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Year: 1872

lurch of the brig threw him backward,
and we had moose over him before he
could help himself.


Having seen that the prisoners were
safely bound, we put the brig again
upon her course, and then had them
taken into the cabin, where question
ell them. At first they swore terribly,
vowing all sorts of vengeance: and
when | saw what villainous looking
set they were. | had no doubt that
their vengeance would have been dire
enough if they could only have had
their own way. But by and by they
took different tack, and promised to
tell us where we could unearth thou
sands of dollars which they had buried
u we would set them free.


But never mind their curses. their
promises, nor their cowardly pleadings.
On the very next morning we were
fortunate enough to fail in with
barque bound to Portland With the
rising of the sun the wind had subsidized
and veered 10 the westward again, and
We had no trouble in boarding the
home-bound vessel, the captain of
which ] well knew. My story was
soon told. and he was willing TO take
the convicts back to Portland.


Before the snow flew was in Port
land again, where | learned that nv
convict passengers were. safely lodged
a. Thomaston, and where | received
for distribution among my crew very
handsome SUN of money which had
been offered Is reward for the appre-
benslon of the runaways
Year: 1872

Until YOU set foot on Gibraltar, YOU
can form no idea Of its impregnability.
Very properly its real strength cannot
he seen from ship in the bay; only
when yon land do YOU find that the sea
wall bristies with heavy guns, and
groans beneath piles OF bali only as
you traverse its flank do YOU see how
formidable breech-loaders peep from
every available chink, and powerful
nortars lurk behind every convenient
emoankment. And not till you pene-
trate the body Of the rock do YOU get
any just notion of the marvellous piece
OF military engineering exhibited in its
galleries. These are tunnels eX-
cavated from the solid rock. parallel
10 its outer side, but some thirty feet
therefrom, and large enough to drive a
carriage through. They are in two
tiers, and comprise a total leugth of
nearly three miles. At every thirty
feet or 50 along them, spacious en-
brasures are hewn, that terminate in
commanding portfolios, which look to
spectator outside the rock like swal-
lows nestholes in sand cliff These
embrasures contain heavy guns always
standing ready for action, with powder
magazines hard by. From the port
holes beautiful peeps of the bav and
the Spanish continent are obtained
out of these, on the north side, you
look down upon half-sandy, half
grassy flat, perhaps half a mile long,
and as wide, connecting the rock with
the main land, and separating the bay
from the Mediterranean. Two lines of
sentry-boxes, one at the rock end, the
other at the distant end, mark the
boundaries of British and Spanish land
and between these lines is the ..netural
ground " The guns of the quarried
embrasures and those hidden cannon
that stud the western and southern
slopes Of the rock, cover the neighbor.
ing Spanish land, the whole of the bay,
and the straits; and the strengthening
work is ever going on by the fortitica-
tion of new points that from time to
time appear vulnerable. The eastern
side of the rock requires no protection
it is forbidding wall, with a great
sand slope in one place, but with no
foothold for anything more than few
fishermen's nuts near the waters
edge.--St James Magazine.
Year: 1872

A Maunch Chunk railroadist bet the
inventor of patent brake, that it would
MT stop car any quicker than the COM
mon kind. So he went to the top of Mt.
Pisga with his train, adjusted the brakes
and started down the grade. When
he applied the patent contrivance with
full force, the train stopped snort, but
the man did not. He proceeded down
the grade through the air head foremost
at the rate Of about mile in q minute
and half, and landed in a thicket Of
brambles.
Year: 1872

1t Is important to the material in terests of Arizona that full vote be polled next Tuesday. The extent of consideration due B community, es- pecially by law makers, is based upon the extent of its population. The census of 1870 was incomplete at that time, and our population Is larger now than then. But even if the last na- tional census had done Arizona con- plete justice, full vote Is no less i'm portant, for while the census statistics may be overlooked by many, the tables of election returns are examin- ed by all public men who shape pub lie affairs. Nearly all great news paper offices each year publish sta tisiical almanacs, and chief feature of them Is election returns. The next election will be held to have brought out full vote, and these journalistic statisticians and public men will nat urally turn to their handy almanacs for facts upon which to base public action. It has been repeatedly stated in reply to requests for public aid for Arizona that her population does not justify granting them. Now the Ter ritory has chance to show her strength by vote which will sustain the assertion that the late census was incomplete as well as to help all her leading interests. Let that vote be given.

