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Year: 1870

THE PREsIDENT's HOME LIFE.
| From Grace Greenwood's Correspondence
with the New York Tribune.l


1t is surprising to observe how few


marks of WEAKNESS or heavy care the
face of President Grant presents, after


more than year of burdensome official


responsibility and worriment of, to him,


unprecedented confinement and labor.


Still fresh-looking, comfortable, quiet,


self-possessed, strong of will and of


nerve is he, a man who keeps his own


counsel, and "a multitude of counsel


Ors, who can keep silent amid the


eternal blathering," interviewing and


inquisition of the talllingest and asking
est Capital in the world Yet no man is


pleasanter, kinder, or gentler in private
life, than President Grant. I think it


ought to be known, for it is a good
thing to know that the domestic life of
the President of the United States is
singularly happy and beautiful noble
example for American homes. I have
this from the best authority-from friends
who have of late been guests at the
White House, and who, day after day,
have been witnesses of the harmony
and loving-zindness of its inmates, un-
spoiled by prosperity, fattery, fame, and
power. That White House stands like
a light house, surged about by a sea of
hungry office-seeking, and more hungry
curiosity-but what privacy they can Sc
cure is doubly sweet to that merry and
affectiOnate family circle, who find moth
ing better in their exalted position, in
State dinners. balls, and receptions, than
the dear old love that united them in
their home on the Western prairies, and
which they wisely brought along with
them, as their chief household god. No
one can deny to the President and his
wife rare propriety and evenness of man
ner, alike without touch of arrogance
or superciliousness. Under their mar
velously changed condition of life re-
main yet the real man and the real
woman marvelously unchanged. This
is difficult topic to treat of just here,
where genuine old-fashioned hero-wor-
ship gives way to sycophantic subserv-
iency or blind party animosity, and
where honest, respectful loyalty toward
rulers and magistrates, land all having
authority over us" is ian exploded
idea"
Year: 1870

From the Morrow County Sentinell


A very characteristic piece of work
has been the attempt of a number Of
Democrats in our State Legislature to
have the proposed home for the soldiers
orphans located at White Sulphur
Springs, and in connection with the al
ready established reform school for girls.
The Democracy fought as long as there
was a shadow of hope, against allowing
the home to be established at all. But
when they found themselves unable to
prevent this, they hit upon the happy
idea of putting it beside the reform
school and bringing the children Of the
dead soldiers into an atmosphere which
under the circumstances, would be pollu-
ton itself. The reform school for girls
is a noble institution in itself, but its
work is as far from that of the Orphans
Home as it could possibly be. of all the
State institutions, that for the reform Of
dissolute girls demands the mostinviolate
seclusion from all associations, and it
was in view of this fact that it IS placed
where it now is. The idea of putting
soldiers orphan upon a level with the
class of girls that inhabit a reform school
and of exposing them to the peril that
such an association would engender, is
one so peculiarly Democratic that itnat-
urally received very warm support from
that wing of the Legislature.
Year: 1870

Those California Democrats who pro-
pose to resist nogro suffrage with ply
sical force" ought to be put in straight
jackets. They are crazy. There are
about a million men in these States who
would like nothing better than TO make
a trip to the Pacific coast at government
expense.-O Ohio STATE Journal
Year: 1870

During the delivery Of lecture by
Mrs. DIR. Mary Walker. in Kansas a few
days ago, a precocious youth in the
audience cried out, "Are you the Mary
that had a little lamb p mo - was the
ready reply. "But your mother had a
little jackass g.
Year: 1870

w E have had eur Banner on the
outer wan, with PRICES 50 Low that
no firm in the State Of Ohio undertook to
meet US We have driven our foe to the
wall, and occupy the field without fear.


