turned
up in StOurbFidge, and by the prudent
use of the secret he had thus steadily
won, he effected almost a revolution
in the English iron trade, aecHmulat-
ed a large fortune, and founded a
family.
Year: 1871

When a man is asleep, his pulse
beats and his lungs play, but ne is
without sense, and you can easily
wake him up.


If a person faints, he too Is without
sense. but he has no pulse ana does
not breathe. AppOplexy between the
two, the heart beats. the lungs play
as in sleep, and there is no sense as IN
faiLting, but you can't wake the mah
back to life.


In sleep, the face is natural


In a fainting fit, It has the pallor o
death.


In appoplexy, it is swollen, torpid
and fairly hvid.


Ifa man is asleep, let him alone /;
nature will wake him up as soon as
he has sleep enough. go.


When a person faints, all that i
needed Is to lay him on the floor, and
he will ''cOme tor IN doable quick
time. He tainted because the heart
missed a beat, failed for only once to
send the proper amount Of blood 10
the brain. II you place the patient
in horizontal position, lay him ON
his back. It does not require much
force Of the heart to send the blood Oh
a level to the head but. If fyoa set a
man up, the blood has to shoot IN.
ward to the head, and thus requires
much more force yet in nine cases
out Of ten, II q person faints and falls
to the floor, the first thing done Is TO
run to him and set him up, or place
him on a chair.


In apoplexy, as there is too much
blood in the head, every one can see
that the position is to set q man up,
and the blood naturally tends down
ward IS much so az water will come
out Of n bottle when il is turned up
side down ifthe cork is out


II then, man Is scarcely asleep,
let him alone, for his face is natural.


Ifa man has tainted, lay him fiat
on his back, for his face is deadly pale.


If man is apOpleetie, set him in q
chair, because his face IS turbid, swol-
len and livid with excess Of blood.
Year: 1871

The lead mines In the Galena, Ill,
region, which were supposed to have
been nearly exhausted, have within
the last six mouths yielded better than
ever before. Many new and rich veins
have been struck, and a Galena paper
tells Of q mine from which $1,000 lbs
OF ore can be taken at an expense Of
SO, sffoTding a net income of $1,000
per day.
Year: 1871

BY these and other means these
railroad corporations are absolute in
their power over almost every branch
of industry in our State. There is no
merchant, no manufacturer, no coal
bank proprietor, no person who car
ries on any branch OF productive in
dustry, that requires transportation
that is not wholly in the power and at
the mercy of these Kings that have
come among US. Their fat as to the
success of men, as to the prosperity Of
ali our cities, towns and villages, as to
Year: 1871

INcESDIARIsN-A couple OF weeks
since four attempts were made to burn
out Captain S. A. Burnap, near West
Columbia. The first night an engine
house at one of the salt wells was
twice fred, within an hour but each
time extinguished before any. damage
was done. The next night the cooper
shop was fired, and shortly after it was
put out, the engine house that was set
on fire the night before was discovered
to be eagain burning, but fortunately that
was also extinguished. The Captain
tSaced up the author Of these attempts
to burn him out, and found him 10 be
lad OF thirteen or fourteen years ol
age Owing to family connections and
youth Of the boy, the Captain has de-
clined to prosecute him this time
Mason County Journal
Year: 1871

The Amnesty Bill In the Senate.


WASHINGTON, April lin order to
consider the amnesty bill from the
House, the Senate will have to modify
its rule prescribing subjects of business
for the present session An effort
will be made in that direction after the
Ku-Klux bill is acted upon. Senators
adhere to the opinion that q vote will
be reached upon the bill Thursday, and
think the prospects are favorable for
the adjournment Of the session on
Saturday.


Armisticc Signed.


The armistice between Spain and the
Pacific Republics was signedto day, at
the Department of State The condi-
tions are, First, The armistice cannot
come to an end, unless notification to
that effect has been given three years
before hostilities may be resumed
Second, Trade is to be resumed at once,
between belligerents as well as neutrals;
Third, Negotiation for general peace to
begin next week.


Personal.


Vice President Coliax will leave Mon
day next for his home in South Bend,
where he will remain until the assem-.
bling Of the extra session Of the Senate.


