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Year: 1876

A good cook is not one who uses the most
and richest ingredients. regardless of the ex-
pense; but she who studies economy, and
is able to concoct a delicious meal from
scanty materials.


To be successful housekeeper, woman
requires as much system and tact as she
would to carry on any other business. 1t is
in this particular that SO many Of our for
eign help prove unsatisfactory
Washington Pie. Three fresh eggs, well
beaten; one and a half teacups of sugar
added and well beaten; one teacup Of flour.
with one teaspoonful Of cream tartar rubbed
in; half teacupful Of cold water with half
teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it, another
teacupful of flour, one and halt teaspoon
fuls OF lemon flayoring. Bake in two ielly-
cake tins.


Strawberry Fa7it-Jxice.-C Cover the berries
with an equal measure Of water or less ac-
cording to the flavor of the fruit, boil in 4
porcelain lined kettle for five minutes or
more, if the fruit is quite firm, and then lay
on hair seive to drain; return the Juice to
the kettle, sweeten if desired, and use for d
dressing to mushes and cereal puddings; If
convenient, add little pine apple fruit Juice,
not the extract, but the genuine article,
squeezed from the fruit under your own
supervision, so that there can be no mistake
about it. The above mode of preparation
will answer for the juices of many other
kinds OF fruit, such as cherries, raspberries
and whortleberries. These may be mingled
more or less, and they will also bear tile
addition of currant juice. Altogether tile
preparation of these juices gives Inc scope
to taste. They may be preserved by canning.


Chocolate Cahe-Here is an excellent recine
which never fails if followed by rule: II
cups OF sugar, cup sweet milk, 2 table
spoonfllls melted butter, 2 teaspoons cream
tartar, teaspoon soda, pint of flour, the
whites of eggs, bake as jelly cake. Frost
ing for inside-whites of Il eggs, beat to a
froth, and add cup of sugar, cup OF graf
ed chocolate, flavor with vanilla. Frostinn
for outside cup of grated chocolate, |
cup brown sugar, wine glas water, boil
until it will harden in water.


Chocolate Marble Cake.-One cupful of
butter, two cupfuls of sugar, one of. sweet
milk, three of flour; whites of five eggs:
two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar and one of
Soda Take one teacupful of the latter and
and stir into it one large spoonful of grated
chocolate, wet with small tablespoonful of
milk, fill cake dish about one inch deep
with the white batter, then drop in two or
three places spoonful OF the dark mixture;
continue this until the batter is all used.
Year: 1876

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR


The ROCKY MOUNTAIN HUsBANDMAN is designed
to be, as the name Indicates husbandman in every
sense of the term, embracing in its columns eyery
department OF Agriculture, Stock-raising. Horti-
Year: 1876

s d. A. Williams has sold his interest In the
Cottage Photograph Gallery TO Mr.. j. @.
Tucker. The business will be conducted as
usual at the old stand, near the corner of
First and Spring streets. All work done at
this place is OF the latest style and superior
finish. All bills due the old firm will be paid
to the new firm. jan4-lw
Year: 1876

He looked like q Prince, or q retired
Major General, as he stepped out of
the Bazaar, corner of Main and Re-
quena streets, opposite the U. S. Ho-
tel, with new black beaver suit,
which he had just paid $lS for, and as
he walked down Main street the eye
of envy was oh him, and numerous
were the inquiries of where he had
that splendid fitting suit made; and
astonishment was depicted on every
countenance as he answered that it
came from the Bazaar, and he had
only paid SIS for it. There are few
more left, so hurry up and get one be-
fore they are all gone. decll-lm
Year: 1876

SCHNEIDER, of the International Boot
and Shoe store, So Main street, under
stands his business so we'll that it is
only necessary for him to look at a
person to tell exactly what he or she
wants, and he always mas the exact
article and 1t is sure to fit to perfec-
ton. There is nothing in his line
that can be called for but what he can
produce, for he keeps on hand n stock
which comprises every style and quail
ity that were ever thought of, and at
prices which give customers no
chance to complain. jan12.1m
Year: 1876