 The vote for Delegate to Congress is the one upon which those abroad more particularly estimate 8 Terri tory's population; and while we hope full and unanimous vote will be given Hon. R. c. Mccormick, we trust if any voters will not vote for him, that they do for man of their choice, so that full vote may appear for that office. This is urged for public and not individual interests Voters should never forget that in casting ballot they are performing @ service beyond that resulting to suc- cessful candidates.
Year: 1872

EVERY publisher. no matter what his political tenets may be, will agree with Horace Greeley in the following sensible remarks:

 It Is strange how closely men read the papers. We never say anything that any body don't like but we soon hear of it, and everybody tells us about 1t. If however, we once in 6 while happen to say a good thing, we never hear of that; nobody seems to notice that. We may pay some man a hundred compliments and give him dozen puffs, and he takes it as 8 tribute to his greatness, and never thinks of 1t, never thinks 1t does him any good. But If we happen to say something this man don't like, or something he imagines a reflection on him or bis character, see how quick he flares up and gets mad about 1t.
Year: 1872

The SPEED OF METEoRs. suddenness
with which shooting star appears, the short
duration of its visibility, and the necessity
of noting very accurately its apparent path
among the stars, all tend to make the deter
mination of the actual number of seconds oc-
cupied by the meteor in swooping athwa.t
the heavens a matter of extreme difficulty.
Yet observations have been made, according
to the English Mechanic, which indicated a
velocity far greater than that which would
be found in the case of meteors travelling in a
nearly circular path around the sun. We
know what that velocity would be: body
at the same mean distance from the sun as
our earth would travel with the same
mean velocity, Or at the rate of some Is
miles in a second Such body coming full
tilt against the earth would traverse our at
mosphere at the rate of 36 miles per second.
But, as matter of fact, it was found that
some meteors travelled at rate considerably
exceeding this-even, too, when they were
not directly encountering the earth.
Year: 1872

REMEDY FOR PAINFUL WoUNDs.-The
Country Gentleman says Take pan or
shovel with burning Goals and sprinkle upon
them common brown sugar, and hold the
wounded part in the smoke. In few min
utes the pain will be allayed, and recovery
proceeds rapidly. In my own case rusty
nail had made Lad wound in the bottom Of
my foot. The pain and nervous irritation
was severe This was all removed by hold
ing it in the smoke for fifteen minutes, and
was able to resume my reading in comfort.
We have often recommended it TO others
with like results. Last week one of my
men had finger nail torn out by pair OF
ice tongs. 1t became very painful, as was
to have been expected. Held in sugar
smoke for twenty minutes, the pain ceased,
and promised speedy recovery.
Year: 1872

The following amusing description, by
John Phoenix, Of a new idea in artillery, was
evidently suggested by the mounted hewitt
zers used in the Abyssnan war.


cont in a certain western fort, some time
ago, the major conceived the idea that artil-
lery might he used effectively in fighting With
the Indians by dispensing with gua- carriages
and fastening the cannon upon backs Of mules
So he explained his views TO the command
ant, and it was determined to try the exper-
imcnt. A howitzer was selected and strap
ped upon an ambulance mule, with the muz-
zle pointed toward the tail When they had
secured the gun, and loaded it with ball-car-
fridge, they led that calm and steadfast mule
out on the bluff and set up target in the
middle of the river to practice at. The rear
of the mule was turned toward the target,
and he was backed gently up to the edge Of
the bluff. The officers stood around in semi
circle, while the major went up and inserted
a timc-fuse in the touch-hole of the howitzer-
When the fuse was ready the major lit it and
retired. In minute or two the hitherto un-
ruthed mule heard the fzzing back there on
his neck and it made him uneasy. lie reach
ed his head around to ascertain what was 90
ing on, and, as he did so, his body turned
and the howitzer began to sweep around the
horizon. The mule at last became excited
and his curiosity grew more and more intense.
and in a second or two be was standing with
his four legs iu bunch, making sixty revo-
lutions minute; and the howitzer, understand
threatening sudden death to every man with
in half mile. The commandant was observ-
ed to climb suddenly up tree; the leutenants
were seen sliding over the bluff into the river
as if they didn't care at all about the high
price of uniforms; the adjutant made good
time toward the fort; the sergeant began to
throw up breastworks with his bayonet, and
the major rolled over the ground and groaned
In two or three minutes there was puff of
smoke, dull thud, and the mule-oh here
was he? A solitary jackass might have
been seen turning successive back -somersaults
over the bluff, only to rest at anchor, finally,
with his howitzer, at the bottom of the river,
while the ball went off toward the fort, Lit
the chimney in the majors quarters, and rat
tied the adobe bricks down into the parlor,
and frightened the majors wife into convul-
sions. They do not allude to it now, and no
report of the result of the experiment was
ever sent to the War Department.
Year: 1872

