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Year: 1870

TIE ONO DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION as
sembed last week and made a platform. They
would abolish the internal revenue system


They would have the national bank system
wiped out at once, and Treasury notes used for
circulation. They are imperative that the
bonds should be taxed, and pledge themselves
to work for the repeal of the act to enforce the
fifteenth amendment. They are for free trade.
the importation and citizenship OF Chinese de-
structlon of the banks and repeal of the consti-
tuticnal amendment. The balance is chiefly
buneombe. There is nothing about white
mans party and it is fair to presume that
they will not reject the negro vote 1t would
be hardly fair in them to do so. They granted
mulattoos the franchise a number of wears ago.
and now they think it is desirable to import as
many Chinese as possible, and give them the
ballot. We fear our Democratic cotempora-
rles will not discern the true ring" in all this
Year: 1870

PEACHES are falling from the trees and rot
ting rapidly in many orchards. and among
certain varieties. The Hale's Early are rot
ting so rapidly that there will be none left to
ripcn in many. orchards, it is feared. The wet
weather is assigned as the cause.
Year: 1870

Many years ago, before the advent of
railroads in Eastern Maine, it was, the
custom of country clergymen, in addition
to their pastoral duties, to take occasional
missionary tours, preaching the gospel in
destitute places. They usually travelled
with their own team, stopping wherever
the night overlook them, gathering such
congregations as could be called together,
to whom they preached the gospel in the
evenings. Among these occasional timer
ants was a Baptist minister of decidedly
original character, well acquainted with
human nature, and fruitful. in expedients to
accomplish his purpose. On one of his
tours in the dead of winter he drove up to
a country tavern, where refreshments for
man and beast were kept, about the middle
of the day. The weather was intensely
| cold, and a blazing fire was burning in the
fire place, but was completely surrounded
by a company of town loafers, who showed
no disposition to make room for the half
frozen man who had just entered The
minister stood a moment and looked
around so as to take in the situation, then
turning to the tavern-keeper said:


Landlord ] want you to put my horse
in the barn and give him half peck Of
oysters in the she'll" e


"Oysters in the she'll? ?n asked the aston
ished landlord.


Yes, sir, oysters in the she'll"


"But he won't eat them," said the land
lord, still hesitating.


You give them to him and see, replied
the minister.


The landlord started to obey the strange
order, and all the loafers in the room fol-
lowed him to see the result of the expert
ment of feeding horse on oysters in the
shell. Meanwhile the minister quietly
seated himself by the fire and began
warming himself After about five min
utes the tavern keeper returned saying


"Your horse won't eat oysters, and l
knew he wouldn't"


well, l will, then" quietly returned
the clergyman; "bring them in here and
roast them. and give my horse some oats"


just at this time the point of the joke
was apparent, but the minister kept his
seat by the fire, until he was warm, when
he made a hearty meal of the oysters and
departed.
Year: 1870

The Board Of Registrars will also meet


on Saturday the 22d day of October and
continue in session SIX DAYS to add
the names of any persons that may not


heretofore have been Registered Let
not vote be missing on the day of
election.
Year: 1870

BASE BALL.-A youthful game of Base Ball
Iwas played in this city on the 9Th between


the Athletic b. b. Club Of Fort Smith and the
second nine of the Active B. b. G of this place
Which resulted in the defeat of Fort Smith
Year: 1870

