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Year: 1870

Opium eating is one of those private vices
which, because ii does not intrude itself
upon the public, attracts little attention.
Those who have read DeQuincey under
stand the evil effects of the terrible prac-
tice, and those who have not, can refer to
that work for full details OF its demoraliz-
ing influence upon both brain and body
Many persons suppose il is only the T,;lks
and Chinese who use the drug. but they are
mistaken. as large number of persons in
this country and this city, are slaves of
opium.


1t is taken in various forms and quanti-
ties. Some persons use it until it becomes
a necessity Of their natures. Their appe-
tite Graves for it, and they long for the
unnatural, dreamy, intoxicating sensation
it produces They become its victims, and
it holds onto them with the grip of wise.
Ordinary laudanum or morphia, taken in
ternally. was the usual mode of indulging
this vice. But that grew too expensive.
When a man became so bad that dose of
sixty grains was his daily allowance, it was
too costly, for opium eaters are a shiftless
and worthless set, and but few of them
could afford to pay from 81 IS to 50 a day
to crafty their abnormal appetites. A new
and cheaper mode of producing the same
result was demanded, and science pointed
it ont.


This consists in inoculating the system
with the poison. A pint of Morphia is
mixed with two hundred and twenty-nine
pints of water to make up the decoction.
A snail syringe, with fine glass nozzle,
is filed with the mixture, and the sharp
point of the syringe being inserted in one
of the veins of the body, generally in the
arm or one Of the veins of the neck, the
stuff is injected. This is cheap but dan
gerous operation. 1t costs but ten cents a
day to those who survive it, and who do
not furnish job to the undertaken and
Grave digger, which costs their friends
something. 1t requires skilled and prac-
tieed hand to use opium in this way. A
greenhorn attempting it would probably
result in fresh corpse. and serve him
right.


Druggists, who sell much opium, in all
its forms, state that the practice of using
1t as stimulant is fearfully prevalent, and
Is becoming more and more general. OF
all forms OF dissipation, it is the most
dreadful and ruinous, and the confirmed
drunkard is decent beside. the confirmed
opium-eater, and has twice his manhood
" y Po,,er
Year: 1870

In n recent number of the In dependent


the Rev. t. De Witt Talmage,o OF Brooklyn,


has the following utterance on the subject


of ssSnells:"


| have a good Christian friend who, if he


sat in the front pew i'll the church, and a


working man should enter the door at the


other end, would smell him instantly. My
| friend is not to blame for the sensitiveness


of his nose, any more than you would fog


pointer for being keener on the scent


than stupid watch dog. The fact is, il


you had all the churches free, by reason OF
the mixing up of the common people with


the uncommon, you would keep one-half


of Christendom sick at their stomach. II
you are going TO kill the church with bad
smells, will have nothing to do with this


work of evangelization.


We have reason to believe that there will
be laboring men in heaven; and also n
number of negroes, and Esquimaux, and
Terra del Fuegans, and Arabs, and few
Indians, and possibly even some Spaniards
and Portuguese. All things are possible
with God. We shall have all these sorts OF
people in heaven; but, alas in getting
them we shall lose the society OF DIR. Tai
mage. Which is to say, We shall lose the
company of one who could give more real


tone" to celestial society than any other
contribution Brooklyn could furnish. And
what could eternal happiness he without
the Doctor? Blissful, unquestionably-
we know that well enough-but would it
be distnge, would it be recherche without
him? st. Matthew without stockings
or sandals; St Jerome bareheaded,
and with coarse brown blankel
robe dragging the ground; st. Sebastian
~, alxv of oil
should see, and We should, enjoy seeing
them; but would we not miss a spike tailed
coat and kids, and turn away regretfully,
and say to parties from the Orient: "These
are well enough, but you ought to see Tai.
mage of Brooklyn" fear me that in the
better world we shall not even have DIR.
Talmage's good Christian friend" For
if he were sitting under the glory of the
Throne, and the keeper of the keys admit
ted Benjamin franklin or other laboring
man, that ''friend," with his fine natural
powers infinitely augmented by emancipa-
ton from hampering flesh, would detect
him with single sniff, and Immediately
take his hat and ask to be excused.