We have silenced all men who years ago
assumed some powerof competition. They
are now willing to confess conhdentIalIy
that there is no use trying to meet or beat
us in prices, because we are game on a
Clothing "set-to." Their only hope is in the
ignorance Of their customers, who viii not
look around to see the difference in our
prices and theirs, which amounts to at least
Year: 1870

Especial attention is called to our
Merchant Tailoring De-


paPtEmemt.
For excellent hts and fashionable work
we are not beat in this or any other State.
This is not blowing but sober fact, as all
our work does show. Please give US call


Respectfully,
REYNOLDS & FRANK.
Year: 1870

You will force the passage of the river at
Waterloo bridge Tomorrow morning at
daylight, and see what is in front of yon. I
do not believe there Is any enemy IN force there,
but do beieUe that The 1UhoLe Of their army has
marched to the IUest and northwest. 1 am not
satisfied either with your reports or your
operations Of to-day, aud expect to hear to-
morrow early something more satisfactory
cOncPrning the enennv-
Year: 1870

Wonders.


Wonder why mama keeps Bridget at
home from church to work all day, and
then says it is wicked for me to build my
rabbit house on Sunday?


Wonder why our minister bought that
pretty cane with the yellow lions head on
the top, and then asked me for my cent to
put in tho missionary box! Don't want
jewsharp as well as he wanted cane


Wonder what makes papa tell such nice
stories to visitors, about his hiding the
masters rattan when he went to school,
and about running away from the school
miatress when she was going to whip him,
and then shut me up all day in dark
room because l tried just once to be Al
smart as he was?


Wonder what made papa say that wick.
ed word when Betsy upset the ink all over
his papers, and then slapped my ears be-
cause ! said the same thing when my kite
string broke?


Wonder why mamma told Bridget the
other day to say that she was not at home
when Tommy Days mother called, and
then puts me to bed without my supper
every time tell lie?


Oh, dear there are lots Of things !
want to know. How wish was mar!
Year: 1870

ORIENTAL CUsToxEs.-There are many
traits of character and custom in which
the Arabs and Turks are our antipodes.
They shave the head but not the chin, and
we the reverse. With US the uncovering
of the head in the presence of another is
mark of respect; with them mark of
disrespect. When they go into place of
worship they keep on the hat and take of
the shoes and slippers; we do the oppo.
site. They mount on the right side of
horse and we on the left. They write
from right to left, and we from left to
right. We show our good breeding BY
taking the outside when we pass persons
in the street they by passing nearest the
wall. They do the honors Of the table by
serving themselves first we by serving
ourselves last. II u friend inquiries after
your wife, yoa regard it as compliment !;
to inquire after theirs is an insult. Their
mourning dress is white ours black.
They finish their wooden houses from the
top downward and we from the founda
ton up. The men wear frosks and the
women pantalo0ons. We wash the hands
by dipping them in water they by hav-
ing water poured upon them.-Bausman'
Sinai aud Zion.
Year: 1870

Freemosonry is brotherhood. The
order recognizes and maintains the sub
lime principle that as one God created US
all, we have common parentage; and as
God is the "father Of the spirits of all
fesh," those who were created in "His
own image" are brethren. The tenets of
freemasonry, in calculating and enforcing
these sentiments, establish principle
showing the brethren their duty nor are
promises of pecuniary advantage necessa-
ry to excite the selfish propensities of our
nature. The whole system Of freemason-
ry is designed to purity of heart to make
o man deserve the station Of that race
who were created but little lower than
the angels, and while the fraternal fire
warns his breast, and makes him feel that
a man is his brother, and no law, save
that Of love, is necessary to force him to
the path of duty. The one whe under
stands masonry as sublime moral science
will here perceive that the duties which
he is called upen to perform in the fulfil
mens Of his masonic obligations, rise from
a digniied sense of his relations with his
fellowmen. The suffering man is his
brother and he should assist him. 1t re-
quires no law Of lodge or council to
enforce the injunction. "If thy neighbor
hunger, give him meat; if he thirst, give
him drink: and if he lack raiment, clothe
him.
Year: 1870

An experienced master-builder says
that this is the first time in thirty years in
which he has been able to dry plastering
in new bsildings at this season without
the aid Of artificial heat.


