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Year: 1872

The 10th annual ball, given for the benefit
OF the Nursery and Chld's Hospital filed the Academy
of Music last night with distinguished and brilliant
asSemblagc. These balls have attained. by force of
prescription. the unqucstioned position OF being the
chief OF all the social events Of the year devoted tO
charitable purpose They have attained this prominence
by no luck OF accident, but simply by virtue OF being
admirably managed. Charity is not In this in
many others. gentle highwayInan who stops the
ciable wayfarer and demands ms money and his time
with no compensation. Every who goes gets the
worth OF his money in an evenings enjoyment, while
those who wish TO mngle distinction and excusiyeness
with their charity pay roundy for their boxes.


The ball last night was in all respects, brilliantly suc
cessidl The noble ha Of the Academy filed. hut
not crowded. with from 1000 10 5000 wcdressed people.
who passed the evening dancing prOmenadDg TO the
sound Of excellent music. The flooring Of the stage
and orchestra managed with great skin
and taste. All the ascs leading from the
various doors handsomely adorned with hot house
plants and flowers. The boxes filed with tho most
prominent ladies in NewYork society. though some
thing Of the dross of wealth to be here
and there The parquet was covered with
mass OF beauty as gay and as constantly
shifting the combinations of a kaleidoscope. Tho
Ory Of the young girls dressed in pale gauzy fab
rice harmoniOusy relieved by soft effects of delicate
pink and blue. Nothing could be finer than the general
mprcssIon,created by this moving and flashing army
of bravely clad loyelines5 when tho dancing Was
at it's hight obcyinG the potent magic of
Strauss wazes. AS to the faces and forms. 1t Is too
late TO begin TO talk OF them There were, there al
ways are. three foreigners Of distinction in the
room who were almost lyric in their admiration Of
tho bright mutinOus, wide awake faces of these far
young walters. No public ban, charitable
festival in the world vie with this The dstri
tickets carefully watch d, that the result


il like great private party In tOeties, IN the social
average and in general effect the Charity Bail resem
bled those enormous parties the Hotel de Vile and tho
Tuilerles given during the reign of HaussmHnn, when
nearly everybody society in Paris and some who were
nofH
Year: 1872

Attorneys will have their jokes
Hero. is one by Judge Colt, Of Con-
neticut: Being once opposed to Mr..
S., then q late member of Con-
gress, he remarked US follows to the
jury upon point Of disagreement
between them: "Here my brother
and l differ. Now, this is very
natural. Men seldom see things in the
same light and they may disagree in
opinion upon the simplest principles Of
the law, and that very honestly, while
at the same time neither can see any
earthly reason why they should. And


this is merely because they look al
different sides of the subject, and dc
Year: 1872

thing else. The "I-told-you-so'' men
have moro faith in evil than in good,
and in temper than in reason Let
them understand that the half secured
is better than nothing--.that we are
laying the foundation Of a great. future
that we are fighting not so much for
men or party, glad as we should be to
aid both. as to put down an Admins
tration which has made wilderness of
the South and covered the people there
with more debt and more disaster in
time Of peace than during the whole
war.--From the N. Y. Express.
Year: 1872

Liberal PROSPECTS.


ADDness or THE NATIONAL DEMOCRAT
| IcacoMMIrTEE TO THE PEOPLE or


THE UNITED STATES.
! The October elections are over
They enable US to form a tolerably &C
curate idea Of the true political situa
ton Of the country.


In Georgia we have to recount q
victory for the Liberal ticket SO unex'
ampled as to take her out Of the list OF
doubtful States, and practically to pro
nounce. in advance the decision Of al
least l25 votes in the Electoral College.
To this number it is only necessary te
add 1ty votes to elect Greeley and
Browit ~ ST


In Pennsylvania the distinguished
Chairman Of the Liberal Committee
has eloquently characterized the meth
dds by which the result Of the election
there was accomplished. We commend
his statement to the thoughtful attcn-
ton Of the country. -- -...


