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Year: 1870

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE REPORT. Tho
annual report Of the Police Commissioners is
published in full in another column. 1t is in
the main o somewhat satisfactory exhibit.
The force, it states is insufficient for the work,
there being only one officer TO every five
hundred inhabitants in this city, and to every
thousand in Brooklyn. The total number OF
arrests during the year in this city was ~ 9S4,
the Sunday clause of the Excise law exercis-
ing salutary influence in the matter OF
drunkenness on Sunday.
Year: 1870

THE CHINESE MISSION -Ex- Governor Low
Is on his way to New York from Washington,
and next Saturday will start by rail to San
Francisco. On the first of next month he will
sail for Shanghae to assume his duties IS
United States Minister in China. He has
received full instructions TO carry out faith
fully the provisions of the Buriingame treaty,
and especially to be prompt and firm on the
question of protecting American citizens and
property in the Celestial empire.
Year: 1870

larry situated would not hesitate moment to
seize such an opportunity as Cuba presents to
promote its interests and to Increase its power


and grandeur. II the President cannot COM
prehend what is our national policy with re-
gard to Cuba, it is to be hoped Congress will.
Year: 1870

AIIzoNA.-Governor Stafford, Of Arizona,
who is on his way to Washington, gave our
reporter yesterday his views in regard to the
mode Of dealing with the hostile Indians in that
country. 1t seems the Apaches, who number
twenty thousand, overrun the Territory, and
are Of the old treacherous stripe of savages
who hold to the torture and the stake in
dealing with their captives, and have not been
demoralized into civilization and peacefulncss
by bad whiskey. The military force in the
Territory is about one thousand five hundred
men, and is, Of course, wholly inadequate.
Governor Stafford suggests that more cavalry
be sent to the Territory, or that volunteers
from among the miners and farm,A be allowed
to take the field.
Year: 1870

Spain is once again in what we might call
agony For year and a half nearly she has
been before the world in . revolutionary
character. During that time we have had no
end of promise and failures abundant. There
were those who hailed the revolution which
sent Isabella adrift with high enthusiasm.
There were others who regarded 1t as the
believed in Spain. Some pronounced Spain
hopelessly incurable. II Is not our habit to
follow the prophet Of evil tidings. We were
willing to give Spain chance. Now, how
ever, that we have had this protracted expert
ence Of Spanish incompetency now that we
have seen Spain going about for year all
over Europe and vainly begging a king, and
with the facts of the hour before us, we must
admit that Buckles view Of Spain Is the
correct one. Spain, according to that great
writer, has been so long stepped in ignorance
and misery that there is no hope Of any
immediate resurrection. Since the days of
Charles the Fifth and Philip the Second Spain
has bsen going backward year by year. The
resurrection must be equally slow. 1t is now
rumored that Serrano will be invested with the
sovereign power. 1t is said also that the
Cortes are unwilling to adopt this extreme
course Meanwhile it is fact that Prim has
failed The refusal Of Italy to allow the Duke
Of Genoa to become candidate for the
Spanish throne made Prims resignation q
necessity. 1t is also fact that the partsans
of Montpensier have become more active than
ever. If it be true that Topete has expressed
his willingness to take Office the star Of
Montpensier is fairly in the ascendant. The
real question now is whether Prim can do any
thing. The secondary question is, what will he
do? The crisis is such that moments may
work wondrous changes, and an extraordinary
reaction be heard Of at any moment from
Madrid.
Year: 1870

THE COUNTERFEIT SwINpLERs-Judge Bed
ford has done another good thing for which
yesterday sentenced David II. Smythe, one OF
the notorious counterfeit swindlers Of the city
who carry on business by tempting their GUS
toners to invest in what they claim to be
excellent limitations Of the genuine currency,
and then to save themselves from the law
hold back the counterfeits and palm off on
their unwitting confederate a mass of waste
paper. They arc generally secure in their
rascality, because their victim cannot COM
plain without duplicating himself. But yester-
day Judge Bedford caught one of these sinners
on tho hip and sent him up for five years,
amid applause in all parts OF the court room.
Year: 1870