There were nearly six hundred fires in
Philadelphia last year, the losses from.
which amounted to ever four million dol
lars. and tho insurance on the property
destroyed to three million.
Year: 1870

We call the special attention Of our readers to
the adveris sement of that favorite home remedy,
Perry Davis PAIN KILLER IL has been before
the public over thirty yea,s, and probably has a
wider and better reputation than any other pro-
prietary medicine of the present day. .9t this
period there are but lew unacquainted with the
merits of the Pain Killer; but while some extol
it as lniment, they know but little of its power
in easing pain when taken internally. while 9th
ers use it internally with great success, but are
equally ignorant of its healing virtues when ap-
piled externally. We therefore wish to say to
all that it is equally successful whether used in
ternally or externally, and it stands to-day un-
rivalied by all the great catalogue of Family
Medicines. 1t is sufficient evidence of its virtues
as a standard medicine, to know that it is now
used in all parts of the world and that its slle is
constantly increasing. No curative agent has
had such widespread sale. or given such univer-
sal satisfaction. II is purely n vegetable COM
pound. and perfectly safe, even in unskillful
hands.
Year: 1870

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
IN District Attorney of Placer County will when
ever requested and when not otherwise officially
engaged. attend, either in person or by his duly
appointed Deputy. to the trial of all actions
wherein The People are interested, in any JUS
tees Court within the County and Justices OF
the Peace are notified that no other persons are
authorized by law to appear as attorneys on be-
half of The People in such cases.


HENRY II. FELLOWS,


District Attorney.
Auburn March 23d 1870. mar26-4t
Year: 1870

This little instrument, says the Journal
OF Chemistry, Is prepared In the following
way: lake glass about ten inches in
length, and ono inch in diameter. fill 1t up
with the following liquid: Two parts
camphoI, one part nitrate of potash, and
one part sal ammonia, and dissolve IL
spirits OF wine, add water until you have
partially precipitated the camphor- The
extremity of the tube can be left open OF
Theoretically sealed. The gloss tube thus
prepared is then fixed in horizontal po.
sition against the wall or board.


The changes in the weather are thus in,
dicated:


1. If the weather is to be fine, the com
position of the substance will remain en-
tirely at The bottom of the tube, and the
above liquid will be perfectly clear and
Transparent


2. Before the weather changes to be-
come rs;ey, the percipitate will rise by de-
grees, and small crystalizations similar IN
shape to stsrE, will be seen to move abeut
the hquit


8. When the storm is imminent, the
precipitase viii nearly rise to the top OF
the tncs. assuming the shape of leaf, OF
an assem- s.'age of crystals; the liquid will
appear to be in state Of effervescence.
This char ye very of.en takes place TWEEN
ty-four hours before the change in the
weather.


4 The side from which the wind will
blow in a squall will be also indicated by
the p4rticies of the substance floating in
the liquid and assuming the shape Of long
hairy needles.


5. In tho summer time, the weather be-
ing warm and dry. the crystalizatIoa will
have n tendency TO remain lower in the
tube, and the liquid will also be more trans
parent.


The amount o. crystalized particles
which will be seen floating IN the liquid
will be sure sign or indication of fine or
bad weather; will depend entirely upon
the suddenness of the change in the
weather which is 10 take place, acting in
the most energetic way on the composition
above described.


The value OF this simple instrument TO
forewarn of an impending storm, and also
to indicate the continuance of fine weather.
will be readily appreciated by those whose
occupations are affected in the change OF
the weather.
Year: 1870

WATCHES AND JEWELRY AT COST
Gust. H. Jageman will commence
to day, and for fifteen days will sell
from his large stock of Watches,
Jewelry and Silverware


AT COST


Now is the time to secure fine
Christmas presents cheap. dec1G-tf
Year: 1870

now complete in every department of the
trade. Our Goods viii be found most
elegant and superb, unexcelled and un-
rivaIed in excellence, embracing Foreign
and Domestic Fabrics of the choicest and
test designs being mostly hand made
and warranted in every instance to give
entire satisfaction We earnestly invite
the attention of all who desire good goods,
which are manufactured with q specia
view to frst-class retail trade.
Year: 1870

In its general discipline and morale the PO-
lice of New York has been transferred to the
new control in creditable condition. Thirteen
years of Republican direction have borne le-
gtimate fruit and Superintendent Jourdan will
therefore risk the efficiency of the force if he
mistakes mere change for improvement. With
regard to the performance of patrol duty and
the cOrrelative guarding of persons and prop
erty from open attack, as much has been done
with the means in hand as it was possible to
accomplish. A vast deal said and written
about the perils of our streets has been melted
by ignorance or malice, and promulgated in
the face of the fact that the vigilance and in
trepidity of Republican Police have so over
awed the Thugs that wanton street assaults
are startling because of their rarity, while the
crime of highway robbery, except occasionally
upon the ragged fringes of the city, is almost
unknown.