In Ohio, despite most unprecedented
gains for the ral-Democratic ticket,
the Grant managers have carried the
election by reduced majority, having
brought to the polls their entire reserve
vote. Had our Democratic friends in
certain localities Of that great common
wealth shown the same earncstness and
activity, and enabled us like our ene-
mics to record our entire strength, they
would DOW be exulting over u brilliant
victory. In Indiana the Democratic
and Liberal forces have achieved q
most important success over Pennsylva-
MIA tactics most unscrupulousl ly employ
ed by the Administration and it's allies.
showing thus that free people when
aroused know their rights and dare
maintain them. Indiana has fairly
demonstrated that she can ncithe, be
''bought nor ,bullicd - The moral Of
these results is that victory is still in
plain view for our national ticket, and
that energy and courage will assure it.
That victory must be won. If we
mean to preserve free institutions on
this continrnt VIC must assure it.


The event i'll Pennsylvania, Oh Tues
day last, when considered in it's causes,
is the most APPALLING political catastro-
phc that has ever taken place in this
country. Should.the system through
which this catastrophe was brought
about be condoncd by the people and
foisted on the other States, it seals the
doom of freedom in America. A sal
contrast it is surely that the city in
which our republic was born amid the
anthems Of free people should now be
the first to toll the knell of its liberties.
It is for the free, unbought people Of
all the States to calmy review the fear
full crime against suffrage in Pennsyl
yania, and to decide whether it shall
be repeated within their own borders.


For the first time the system Of free
government and the sanctity of the
ballot arc really on trial in the United
States. From this hour forward the
of the Franchise in it's
integrity dwarfs all other issues.


Let our friends in each of the States
catch inspiration from the heroic con-
duct of our fellow-citizens in Georgia
and in Indiana and from now till
November let their struggle be manful
and unceasing for liberty and an un-
tainted ballot-box, for Reform and an
honest Administration of the Govern
ment. "".-s.


AUGUSTUS ScuELL,
Chairman National Democratic Com.
Year: 1872

Will attend to House, Sign, or Carriage
Painting at short notice and reasonable
rates Shop on the South side Of Market
street nearly opposite Flemmings lumber
office. He proposes not to be excelled in
any branch Of the business either as to price
style or speed Of work.


n26tf May -, 1858.
Year: 1872

We are not inclined to take gloomy view
OF the future or predict an unpropitlous sea-
son Tor farmers. But it Is always q safe plan
to DC ready Tor Whatever may come, and we
therefore urge the Importance of preparing
for drought during the coming season. 1t
may not come, and food for stock may be
abundant during our dryest and hottest
months; but If more food is raised than need
ed lor immediate use 1t will keep until wanted.
we seldom have season in which pasturaSe
is not occasionally short and cattle fail to
procure bountlful supply of the food neces-
sary to keep them in good condition.


To make up any deficiency that may posi-
bly, occur. every owner OF stock should sow a
quantity of some rapid growing gram that
will be in suitable condition to feed stock
during the summer.


Mich COWS in particular often suffer for the
proper amount and kind of green food during
the months of July and August, but by sow
ing even small area at the present time with
corn, mlllet. or some similar rapidly growing
but nutritious plant, no lack Of good food
need occur. If the season should prove to be
q moist one, and pasturage abundant, then
these crops may be cured for winter use, and
corresponding amount of hay or grain sold.


1t is only by adopting some such system
that a scarcity of food can be avoided at all
times, and when farmer can take his choice
among variety of forage plants he Can save
money by selling that which is in the greatest
demand, and which commands the best price,
Hay and oats are staple articles, always bring
ing ready cash; but there are many more
economical plants that man can cultivate
for his own stock. Corn fodder when grown
thickly together in masses, and cut at the
proper season and well cured, is worth at
least as much per ton as good meadow hay
but it does not cost one.quarter as much, and
five times the quantity can be produced per
acre. Sweet corn is far better for this purpose
than common field corn, and some of the var.
ieties of popcorn are excellent on account OF
their slender stalks.