THE Louisville Ledger, calling stten-
ton to the fact that Senator Mitchell,
from the committee Oh privileges and
elections, did a very unwise thing on
Monday by reporting g resolution to
pay Plnchback sum equal to the COM
pensation and mileage Of a senator from
the beginning Of the time for which he
was contestant to the Louisiana seat
until he was ordered from the floor by
the President pro tenn says: "This
springs a delicate question: II Pinch.
back was not the legally elected senator,
what right has he to the payof q legally
elected senator, especially when he did
not furnish an equivalent in labor to the
couutry?" He has no right to it, and if
it is given to him it will be in violation
OF every rule of right, justice and law.
Year: 1876

TIE OAKLAND WARD BILL. Our
Sacramento correspondent ventilates
some of the iniquities of the Oakland
Ward Bill, by which it would seem that
the California Democrats have studied
the lesson of genuine political meanness
set them by the Democracy of other
States. In this Oakltnd case they have
simply copied from the precedents set by
North Carolina Democrats in rcdstric-
ting the city of Wilmington, by which a
place giving over one thousand Republi-
can majority was placed under Democra-
tic government. Such abuses of power
only rebound to the injury of the party
which puts them in practice, and all the
Democrats lack are plenty of opportuni-
ties and they will play themselves out
fast as we could wish.
Year: 1876

SOME Of our exchanges have gone after
s ma or Tinnin trough" for bis action
in ref r'nce TO the jackson Relief Bill.
When the bill was vetoed by Governor
Boo'h four years ago, we knew then,
ON the temper shown by The Lcgisla
tire, that it was only matter of tine
when jackson would get what he asked.
Jactson had violated Federal law which
conii!cted with a State law and that was
enough to carry to him the sympathy of
every Bourbon Democrat in the State.
1t was only N Aces ary for the Democrats
to g't full control Of the State to insure
MIR. Jackson the amount he asked. The
) at would have saved money by pay
ing the claim when first presented four
years ago.
Year: 1876

WILL COME OCT ALL RIGHT.-The
old firm Of Upton & Bunt, which was.
owing to the unlocked for decline in wool
and the great stringency in the money
market, compelled to suspend on Friday
evening last, will, we are told, have mat
ters properly fixed up in few days when
business in that department will move on
as if nothing had happened. An expert
has been examining matters the past
week and finds that their assets are large
ly in excess ofthcir liabilities, which gives
confidence to their creditors who have as
one man declared their willingness to
give them all the time asked for to meet
their liabilities. Therefore with these facts
before US we feel warranted in saying
that this old firm will be all right in a
few days.-Red BtuU Sentinel, 10th.
Year: 1876

SOME queer IDEAS get set Mt liberty
when our Legislature gets together. One
of the latest emanates from n Mr. Mott,
who wants to have every ballot registered
and declared Illegal unless headed with
the name Of the party issuing it. That
Mott should not come back to the Assem-
bly, any more.
Year: 1876

THE RULING PAssIoN.-One OF. Link
ville's prominent citizens made his will
the other day in this wise He was cross.
ing stream when the ice began break
ing, and as he was going down he shout
ed to friend on the bank "If | never
get out l give all | have to the Schoo!
Marin y ITeku Journal.
Year: 1876

THEY have an orchardist near Sacra-
mento, whose faith in Newton must be
touching. He sells all the fruit in his
orchard at double prices, payable when
Booth is elected President. The contract
holds for two years, and he rejoices as
much when he gets another as if he al
ready had the coin in his trowsers. There
will be grand awakening some day.
Year: 1876

RECENTLY an officer at st Albans, Yer
mont, having two insane persons to con
vey to an asylum for the insane at Brattle-
boro', called one OF the inmates aside and
asked his aid in keeping watch of his com
panion during the journey and then did
the same with the other. The two luna
ties sat side by side, silently watching
each other through the whole journey,
and they have continually kept guard
over each other in the asylum eyer since e.
Year: 1876

A WOMAN in San Francisco tried to
get out warrant to prevent her husband
from going to ball with another piece
Of dimity. When her reasonable re-
quest was refused She announced her in
tention to go herself, and make somebody
dance something not on the programme.
Year: 1876

THE bull which attempts to buck the
locomotive off the track pct in an appear
ance this time near Stockton. This was
only a -year-old chap and was there
fore too young to have learned the fate OF
those who had perished in the same at
tempt before him. Those Stockton papers
must be hard up for locals.
Year: 1876