CONFESSION or BUoKHouT. .-Buckhout the
murderer of his wife and Mr.. Kendall, in West
chester, made a confession yesterday while
partially under the influence of chloroform,
administered to him to test the truth Of his
pretended insanity. He says he killed his wife
because she was unfaithful to him, and he does
not know why he killed Kendall. AS so many
cases Of this kind occur in which o plea Of
insanity is entered, the success of this expert
ment by chloroform is a matter of congratula-
tion. Hereafter, when murderer pleads
insanity, put him under the influence Of chic
roform, and if he proves his insanity in that
way send him to the insane asylum.
Year: 1870

OiFC9st JuuSOs


Without seeking to disparagein the
least the eminent qualifications of
other gentlemen named for the Of
flee, the object of this notice is. to
call attention of voters to the eminent
qualifications possessed, also, by
Judge MASON, of Cannelton. A gen.
tleman of a judicial mind. genial
manners, fine personal presence, of
the most unquestionable integrity and
purity of private life and morals.
his election could not fail to be
acceptable to men of both parties. A
firm and consistent Republican ever
since the birth of the party, and its
staunch supporter through all its
DAYS of cloud and sunshine, vet he
has proved by his course as Judge,
while on the Common Pleas bench,
that his mind is never biased in the
administration of justice between man
and man, by any spirit OF party feel
ing.


Should the Republican party be
fortunate enough at the next election
TO elect for one term, Judge for the
Circuit Court having these qualihca-
tions, the probabilities are, that the
Democratic party would return the
compliment of the Republicans in
1866, and would not oppose his re-
| election for another term.


It is therefore submitted, that un-
der the we'll known and undisputed
facts concerning his qualifications
that it would be the part of wisdom
for the party to carry upon It's next
ticket, as its candidate for Circuit
Judge the pane of the Hon. CHAs,
III. MASON, OF CHAMELEON.
Year: 1870

Is placed a spring having tooth at the bin


der END, which tooth, when in its normal


position, drops into a recess in the upper


part OF the rear end Of the breech bolt and


prevents the latter from being drawn back


wards until it is released by the spring be-
ing lifted upwards.


In a second improvement instead Of fas-
tening down the barrels by means of the or
binary lump and grip or bolt, the inventor
makes on the face of the breech ends Of
the barrels, and between the barrels, a pro
Jectlng piece or lump, and also makes in
the face Of the break off a vertical slot, into
which the said projecting piece or lump fits !;
when the barrels are shut down against the
face Of the break off. He fastens down the
tArrels by means of mechanism constructed
as follows: In the break off of the gun
he makes vertical tubular chamber, into
which the vertical slot in the face Of the
break off opens. In this chamber vertical
grip is fitted and turns. The vertical grip
consists Of a cylindrical block Of metal, the
middle parts Of which is Of greater diane
ter than the parts above and below it.


A third device of this kind consists in
the construction and employment Of plug
or rod with two heads within a tube: see
ondly, in the construction and employment
Of tube for containing coiled spring, and
to serve as guide for the closing bolt to
slide upon; thirdly, in the employment Of
the double lever provided with pin. and
acted upon by trigger: fourthly, n the
of forked lever, caused to act
automatically to eject the empty cartridge
case On opening the breech; filthy, in the
Of disk with a projecting
thumb piece and with portion of the edge
cut away, for retaining the arm at full cock,
Or for freeing it, ready for the discharge.


The details Of these inventions are per
haps too meager to give a very clear idea Of
them, but they indicate activity in this field
Of invention, based upon the now demon
stratcd fact that, for future warfare, muzzle
loading small arms are to be universally
by breech-loaders.


Another inventor has patented and pro
poses to introduces as an improvement in
vehicles for paints, composition made by
alcohol, shellac, and vegetable
Ill (by preference castor oi) together, and
hen mixing this vehicle or composition
With white lead Or other pigments to form
paint. The proportions are about eight
parts of alcohol, two parts of shellae, and
one part Of vegetable oil these are to be
to gentle heat, and stirred until
he shellac il dissolved lie claims that
paint made with this vehicle is irodOrous,
lries very quickly, and is not liable to
rack or blister by exposure to heat.
Year: 1870

\ recent number of the White Pine NelrS
contains a fur her confirmation of the sup
position that the dry land Of the Rocky
Mountains was once the bottom Of the sea.
1t says:


About 100 miles to the southeast Of
Hamilton is high plateau Of land contain
ing an extensive deposit Of marine shells,
and the fossil remains of a large variety of
extinct species Of fish But the curiosity
which most challenges the interest and in
vestigation Of antiquaries is the petriied
form Of what was once an immenss sea
monster. 1t lies on a light plateau in a
position giving rise to theory that its locale
was once a great shOal, and that the ante
diluvlan leyiathan houndered and perished
on its surface as the water receded. The
petridcation is perfect, and is estimated to
weigh about ten tons, 1t presents a dual
appearance-the head and body that Of a
| humpback whale, and the extremities ex-
tended into feelers and antenne ike the
| polypus or devil fish, with the exception
that they wera evidently during the life
lined with hard and honey substance.