Let every stock-raiser prepare for scarcity
OF forage in summer, and We are sure they Will
thank US for the hint before the snow falls
next wiutcr-N. y. SIN.
Year: 1872

AS five years are required for the completion
of the bone structure OF the horse, it is i'm.
portant that he be carefully used until that
age. II he is early over.w worked the ligaments
which unite his one hundred and thirty bones
arc prevented from becoming sufficiently fixed
to the frame and he isdwarted, and wears out
or dies long before reaching the full twenty
five years which should be the average dura.
ton of his life and vigor. The muscles of a
fine horse ought to be thick and very long
thickness ensures strength and length and ex.
tended sweep of limb.
Year: 1872

If Drooms are wet IN boiling suds once "A
week they will become very tough, will not
Gu. the carpet, last much longer and always
sweep like new broom. A dusty carpet
may be cleaned by setting pail of cold water
out OF the door, wet the broom in it, knock 1t
to get out all the drops, sweep yard or so,
then wash the broom again as before, and
sweep again. being careful to shake all the
drops of the broom, and not sweep far at a
time The water may need to he changed
once or twice IT the carpet is very dusty.
Year: 1872

All the wood which produced flowers last
season should be cut clean out, or back to the
strong fresh growth Of the past year and
these free shoots can also be pruned one.third
or more of their length.
Year: 1872

The charming pair Of chroms, ''wide Awake" and


East Asleep" Of whose real beauty and attractive
ness Mrs. Stoves graceful sketch can give but an
imperfect idea-so pleasing they to all who love
art or chdrenhave always sold in the picture stores
for $40, and the original publisher has never been
able to supply the great demand for them even at
that price. And yet, although thousands of them
have been sold in America at that high rate they are
now within the reach of all, for they are
Year: 1872

CANAL TO CONNECT THE BAY OF FUNDY
WITH ST LAwRENCE.-The waters of the
Bay of fFundy are at one point so near the
Gulf of st. Lawrence that canal twelve
miles long would make aconnection between
them. Such canal, deep enough and broad
enough for the passage of ships, would be Of
immense value to Canada, as it would short
en- by hundreds of miles the route of vessels
bound to American ports and the West Indies
and save them from the great risks ofa voyage
down the Gulf of st. Lawrence and along the
coast of Nova Scotia. There is one difficulty
in the way-the difference between the tides
of the Gulf of st. Lawrence, rising only five
feet, and those in the Bay, fifty or sixty feet
high, bat engineering skill will easily over
come this. The subject received favorable
consideration from the Canadian Board Of
Trade, at its recent session. and the Domin-
ion Parliament will be urged to give attention
to IT,
Year: 1872

CANADA AND GREAT TBRITAIN.-The Mon
treal Ne1s has another article on the COM
mercial prospects of Canada, in which it
says:


We must be free to regulate our CONNER
cial policy to suit our geographical and polit-
ical life, even to the extent of imposing differ
ential duties. There is no indication that
England will raise objections to our pursuing
any commercial policy in harmony with the
wishes of the country. In proportion as we
grow wealthy by manufacturing under
different customs tariff, so would the volume
of our imports from England annually ex-
pand. There is general desire on the part
of the educated classes in this Province to
escape from sterile discussions about political
distractions and turn their attention to prac-
tical reforms. The census returns startled
those who INDUCED in dreams about our in
crease in population and wealth, and the cry
that comes to us from our native born who
have been driven from home by sheer neces-
sity to seek living in New England factories,
has reused inquiry into the nature of those
causes which force our youth to migrate to
the United States. Half the acrimony and
bitterness of our electoral conflicts arises from
the despair felt at the stagnation and torpor
of industrial life 1t is felt that we cannot
cope with the evil unless we be invested with
the attributes claimed by Australia, ''Free-
dom of commercial legislation and the right
to impose differential duties" 1t would be
affectation to deny that such ideas are spread
ing rapidly throughout this Province. They
are assuming national character, and must
materially affect the Commons elections. We
are all agreed as to the necessity of fostering
native industries so essential to our prosper
ity and political status, though differences ex-
ist as to the policy we should pursue.
Year: 1872