II the subject of these remarks had been
chosen among the original Twelve Apostles.
he could not have associated with the rest,
because he could not have stood the fishy
smell of some of his comrades who came
from around the Sea of Galilec. Ue would
have resigned his commission with such
remark as he makes in the extract quoted
above: ''Master, if thou art going to kill
the church thus with bad smells. will
have nothing to do with this work of evan
gelization. He is a deciple, and makes that
remark to the Master; the only difference is,
that he makes il in the nineteenth instead
of the first century.


Now, can it be possible that in hand
ful of centuries the Christian character has
fallen away from an imposing heroism that
scorned even the stake, the cross and the
axe. to poor little effeminacy that withers
and willis under an unsavory smellp
Year: 1870

Whether there is any truth in the new
theory or not, we have no immediate
cause of alarm; for the process will not
advance enough to give the slightest
record in the short span of single life
time. According to the experiments of
Bschof, it will take nine million of years
for the earth TO cooldown fifteen degrees.
This loss is almost impcrceptible, as the
mineral heat adds only a thirtieth of d
degree TO the temperament Of the surface.


If this process is true Of the earth and
the moon, the same cause must produce
the same effects in the other planets and
satellites of the system. Even the great
sun himself must be subjected to the
laws which rule his suborlinates. There
fore, the time must come in the distant
ages of the hereafter, when the sun, plan
cts and moon, losing every vestige Of
heat, will have absorbed every drop Of
water in their thickened crust, and will
have imprisoned every particle of atmos-
phere in their huge assures.


The solar system, now so grandly
beautiful, will then be an assemblage Of
dead worlds, without ray Of light, with
out wave of heat, without drop Of
water, without breath of air floating
round in the immensity of space, bound
together by the law Of gravitation in the
embrace of death.


It is not pleasing speculation, if it is
philosophical one.
Year: 1870

Again the boat was raised and made
ready for action, and her owner, Captain
Hundley, took her for an experimental
trip into the Stone river, where, after
going through her usual evolutions, she
dived in deep water and for hours, and
for days, the return Of poor Hundley
and his crew was watched for and looked
for in vain. After near a weeks search
she was found inclining to an angle Of
forty degrees; her nozzle was driven
deep into the soft mud of the bottom.
Her crew of nine dead men were stand
ing, sitting, lying about in her hold
asphyxiated. Hundley was standing
dead at his post, candle in one hand,
while the other had grown stiff with
death in his main efforts to unclamp the
hatch. Others had been working at the
keys of the ballast, but the inclination
at which the boat had gone down had
jammed the keys so that the men could
not cast off the weight which held them
down. Their deaths had been hard and
lingering.


Again this fateful vessel was made
ready for action, and volunteers being
called for, Lieut.. Dixon, Twenty-frst
Alabama volunteers native Of Mobile,
and eight men, volunteered to take her
against the enemy. The new and power
ful war ship Housatonic was selected for
attack, and on a quiet night the bravest
crew set out from Charleston in this ter
rible, nameless torpedo boat, that ever
manned craft before. We all know the
fate of the Housatonic. Brave Dixon
guided the torpedo fairly against her,
the explosion tore up the great war
ships sides, so that she went down with
nearly all her crew within two minutes.
The torpedo vessel also disappeared for
ever from mortal view. Whether she
went down with her enemy, or whether
she drifted out to sea to bury her gallant
dead, was never known, and their fate
was left till the great day when the sea
shall give up its dead.


But within few weeks past divers in
submarine armor have visited the wreck
of the Housatonic, and they found the
little torpedo vessel lying by her huge
victim, and within her are the bones of
the most devoted and daring men who
ever went to war.
Year: 1870

From the Providence Journal.l


The Maine journal of Education has
translated an article from the Cosmos,
in which Stanislaus Meunier gives some
curious speculations with regard to the
present physical condition of the moon.
His theory is, and has the support of EN-
inent astronomers, like Boer, Moedler
and Arago, that the moon is dead star
He draws this inference from singular
appearance upon the surface, which is
called "grooves" by the physicists. These
grooves have parallel sides nearly a mile
in width, and from ten to one hundred
and twenty-five miles in length. There
are already ninety of them, and it is
supposed that more are in process of
formation. Reasoning from analogy, we
must believe that at some period in the
past the moon had an atmosphere and
water, and also that on account of her
inferior size she cooled much quicker
than the earth. The water penetrating
the crust had been absorbed as the de-
crease of the internal heat increased the
thickness of the crust, until, long before
the cooling process had reached the CEN
ter the water had disappeared. The rock
then solidifying, as the heat supply di-
minished, contracted in o manner re-
sembling the appearance of basalt and
produced the grooves into which the at
mosphere settled. Hence comes the
chaotic appearance Of the moon, with
its immense mountains, volcanos and
craters. Some astronomers have de-
tected an appearance Of action in some
of the volcanoes but the general opinion
is that every vestige of physical life has
long since departed from the surface Of
our satellite.


