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Year: 1870

The Journal Of Commerce, in reply
to a correspondent, who. speaking of
the Federal Constitution, complains
that in that document there is not an
allusiCn from first TO last of God or
Christ, y says; There is a distinct
recognition of our great Redeemer in
the words at the close "Done in
convention by the unanimous consent
of the States present, the seventeenth
day of September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred
and eighty-seyen.' Further than this
it wss not the purpose Of our fathers
to go but this is sufficient to vindi-
cate the Constitution from the charge
so often made, that it contains moth
ing to distinguish it from a heathen
document"
Year: 1870

A Washington special, Of the 4th
instant, says: "In compliance with q
resolution directing him TO report
what progress has been made in the
preparation for the publication of the
official documents relating to the re-
bellion or the operations of the. army,
as provided for in the act Of July Y,
1866, the Secretary OF War to-day in
formed the Senate that Peter I'll. Wat
son, the person appointed to perform
said duties, did not do so and received
no compensation. The Secretary
states that the only additional legisla-
ton now required on the subject is to
revive the joint resolution Of July q,
1866, and amend it so as to provide for
the publication of such documents
only as are found to be of historical
Importance and value, by which
means the proposed work would be
greatly reduced in size and cost with
embarrassing its usefulness - "Found
to be of historical importance and
value" may be freely translated to
mean, garbled and dovetailed to suit
the egotistic appetite of a vain-glori-
Gus military spirit.
Year: 1870

How TO GET SLEEP-This is to many
persons matter of high importance Ner-
vous persons who are troubled with wake
fulness and excitability usually have strong
tendency of blood to the brain with cold ex-
tremities The pressure of blood on the
brain keeps it in stimulated or wakeful
state, and the pulsations in the head are of
ten painful. Let them rise aud chafc the
body and extremities with a towl or brush
or rub smartly with the hand to promote
circulation and withdraw the excessive
amoant of blood from the brain, and they
will fall asleep in few moments. A cold
bath, or a sronge bath, and rubbing, or a
good run, or rapid walk in the open air,
or going up and down stairs few times Just
before retiring, will aid in equalizing circula-
tionand promoting sleep. These rules are
simple and easy of application in the castle
or cabin, and may minister to the comfort
of thousands who would freely spend money
for an anodyne to promote Natures sweet
restorer, balmy Sleep
Year: 1870

Would SING IT-A story is told of an
old clergyman who has the most unbounded
faith in Watts hymn book He was fond
of saying that he could never open any page
without finding an appropriate hymn. A
mischievous son of his thought it would be
a good joke to test his fathers faith. So
he took an old song and pasted it on one of
the pages of the book, over hymn, so
nicely that it could not be easily detected
At church, on Sabbath morning, the minis
ter happened to open at that very page,
and commenced to read


cold Crime. is dead


There was a sensation in the audience. He
looked at his book but such was his faith
in Watts hymns that he undertook it again,
commencing with the same line. There
was another sensation in the audience
Looking at it again, and then at the con
gregatiou, and then at at the choir, said he,
''Bretheren, it is here in the regular order
in Watts hymn book, and We will sing it
any how
Year: 1870

grams to-day that in place Of the free banli
clause the Banking and Currency Committee would
offer bill authorizing an increase OF one hundred
millions In national bank currency. At first this
was regarded as innation but, on second
thought, The "bearsr used it to hammer gold for
the reason that It would really contract sne green-
backs TWENTY-FIVE millions. Under this combina-
ton OF conflicting Influences to-day gold Welded
slowly to 111A, as against 1i2L at the beginning OF
business this forenoon. The market was otherwise
unsettled, owing TO thesargument OF Judge Hoar
before the United States Supreme Court to reopen
the decision in the case of the Legal.ten act.


