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Year: 1871

In following up the career OF Van Eeten.
the celebrated New York forger, the New
York Sun finds that his house IL Twenty
second street was filled with everything
that could charm the eye and please the
most cultivated taste. Velvet carpets
yielded softly to his feet, expensive bronzes
of classic form and Paris make me. the view
on mantel and sideboard, while the walls
We're decorated with the works o. Greuze,
Meissonnier and Teniers, with az occasional
soft tinted landscape by an American artist
to throw the charm of his color and draw
ing on the inviting scene. His table was
covered with handsome silver his viands
were delicate, his wines varied and abnn-
dant and OF the choicest v.ntages OF Bur
gundy and Champagne. When that abun-
dance waped, raid Oh some ple.noric wine
dealer brought in fresh supplies Fifteen
hundred baskets OF champagne We're il his
cellar and storerooms at one time, the r,-
suit Of 3 successful foray. Nor were his
private pleasures of vulgar stamp Wine
his wife, in her easy hung, satin-lined car
riage was rolling over the smooth highways
of Central Park, he sought no low life, no
gambling or ntOxication for excitement
All such men must have some distraetions
but he looked around tor congenial and
accomplished fair ones, whose luxurious
tastes were akin to his own.
Year: 1871

XXyANTED.-A situation Housekeeper in a
w respectable family. by young lady who is
competent to take the entire mana cement of a
house, and who prefers good home and kind
treatment to large wage&


Address p. 8 T.. RBPUB cICAN office mh4 ST.
Year: 1871

THouaHrs.-God be thanked for
books! They are the voices of the
distant and dead, and make US heirs Of
the spiritual life Of the past ages.
Books are the true Jewelers. They
give to all who will faithfully use them,
the society, the spiritual presence of
the best and greatest Of our race. No
matter though the prosperous of my
own time will not enter my obscure
dwelling. If the sacred writer's will
enter and take up their abode under
my roof, if Milton will cross my thresh-
old to sing to me of Paradise, OF
Shakespeare to open to me the worlds
Of imagination and the workings Of the
human heart, and Franklin to enrich
me with his practical wisdom, 1 shall
not piae for want of Intellectual COM
panionship; and I may become cult
vated man, though excluded from what
is called the best society in the place
where live.-Channtng.
Year: 1871

The idea that in this world each
young person is to wait until he OF she
finds that precise counterpart who alone
Of oil creation was meant for him OF
her, and then fall instantly in love with
it, is pretty enough, only it is not Ma
ture's way. 1t is not at all essential
that all pairs of human beings should
be, as we sometimes say of particular
couples, "born for each other" Svme-
times a man or a woman is made
great deal better and happier in the
end for having had to conquer the
faults of one beloved, and make the
fitness not found at first, by gradual
assimilation. There is class Of good
women who have no right to marry
perfectly good men, because they have
the power of saving those who would
90 to ruin but for the guiding provi-
dence of a good wife. I have known
many such cases. It is the most mo-
mentous question woman is ever cal
led upon to decide, whether the faults
Of the man she loves are beyond remedy
and will drag her down, or whether
she is competent to be his earthly re.
deemer aud lift him to her own level.
Holmes.
Year: 1871

@AA' NAoOo" "dS a1 tuat really ara
matte passage Of his life> in the middle
Of the year 1887, when he was COM
pleting his istory, and on a certain
night in June he had written the last
page OF the great work. Great as it is,
It seems now to be regarded more with
respect and awe than affection; a feel
ing that Mr.. Dickens has very happily
expressed when he made MI. Bvfin
choose it for the work With which hc
was to make his first acquaintance With
literature. Very familiar is the de-
scription of the almost solemn act per-
formed in pavilion at the end of his
garden: Lying down his pen, he took
several turns in the '.eaci. alley" with
feeling Of JOY at getting his liberty
after this long and arduous servitude !;
but dazed With certain melancholy, as
he thought, however lasting might be
the reputation Of the book, the days Of
the writer might be numbered. Lady
Elizabeth Foster, who afterwards be-
came Duchess of Devonshire, arrived
shortly after, and struck him, as she
struck all, with the elegance of her
manner, her esprit, cleverness, and,
above all, the nice opropos of her CON-
p'imeots. She took great interest in
that dramatic completion of the great
history, and was one morning asked to
breakfast to inspect the very scene. In
the meantime Mr.. Gibbon had interpre.
ted her sweetness and elegance, and all
the compliments, as so many proofs Of
the impression he was making on her
heart. And it seemed this occasion
would do e1celleutly to bring on de-
nounsent. After breakfast was over, hs
brought her out to look at the famous
acacia walk, and the view Of the lake
and mountain which it commanded. She
was enthusiastic in her delight, and ex-
pressed herself in all the raptures be-
coming admiration for the scenery,
when the historian affected to become
suddenly jealous Of the praise bestowed
on such objects, and electrified her by an
eloquent and passionate declaration, at
the same time falling Oh his knees. The
astonished lady could hardly under
stand at first; then burst into a fit of
laughter. The situation must have
been ludicro"s indeed the unw:eldy
lover still pouring out his vows, and
she remaining a few PAGES off and try
Ing to soothe him. At last he under
stood his mistake, and then she babe him
get up. But this was impossible
gout, enormous fat, and rheumatism Ut
ter]y incapacitated him. The brilliant
lady, crusly ignoring the romance of
the situation, came to his aid and tried
to raise him but it was in vain ; and it
was determined that she should 70 for
assistance, and give out that Gibbon
had fallen. She went, and two stout
peasants Of the place came up, raised