AN ASTRONOMICAL SENSATION. - News
comes from Switzerland that Nj. Plantamour.
a celebrated professor Of astronomy at Gem
eva, has lately discovered a new comet which
in volume far surpasses all such bodies hiih-
erto observed. Its velocity is immense, and
it is proceeding in direct line towards our
globe, and will come into collision with it on
the 18th of August next. Its approach will
be rendered sensible by an extraordinary de-
gree of heat. The catastrophe cannot los
sbly be avoided but by deviation produced
by the fiery visitor coming within the scope
of the attractive influence of some other
heavenly body.
Year: 1872

TRAVELLING STONES. Many Of our readers
have doubtless heard of the famous travel
ing stone of Australia. Similar curiosities
have recently been found in Nevada, which
are described as being almost perfectly round,
the majority of them as large as walnut,
and of an irony nature. When distributed
about upon the floor, table, or other level
surface, within two or three feet of each
other, they Immediately began travelling to-
ward common center, and there huddle up
in bunch like lot of eggs in a nest A
single stone, removed to the distance of three
and half feet, being released { t once started
off, with wonderful and somewhat comical
celebrity, to join its fellows; taken away four
or five feet it remained motionless. They
are found in a region that is comparatively
level, and is nothing but bare rock. Scat
tered over this barren region are little basins
from a foot to a rod in diameter, and it is in
the bottom of these that the rolling stones
are found They are from the size of a pea
to five or six inches in diameter. The cause
of these stones rolling together is doubtless
to be found in the material of which they are
composed, which appears to be loadstone or
magnetic iron ore. 'Rolling stones gather
no moss. "-Scientifc dmcricdn.
Year: 1872

A CAUTION The following are among
the recent experiments in spontaneous com
bustion: "A Detroit chemist, last March,
took piece of tlreadbare cotton cloth,
smeared it with the boiled lmseed oil, and
placed it in the center of a chest filled with
paper and rags Although the room was
not tight and the weather cold there was II
smell of fire about the room in eight days
Urpacking it the experimenter found the
rags half chared. In April he made SIM
liar experiment with a pair of painters over
hauls, which he rolled up with pine shavings
and crowded it in next to the roof of a loft
In week the smell of smoke alarmed
workman ip the next room, and the over
hauls were foudn to be on fire. During tho
hottest weather handful of old cotton rags.
not smeared with oil, became hot enough,
when hung up in tin box in the sun, to-
light matches which he had placed among
them. These facts show the necessity of
caution in putting away rags, especially those
that are saturated with oil, benzine or other
inHammable substance.
Year: 1872

We have been furnished by the Revision
Commission, under the certificate of its
Chairman, Greed Raymond, so much of the
Civil Code as define water rights in this
State, which go into full force on the first
day of May next. These provisions being
of great Importance to the people of this por-
ton of the State, we print them below for
the benefit of our readers, and return our
thanks to the Commission for the copy:


SEC. 1410 The right to the use of run
ming water flowing in river or stream or
down canyon or ravine may be acquired by
appropriation.


Sec. AL. The appropriation must be
for some useful or beneficial purpose, and
when the appropriation or his successor i'll in
terest ceases to use it for such Il purpose the
right ceases.


SEC. 1412. The person entitled to the
use may change the place of diversion if
others are not injured by such change, and
may extend the ditch, numc, pipe, or aque-
duct by which the diversion is made to places
beyond that where the first was made.