1.-THE rate on call ranged from four to six per
cent, with the former as the exceptional rate on
Governments, and five to six per cent as the gene
collateras paid the highest rate mentioned The
supply of funds in the street is ample and the in
creased demand was easily met at the figures above
specif1ed The failures last week have made buyers
OF commercial paper more cautious, but strictly
prime names are readily negotiable at seven or
eight per cent The failures OF petroleum house
in this city, shipping house in Philadelphia, aud a
petroleum house in Pittsburg were announced on
the street to-day


''The market for foreign exchange was again mac
tive and rates declined an eighth per for steI-
ling. 1t seems that the European demand for Ame-
rican securities inclusive OF railway bonds, has sup
Piled the market with an, as yet, ineXhau tible sun
ply OF bills, and hence the bankers who sought to
make what may be STYLED q "COrner" by buying all
the surplus cotton bills have been unable to stop the
leak in another and unlooked-for quarter The hun-
dreds Of new railroad enterprises all the
try are receiving generous assistance from the
capitalists OF Europe with whom first mortgage
bonds on any sort OF promising route readily
mand investment favor. Again, hve-twenties have
been unusually strong to-day and were quoted as
high as 81 3S in London this mOrning-an advance OF
about one per cent within the paat week, all Of
which influences combine to depress exchange"
Year: 1870

the composition burns like wet powder, but
does not explode; the danger attending blasting
with this substance is much less than by ordi-
nary powder.


The charges used weighed one and three
quarter pounds, and were put in the holes
drilled in the guns, without covering of any
kind except handfal of fre-clay to keep them
in place. The fuse was then attached and
lighted, when three tremendous explosions
seemed to shake the ground. On examining
the guns, one was found shattered in every
direction from the hole which had contained
the charge, and the other two were more or less
broken.


Owing to the close proximity of the rolling
mill buildings, it was decided not to carry the
trial any further until the guns we're moved.
The agent now proposes to have one of the
guns carried to some place where no damage
can be done, and with five pounds of the explo-
sive merely placed upon the side, tear 1T to
pieces. The lithofracteur is said to have five
times the force of nitro-glycerine, and twenty
times that of powder.
Year: 1870

I GA gentleman was chiding his son


or staying out late at night. and said -
why, when was your age my father
would not allow me to get out OF the
house after dark "Tlcn YOU had n
deuce of a father you had, = snecred the
Young profligate. The father vocicratcd,
~ had coniounded sight better ono
than you, YOU Young rascal, itlalrs
Year: 1870

THE HAIR BUSINESS The Oregon Legis-
lature is discussing bill that provides for
taxing every man in the State SO month
for shaving portion of his head or wearing
cue. True, this is disloyd 10 the Emper-
or of China, for by the shaved head and cue
does the Chinaman prove his loyalty to his
heather sovereign and his disloyalty TO his
friend Grant and the mongrel Congress.
Grant may be at the bottom Of this thing Che
once lived in Oregon) to make his Chinese
subjects forget and renounce (by the cutting
off of the cue) the Chinese Emperor and turn
their moonish eyes upon, and bow their cue
less heads to his own personal greatness
Be this as it may, the bill is being seriously
discussed and may become law, and then
we shall know Grants true position on the
Chinese cue question. If Grant is with the
Oregon Legislature everything will be lovely
when the bill passes, and if against it, then,
as soon as he gets done junketing around
watering places and race grounds. we shall
expect him to abolish said Legislature This
is a momentous question, and one that should
challenge the grave consideration of the Great
Grant.
Year: 1870

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND
DUMB, AND THE BIIND-As the time for reopen
ing school is approaching, the Directors of the
Institution desire to call the attention OF the
public to the provision made by the State, for
the education of all youth afflicted with deafness
and blindness. A large and convenient build
ing, an excellent corps of teachers, and suitable
apparatus for the special instruction which such
unfortunates require, enable the Directors to
offer unusual facilities for accomplishing the
benevolent purposes of the Institution A large
shop has been erected, where the pupils spend a
portion of each day in acquiring a knowledge of
some handicraft by which they can support
themselves after leaving the Institution


To correct misapprehension, the pubic is in
formed that the Institution is not an Asylum,
but an educational establishment, where pupils
are admitted for purposes of instruction only,
but all deaf and dumb, or blind persons, between
the ages of six and twenty-one years; of sound
mind and body, and residents Of the State, will
be received without charge save for clothing and
travelling expenses.