Wilcox, the bully of the Assembly
still holds his seat in that body AMI is
chairman Of mn investigating conmi te T..
1t the Assembly had respect r itself it
would have him nve tigating outside of
lis sphere of action.
Year: 1876

THE Nevada Marrow Gauge r. r. is
far enough completed to have accidents
happening on it. The first occurred Ibis
week in which II boy riding on one
"f the band cars had one of his legs man
y d by collision with another car.
Year: 1876

In the Assembly the chief matter pass
ed on during the week was the passage of
an act to repeal what is known as the
Compulsory Education law. Speaker
Carpenter was the main advocate of the
repeal. He made a long and ingenious
speech garnished with classical and his
torical references and much learning.
But the measure was sop thrown out by
the Democracy to It's hungry crew, and
that wing of the party which fears n GER
tain faith may lose adherents if anything
is done to foster the Common School svs-
tenn. In fact the Assembly recorded it.
self In favor of every citizen having the
license mo liberty to let his children grow
up in ignorance, the primal state of crime
and degenoracy in any community.


In the Senate the main measure of the
week was the passage Of IL purely party
act, involving the principle "to the vic
tors belong the spoils." 1t WAS bill TO
Year: 1876

GOVERNOR CuAMBERLAIN's 'QUoRUM.
The South Carolina republicans
have taken The position that a quorum
of each branch OF The Legislature
does no: consist Of a majority Of all
the members, but majority Of those
having certificates from the board OF
canvassers. This pretense is contra
dicted by the usage of all the Stale
governments. There is a difference
between the constitutions and the ted
eral constitution On this point. The
State constitution, unlike The federal
constitution, fixes a definite number
of members of which The lower House
shall consist. In the State OF New
York the assembly consists OF one
hundred and twenty eight members,
OF which a majority S a quorum. II
has never been pretended at Albany
that less than sixTy-tiee members could
transact business, and disputed seats
have never made any difference in this
respect. The same rule has always
heretofore prevailed in South Carolina
The constitution of that Stae declares
that the House of Representatives
shall consist Of one hundred and
twenty four members and that "a
majority of each House shall cOnsti-
tu,e quorum 10 do business The
plain meaning is a majority of the one
hundred and twenty tour. But Cham
berlain's satellites have set up new
rule, and claim that majority of
those who have received certificates is
a quorum, reducing il from the sixty


three which The State constitution re
quires To tifty-nine.-Herald.
Year: 1876

1t ought to be remembered that the
interference of the President with
troops in South Carolina has no rela-
tion 10 the electoral vote of the State
and can find no excise in such a plea
therefor. The troops were used by
the President to control, by the force
of the bayonets, the organization OF
the State Legislature. Federal soldiers
took possession OF the State House,
admitted to the legislative hall such
persons as General Grant chose TO al
NIT, and kept cpt those whom 1t did
not suit his purposes TO let in.


Now, where in the constitution does
the President find authority given
him for deciding who are and who are
not members of State Legislature :?
His duty is to protect State
against invasion or domestic violence
on the declaration of legislature or
governor that these are unable, with
the State forces, 10 repu.se invasion or
repres5 violence. There has been no
violence i'll South Carolina, as every
body knows. There has not even been
q threat Of domestic violence" al
though the constitution is careful 10
warrant no interference on the mere
excuse of threats. Where, then, does
The Presidnt get bis authority? And
If iii 50 grave q matter as lhlS he has
acted without authority mnst he not
be held responsible If be may post
troops in The South Carolina State
House, and take upon himself or dele
gate TO any other person 10 decide
Who are aud who are not mem bers Of
the South Carolina Legislature, why
shall ne or some successor OF his not
10 TIE sans thing III New York, OF
in Massachusetts, or IN Ohio? p? Wien
te.!e.a! soldiers removed from the
Louisiana Legislature in 1874 mems
bers pointed ont 10 them by an agent
Of Governor Kellogg, the pnbiic re
scented tie outrage, but the President
was no, held to his responsibility for
clearly unconstituiiUDa act, because il
was said there was no danger that ii
would be repeated. To-day We see it
repeated.