Benjamin F. Wade, having closed
his duties as President Of the San Do
mingo Commission, returned to Ohio
this morning. The testimony taken bv
the Commissioners and volumnous
documentary evidence are now being
printed a: the Government office. Dr.
Howe is still here, and will probably
remain until the testimony is printed.
Year: 1871

FATAL ACCIDENT.-Last Saturday
afternoon James Rector, aged about
nineteen or. twenty years, in company
with anothet young man, was out hunting,
when he received "a shot from his own
gun which will doubtless prove fatal!
He was climbing fence, when the lock
of his gun caught on bush, causing the
gun to frc. The load struck him near
the right temple, passing through the
brain and out at the back of the head
Monday evening he was still alive, but
mo hopes Of his recovery were enter


med. z
Year: 1871

LOUISVILLE, July S.-The city coun-
ell at is meeting last night, granted


the right Of way through portion OF
the city Of Louisville and Herrod's
Creek and Westport to a narrow
gauge railroad company. This is a
three foot gauge road and the project is
being pushed with such energy that it
renders its early construction probable.
Year: 1871

J VIRGINIA LEAF.-BuSiness is in an unsat-


istactory condition. Leaf has not yet come


in in sufficiently large quantities to cause a


recession from the high figures it has re-


Gently commanded, and still so certain are


the majority of the trade that when the tide


fairly sets marketWard there must be con-


siderable decline that no one wants to in


vest at present prices. Thus manufacturers


are buying from hand to mouth, and deal


ers will not accumulate stocks with the sure


prospect of loss. Besides, the loose leaf that


has already reached the Virginia breaks :"
is. much of it, wet and in bad order. This,
combined with the high figures asked, has
reduced trade temporarily to stand-still.
As to the future course OF the market there
are many who do not anticipate any very
low range Of prices even when leaf shall
have become abundant. These-some of
them manutucturers-bas their predictions
on the fact that large orders from all, parts
of the country where tobacco is worked
are flied in Richmond waiting to be filled.
These spectators also anticipate q foreign
demand in the shape of bids from the
French regie, now that peace is probable,
and assert that this general inquiry from all
quarters will prevent prices from going
any where near out of sight, let the supply
be what it may. While there may be some
show of reason in this, it requires no spe-
cial gift of prescence TO predict that when
filters command as high as 12c., and the
commonest lugs &c., in the face of crop
that no one pretends is short or poor, some
must be made, and until prices
recede to more reasonable standard-be
the concession little or great-We cannot
expect to see any considerable amount Of
business done.-Ne,o York Tobacco Leaf. I
Year: 1871

"A RESPITE FOR RULLoFF-Jldge Rdpallo's
Decision.-The Court of Appeals having
referred the application of Rulloff7s counsel
for writ OF error and stay Of proceedings
to Judge Rapauo, he yesterday made de-
cision, Of which the following is the i'm
portant point: ,.- .t..-- .....r.n.I-


81 have concluded to allow the writ and
stay on condition that the counsel for the
prisoner stipulate forthwith to file the writ
and enter an appearance for the prisoner,
and to accept notice of argument for the
10th day of March, 1871, aud to! cause the
return to the writ of error to be filed with
the clerk of the Court of Appeals on or be-
fore the 18th day of March, 1871, and to
furnish the printed cases to tho court and
district attorney, and proceed with the ar
sument at the opening of court on the 10Th
of March, 1871, or as soon thereafter as the
court shall be ready to proceed with the
case. The cause is to be placed at the head
of the day calendar for the 10Th Of March.
If the counsel for the prisoner shall fail to
appear or to proceed with the argument,
the counsel for the people are to be at
liberty to move for Judgment of afirmance
by default.-Nea0 York Sun.
Year: 1871

There will be many amusing characters tonight
at the grand Carnival on skates at Assembly Hall.
This will be the only Carnival this month. You
can secure seat to-day by paying 25 cents extra.
Year: 1871

The torpedoes which have recently been devised for use in the Bosphorus posses some new and peculiar features. They are of two kinds-ofensive and defensive. The latter consists of a strong wrought-iron tank capable of containing about four hundred pounds of powder and lying at the bottom of the water; from fuse in the interior pro- double wire and communication with d also provided with an index which floats within five or six feet of the surface of the water, and which, on being touched by the bottom of a ship, immediately conveys signal to the shore, whence an electric spark would be sent through the powder in the tank, the explosion either sinking or disabling the ship above it. The offensive torpedo, for attacking under cover of dark night enemies ships lying at anchor, consists of hol- low iron pear shaped vessel containing heavy charge of powder and provided with several percussion fuses. This kind of torpedo, is fixed to the end of @ boom some thirty feet long, which is at tached to the head of small steam launch. To the boom, which hinges on the head of the vessel, is attached chain which runs in board over @ pulley, and which can be shortened or heightened at pleasure, raising or lowering the tor pedo in the water. The upper portion of the torpedo-case is provided with five percussion fuses, one of which is cer- tain to strike ships bottom when pro- pelled against it.
Year: 1871