These theories are all very well when
applied TO our distant neighbor, the
moon; but we cannot shut our eyes to
the startling fact that the earth is under
going a similar process Of transforma-
ton Geologists trace a close resem-
blance between the circles in the moon
and the circles Of granite and porphyry
upon the earth. They have also discoy-
cred evidence of fine qualification
among the lunar mountains, while the
volcanic formations bear a discerRible
analogy TO those Of Teneriffe and Palma.


According to the new theory, the fol-
lowing is the process slowly taking place
on the earth's surface; for she, like her
subordinate, is gradually cooling. 1t is
estimated that one-fftieth Of the original
ocean has been already absorbed, and
that when the crust Of the earth has be-
come one hundred miles in thickness
every drop Of water viii disappear Itis
also estimated that the earth could easily
absorb fifty oceans ike those which nov
cover a large portion Of the surface.


All the water at present on the earth
constitutes one twenty-four thousandth
part Of its weight, and once absorbed
would become iusensible to chemical
analysis. Thewater being absorbed. the
earth will crack open like the moon and
form similar grooves into which the
atmosphere viii settle. Long before this
era ali life viii have ceased
Year: 1870

DR.. Golden "a son of the noted Old Ophthalmie
Doctor, S. G.. Golden) has had experience IN treat
ing the various diseases to which the eye and ear
are subject and feels confident Of giving entire
satisfaction to those who may place themselves
under his care. aprloy4n34tf
Year: 1870

We arc in hourly expectation of an arrival from the Del Pasco lode, Bradshaw District, the own CTS of which have been running their arastras for a long time past, without having reported Of course, we expect ihem to bring in good deal of gold dust when they do come
Year: 1870

A SATISFACTORY FINANCIAL TRANsAC.
TIoN.-A singular financial transaction
occurred in one of the dock offices day
or two since. By some means or other it
happened that the office boy owed one of
the clerks three cents, the clerk owed the
cashier two cents, and the cashier owed
the Office boy two cents. One day last
week the Office boy having a cent in his
pocket, concluded TO diminish his debt,
and therefore handed the nickel over to
the clerk, who in turn, paid half OF his
debt by giving the coin to the cashier
The latter handed the cent back to the
office boy, remarking, Now l only owe
you one cent" The Office boy again pass
ed the cent to the clerk, who passed it to
the cashier, who passed it back to the Of
flee boy. and the latter individual squared
all accounts paying it to the clerk, there.
by discharging his entire debt. Thus it
may be seen how great is the benefit to
be derived from single cent. if only ex-
pended judiciously Express.
Year: 1870

drowned in the gurgling that followed
the tipping of the glass. This was re-
peatcd until the business that called him
there was forgotten, and the barkeeper
refused to give him any more. AS he de-
parted he was heard to make tho now
familiar remark, volunteered indeed to
any one who would give him attention


You see I live down to Jarsey, an
my darter she got married." =


Subsequently, by the kind assistance af
the broker, the goods were obtained and
undoubtedly are now used as the best
meetin' suit of the worthy couple who
live down to Jarsey.
Year: 1870

Two farmers in Kansas recently had
a lawsuit about seven pounds OF butter.
When the jury retired they took with them
the butter, procured some crackers, ate
them together, and returned verdict OF
"No cause for action"
Year: 1870

MAY Ill do not expect anybody to
believe so astounding thing, and yet it
is the solemn truth that instead of in
stantly sending this dangerous lunatic to
tho insane asylum, (Which | naturally
supposed they would do and SO l prema-
turely said they had,) the court has ac-
tually SET HIM AT LIBERTY. Comment Is
unnecessary NJ. Il.
Year: 1870