'The eyes are set in each side of the
head, which is flat and oblong, and arc
twenty-inches apart The mouth is armed
with triple rows Of teeth, sharp in front, buI
underneath and well into the jaws are turned
to grinders, capped by solid osseous for


nation, running back from the widest por
} ton Of the head. In this respect it re
sembles the celebrated marsh COW of Centra
America, amphibious in habitat-gramni


verous on land, and carniverous in water
THE length Of this singular relic Of an III
Year: 1870

LIQUID GLUE.-Dissolve one pound OF
the best glue in one pound of water add,
gradually, one ounce of nitric aciG, and heat
the mixture for a short time This will
save the trouble Of heating the glue pot
=CINSAMoN BIscUlTs.-Half a pound Of
dry flour, one pound of lump sugar finely
shifted, one pound Of butter, powdered
cinnamon to Judgment. The whole to be
mixed with glass of brandy or rum, then
rolled over thin, and baked in a quick
oven.


PoTATo FRTTERs. - Take seventeen
largd-sized Mercer potatoes, CRATE them
finely when all are grated, add three eggs,
three tablespoonful of flour, and one table
spoonful Of salt mix it well. Drop into
bot lard or butter, and bake until done.


OCuRA AND TOMATOES Take an equal
quantity Of each, slice the former ana skin
the latter put into pan without water,
adding a lump of butter and onion chopped
fine, some pepper and salt and stew them
one hour.


CoCoANUr RoCK-Three pounds Of loaf
sugar, the meat Of two cocoanuts, and the
milk af one. Chop up the cocoanut rery
fine boil the sugar alone, first until i will
crystallize On plate then add the nut anil
the milk, and boil TIL it hardens when
dropped on a plate.


CLEANING Room FURNITURE, &c
Make your whitcwash IN the ordinary way,
and put into it twenty cents worth Of
chloride Of lime. This will purify the walls.
For the furniture, make a suds, and put in
ten cents worth of the lime. as above, and
wash with It. When the furniture il .
fectly dry, put on a coat Of varnish. 70
cleanse clothing, make a suds as above with
chloride according % the quantity Of articles
to Be cleansed; boil them, and drop in
twenty drops Of spirits Of turpentine. This
process will prove ample for cleansing and
rendering the rooms and clothing sweet.
Year: 1870

al told you Lewis, when ] last broke
off my history, that left the verses on the
table for the eye of my Catherine !
doubted not that would devise some plan
Of matchlsss wisdom, and that, with th
Year: 1870

The members of this Commission are not
pleased with the language used toward them In certain
journal and say that the cry OF fraud raised Will
not ALLEVIATE from them the support of the citizens Of o
boken who have long desired local improvements The
Drainage Commissioners appointed under an act OF
the Legislature passed In 1866 and since their Inaugural


on they have perfected works OF great expense
and equal utility The cost Of the sewers was III some
cases greater than the property anticipated ana
took steps 10 have the operations of the Board lnVes
gated The works were 1t is admitted, expensive but
no responsible person. IL is said made spechc charges
of INSTRUMENTATION Of funds The investigation is not
vet concluded. Many Of the most respectable wealthy,
and influential citizens OF HObokcn were members OF inc
commission Their terms OF office expired with the com
mencement OF the year, and resignation was made as
was stated for the purpose OF escaping the consequences
OF their acts.
Year: 1870

| A ROMANTIC STORY At the commence.


ment of the present century young man made


appearance IN Stratford. Con-, aud spent few


weeks at the tavern which then existed to af-


ford shelter to stage-coach travellers. Whence


he came, and what his business. none could


guess. Directly opposite stood the small cot


tage and forge of blacksmith named Folsom.