Nor is this all. So unjust ami in
excusabIe was the Presidents vipla~
ton of the constitution in his interter
ence in Louisiana that a republican
Congress felt itself forced by public
opinion and by the facts developed on
an investigation to replace in their
seats the very men whom ;he federal
troops had by bayonets expelled from
the legislature. In spite of this warn
ing and exposure, in spite of protests
from the most eminent men OF his
party, General Grant, after two years,
once more sends troops to take pos
session of a State House and once
more assumes TO decide who are and
who are not members of a legislature.
Thus for a second time he sets
precedent which can surely no longer
be held without peril.
Year: 1876

OPPRESSIVE TAxATIoY.-The curse
of cities is that their management too
often is cOnfided to irresponsible par
ties who find :heir profit iu plundering
the public. New York had her Boss
Tweed and his ring, and now We have
Philadelphia, which city is in about
as bad a way as New York under the
reign of Tweed. In Philadelphia it is
estimated that tax lew OF S3 so on
the s10O will be required to meet the
expenses Of the city government for
the ensuing year. On the face of it
a levy OF nearly four per cent. on the
taxable property of city is proof of
al effective system Of robbery in the
principal departments of the city GOV.
erDment. The net product Of the
wealth of a city Ike New York or
Philadelphia cannot be over five per
cent. in ordinary times, and is even
less in dull times, How then is a
property holder to pay IS 50 on each
slO0 of property-that is So 50 of
each So he receives as income. and
live on the balance, unless he is some.
thing more than a millionaire? Be.
sides this be has his State taxes TO pay.
and indirectly very onerous natioual
tax. When Government demiudS
more than one-Lalf OF the income from
man property for protecting it, ii
IL about time Government should he
arrested as robber. The PhiIadel.
phia Press says in reference to ,bi,
outrageous tax levy: property can.
not stand a tax of nearly four per
cent. when the banks fiud il difficu,t
to loan on collateral security at five"
Year: 1876

New York, in which city the deetor il
only known in connection with several
unpaid hotel bills. As he saunters out Of
the gate he casually mentions that dye
upon his attendants whiskers or hair would
be great improvement to his personal
appearance, and that if he will take seat
upon the top Of the fence the operation
can be performed with the utmost sstisfac-
ton. When the doctor finally gives up
hope Of any further practice in that house
hold, he besieges the next one he comes to
with precisely the same programme, and
at the end of few years comes out full
blown in large city as frst-class chiro-
podist, from Paris or Russia, with medals
from all the crowned heads of Europe.
Year: 1876

To-day ssthe initial movement, Of the
political campaign Of 1875, will take place
at the County Meeting in New Castle. We
ask the Democracy to come out in force,
and indicate by the vim and enthusiasm,
the lively work they intend to perform
in the autumn. The Democracy mean
to scourge from place, and power, the
pestilent pecula,ors, who are emasculating
the vital virtues Of the Republic. We
sincerely hope, that the harmony, which
has hitherto characterized our meetings,
will not be disturbed and that whatever
difference may exist, in mi.lor and nones-
sential matters will be treated by those
who differ from each other, with tolerant
manliness. This is not time for theory
but one for practical action, as we have
mighty work before us.
Year: 1876

drsdges will be required to maintain tho
channel of the Southwest Pass bar in navi-
gable condition, and all the prepare tions
of the engineer department have been
made with that object in view.


To divert either of these boats from this
work will, in my judgment, as we'll as in
that of the officer in charge Of them, prove
highly iBj jurlOus to the commerce of New
Orleans, and the prayer of the petitioners
that these dred dgeb0ats, or one of them,
should be used on the Sonth Pass should
not in my opinion, be granted.


Itwi!l he observed that the petitioners
present no evidence Of the ability of the
dredgeboats to open channel twenty feet
deep through the shOal at the river end Of
the South Pass in time for use this season.


II is further to be remarked that MIR.
Eads has entered into contract with the
government to open a channel through the
South Pass; contract that includes the
shOal at the river end of the pass as we'll as
the shOal at the sea end, and that he is
now engaged upon the works, for that pur-
pose, at both places.