The New York World is telling some
terrible stories of the wickedness at Wash
ingtOn, in which the professional women
of the lobby and their friends in Congress
are EgHT0HteS. Columns of details are
given but the following Will show what a
lOathsome picture the writer has been
painting:


Among the lobby women in Washing
ton last winter was the daughter Of pres
ent United States Senator, whose father
years ago refused TO let her marry the
man of her choice. She elOped with him;
he deceived her by a mock marriage
he having two other wives, so-called, liv-
ing; he took all her jewels, and even
most of her clothing, and aban-
doued her She went to the bad headlong,
refused all Overtures to return home, and
the father and daughter used to pass one
another in the Capitol a year agO-she a
wanton and he a SenatOr-and never
speak. Nor did either ever betray the
event to any one. He called her dead;
she consented to be dead even to him.


Another Senator's wife, who is an inva-
lid, cannot be unaware, for no one else is,
that her husband has stocked no less than
six ofhls mistFesses on the civil service
as clerks, and thaShe ADDS to the number
every session.


Another Senator, Southwestern car
petba2ger, foisted his mistress on the
Treasury Department last year, and was
influential enough to have her salary con-
tinued while he sent her on to New York
to undergo an abortion She died. The
Senator himself drew the arrears of pay
ostensibly FOR the mother of the murdered
woman, who has yet to see the first cent
of IL.


Another honorable, this time of the
House, was driven out of leading hotel
six years ago for notorious conduct with a
married woman, and that with the consent
of the husband. That husband is now
clerk ofrthat COngressman's committee,
his wife is the Congressman's mistress,
and her son is page on the door. OF the
House, and waits on his mutual fathers
every day.
Year: 1870

NEW YORK, January I2-Several wit
nesses have been summoned by telegraph
from this city to appear before the Bank
ing and Currency Committee, in WASH
ington, to give testimony in regard 20 the
recent gold operations in Wall street. Il
is not probable that the Committee viii
hold another session in this city. but they
express their intention TO fully investi-
gate the matter. and to discover if any
Government officers were concerned
therein.
Year: 1870

A SINISTER went to a well-known
lawyer and engaged hin to manage 4
suit for her. In which she claimed a
legacy, to which her right was disput-
ed. The Suit was lost, aud the poor
maiden said to the lawyer: "How
can ever repay you for all the time
and trouble which you have taken Oh
nv account? I have nothing but my
heart'to give you" MY clerk takes
the 6ees-go to him, answered the
lawyer gruffly.
Year: 1870

The week opens upon money market abundantly ann.
Piled with loanabe funds with per cent as the ruling
rate on call, with Governments, and other approved
stock collateral. Late in the day the leading bond
houses were freely accommodated at per cent Tho
movement OF currency, though unmportsnt AZ rule In
generally In favor OF the city banks, some small remit
tances being reported from the principal money oentes
OF the West Exchange at New rules strongly in
favor OF New York, which IL calculated to inspre coma
dencc in the future Of money. Discounts aro
steady commercial acceptances moving on the oasis OF
the following rates.
Year: 1870

1t is a good thing to be able to remem-
ber, but it ia no less dasisable to be able
to forgot. Happiest among men is he
whose will exercises the strongest con-
troll over his memory, for he can bury
cares in oblivion, and record the pleas
ant incidents OF his life where "every
day he turns the leaf to read them"
Some men can remember nothing Theirs
Is great misfortune, fer experience is
Of no use to them. They in darkness,
mines tha lamp by which wiser feet ere
guiding, and OF ceurss stumble ca they
go. There are others whose vile forte it
is to remember pleasurably all that good
men strive to dismiss from their recol-
lection. Their minds are like filters,
which permit that which is pure and
oxcellont to run through them, but re-
tain whatever is coarse and no1ious.-
Their fund Of immoral Information is in
exhaustible but of facts which illustrate
the best traits OF human nature, or the
wisdom and henevolence Gifts Author,
their memories are bare. There Is large
class that cannot remember benefits
another that never forgets wrongs. In
short, the specialties of memory and of
forgetfulneSs are manifold.
Year: 1870

| President Grants Pledge for Govern.
mental Economy.