But in one important department of the PO-
lice there is room for Improvement, and it for
tunately happens that it is a department in
which Mr.. JOurdan has had an experience that
should qualify him for the task of refOrma-
ton. Our detective system is perhaps no bet
ter, and not much worse, than those of other
cities though this is not very high praise.
The cupidity of the age has made the recovery
of stolen property the first necessity of the
detectives business, and has led to his be-
coming broker in crime more guilty, morally,
than the thief himself. AS q consequence, the
skilled and educated outlaws have piled their
calling for years subject to no greater peril
and hardship than that of handing over mod
crate percentage of their plunder to the detec-
tives, to be divided between them and the
rightful owners of the property. In accom-
plshing this result the administration of the
law has been so corrupted by this continual
compromising with thieves, that the law itself
has practically ceased to have any force
against the most dangerous criminals.


Any one thoroughly informed of the facts
will admit that our detective system impera-
lively requires radical reform. 1t is now based
on principle that propagates crime by insur-
ing it immunity, and needs to be utterly over
thrown and reconstructed. In no way can this
be effectively done except by making the
punishment of the criminal the chief aim of
the detective His attention must be entirely
diverted from the contemplation of personal
gains, and he must be taught that, no matter
what becomes of the stolen property. it is his
first duty to Vindieatc the law by securing the
conviction of the thief. Mr.. Jouldan's iudi-
yidual action as detective has always been
Year: 1870

All good people in Chicago will be enrap-
tured to learn that st. Louis Gas we learn from
The DemocraD was last week "hidden by whirl-
"ing clouds of dust-a loathsome and un-
"healthy compound Of pulverized limestone,
powdered coal-sOOt, and desiccated street.
"offal." The depth at which the poor city
was buried is not stated; nor are we told
whether the inhabitants who have been saved
propose to abandon the site, or to remain and
complete the excavations. Should they leave
the unfortunate city as it is, this republic,
which will boast so much else in the next age.
may also boast of its newly discovered Her
culaneum. AS Congress will then be sure to
get out most expensive work on the subject,
we trust that the sons of st. Louis will con-
clude to dig out.
Year: 1870

The House of Representatives did wise
thing yesterday, in sending back to the peo-
pie one of the contested elections from Louis
lana. If it had recommitted all the pretended
elections from that State-dOne it without
hesitation or divisiOn-it would have acted
still more wisely and justly. The election of
1868 in Louisiana was utterly vitiated by sys-
tematic violence and terrorism. The six Elec-
toral votes were thus carried for Seymour and
Blair, when, at fair election, Grant and Col
fax would have had at least 10000 majority. 1t
is a shame that such a wrong should have stood,
not only unredressed but unrebuked, to this
late hour.


We ought to have a Federal law regulating
the choice of Electors of President and Rep
resentatiyes in Congress, so as to protect the
legal voters against fraud and intimidation,
and in time must have. The want of it is a
grave and imminent public peril.
Year: 1870

The Northwest Territory has been trans
ferred at last from the Hudson Bay Company.
This act is necessary preliminary to the
undertaking of the Expedition to Red River,
which is to vindicate the somewhat premature
exercise of Canadian authority. We hope that
the Canadians will transfer the waste energies
they have expended on the Fenians to the
Hudson Bay Territory. Amazing beyond de-
scription is the fierce zeal which the champions
of the Dominion have thrown into their alarm
over a few wild Irishmen. Excepting the two
or three supposed Fenians beaten in the bar
room of Windsor hotel, Canada has not yet
seen the ghost of an invader But it is all
the same. If the Dominion Government has
not real war on its hands, it certainly
deserves to have one 1t has called out troops,
suspended Habeas Corpus, and frightened every
body; in short, has spared the Fcnians great
deal of work and bother. Canada may well
complain that she has been invaded this time
by her own Government
Year: 1870