t1tt TIT (R-1-tTtI


We call special attention to the bill
which passed the House Of Represent
atives at its last session, brought for
ward by Bingham, from the Judiciary
Committee, to regulate the mode of de-
termining the ratification to an amend>
ment to the Constitution Of the United
States, as an argument in favor Of
our leader of last week on that subject.
BY this bill, if it should become a law,
but under Divine Providence we hope
it never may, the Congress of the Uni
ted States may propose any amend
ment to the Constitution ii sees fit,
even to perpetuate itself in power; re-
fer it to Legislatures then in session,
who had been elected by the people
without any reference to the proposed
amendment, induce them, through con-
siderations of money or promise of fat
Offices, to adopt the proposed amend>
ment instanter, report it to the Secre>
tary of State, who would Immediately
promulgate it as a part and parcel of
the fundamental law of the land, and
if the people should be Unanimously
opposed to it, elect their next Legisla-
lures upon that issue, and should con-
vene them before the requisite number
of States had ratified the amendment,
still they are, by the provisions of this
bill, debarred the privilege of undoing
what the former Legislature had been
purchased to do, their will completely
thwarted, and the people compelled to
submit TO law repugnant to their
cherished institutions and which they
hate IF this be Republicanism then
we have misunderstood it, We say
that so long as the present system pre-
walls, let the people of each State say,
through their Representatives, at any
time before the requisite pumber is OBJ
tanned, whether or not they want an
amendment to pass. No harm can re.
suit from the latter course, while by the
former the people can be completely
cheated out of their rights. We here
place ourselves on the record against
the passage Of the law.


What journalist or public man in Ore
gon favors it ? but let our proposition ol
last week prevail, and then the people
can ruls, as they should, and one more
relic of monarchy will have been Grad
icated from our institutions
Year: 1870

Running newspaper in tho sum
mcr time is very much like, two hun
dred and fifty pound female going
through "Fat mans misery" in the
Mammoth Cave. They got through
out can't tell how.
Year: 1870

The Parkersburg Gazette has new
and handsome outfit. The appearance
of the paper is greatly improved and
as it is edited with ability, the Gazette
becomes an institution for Parkersburg
and Wood county to be proud of. We
are glad to see that prosperity attends
the enterprise of Major COOPER, and
hope he may receive the very liberal
patronage he deserves.
Year: 1870

the EQlDoI6 luo luScAnsohSSA"


The extraordinary efforts that are be-
ing made to prejudice Judge Harrison
with members Of the Legislature, by
whom he is to be tried, demands pass
ing notice.


tits claimed in the Intelligence. that as
he is sure of fair trial in body con.
tanning majority of his political
friends, be ought to waive the notice re-
quired by the Constitution and demand
an immediate trial.


After the extraordinary efforts that
have been made by the press oft city,
and the crowd of personal enemies that
are here from Greenbrier and Monroe to
prejudice the minds of his judges against
him, he does not believe he will have .
| fair trial


Amongst the charges against Judge
Harrison there is one that he required
judicial notice to be published in the
Monroe county Republican. And yet the
law makes it the duty of the Court
to make an order designating the paper
in which judicial notices ofcauses pend
ing in his Court shall be published.
presume every Circuit Judge in the
State has made just such an order. And
this frivolous and absurd charge is
gravely iudorsed by majority of beth
branches of the Legislature, for which
they propose to remove him from Oh
| fee.


This is an indication of the fairness
and impartiality which he has right to
expect at the hands of this Legislature.


ALI the other charges against him are,
when stripped of their denunciatory
verbiage, equally frivolous or false in
fact. The truth is that the Republican
members of the Legislature seem to be
paralyzed by the violence and vehem'
ence of the denunciations of his per-
sonal and political enemies.


Whilst l certainly do not suppose that
any member of the Legislature desires
to do Judge Harrison any injustice, it is
certain that their action thus far indi-
Gates feeling which is not favorable to
fair and impartial consideration of his
case.


AS we are advised and believe, the
only favor which Judge Harrison asks
of the Legislature is that they will pass
the bill now pending, repeating the law
requiring the Governor to fill vacant
judgships for the balance of the unex-
pired term. If they wilido this, we are
informed that, whatever may be the
result of this proceeding, he will send
to the Governor his resignation, to take
effect on the lst day of January next,
be a candidate for reelection and ap.
peal to the people of the 9TH Judicial
Circuit at the next annual election, to
pass upon his character and fitness for
the position.


The people have a right to select their
own judges. They are the only proper
judges of the character and fitness of
those who hold Office by their election.