Pupils from Nevada can be admitted by ap-
plication to Hon. A. n Fisher Superintendent
of Public instruction in that State. Any one
Who knows of persons afflicted with deafness or
blindness will confer favor by addressing the
Principal WARRING WILKINSON Oakland, Ala
media county, u whom all communications, re-
latng to the Institution, should be directed and
who will be happy to give any information that
may be desired.
Year: 1870

A STRONG MAN-There is a man living
in Calhoun county, Miss, who is supposed
to be the strongest man in the State, il not
in the entire South. He is 35 years Of age,
and weighs two hundred and twenty-five
pounds. He has been known to carry three
bars of railroad iron, when it takes from
three to five ordinary men to carry one. Hs
can take cask containing forty gallons Of
whisky or water (the former is preferred raise
it from the ground land drink out Of the bung-
hole, with as much ease as others could out
of common pitcher, and he has frequently
taken barrel of -four under each arm, and
balancing sack of salt on bis head, carried
then for several hundred yards with appar-
emily but little effort
Year: 1870

NEWSPAPER CHANGE Alex. Montgomery,
formerly of the California Express has pur-
chased the Mendocino Democrat and become
editor and publisher There can be no doubt
of the sound Democratic sentiments and the
ability with which they will be given to the
public through the columns of the Democrat
by the present publisher in the future. We
wish our old friend Montgomery all the sue
cess it is possible to achieve as publisher,
and as a sound, consistent, and able defender
of the true doctrines of free federated gov
ernmcnt
Year: 1870

re- Before the war commonly called the
Great Rebellion, there was not a more
quiet, rural neighborhood in the vicinity
of Boston than Hope Hill 1t is not
high hill, but rather series Of easy rises
aud falls, the rising gradually gaining on
the fall until tolerable elevation is
reached, whence widespread view of
Boston and its harbor can be enjoyed.
The residences scattered over these knolls
'or built on the slopes of the meadows
we're, ten years ago, with only few excep-
tions, plain cottage houses, let at low
rentals to that class Of trades-people who
prefer to endure the drawback of the lack
of city convenieuces, rather than lose the
precious privilege of sleeping in the pure,
fresh air.


One of these unpretending residences
was situated on the highest land Of huge
orchard, at the terminus of winding lane,
now changed into a pretentious avenue.
with handsome brick houses adjoining both
sides of the widened roadway. AT that
time there were no other houses down
the lane; it led to Mr.. Stanope's and there
stopped. A large orchard spread around
the house and on both sides of the lane,
and as some fine cherry trees grew close
about the house it had the appearance OF
very great seclusion. 1t was a single
house, with but two parlors and a kitchen
on the ground floor, with corresponding
bed-rooms over, whose windows in the ga
bles to the steep old roof might be seen
from many points glistening in the morn.
ing or setting sun. M sf9 % am'f 3
+ Mr. Stanhope was clerk in a banking
house. He was widower, with one Pret-
10y daughter, Hester by name, living a
quiet, retired life. He was able to ai-
ford to keep a servant TO save his daughter
from the harder offices Of housekeeping
and in fact to give her a sense of compann-
ionship 10 her lonely life, for he was often
ab.ent from an early hour in the morning
tilllat at night.


One winter evening, Peter Staohope
came down to tea at sevan o'clock, with a
smiling face. lie brought an invitation
for Hester to witness some private thcat-
ricals at the house of Mr.. Smythe, one OF
Year: 1870

e. lady who was urged by her, friends
to marry widowef, and as an argument
they spoke of his two beautiful children.
"Chidrep," replied the lady, pare like
toothpicks,r-a person wants her own"


Some rash fellow says that the giving
Of the ballot to woman would not amount
to much for none Of them would admit
that they were old enough to vote until
they were too old to take any interest in
politics.
Year: 1870

A correspondence was yesterday pub
lished between the British Minister at Wash
ington and the State Department relative to
the passage Of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal by
the Red River expedition. Some of the
letters arc signed by J. c. B. DAVIS
as Acting Secretary of State. This
namo has very strange appearance
in connection with the leading department Of
tho Government. since tho Legislature of
Massachusetts, has published to the world
that the man who wears it has received
bribe of sixty thousand dollars to betray and
defraud q railway company ofwhich he was a
director. Are Gen. GRANT and Mr. FISH aware
of this fact If not, will not some friendly
member of Congress bring ii to their notice2
They can hardly desire to keep at the head
of the foreign affairs Of the country a man
who has been proved to have sold himself for
a sum Of money to betray trust. They can
not wish to identify their administration with
pecuniary dishonesty and exposed fraud
For they must know that by continuing Mr.
DAVIS in his present high Office, they take
upon their own shoulders the b'ame of his
offences, and proclaim that in their opinion
II is not wrong for men in high stations 70
take bribes and sell out for money the con.
stituents who have not only honored them
with their confidence, but have given them
power over their interests.