The appropriation for the repair and
maintenance Of the government dredge.
boats was made expressly tor the purpose
of openiSg and keeping open channel in
pass that Mr.. Eads did not contract to
open. Very respectfully your obedielt
servant A. A. HUMPHREYS,
Brigadier General and Chief of Engineers.


A letter to the above effect was also re-
ceiyed by Mr.. L. J. Highly.
Year: 1876

tifty-seven days. The several periods of
absence which make up this aggregate were
each BRIEF, and it does not appear that
during these absences the President signed
any public official documents except one
pardon.


President Buchanan was absent from the
capital during his presidential term fifty
seven days, and the official papers which he
is shown to have signed during sach alb
sence are three exequaturs and one letter
OF credence.


In addition to the public documents,
and papers executed by the several
Presidents during their absences from the
seat of government, constant official cor
respondence was maintained by each with
the heads of the different executive de-
nartnltnts
Year: 1876

1t only takes five minutes. You
step into the cage, and the hand that
guides the Titan at the surface touch
es the rein OF the black monster, and
You are plunging into the gloom. In
a moment the lights OF earth go out;
by the glare OF lanterns you know
you are passing dripping timbers; the
sounds from above grow fainter and
cease; the vapors rise around you as
from cauldron; you hear now and
then a rumble in the deeps, as though
the dark spirits below were complain
ing that their treasures were being
thus taken away; you listen, expect


ing to hear the mutterings OF gnomes
which guard the sacred treasures;
there comes a dance Of the cages un-
der your feet; you know the hand
above has touched the bit OF the bur-
den bearer, and then the cage stops,
and you are more than quarter OF a
mile below the busy city which you
just few moments before left; from
the dusty highway you have stepped
into the worlds grandest treasure
house-you have passed from the
temperate to the tropical zones in a
moment you are in Bonanza. 1t
takes but little space to complete
the transition; it takes but a mo-
ment to describe it; but the change
is wonderful, and, to one OF thought
ful mind. the wonder increases with
each returning visit. 1t Is no little
thing to work a mine 1880 feet be-
low the surface. True, there are
broad avenues there; broad timbers
which like Atlas seem competent to
support the world upon their broad
backs; there are engineers at work
and cars running: but every glimpse
OF a man there reveals the exertion
necessary to keep this conflict with
the spirits which guard the buried
treasures below. The men are strip
ped to the waist, those brawny del
vers with perspiration bursting from
Year: 1876

every pore, and their bodies shining


as it is said the Spanish victims


shone in the sunlight when stretched


upon the top OF Teocola, ere the Az


tee priests tore out their hearts for q


sacrifice. Those VIII te breasts have


another significance. On the surface


servile races may take from the Ia


borer his bread; down In that gloom


there is no fear Of competition. The


pale face there holds sway. There


the Caucasian race is Indispensable,


for what is needed among gnomes is


steady brain, quick. strong hand,
a ruling intelligence. Those strong


holds are not stormed until grappled


with by the worlds ruling races. It
looks pleasant down there in the
mimic streets and under the lanterns
glare, but before those streets were
opened there was in the sitting air a
work performed which can not be
calculated. Picks were swung. drills
were struck, powder was burned,
men tainted and fell in their places;
but the work went on. SO it will pro-
ceed IN the future. until, probably, af-
ter another sixteen years, they will
be working 1900 feet below the sur
face, as unconcerned as they now
delve at the present levels. We pass
through long drift, and suddenly
we find where the attacking column
is driving in the ore. The sight is
magnificent; but for those in the
ea t, who fancy that silver mining is
light thing to accomplish, one visit
here would dispel the illusion. A
glimpse at the work, glance at the
machinery, a few thoughts OF the
study required to make successful
hattie against the rock, the danger
and gnomes, would suddenly reveal
to them how it is that first-class
miner has to be "a first class man, and
how, after he completes his education
below ground, he can seize upon the
ordinary avocations OF life as a stu
dent after comprising algebra is nev-
er more troubled by a problem in
arithmetic. But we are on. the cage
once more, the bell up above signals
that there is precious freight on
board, and in five minutes more we
are out OF the depths; the blessed
sunlight comes to US again, the sum-
mer strikes us with a chill, we are out
of the depths. and have done the
Bonanza Boulder. (Coll Courier.