He had daughter who was the beauty of the


village, and it was her fortune to captivate the


heart of the stranger. He told his love, said


that he was from Scotland, that he was travel


ling incog., but in confidence gave her his real


name, claiming that he was heir to large for


tune. She returned his love and they were


married. A few weeks thereafter the stranger


told his wife he must 60 to New Orleans; he


did so; and the gossips of the town made tho
young wife unhappy by disagreeabe hints and
jeers. In few months the husband returned,
but before week had elapsed he received
large budget of letters aud told his wife that
he must at once return to England, and must
60 alone. He took his departure, and the gos-
sips had another glorious opportunity to make
contiding woman wretched To all but her.
self it was clear case of desertion; the wife
became q mother, and for two years lived on
in silence and in hope At the end of that time
letter was received by the Stratford beauty
from her husband, directing her to 60 at once
to New York with her child, taking nothing
but the clothes she wore, and embark in ship
for her home in England. On her arrival in
New York she found ship splendidly furnished
with every convenience and luxury for her
comfort, and two servants ready to obey every
wish that she might express. The ship duly
arrived IN England and the Stratford girl be-
came the mistress Of superb mansion, and,
as the wife of a baronet, was saluted by the
aristocracy as Lady Samuel Stirling. On the
death of her husband, many years ago, the
Stratford boy succeeded to the title and wealth
of his father, and the last edition of the "Peer
age and Baronetage" speaks of him as the "is-
sue of Miss Folsom, Of Stratford. North Amer.
ica." When the late Professor Silliman visited
England some years since, he had the pleasure
of meeting Lady Sterling at o dinner party,
and was delighted to answer her many .ques-
tons about her birth. place in Connecticut
The Nation. .hati 'Al fa9ls.asos fas bnaoa 3a
Year: 1870

BURIAL OF THE DEAD.-It has always
seemed singular to Us that we should hand
over our dead in the hands Of strangers We
. nurse and watch over them with the vigilance
and devotion Of love uotil the breath is gone
and the eye is set in death, and then we give
them into the care of others, almost hire
strangers to weep for us over our dead. Now,
this is not right. Could anything be more 10
place, look more beautiful, than that children
should bear dear father or beloved mother
to the grave? When We could not walk, !, and
our feet stumbled, and our knees were weak
they lifted US up and bore us tenderiy in'their
strong arms and Oh their beating bosoms, and
nesting up our tired feet and hands, they sang
US to sleep and laid us to rest in the old cradle


And now that they can wa X no more, and
their feet are soro, and they have fallen by the
way, with their quiet, tired faces turned up TO
US in the solemn patience of parental love, why
shall we not take them up in our strong arms
and bear them patiently aud lovingly down to
the graves side, and nestle them away to rest
in its bed under the old oak tree. even though
our hearts are too full fer song. .72 E'.@'
Year: 1870

The METHODIST Book CONCERN IRREGr


LAIITIEs--The Methodist of this week in call
ing attention to the second meeting of the Book
Committee. denounces their report of NOyem-
Der last as having proved unsatisfactory to
themselves, the Church, and the country and
presents. in substance, the following points for
the consideration of that committee II That
although serious loss may not have resulted
therefrOm, the system of the Book Concern in
buying paper was in itself disreputable, il being
impossible TO sell the Concern paper excey't
through the assistant agents son, who resold il
TO the Concern, and for this the agents are
responsible. ? That the statement that paper
could be purchased IN this way without serious
loss II absurd, and that in fact Mr. Porter made


IN one year. about SO, 900 in this way out of the
Concern 3. That the committee should not, as
they did before, permit themselves to come
under the blasting influence of any one who
chose TO work upon them. ith. That il was an
error TO expect any result from an Investigation
The spirit of which seems to have been in favor
OF covering up past Irregularities by making
provision against them in future. Finally the
Methodist states that the Church expects the
Book Committee TO examine ii the irregularities
are or are not symptoms of a general state of
disorder into which the Concern NAV have
fallen, TO express the Churchs censure OF any
Nrons doing or neglect that NAV appear, and to
give Their hearty support to every effort made
10 Orlns the Concern into right condition.
Year: 1870

pleasure. By lifting the foot of the crib the legs drop down through hollow posts, and are fasten- with the Bessesd Ths aaa nrocesa M w;sb eHe the the head. The head and foot boards are folded down over the mattress when not in use. The Crib can contain the bed made up for use when