A REPUBLICAN.
Year: 1870

Ffishtful as are the evils produced by in
temperance, they are vastly aggravated by the
adulteration of liquors with various poisonous
and maddering ingredients. Principal among
these are strychnine and fusil oil, both of
them highly deleterious to the system when
taken in any considerable quantities II is
estimated that there is barely one gallon of
liquor in hundred thousand manufactured
that is not adulterated with these poisons.
To every man who is in the habit of indulg-
ing taste for intoxicating liquors, these facts
ought to address themselves with irresistible
iofce. They also concern the public. 1t
is an unquestionable fact that these adulter-
aicd liquors are potent cause of that GRIM
maj frenzy which breaks out in murder and
other high crimes now becoming so frequent
in our large cities. Our people are not more
incorporate than the English, yet in Scotland
Were great quantities of raw spirits are con-
sumed, homicide is rare crime, and in Eng
land, with her 100000 of inhabitants, there
are said to be fewer murders committed annu-
ally than in the city of New York with pop
ulation of 100000 Society las right to
protect itself against this enemy of social or
der. A more rigid system of rectiflcator
would stop the adulteration ard this would
undoubtedly be great gain. But in the ab
sence of this the Maine laws needs to be KEPT
in active operation, while moral agencies
should not be neglected. 1t is to be feared
that too much reliance has been placed upon
the law for the protection of society from the
evils arising from intemperance. 1t must be
remembered that the law Will accomplish lit
tie good unless backed by public sentiment,
and that this can be kept awake and jealous
only by continual agitation.
Year: 1870

FATAL ACCIDENTAL little after nine last
night man about forty years Of age was
run over and killed by car No los, on the
Rampant street line.


The body was taken to the fifth precinct
police station and the Coroner sent for. A
small amount of money was found on the
body, but nothing that would lead to the
Identification of the man. He was appar-
emily o laborer. The driver OF the car was
arrested and is held for examination.
Year: 1870

Minister Bancroft, at Berlin, has ac-
knowledged the receipt Of several hundred
dollars from the Germans of Wyoming, in
which he says all honor is given by the
people of Berlin to the generous efforts Of
the people of this country in contributing
to the fund for the relief of the widows and
children of Prussiau soldiers who have
fallen in the present war.
Year: 1870

The order for issuing the quarterly pen
sion granted by Congress to Mrs. Mary Lin
coin, tho widow of Abraham Lincoln, was
made at the Pension Office Thursday. The
certificate in this case, instead of being the
ordinary printed form, will be made in the
most elegant chirography which the Pension
Office can furnish, and will be written upon
parchment. The amount of the pension is
three thousand dollars per annum.
Year: 1870

At least one private establishment in this
city had ice cream Sunday, frozen with ice
created in 9 water barrel during the late
cold weather. The ice Sunday was about
twenty inches thick. The barrel was in an
exposed situation.
Year: 1870

The custom OF wearing orange bloss-
oms in the hair by bride upon her we'd
ding day is, in France, a matter of much
pride and importance, inasmuch as it is
q testimonial of purity, not only of the
bride herself, but of integrity and NOR.
ality in the character of her relatives.
In the province of Franche Comte its
adornment is considered sacred right,
obtained by uudoubted character, and as
such proudly maintained. Should any
act of imprudence in early life, imply
ing even suspicion of taint upon the
chastity of the maiden be known, the
use of orange blossoms is forbidden; in
deed, should the female attempt to wear
1t on the occasion of her marriage, she
would be encountered at the church door
by the village lads, violently seized
aud the emblem of purity degradiugly
torn from her hair; nor would
the ceremony be suffered to proceed until
ell trace Of the flower thus profsned had
disappeared from her person. In almost
every village or small town in France
the bride entitled to wear the crown OF
orange blossoms has this beautiful GER
tifcete of her purity either framed or
placed under q glass shade; and it is
religiousIy preserved if possible, even
through generations, as an indisputable
testimonial of undoubted character. The
mother Of a natural child never dsres
assums, not only the orange blossom
crown, but even the white dress and veil,
upon her wedding day, these habiliments
being considered to belong only to the
pure. Should such an attempt be made,
The most bitter ridicule, the most unmer-
eiful sarcasm, would accompany her and
her unfortunate husband to the altar.
Year: 1870