him between them, aud landed him in


his familiar easy chair.
Year: 1871

Our sober Christian neghbors of the New
York Observer are responsible for the follow
ing: We think Hermann and Heller are
ingglers, but what can they do to compare
with the Chinese trieksters? A traveller ut
Kinsai was entertained by the Viceroy, the
Amir kustai, and this was ono Of the amusc-'
mentS:


THAT same night a jugglc appcard, who
was one of the great Kaans slaves, and the
Amir said to him, Come and show us some
of your wonders Upon this he took a
wooden ball with seven holes in it, through
which long thongs were passed and, laying
hold of one of these, sung the ball into the
air. 1t went so high that we lost sight OF 1t
oyether. CT was the hottest season OF the
year. and we were outside in the middle OF
the palace court.) There now remained only
the short one of thong in the conjurer
hand, and he desired one Of the boys who
assisted him to lay hold of it and mount
He did so, climbing by the thong, and we
lost sight of him. The conjurer then called
to him three times, but getting no answer, he
snatchcd up knife, as if i'll a great rage
laid hold of the thong, and disappeared in
his turn. By and by he threw down one OF
the boys hands, then a foot, then the Other
hand and the other foot, then the trunk, and
last of all, the head! Lastly, he came down
himself, putting and blowing, and with his
clothes all bloody, kissed the ground before
the Amir, and said something to him in
Chinese. The Amir gave some order in re
ply, and our friend then took the lads limbs
laid them together in their places, and gave
kick, when, presto! there Wus be boy
who got up and stood before us. al TIM
astonished me beyone measure"
Year: 1871

To A YoUNG GIRL You think you love
the young man who is coming this Sunday
night to visit you! And he acts as ifhc loves
you! Suppose he declares himself, and asks
you to become Lis wife. Are you prepared to
say to him, II love and will trust You through
life with my happiness, and the lives and veal
of our chidren?'


lie isjolly. gay, and handsome, and all the
darts ofCupid are twinkling and sparkling in
his eyes, but will those eyes always find cx-
preston from the love Of true soul? To-
night he says many pleasant things, and
draws pretty pictures for the future. Does
he 20 tomorrow to work which gives promise
of the fulGllncnt of our desires in life ? Do
his ambitions and achievements satisfy you
Does his everyday life shine with the noble
endeavors of a trustworthy man? If you
think and desire a companion in your think.
ing-one who can unlock the deepest depths
of your mind-to what strata of humanity
does he belong in the scale of excellence and
morality? Is he doing all he can to build ur
future usefulness and happiness, in which you
can share and feel blessed? These are the
questions which the experience of after years
make many women weep in bitterness Of sou
that they had not thought of before they an
swered Eyes"
Year: 1871

A very smart young Chinaman, named
Yune Wing, graduated at Yale College in
1854. He stood at the head of his class, and
was especially distinguished for his talent as
n writer of the English language. He was
educated there with view to his becoming
missionary of the Christian religion in his
native country butin the course ofhis studies
his theological opinions became unsettled,
and he abandoned his proposed calling in
order to devote himself to commerce. lie
has now been employed by the Chinese
GovernmSn to bring over thirty other young
Cinnamon who arc to be educated at Yale
College at the public expense. Its said
that thirty Chinese students are to be enter.
ed at Yale College yearly during the next
ten years, and sum of s15O,OOO year has
been appropriated by the Chinese Govern
nent to pay their expenses.
Year: 1871

A BEAUTIFUL belle, whose mother kept
senteel boarding house in New York
city, induced one of hermamma's boarders
to introduce her to first-class fashionable
uptown dentist of his acquaintance, as
she wanted a set of artificial teeth. Her
mamma accompanied her, and directed the
dentist to insert them on heavy gold
plates, in the highest style of the art, with
out regard to expense. On the first visit
the young lady's stumps were extracted,
and soon thereafter she had a mouthful of
gold-plate and pearl artificial teeth, which
added greatly to her natural charms and
acquired graces. But the bill was not paid,
and after a collector had worn out some
shoe-leather and exhausted his patience in
trying to get pay from the mother, the
dentist related the circumstance to his
friend.