GERMANS, READ Tms.-The Cincinnati
ToHsfrcuud addresses these words to i s
readers. There is no difficulty at all in
understanding them, and there is no dsput-
ing their truthfulness: "In almost every
German association hall in the Union, a
memorial can be found containing the names
of those who fell in defense of the Union and
Constitution. Germans are proud of the
fact that in this war they were not last or
least, and hey hold the memory of their
fellow heroes in high esteem. How Infamous
then the insult which is put upon them by
the Washington Republican,, the Court Or
gan of President Grant, when in series of
articles it calls Carl Schurz the leader of
those Hessian hordcs who, by their coward
ice induced the defeat of Bull Run and
Chancelorvile! Grant, whose organ hurls
this insult into the face of the whole German
element, is again the standard-bearer of the
Republican party, and is acknowledged as
such by all, with the exception of few iso-
lated and Independent individuals The
Washington Republican represents Grant
and the Republican party. Is it possible
that Germans who have any sef-respect can
longer remain connected with it?'
Year: 1872

Punch gives the following improved YER
sion of the golden rule, after the manner OF
Watts and Gladstone:


BE you to others kind and true,


AS you'd have others be to you,
And neither do you say to men


Whate' you would not like again;
But if men say do to you


That which is neither kind or true,
Take good stick and say to men,
Don't say or do that same again.
Year: 1872

We learn from f. J. Brickell, Esq says
the Grass Valley Union, of the Truckee
Lumber and Milling Company, who was in
town yesterday, that the business prospects
at that place are now very encouraging
The town is rapidly recovering from the ef-
fects of the disastrous fires, with which it
has been visited. A number of substantial
fire-proof buildings have been erected, which
renders it impossible that fire can again make
general destruction. The town is on a
good business foundation, and is none too


large for the business interests Of the locality
and the surrounding country. The saw
mills are all running to their full capacity,


and some are not able to fill their orders as
rapidly as required. The growth of the
mining towns of Eastern Nevada has caused


an unusual demand for lumber, and as
Truckee is the only good source of supply,


mill-men have a market for all they can
manufacture. Salt Lake City also con-
sumes large quantities Of Truckee lumber,


and Pioche receives most of its building
material from Salt Lake, which in the first
place is shipped from Truckee. This exten-
sive trade enhances the prosperity of Truckee;
and as the extensive mining fields of eastern
Nevada and western Utah are developed
this trade and prosperity will continue to in
crease. Another important item of business
at Truckee is the burning of charcoal for the
use of the melting furnaces of the silver
mining region Sisson 81 Wallace have now
six hundred laborers engaged in burning coal
in the Truckee region, for which they have
an advanced demand. The people of Truckee
have full confidence in the resources of their
country, and have no fear of their town
being taken with the dry rot, so peculiar to
many California towns, as long as their
magnificent forests of timber last, and the
Truckee river continues to furnish its unlim-


tied water power for the running of machinery.
Year: 1872

B1T Peter Cartwright, the pioneer
Methodist, used to be annoyed ly a
noisy bul not over-pious sister, who
would go off on high key every
opportunity she got. At an ani
mated class meeting one day the
surcharged sister broke out with,
IF | had one more feather in the
wing Of my faith ! could fy away
and be with the Saviour.p "Stick
in the feather, o Lord, and let her
go.p fervently responded Brother
Cartwright.
Year: 1872