The San Francisco correspondent of the Chicago Times describes visit to the Chinese theatre

 The pit was full, the second tier cram med, and every seat in the house oc- cupled. Opposite us sat dozen more Chinese women, who were cut off from the rest of the audience by board partition. The orchestra consisted of one fellow who was smoking long pipe, and who was saving furiously at sort of fiddle with one string, of another in dustrious youth who hammered away with an immense pair of cymbals, and a third who let himself out by whanging did not seem to be so much music about it as there was noise. It may have been an accompaniment, but I could not the actors, and set my tympana to shud- dering with a mortal terror.

 A Chinese play is peculiar. It runs for two or three hundred years, and little of it is given each night. When one actor dies, his place is taken by an other, and the play goes on. Few Chinamen have ever seen the beginning and end of the same play. The one I saw had been going on for one hun dred and sixty-four years and some months in China, and for eleven years and eight months, has been in progress in this city, and they haven't got through only part of the second act.

 The part we saw was peculiar, if noth ing else. An Young kept up running interpretation, of which, owing to the war of the orchestra, I did not hear single word. The supes stood around among the orchestra with their hats on, and took off or put on the furniture as was necessary. The actors all came in at door to the right of the music" and went out through a door at the left. There was no dropping of curtains, no shifting of scenes. A couple or three actors would come in, jabber m moment, and then pass out.
Year: 1871

A Coop WoMAN.-A good woman never grows old. Years may go over her head, but if benevolence and virtue dwell in her heart, she is as cheerful as when the spring of life first opened to her view. When we look upon a good woman, we never think of her age-she looks as charming as when the rose of youth first bloomed upon her cheek. That rose has not faded yet it will never fade. In her neighborhood she is the friend and benefactor, in the church the devout worshipper and exemplary Christian. Who does not love and re- spect the woman who has passed her days in acts of kindness and dmercy-who has been the friend of man and God whose whole life has been 8. scene of kindness and love, devotion of love and religion? We repeat, such @ wo- man cannot grow old. She will always be fresh and buoyant in spirits, and ac- tive in humble deeds of mercy and benevolence. If the young lady desires to retain the bloom and beauty of youth, led her not yield to the sway of fashion and folly let her love truth and virtue and to the close of life she will retain those feelings which now make life ap- pear garden of sweets ever fresh and ever new.
Year: 1871

The Philadelphia Price Current says : Western distillers have recently invented new system of manufacturing whiskey, by means of which peculiar strength and odor is imparted to the product, highly injurious to the health of the consumers, and certainly not creditable to those engaged in its sale. Neither the noxious ingredients themselves nor the process of manufacture are known to many outside the ring, but sufficient has leaked out to show the character of the men and the business. Sulphuric acid is blended with the mash or applied directly to the product of the stills, which imparts a disagreeable odor to the whiskey and so powerful is its eff feet upon it that it corrodes and eats up the inside of the barrels in which the foul compound is kept

 Another feature of this rot-gut, sold under the name of whiskey, is that it cannot be extracted by any process of distillation, redistllation, or rectifica- tion. This fact has caused it's presence to be traced in high wines purchased from the West by respectable distillers here, and prompted them to shut down on the nefarious traffic as injurious to lite and the interests of the trade. By experiment. it has been tested that if a small piece of iron or copper is inserted into barrel of whiskey adulterated with this acid the entire mass will be instantly blackened, and if left in it for a short time will evolve large quantity of disascetate of copper or verdegris. Such compound cannot fail to prove fearfully injurious to the public health, if brought into general use, and we are glad to perceive that combined effort is is contemplated by the trade to discard the consequences are sufficiently serious to cell for some legislative enactment by which the sale of this poisonous stuff shall be prohibited under the severest penalties.
Year: 1871