VIII not some patriotic citizen forward to
President GRANT copy of Document No 1873,
just published by the Legislature of Massa.
chusetts and also send a copy of the same to
Mr. HAMILTON FIsH2 II is very interest
ing book, and apparently they have never
read il with the attention II deserves.
Year: 1870

When Gen. GRANT was told that the Re
publican party in New York was dead, he would
have made the same reply that ANAxAGoRAs did
when informed that his son had died, al never
supposed had begoten ali immortal" if he
had studied Greek. But in his unclassical way
he answered quite as well as the Stoio did. He
shut one eye and blew mouthful Of cigar smoke
in thin stream mp to the ceiling. Translated, it
said "Parties are dreadfully short-livcd. There
is nothing enduring but Havana cigars. Let US
smoke
Year: 1870

Great Britain is about TO lose one of her
colonies, the Andaman Islands which, according
to the scientific men of Calcutta. are sinking like
a wrecked vessel, in consequence of the progress
slve giving way of the earth in that part of its
crust. The convcts in that penal settlement feel
somewhat uneasy but the prophets of the catas-
trophe console them with the gratifying assur.
ance that the sinking Is not to take place all at
once, and that they will only be swallowed up
gradually.
Year: 1870

A bitter feeling of hostility is springing
up, we are informed, between the Irish and Ger
mans of the Seventeenth Ward, and some Ger
man landlords in that ward have united in an
agreement not to rent their houses to Irish
tenants. Should this state of things 60 on,
the workingmen of the ward will suffer from il.
large number Of trades unions are composed
almost exclusively of Irish and German mechan-
les. 1t is very difficult even now to make them
stand by each other in their strikes and various
combinations; but let the war now threatened
spread to any great extent, and they will take ad
vantage Of each others perplexities, and underbd
each other to their own injury. Those landlords
who are taking the lead in the present movement
are the men who will suffer least by it, Let the la
boring men remember this. Whether, moreover,
the recognition of their importance as voters
can be secured by the Germans through any
such extraordinary process as the one now pro-
posed, is more than doubtful 1t will only ex-
asperate the honest, fair minded lrishmen of New
York, WHO might otherwise Join the Germans in
their just demands.
Year: 1870

w call attention TO the correspondence pub
liHhed in our advertising columns between policy
holders OF the Mutual Life Insurance Company and
hessrs McCulloh and Miller. 1t Is hardly necessary
to fay that there is no reason for even suspeetng
ans misnlanAaement ID the Affairs Of the Company.
Year: 1870

Sir Isaac Newton was urged by one
Of his friends to marry, but he excused
himself by saying that he had no time
10 court wife. His friends said they
you'd assist him by sending to his
apartment woman ofs worth. He
thanked them for theil offer, and prom.
iscd to receive visit from her. His
friends applied to the woman and re
quested her TO dispense with the usual
ceremonies Of courtship and wait on
the philosopher, which she consented
to do. When she went to his apart.
mcnt, and produced her letter of rec
ommeIdation, he received it politely,
filled and fired his pipe, and sat down
by her side, took hold Of her hand, and
convesed on the subject. Before they
had brought the point to close, some
question about the magnitude of the
heavenly bodies stuck his mind with
such force that he forgot what he was
about-hc turned his eyes up to heav-
en-, took his pipe out of his mouth with
his left hand, and, being lost in study,
without design took the lady's left hand
which he held in his own, and with one
Of her fingers crowded the tobacco il
the bowl of his pipe, and held it so long
that her heart as well as her finger took
fire, and she, in u huff, sprang up ant
went off, leaving the philosopher tc
finish bis study alone.
Year: 1870

Wisconsin contains curiosity in
whom some Snowman would find q
fortune. 1t is young lady with snow
white hair and pink eye brows. HcI
complexion is very white, and she can
see in the night as well as the day. The
complexion and hair are those Of al
Albino, and are easily rcconciled to
Natures whims; but the pink eyebrows
are a little too much for US. Perhaps
they are pink eyes?
Year: 1870