The Legal-Tender decision is not, we are glad
to say, to be reopened Yesterday the Chief
Justice, in denying the motion of Attorney
Gen. Hoar for rehearing explained that by
rule of the Court the consent of at least one
of the Judges concurring in the opinion
already delivered was requisite before the
case could be reopened for argument. None
of the concurring Judges favored the motion,
and the decision stands We rejoice at this
prompt announcement of the intention of the
Court, as it will affect in some measure many
commercial transactions of Importance. And
now let us unite in fastening that return to
specie payments which will alone deprive the
question of continued power for harm.
Year: 1870

The Georgia bill as distorted by the Senate
was returned yesterday to tie House. Mr..
Bingham and Mr.. Logan prepared substitute
for the Senate amendment, which was referred
with the bill to the Reconstruction Committee.
This substitute agrees with the Senate amend
ment so far as providing for State election
during the present year, but it proposes to
recognize the existing government and admit
the State to representation. There are indica-
tons of protracted contest over the several
amendments, extending perhaps to the end OF
the session.
Year: 1870

There would be less reason to regret the
delays and bubbles of the law, by which
criminals occasionally escape unwhipt Of justice,
if they Oftener resulted as in the case OF
Edwin Perry, three times tried for the murder
of Thomas Hayes, and finally sentenced to
imprisonment at hard labor for life. Can any
reasoning mind be made to believe that the
jgnominiOus death of Jack Reynolds was pun
ishment more just or more severe than that Of
Perry, or that his death sentence was as much
calculated to deter the criminally inclined as
1he harder yet more humane sentence Of
Perry
Year: 1870

volunteering of the Papal ZOuayes to
join the Red River Expedition. The
tone of the French press is far more favor
able to the Government, and condemnatory OF
the murderous conduct of Riel, than has yet
been stated; and so, for the present. all dan
gers of a religious war may be set aside. we
apprehend that the Canadian Government Is
sadly befooled by its spies, if it is induced 10
prefer its own vain imaginations and night
nares TO a solid faith in the honor of the
American Government.
Year: 1870

Every fair, thinking man who has ever served
on a Jury cannot but be sensible of the painful
defects of that system of trial in which the
honesty, the freedom from personal, party or
pecuniary prejudice, and the intelligence OF
jurors, are left to the uncertain chances of
lottery-wheel, supplied only with the names OF
those who cannot get excuses. Those who
have thus suffered on jures and at their hands
will be right glad of any prospect of the refor-
nation of the system. willprobably be long
time before it is supplanted by better, but there


is some reason to think that if Mr.. Fieldss jury
bill pending in the Assembly is adopted by
the Legislature certain of the existing defects
will be remeded. We are not wholly satisfied
that its operation will tend to give the public
greater confidence in the fairness and ability
of the average Juryman, but it will certainly
avoid some of the many delays which now
make Justice both slow and costly. This bill
deprives Courts and Commissioners of the
rights of eXcusing Jurymen for any cause, and
of renting fines for nOn-attendance. The
jurors first summoned are to be required to do
their duty. The exempted classes are defined
so clearly that there can be no doubt on this
point. The compensation is increased to fair
rate the terms of service as jurors are re-
duced, and other privileges calculated to secure
the willing service of capable men are granted.
Year: 1870

A long but very uninteresting debate on the
Northern Pacific Railway bill occupied the
attention of the Senate yesterday. Votes were
reached on several amendments proposed in
ihe interest of the Company, but in each case
were voted down by large majority. The
bill is to be finally disposed of to-day at 8
Year: 1870

first directed to the punishment OF the offender
and then to the recovery on the property
stolen, and in both branches of his profession
he has usually been successful. If these two
objects can be secured, perfect detective sys-
tenn will be attained; but an honest one can
only be had by paying primary attention to
the punishment of offenders for The violation
of law. The means for accomplishing this
great reform are obvious to all, but cIninently
so to Mr. Jourdan. We trust he will not
allow himself to be deferred from using them,
and he has already admitted the necessity oil
action bS the warning, in his sautatory ad-
dress, against compromises with criminals.
Year: 1870

pleasure. By lifting the foot of the crib the legs drop down through hollow posts, and are fasten- with the bedstead. The same process with the the head. The head and foot boards are folded down over the mattress when not in use. The Crib can contain the bed made up for use when when closed in. Each bedstead can have a single