One morning the dentist called on the
ladies: after passing few minutes IN gen.
eral conversation, he changed the subject
and talked business.


Mamma, of course, professed to be very
sorry that she was unable to pay the
" doctor" but would certainly do so in a
few days. As he was apparently about to
depart, he casually asked the daughter
how she liked her teeth, and she replied
that they were perfect and pleased her
very much.


"Do they ever slip or pain you?" kindly
asked the doctor.


"Very seldom, DOCTOR" she replied ;
" sometimes they pinch me little, but L
suppose that can't be avoided"


"Oh, yes" said the polite dentist, pull
ing a pair of little nippers from his pocket,
allow me to bend the plates little with
my nippers, and it will not occur agar" !"
at the same time holding out his hand to
receive them. The unsuspecting maiden
pulled them out and handed them to the
"doctor," who instead of nipping them
with his pincers, quietly wrapped them up
in his pocket handkerchief and placed
them in his pocket, and politely but hrmly
told the terrified beauty that when her
mamma paid his bill she could have them,
but not before. As the girl was engaged
to be married to well-to-do young gen.
tleman who had never seen her without
teeth, and who was expected to return to
the city and hand her to the hymenial alter
in a few days, that bill was paid.
Year: 1871

A WRITER in MdcMiLldn's Magazine has
some highly interesting speculatlons on
the subject of crimes which sleeper
dreams he is committing. He says: Two
esteemed friends have assured me that
their consciences are occasionally awake
in sleep on the other hand, great many
more tell me that their experience entirely
corroborates my own observations FOR
example, an admirable and most Klnu,
hearted lady informs me that she pslmed
off bad sixpence on a beggef, ana chuck'
led at the notion of his disappot,n t,ntment'
A distinguished philanthropist, exercising
for many years high judicial functions,
continually commits forgery, and only re-
grets the act when he learns that he is to
be hanged. A woman, whose life at the
time of her dream was devoted to the In
struction of pauper children, seeing one Of
them make a face at her, doubled him into
the smallest compass, and poked him
through the bars of lions cage. One OF
the most benevolent of men, who shared
not at all in the military enthusiasm OF
his warlike brothers (the late Mr.. Richard
Napier), ran his best friend through the
body, and ever after recalled the extreme
qualification he had experienced on seeing
the point of his sword come out through
the shoulders of his beloved companion.
Other crimes committed in dreams need
not be here recorded, but am persuaded
that if we could but know all the improper
things done by the most proper people in
their sleep with the utmost sdnafr0id and
completely unblushing effrontery, the pic
ture would present a diyerting contrast to
our knowledge of them in their conscious
hours. If the moral sense be not wholly
suppressed in sleep, there is certainly
enough evidence to conclude that it is
only exceptionally active, and $50 far as
yet learn) only in the case of dreams as
suming the character of Nightmares, IN
which the consciousness is far less per-
fectly dormant than in others
Year: 1871

A BURN caused by the explosion of gun
powder generally seems much worse than
it really is, owing to the deposit of black
powder upon the surface. Soft pieces of
old linen dipped in cold water will afford
relief at first, and, in some cases, pow
dered starch or flour, forms soothing ap-
plication; but as soon as the first moments
of distress are over, a dressing should be
applied composed of equal parts of lime
water and linseed oil. As soon as practi-
cable the grains of powder that lodge in
the skin should be removed with needle
or the point of lancet. If this is not
done, the burn will heal over them, and
the surface ever after will be disngured
with BLUSH mark In cases of raw burns,
the whites of eggs well-beaten, and then
applied to the surface with soft camels-
hair brush, sometimes will give immediate
relief: but wherc blisters are raised, great
care should be taken not to tear them; if
they are cautiously punctIred with a nee
die. the water beneath will run out and
they will fall, thus forming perfect pro-
lection. Burns should always be protect
ed from immediate contact with the air
Hearth and Home.
Year: 1871

We are constantly applied to for copies of
old papers, by persons who wish to obtain
some item of interest or Importance to
themselves or friends. Nov, flour subscri-
bers will carefully lay aside our papers
and at the end of each month stitch them
together, and have them laid carefully
away, they will have reliable source of
reference, and will find them sometimes
valuable in money sense view. The ar
ticles on agriculture, mechanical industry,
&C., will be found well worth reading
again. We owe it to our children to pre-
serve as far as possible the history Of our
time. The newspaper photographs this,
aud is the best reporter Of historical truth


Robert q. Tredway, Chicago merchant,
fell down the hatchway of his warehouse
on Saturday and was killed.
Year: 1871