GoNes-None but Cinnamon could
heretofore make gongs to perfection. 1t
used to be supposed that they possessed
the secret of mixing the alloy Of which
the clamorous instruments are formed, or
else some means of tempering the metal
to allow of its being beaten into shape,
and afterwards hardened to sonorous
density. For a genuine gong is brittle,
it vii. crack if struck with hard sub.
stance; and yet it bears hammer-ma
all over it. Whatever he the reason why
American musical instrument makers have
not hitherto supplied gongs, there need no
longer be scarcity in the market, for
French metallurgist has been experiment.
ing upon gong and eymbal metals, and
has revealed the Chinese secret, if secret
it has been. The nature of the alloy has
long been known it consists of eighty
parts of copper to twenty of tin. But the
shaping; attempt to beat this compound
into dish form, and it flies like porcelain.
The trick lies in first heating it, and
hammering it while at dull red heat; it
is then malleaLle as soft mon; allow it to
cool, and it reapses into friability. The
making of gong must be tedious work,
though, for the thin metal will soon cool,
and there must be incessant re-hearings.
a barborians patience must be required
for the task. Perhaps it is the labor thus
spent upon songs that renders them SO
expensive.
Year: 1870

The most recent addition to 'ho history
of the torpedo question and its practical
Development is furnished by some experi-
ments which have lately been carried out
IL Austria with submarine self-propel-
ling torpedo. In appearance this formid'
able weapon is like fish, approximating
to the form of the sword, fish. But, be.
sides a projecting snout, it possesses yer-
teal and two lateral projections. all of
which are triggers, and any one Of which inn
p ging upon an objectwith sufficient force
explodes the machine. 1t has, therefore,
when in operation, four chances of effect


ing its purpose-by h" diect stroke in
'front.' or the oblique from either side, or
the hit above in passing under the bottom
Of any object against which it may be
launched. 1t can lie charged with any
explosive neutrality-suspicious., gun-cot-
ton, dynamite, or nitro-glycerine--and
the explosion can be of such force as to
drive a hole into the strongest iron-clad
sufficient to sink her at once. The most
prominent and important feature in the
invention is the means by which it can be
propelled at any required depth below the
surface of the water When the depth at
which it is to proceed is fixed upon, it can
be driven in a horizontal plane at that
depth, toward any mark, ut a maximum
speed of ten knots an hour. A commits
sion from the United States, consisting of
Admiral Radfood and two officers Of the
United States irigate, Franklin, was
recently engaged in investigating its ma
ture and powers. The torpedo was sent
off from the side Of boat, and after
attaining depth Of some six or eight feet
from the surface, IL kept as nearly as
could be judged the same level, and made
three circuits, of from o,.e hundred to
one hundred and fifty yards each, round
the boat, coming to the surface when it's
propelling power-compressed air--was
exhausted. The water ae Fiume is very
deep and remarkably clear, so that the
monster fish was perfectly defined at the
depth stated. Its course could also be
seen by the bubbles Of air coming to the
surface in its wake at considerable dis
Year: 1870

A characteristic anecdote is told Of
Judge Grier, who lately resigned his seat
on the Supreme Bench. When he was
sitting in Pennsylvania, a cause involving
the title to some land was tried before
him. A blundering jury rsturned an un-
just verdict. As the clerk turned to re.
cord it Judge Grier said: ''Mr. Clerk,
that verdict is set aside by the court. 1t
may as well be understood that in this
State it takes thirteen men to steal mans
farm"
Year: 1870

The only position Of the body which re.
quires no muscular exeration is living. Il
is the proper attitude Of repose, and one
in which feeble strength can be longest
preserved. We may sit in different pos
lures, but in every sitting position tho
muscular organism is taxed more or less.
To sit easily the back must be supported,
for otherwise we have the permanent con.
traction Of the posterior muscles of the
trunk, and are soon fatigued as we may
easily learn by trying to extract comfors
from three legged stool. When seated
on chair, with the back supported, the
muscles are slow to contract, and conse,
quently we are not SO liable to fatigue. If
we want to be comfortable in our sitting
rooms, we should use long chairs in order
that the back and head may be supported.
But if we are bored by disagrceable call,
ers, short>backcd chairs are the proper
articles of furniture in the parlor. For
then we are assured that we bore our
friends while they are doing the best to
bore us, and, possibly the fatigue traced
to contracting muscles will cause them to
cut short their calls. Cushioned chairs.
long, aid So arranged rs to enable one to
adopt recumbent position, must be class
ed among the luxuries of this advanced
age. Reclining in one Of them we ex.
perience little fatigue, since we keep the
muscles from contraction, while the soft
yielding cushion permits an equal distri-
button Of pressure upon all the different
points of the body corresponding to tho
base Of support. ....
Year: 1870