Some years since, one of the trial terms of the Niagara County Court (New York; was attended by yeoman from one of the towns, to whom will give the name of MacPeelings. Mac was farmer of some wealth and Q very little knowledge, which latter acquisition was to him Q dangerous thing. His ambition had been gratifed by seat in the popular branch of the State Legislature, where he had voted "aye" and "no" through the winter, besides picking up an idea or two; one at least, as the sequel will show. The term of court referred to was attended by the ex-legislator in the capacity of juryman and just as the gas was being lighted in the courtroom one evening, Mac was drawn upon jury for the trial of a new cause. Our hero was wearied and hungry, and perhaps sick of the prosiness of "sleepy counsel duly drawn and accepted, and when plaintiffs counsel was about to open the case, MacPeelings anticipated him and astounded court, bar, jury, and specta- tors, by rising to his feet and remarking in loud voice

 "May it please the court, I move tha4 this court do now adjourn until to-mor row morning."

 The court elevated its spectacles in amazement at such an interruption, and informed the bold juror that courts were notaccustomed to entertain such requests from any person, as they always adjourn ed on their own motion.

 "Well, responded MacPeelings, with the promptness of perfect assurance in his position, "the court can't deny that e motion to adjourn IS al,oays in order !''

 The court smiled, bit its lips, and told Mac to resume his seat the cause pro- ceeded; and l fear that poor MacPeel- ings wonders to this day what authority the judge had for his unparliam entary proceeding.
Year: 1871

POTATOES. potatoes for Mount Washington next winter are put in store and at once allowed to freeze. If not permitted to thaw before cooking, and never washed, they can be baked so as to be as good as ever. They cannot be boiled, nor can they be washed before cooking.
Year: 1871

The Prayers. Still as glass was tho ocean, In a calm light and pale, A hundred ships lay on it,

 Each with windless sail. A hundred shippers wore fretting, Each search'd the sea and the skies, Each for wind was praying, But never wind would rise. The prayers rose up to Heaven, In English, German, Greek, Each of the hundred shippers In his own tongue did speak. Each of the hundred shippers, Loth in the calm to stay, Wanted the wind to waSen, To blow him on his way. Each in his own direction

 Would have his good ship blown, And hundred winds were wanted If each was to get his own. Each on the deck was pacing With discontented mind, And when the wind would come not, All thought the Lord unkind. Poor fools Had he granted their wishes, Sad were the end to see The hundred winds would have hurledIthem To the bottom of the sea.
Year: 1871

The responsible duties OF the Board of Assessors
performed without the direct supervision of this Depart


ent although the law has vested the appointments in
the Commissioners.


The Board of Assessors have in charge the distribution
upon the property benefited of the expenses Of all city
improvements character with the exception OF
street openings; and In regard to these the law requires
that copy of the awards and assessments shall be filed
with the Assessors The large number of improvements
which have during the past been carried into eff
feet have imposed extraordinary abors upon the Board
OF Assessors and the taxpayers who have occasion to
visit that Bureau have met with such attention has
satisfied them that the business In the hands OF the AS
SCISSORS received prompt and impartial action.


During the year ending NAV l. 1871 the Assessors have
Year: 1871

A CERTAIN CURE FOR EARACHE.--
We have recently seen several recipes
published as beneficial in cases Of ear
ache but one who has a severe attack Of
that malady will, we think, soon End the
ineffciency Of them all. There is, how.
ever, one remedy which the experience Of
twenty years has taught us is unfailng
We have seen it repeatedly tried in our
own family, and have frequently recon.
mended it to others, always with the
same result.


No house should be without its bottle
Of arnice. 1t is indispensable in cases Of
cuts, burns, aud bruises, and in earacho
it isa sovereign cure. AS soon as any
soreness is felt in the esr-which feeling
almost always precedes the regular "uche'
Jet three or four drops Of tincture Of
arnica bo poured in, and then tho orifce
filed with o little cotton to exclude the
air and in short time tho uneasincss
is forgotten. If the arnica is not re
sorted to until thoro is aotusl pain, the
cure may not be SO speedy, but it is just
as certain. If one application of the
arnica does not effect q cure, it will be
necessary to repeat 1t, it may be severa
times. 1t is sure preventive for gath
ering in the ear, which is the usual cause
OF earache.


We have never yet known any harm Of
serious Inconvenience to attend the us,
Of arnica though, if the spirits with
which it is made arc very strong, it may
be diluted with a little water, as tn,
spirits-not the arnica will sometimes
cause a temporary diEEiness Of the head
which is UNI leasant -Authur's Maga
Zine. i.