VI


SIR In reference TO the action of the Directors OF
the Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad Company, In
increasing the Capital Stock the following facts are
presented. When the new direction came into pos
session, they supposed the property OF far more
value, and in better condition than subsequent ex-
animation has proved


careful survey and estimate was consequently
made, and it was decided that at least SS,ooooOo
would be required IN order to put the road IN good
working order as well as TO provide for the maturing
obligations of the Company larger portion OF which
sum would be necessarily disbursed during the
present year. 1t would seem that the old Board OF
Directors had already contemplated the exiRencies
as early a. Feb. 9, 1871, when they provided by
new issue Of stock the means by which the Company
could reduce the grades, make other improvements,
Year: 1872

Money has'been quiet and all day at about per
cent on all classes OF collateral the range baing6 and
T. choice commercial paper moving Oh the basis OF 10
per cent.


Government bonds have been pretty active ID certain
issues and strong all over closing the basis OF t 10
A fnllnxs a A ID
Year: 1872

MEssRs. WINsLOw LANIER & Co.,


No % Pine-st. offer for sale
THE FIRST MORTGAGE Z PER CENT GOLD BONDS


of the


GRAND RAPIDS AND INDIANA RAILROAD Co,
Free of Government Tax. Interest payable in New
York April and October, Coupons registered.
23G miles of the road are now completed and run
ming earning the interest the whole issue, which
is also secured by Land Grant of Eleven Hundred
and Sixty Thousand acres of Lumber Land in the
State of Michigan, worth from Ten to Twelve Mil
lion Dollars. The land is selling rapidly at an
average price of S15 per and the proceeds in
vested in the repurchase of the Bonds.


Less than half million of the whole issue of
Eight Millions remains unsold, and the price has
been advanced TO 90 per cent and accrued interest.
Year: 1872

WHAT THE LOUISVILLE "CouRIER-
JOURNAL" SAys.--Mr. Mosby may wrap
the American flag around him. Col
onel Duncan may march down to the
footlights. General Dawson may
fire off a thousand horse-pistols.
They may I'll resolve to- die in the
last ditch of obsolete hate and explo-
ded ideas. The people of the South
will stick to Horace Greeley, They
will stand by him. They will not be
driven away from him. They behold
in him q deliverer. They see in his
kindly old face q sign of promise.
He is to us great. big, old, fat angel
of peace; and we do not care q button
how much they abuse him, or how
much they laugh at him, or what he
has been and gone and said and done
in times past, he is right ao,o and
THAT is enough for US.


We are for Greeley.
Year: 1872

With respect TO the jurors summoned for the
U. S. Courts, there is one thing proper to be
stated. The Marshal is bound from the
nature Of his duty, to select persons who will
strive to fairly judge the guilt or innocence, un-
der the law, Of the defendant on trial. There is
a class Of people, we have reason to believe, who
are not capable of doing this in cases arising un-
der the Enforcement Act, because they deny any
validity or binding force to the Constitutional
Amendments, and hold that it would not only be
juatifAble, but praiseworthy to nulify the pro
visions Of the Enforcement Act, by acquitting
az indicted under it, however clear might be the
proof of their guilt.
Year: 1872

There are now in the Freed mems Savings
Bank and branches, principally in the South
aggregate deposits of over four millions Of dol
lars. Recent reports as to the unsoundness o
the institution have no foundation
Year: 1872

When II stranger treats me with want
"t respect" said II poor philosopher, a.
comfort myself with the reflection that he
sights but my old and shabby hat and
coat, which, to say the truth, have no par
ilcular claim to alteration. So, if my hat
and coat choose to. fret about it, let them
but it is nothing to me.
Year: 1872

everything of tender growth.