If ever a man deserved q divorce
from the marriage tic it is William M.
Hill, of Chicago. He deserves it
more than Chicago men generally DO,
and it is said they all deserve it. He
lived with his wife just one month
During that time she beat him with a
bunch of door keys, and left his bed at
2 o'clock in the morning to walk the
streets. Ifhe interfercd she would, she
said kill him. He did not interfere, but
left her and went to q hotel to live.
She visited him in his room there,
again uttered threats against his life,
and threw two water pitchers at him.
This last straw broke the camel IS back,
and he went to the Courts for relief.
Year: 1870

An editor who was evidently insane
or had a strong and vivid Imagination
recently got or The following appro
pirate item, if true:


~ had lream the other right,


When everything was still,
dreamed that each subscriber


Came up ant paid his bill.
Each wore Il look of honesty,


And tears were in each eye,
And they handed out the stamps.


Saying. How Is that for high 2"
Year: 1870

The nights are now very cool and
inviting, and people should be grateful
for the quiet enjoyment they afford.
But 1t will be as well not to go forth
and enjoy them without having taken
precautions against catching cold
Those who 60 out, at present, into the
night air. should wear clothing in ad
dition to that worn during the day.
Year: 1870

A singular wedding took place in
Morgan county, Mo-, moi long since.
A "orass" widow was married to a
young man on condition that if her
truant husband should at any subse-
quent period express willingness to
live with her he should be allowed to
do so, and her union with the young
man should be null and void from that
date.
Year: 1870

Skagss, the man who was hanged in
Missouri recently, gave from the scat.
fold the following advice: "In the first
place, avoid drinking whisky; in the
next place, avoid the love of money
better than you do your God; and In
the third place, whatever you do, avoid
lewd women. Them three are three
things that are wrong in man, and one
runs after the other" This is good
advice. even though it came from a
murderer.
Year: 1870

The Supreme Court Of Michigan has
declared that pecuhiary aid from the
public treasury cannot legally he given
to railroads, and that statues providing
for such aid are unconstitutional and
void. The case arose upon vote of
aid by township. But the principle
is general, and applies as well to aid
from States, cities or counties.
Year: 1870

DA AGAhb NAV Eh5s
! cannot listen to your words,


The land is long and wide;
Go seek some happy Northern girl
To be your loving bride.
My brothers they were soldiers
The youngest of the three
Was slain while fighting by the side
OF gallant Fitzhugh Lee.
They left his body OH the field,


(Your side the day had won,)
A soldier spurned him with his foot,


You might have been the one.
My lover was soldier,


He belonged to Gordon's band;
A sabre pierced his gallant heart,


Yours might have been the hand.
He reeled and fell but was not dead,


"A horseman spurred his steed,
And trampled Oh the dying brain,


You might have done the deed.
hold no hatred in my heart,


No cold, unrighteous pride,
For many gallant soldier fought


Upon the other side.
But still cannot kiss the hand


That smotc my country sore,
Nor love the foes that trampled down
The cOlors that she bore.
Between my heart and yours there roll
A deep and crimson tide
My brothers and my lovers blood
Forbid me be your bride.
The girls who loved THE boys in gray,
The girls to country true,
Can ne'er in wedlock give their hands
70 those who wore the blue.
Year: 1870

In speaking of the motives which
actuate murder, one may often make 4
mistake and wander from the path of
probability What is motiveI There
can be no just motive for taking human
life except in self-defence. Aside from
this, every attempt to measure motives
is absurd.
Year: 1870

A newspaper which dare not oppose
a man or measure for fear of the cnmity
ola clique endorsing the one or oriSi-
mating the other, exerts about as great
influence Oh the public as horse in q
trnnllmill
Year: 1870

Throughout the Northwest it is plain
that the people have become wearied
with the policy of prescription and
persecution towards the South. as well
as we'll as with the protective tariff in
favor of New England. and it is not ex-
travagant to expect that within the
next year the one will be entirely aban'
doned, and the other greatly reduced.
Year: 1870

It's hey, for tossing buds and leaves


When the winds of morning blow!
Tell us how long lover gricvcs


When a maiden answcrs-No!
For another step was at the gate,


And the hearts that met were true;
BY many sign you could divine


Which way the sweet wind blew!
Year: 1870

The wind came up. the wind came down,
And over the garden wall;
why should Il pretty maiden frOwn


If a lover chose to call
The ruillcd roses bowed their heads


In a shower OF fragrant dew;
But under the skies you couldn't surmisC


Which way the sweet wind blew.