WhAT II Cosrs.-There are many who think
che publication Of a newspaper an inexpensive
affair, and when they toss their morning paper
aside with basty glance and severe criticism,
think little of the cost of labor and money, at
which it was produced, To such we commend
the following extract from the New Yo.k Tri-
buae.


Our single dispatches concerning the battle OF
Gravelotte cost us Notwithstanding the great
reductions in cable tolls) two thousand TWO hun
dred and eighty dollars in gold for the mere
transmission from London to New York. There
were, besides, the costs Of special courier from
the battlefield through Alsaee, Rhenish Prussia,
Belgium, and thence 10 Londop and the pay of
the correspondent himself Ia singulary capable
and experienced journalist, recently engaged on
the Tritune,) together with body of no less
than FIVE assistants in that army alone. We
mention the facts in no spirit of boasting, but
simply to crafty a natural curiosity, expressed
in nnumerabe inquiries, and TO show what
rapid strides this more than imperial city is TAX
ing toward becoming, at whatever cost the cen
tire OF the world news we'll as the world S
trade
Year: 1870

San FRANcIsco, October, lst, 1870.


AURORA BoREALIs.


All San Francisco turned out on Saturday
Night to gaze at the beautiful and unusual spec
tacle Of an Aurora Borealis. Flashes of red, yell
low, green and blended colors, shot across the
sky in every direction, while luminous masses,
tossed and rolled from North to North East and
North West like fiery mist. 1t was a grand
and sublime phenomenon and impressed the
minds of. those who saw it with momentary
solemnity that am afraid, interfered somewhat
with the receipts Of the saloon keepers. OF
course prophets were plenty, who predicted that
it was an omen for all kinds of dire calamity
Some read it as a sign of war and pestilence,
others as pressage of food and famine, but the
majority Of the supcrstitious viewed it as a warn
ing Of coming earthquakes, so that If we do have
gentle vibration any time within the next two
months, any quantity of g. told you SOS" will
plume themselves in their prophetic wisdom


NATIONAL cBIvALRY.


If " 1t is a goodly thing for brethren to dwell
in unity" lit is so long since read the book con-
tanning the passage that I may misquote) as one
of the contributors of the New Testament says,
it must be much goodier thing for enemies to
live together in charity. Since the commence
ment of the European war; our French and Ger
man residents have We'd in showing each other
a gentle courtesy in both business transactions
and social life, that is worthy of all praise.
Many Of the French patronized the late German
Fair and now the Germans reeiprotate by spend
ing their money freely with their national foes
| at the Pavilion. Patriotism and charity have
gone hand in hand, and patriotism has not suf-
fered by the partnership There is such a true
chivalry in thus meeting on neutral ground for
the relief of the sufferers by common calam-
ity, that it almost makes me believe that the civ
lizaton we hear much of, is really doing
something to eayen the world with humanity,
and that, Notwithstanding the present storm of
battle, the time may come when wars shall cease
forever.
Year: 1870

utatiOn aleviaor of pain and preserver of heal
1t has become household remedy from the fact that it
gives immediate and permanent relief 1t is purely veg
cabe preparaton made from the best and pues
safe to keep and to use in every family 1t is recommended
by physicians and of all classes and today after
public trial of thirty years-the tverage life of man-it
stands unriveled and unexceled spreading its usefulness
over the wide world Its large and ncreaing affords
positive evidence Of its enduring fame We do deem it
necessary to say much in its favor sma bottle will
do to convince you its efficacy than the
tisements in the world Give it fair trial you would
not be without it for ten times its cost.


Directions accompany each bottle.


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filce 20 CTS 50 cts. and 81 per bottle oct. IL m.