SEC. 1413. The water appropriated may
be turned into the channel of another stream
and mingled with its water and then reclaim
ed, but in reclaiming it the water already
appropriated by another must not be dimin-
ished.


SEC. 1414. AS between appropriations,
the one first in time is the first in right.


SEC. 1415. A person desiring to appro-
pirate water must post a notice, in writing,
in conspicuous place at the point of intend
ed diversion, stating therein:


1. That he claims the water there flowing
to the extent of (giving the number) inches,
measured under a four inch pressure;


2. The purpose for which he claims it,
and the place of intended use;


3. The means by which he intends to di-
vert it, and the size of the fiume, ditch, pipe,
or aqueduct in which he intends to divert it;


A copy must within ten days after it is
posted be recorded in the office of the
Recorder of the county in which the notice is
posted.


SEC. 1416. Within sixty days after the
notice is posted the claimant must commence
the excavation or construction of the works
in which he intends to divert the water, and
must prosecute the work diligently and unin-
terruptedly to completion, unless temporarily
interrupted by snow or rain.


SEC. 1417. By completion " is meant
conducting the waters to the place of intended
use.


SEC. 1418. By compliance with the
above rules the claimants right to the use OF
the water relates back to the time the notice
was posted.


SEC. 1419. A failure to comply with
such rules deprives the claimants of the right
to the use of the water as against subse-
quent claimant who complies Herewith.


Sec 1920. Persons who have heretofore
claimed the right to water, and who have
not constru cted works in which to divert it,
and who have not diverted nor applied it to
some useful purpose, must, after this Title
takes effect, and within twenty days there
after, proceed as in this Title provided, or
their right ceases.


SEC. 1421. The Recorder of each county
must keep book, in which he must record
the notices provided in this Title.


SEC. 1922. The rights of riparian pro-
prietors are not affected by the provisions OF
this Title.


AI.z,,t
Year: 1872




DUTCH FLAT BLUE GRAVEL MINING Com
pANY.-Of this mine the Grass Valley Union
says:-The works of the Company are very
extensive. There are 2 300 feet of thirty
inch iron ppe-3-l6 boiler iron-on the
claims, and 800 feet Of Is and 22 inch
pipe. Through one nozzle water to the
amount 200 inches, miners measure, is
thrown against bank. This water is rushed
through by perpendicular pressure of AGO
feet. This is double the amount of pressure
and of water which is run through any one
nozzle in the State, Another nozze-tbe
Giant Patents soon to be put at work on
the Company's claims, and through this
Giant nozzle $500 inches of water will be
run with AGO feet of pressure. The flume is
four by five feet and is at present 1000 feet
long. A tunnel from Bear River has been
commenced, and when that is finished for
800 it will strike one hundred feet below
the bed rock of the channel of the Dutch
Flat deposit. The tunnel will furnish the fall
so much desired for the immense bed of rich
gravel of the Dutch Flat neighborhood.


.


A New BLASTING POWDER new blast
ing agent, called the Miners Patent Safety
Powder, is just coming into notice. 1t is
said to be very effective and at the same
time to possess the merit of being cheap
One great advantage claimed for it lies in
the fact that it is free from any unpleasant
odor. A series of experiments have lately
been made to test its efficiency, and, accord
ing to the Nevada Transcript, 100 tons of
rock was blasted out at an expense of S2.7O.
Another blast threw out GO tons at a cost of
$3.50, second quality of powder being
used A hole IL inches deep was drilled in
the bottom of tunnel above the Dartmuoth
mine, and a three ounce cartridge used
The rack was penetrated by the explosion
13 inches below the bottom of the hole made
by the drill. The powder is made of DIFF
ferent grades, numbering from one to six.
The experiments made are said to have been
successful, and the absence of any disagree
able Or unhealthy odor, without taking into
account superiority of power, will do much
towards introducing it into general use.


WHAT is the difference between fool and
a looking glass ?-One speaks without re-
hecting, and the other reflects without speak
ing.