 when closed in. Each bedstead can have a single
Year: 1870

The Louisiana Savings Bank is
building a large vault. Admission
to tits gained through large wrought
iron doors, to which are affixed pat
ent locks. These locks were put in
order by blacksmith named Tympe.
After arranging the fastenings on
the door he lit candle and proceed
ed inside the vault to see how they
fit. Closing the door after him the
eccentric catch of the lock fell, lock-
ing him in. Those upon the outside
could render no assistance, since it
was combination lock, and no one
knew the numbers at which it was
set. In this narrow cell, shut in by
the four walls of the vault and the
huge iron door, the man felt as if
he was buried alive. The only
means by which he could obtain air
or drink was through small hole
in the door, not the twentieth of an
inch in diameter. The atmosphere
of the cell-like place was fetid and
noisome, and the man felt as if he
would suffocate. Fortunately he
had carried with him into the vault
hammer and chisel, and with them,
the only instruments he had, he
proceeded tc,cut his way out. The
work was slow and tedious, and re-
quired two hours half of incessant
labor. He succeeded at last, how
ever, and was taken more dead than
alive from the vault. The wonder
is that he did not sufrocate.-N. O.
Pieayene. !
Year: 1870

Agriculture corresponds to that
degree of exercise which is the best


preservative of health. 1t requires


no hurtful fatigue, ON one hand, nor
indulges, on the other, Incidence,


still more hurtful. During a throng
of work, the diligent farmer will


sometimes be early and late in the
field; but this is no hardship upon an
active spirit.


Agriculture is equally salutary to
the mind. In the management of a


farm, constant attention is required
to the soil, to the season, and to diff
ferent operations. A gentleman
thus occupied becomes daily made
active, and is daily gathering knowl-
edge; as his mind is never suffered
to languish, he is secure against the
disease of low spirits.


But what 1 chiefly insist on is,
that, laying aside irregular appetites
and ambitious views, agriculture is
of all occupations the most conson-
ant to our nature; and the most pro
ductive of contentment, the sweetest
sort Of happiness. In the first
place, it requires that moderate de-
gree of exercise, which corresponds
the most to the ordinary succession
of our perceptions. Fox hunting
produces a succession too rapid;
angling produces a succession too
slow. Agriculture corresponds not
only more to the ordinary succession
but has the following signal proper
ty, that a farmer can direct his
operations with that degree of
quickness and variety which is
agreeable to his own train of per-
ceptions.


The hopes and fears that attend
agriculture keep the mind always
awake in an enlivening degree of
agitation. Hope never approaches
certainty so near as to produce Sc
curity, nor is fear ever so great as
to create deep anxiety and distress.
Hence it is that gentleman farmer,
tolerably skillful, never tires of his
work, but is as keen the last mo-
ment as the first. Can any other
employment compare with farming
in that respect? No other occupa-
ton rivals agriculture in connecting
private interest with that of the pub
lie.


Every gentleman farmer must of
course be patriot; for patriotism,
like other virtues, is improved and
fortified by exercise. In fact, if
there be any remaining patriotism
in nation, it is found among that
class of men.
Year: 1870

Take the juice and rind of one
lemon, one cup of sugar, the yolks
of three eggs, one teaspoonful of
butter and sufficient milk to fill the
plate; bake in a rich paste; beat the
whites of the three eggs to a stiff
froth, with two tablespoonfuls of
powdered sugar; spread over the pie
when a little cool, replace in the oven
and brown slightly. This makes a
most delicious pie.
Year: 1870

The newest thing for combining re-
ligion and fashion is announced by o
manufacturer of hoop skirts, which is
nothing less than patent hoop skirt
to be worn when kneeling in devotion
al exercises. They are made 80 there
is no fitting up. A woman can keep
her mind on her business, and not be
wondering if the men on the seat back
are looking at her.
Year: 1870

Two fashionable young ladies of
Hartford have been laid up for repairs,
from wearing high-heeled shoes, and
the doctor thinks he has got job that
will last him year, to straighten out
their little toes. One Of the girls was
to have been married soon, but the GER
emony will have to be performed sit
ting down, if at all, as she can't stand
on her feet. You ought to hear her
intended swear.
Year: 1870

A revival at Augusta, Wis, has had
such an effect on the people that they
all get right down and pray every time
the whistle Of the steam saw mill blows
They do praying enough for a town the
size Of Chicago, and there are only
about 300 inhabitants.
Year: 1870

At Savannah, Ga, and Montgomery,
Ala, buck niggers have been appoint
ed to take the census. The one al
Montgomery can't make a figure OF
write o word 10 save his black skin,
and will have to employ one Of the in
ferior white race to do his work for
him