Thus the city loses directly in its manu-


factures by over-taxatioD, and indirectly


by the encouragement of rural produc-


tions, and, as money draws money, SO


poverty grows poorer. The city being i'm


poverlshed, has not the means to furnish


assistance in cropping and facilities of
transportation, SO that St. Louis, Cincin-
natl and Louisville outbid US and take
away part even of the trade which we
ought to have~


There is but one way to escapethe ruin
now creeping over every thing in Louisiana
take away the burden of taxation. Make
the public expenses as near nothing as pos
sible; exercise the most rigid economy in
the use of public moneys and especially in
the collection of them. If you think that
business here can be made profitable enough
to justify the investment of capital, give it |
a chance to struggle to its feet again and |
don't let the last drop of blood be sucked |
out of its veins by remorseless set of
ticks and leeches. Remember that there
s. not sufficient vitality in our affairs
n this State to stand much of drain. 1t
s impossible to make things pay enough
lere to be profitable under six per cent
AK and q vampire license.


Decent men of all parties ought to reflect
~ ne situation, unless willing to expatri-
tie themselves. Our business men have
isgracefully absented themselves from the
olls in time past and the consequence is {
heir own ruin. If at the approaching cleo
ion the conduct of our own affairs can be ,
iven into honest and capable hands it may q
OF yet be too late to do well. Should it T
Year: 1872

Is peculiarly adapted to ever5 disease Of the lungs
and liver which is produced by onr ever varying
climate.


There il, perhaps, no disease with when our
country is affected, which sweeps on annually so
many victims as that fell destroyer OF the human
race-Consumption. Day after day, year after year
the insafiate monster hurrics TO the cold and silent
portals of the tomb fresh added victims to Its con
quest. No walk of life is sacred from its blightns
influence. No age is exempt from its death deal
ing shafts The old, the middle aged and the
young all alike, are food for this common enemy
of mankind. The white haired patriarch whose
life of temperance has rendered his system imper-
vious to the attacks Of other ills, and whose good
deeds prepared him for the enjoyment Of iife's
calm evening hnds consumption fastening its fangs
upon his sitals, and tearing him from world ever
bright to minds which look complacently on day.
well spent.


Consumption, in its confirmed and incipient
stages. coughs, asthma Group, and liver complaint
form by far the most fatal class of diseases known
20 our land Yet those may be cnred by
means of the simple yet powerful remedies that art
scattered wherever these maladies prevail.
Year: 1872




INTO Our HANDs-The recent decis-
lon of Judge Upton, of the Mclean
County Circuit Court, is one Of much in
terest in regard to the right of this City to
control its own levee Judge Upton held.
that 'the people, in creating corporations,
and vesting them with chartered privileges,
parted with none of the sovereign rights
which inhere in all governments, to protect
itself and the governed from abuses, extos-a
tions or unjust determinations on the part
of its own creatures. This is exactly into
the hands of the people of this City. The
ferry company claim that the People did,
in granting its charter, part with the right
to protect its own levee from injury or
abuse, or destruction. Judge Upton says
this is a right the People cannot part with.
And the people of this City claim that the
right to regulate the landing Of boats,
wharfs, floats, etc., granted in our City
Charter is paramount to any other char
ter, aud cannot be taken away from them.
The ferry company insists on squatting in
the middle of our steamboat landing, leav-
ing too little room above or below Wash
ington street for the natural traffic of the
river trade and boats. The City demands
that the ferry shall land lower down, il
order to leave our natural steamboat land
ing unobstructed and free, instead of cut
ting it in two and making it too small a
both ends. The city ordered the ferr!
boat down to its proper landing, wher'
some 81, 900 had been expended to make {
good and convenient and easy landing
The ferry company defes the authority o
the people and persists in its attempts b
render worthless our natural river trad
and landing. We are glad to see this de
cision of Judge Upton for we believe !
will help clear the way to proper decis
ion Of the case the ferry company persist
=. ssxas.sa. The fAoaplo Of fbiS Nifu
Year: 1872

PURE STARoH--When starch is pure, it
is free from sourness and is purely white.
Inferior starch has a golden or yellow
tinge, the color of -four, indicating the
presence of gluten "a color not desirable in
one Hnenl, or is sour and musty. 1t is
absurd for the laundress to cleanse and
bleach and then discolor linen with i'm
pure golden on yellow starch. Duryea's


Satin Gloss Starch is snow white, per
feetla pure, and the most economical
starch known.