On Saturday last Hon. Henry L.
Dawes addressed a Republican meeting
at Nashua, New Hampshire On the
subject of the economy of the Admins
tration he said:


Now what is the promise for the fu.
ture? What is the prospect on the
question of public expenditures for next
year? Upon that point I propose to
speak plainly-as you can find [ have
spoken plainly elsewhere. [Applause.
1t is true that the bureau officers of the
several departments-and, by-the-by,
more than half of them have been in
herited from the last Administration
in making their estimates for appropri-
ations for the next year, asked too
much. When these appropriations came
to be all aggregated, to be sent to the
House, the whole amount was alarm
ingly too much, and L took the liberty
to tell the men responsible for it that it
was too much [appiause]; and, gentle
men, if you want any assurance that for
the coming year, or for the remaining
years of this Administration as in this
very year, that there will be ne tenden-
cy upward, but rather downward, you
will find it in the answer which the
whole people made demanding that
those appropriations for the next year
should not be laI ger than the appropri-
ations for this year, and in the unanim-
ity in the Executive branch of the Gov
ernment and in Congress, in the work
they have been applying theselves to,
in cutting down the appropriations for
the coming year. There is no division.
There is an earnest, conscientious effort
in all branches of the Government to
see to it that there shall not be dollar
more appropriated for the next year
than for this. TApplause. I was charged
yesterday afternoon by the President
himself with this message to the people
of New Hampshire loud applausel
when | told him that 1 was coming
here. He told me to assure the people
of New Hampshire that this exhibit 1
have made here of the successful collec-
tion, and the economical expenditure of
money during the present year, is an
earnest and pledge of what it shall be
in the year to come. Great applause.
Tell the people of New Hampshire that
during my administration there shall
be no ascending scale of public expendi-
tures[deafening applause], but when
ever and wherever the closest scrutiny
shall disclose the possibility of cutting
off dollar it shall be done. loud and
continued applause.
Year: 1870

THE WORTH OF GREENBACKs.-Tne New
York Evening Post. in view of the fact that
nearly one thousand millions of our bonds are
held abroad, and the steadily appreciating vol
ume of our paper currency, in direct proPor-
tion to the determination shown by the Gov
ernment honestly to redeem its entire tndebt-
edness in rea! money, gives a statistical table
of the fluctuations in the value OF the green
back since 1851, from which we abstract the
following:
Year: 1870




TAKES ibis method of informing the Ladies
i of ST. CLAIRSVILLE, and Vicinity, that
she is engaged in the Dress Making BUSINESS,
and is prepared to do all kinds of work in that
line on reasonable terms. She may be found
at the East end of Town in the House owned by
Thomas Parker. noll-5m
Year: 1870

The political matters of France are
growing interesting. a ministerial crisis
seems to be a foregone conclusion. The
proposed constitutional reforms initiated
by the Emperor materially circumscrib-
ing the hitherto almost absolute powers
of the Senate, reducing that body to a
legislative standing similar to the United
States Senate or the Esglish House of
Lords, are Objectionable to but few but
his policy of submitting to the popular
vote these reforms, therefore obtaining a
ratification of them from the representa-
tives of the nation, and his decided refusal
to make any concessions to the demands
# the Chamber of Deputies on this point,
has aroused bitter feeling of opposi-
ton in these bodies, and may result in
serious disruption of the cabinet


In addition to this political fermenta-
ton, financial panic seemed imminent
at one time, consequent on the rumor
that the Emperor had received an injury
in falling from his horse; which proved
to be unfounded, and was purposely mag
nified by spectators at Bourse. Thus it
would seem that news of an important
character may be expected from the
French nation; and yet the tickle charac-
ter of the French people leave no oppor-
tunity to found any reliable predictions
~ to what day may bring forth
Year: 1870

BE MODEST AND SENsIBLE.-Do not
be above your business no matter what
that calling may be, but strive to be the
best in that line. He who turns up his
nose at his work, quarrels with his bread
and butter. He is poor smith who quar-
rels with his own sparks there's no
shame about any honest calling don't
be afraid of soiling your hnnds, there is
plenty of soap to be had.


All trades are good to traders. You
cannot get honey if you are frightened at
bees, nor plant corn if You are afraid of
getting mud on your boots. When you
can dig fields with tooth-picks, blow ships
along with fans, and grow plumcakes in
flowerpots, then it will be fine time for
the dandies. Above all things avoid lazi-
ness. There is plenty to do in this world
for every pair of hands placed on it, and
we must so work that the world will be
the richer because of our having lived in
IL