Our correspondents will please bear in
mind that our paper is small, and great
press of matter always upon its columns.
The interests seeking expression are
numerous and widely varied. Hence all
communications must be brief and pointed.
There is no better rule to secure brevity
than to write out what you have to say,
and then look over it and throw out every
word that can be spared It must be a
matter of great Importance to justify a
letter quarter of a column long. We
want to hear from as many as possible !;
but brevity, which is the soul of wit, is
also the passport to editorial favor.
Year: 1871

a Remarkable Pulet.-Mr. Wm. Il
Knox, detective, has now at the lower station,
house two Of the finest game pullets we have
ever seen. They are, however, in the third
cross from the English pheasant But of one
of them there Is very remarkable fact: One
day, 10 the country, hawk came down upon
a flock of chickens and aobbled one of them,
then flew away. But the puIlet flew after the
hawk, and after a pursuit of three hundred
yards, rescued the chicken There are but
few of the hen tribe that will not take fright
at the very sight of hawk, and Certainly This
little one deserves the premium for bravery.
Year: 1871

4 Typos ERRoR.-The anguish of
editors will never cease until type
settlers are wiped off the face of earth.
There. for instance, is the editor of
the Eastern Argus. He alluded to
one of the most eminent citizens of
his town as "a noble old burSher,
proudly loving his native State. y
But WAS it not a serious cause for
dissatisfaction when he saw in the
paper next morning that the remorse-
less tiend had made him speak of the
eminent citizen as "a nobby old
burglar prowling around in a naked
state:'
Year: 1871

WHOSE FuNERAL NEXT Pit is under
stood here TINT S,muel Dodd, w. A. Sci
kirk, John Yule and A. A. Sargent have
undertaken the job of killing, laying out and
politically burying Charles A. Tutte and
w. B. Lyon in this county, State ana Dis
trict. This is an unpleasant task as well as
big job for these unseliish gentlemen to
undertake, but there are no other means by
which Sargent and Yule can be resurrected.
most of the county, and, on his return, re-
ported to Selkirk, who Immediately rushed
to Last Chance land a poor chance at that)
to retail the report to Yule and consult with
him as to further tricks. We feel quite
certain that the great body of respectable
Republicans would prefer Lyon and Tuttle
to Sargent and Yule, but whether the form
er gentlemen think the game worth the pow
der or not we are not advised. If this move
should fail, then Yule and Sargent and their
blowers and strikers will have dug their own
graves. Yule on the floor and Sekirk in
the lobby were the earnest supporters of the
Gorham and Billy Carr Western Pacific
Railroad swindle which Gov Low vetoed
and which gave the nomination for Governor
to Gorham and the State to the Democrats,
in 1867; and if these gentlemen can do as
much good to the country by their evil ex-
ample this year, then all good men should
pray for their success in Convention, which
would disgust the public and result in the
triumph Of honest Democracy.
Year: 1871

The Sacramento Reporter, understood as the
property of Railroad swindlers, and the fact
proved by its subsidized columns daily, talks
of having been called upon as Democratic(D y
Journal to rebukc the PLACER HERALD. Sa-
tan may rebuke sin, but the devil will reach
Heaven long before the Reporter will be ad-
mitted into the Democratic party or be re-
garled as Democratic paper by any honest
man in the State. Nine-tenths Of the Dem
ocratic papers of the State hold with us that
this almost universally condemned subsidy
decision Of the Supreme Court is wholly in
defensible under the plain reading of our
Constitution. Indeed two of the Judges
tell us in their concurring opinions, that hal
it been new question they would have held
subsidies as unconstitutional. The editor of
the Reporter is mean and unprofessonal
enough to select two words from a sentence
of ours and give them alone without the con-
text, in order ia change and give different
meaning to our language. This ia the most
shameless thing any editor can do and leaves
all such without the pale of gentlemanly con-
troverses. The Reporter says it wishes
it had "two subscribers in every town in the
State which has brighter future than the
one-horse hamlet of Auburn" There are
not ten towns in the State that have bright
er future than Auburn, and we must infer
that the Reporter Graves at least twenty sub
scribcrs in California 1t has been directl,
charged by the Santa Clara .Argus that the
Railroad managers owned fify-six out of the
64 shares in the Reporter concern, and that
allegation has not been denied in satisfactory
terms by the Reporter, nor dare it tell the
public who own these shares, who are its
trustees, and who hires and directs the pens
of its scrbblers. All of Croker & Cos.
blowers are required to furnish proof before
they can be believed by the public. "Likc
master like mon' is how the public regard


the Railroad sheets Now come with your
proof. We publish the Oldest Democratic
pape' on the coast. 1t Aourishos, has the
ear and endorsement Of all honorable men and
unowned Democrats, and also that of the
Democratic press Of the State, while the Re
porter cannot name five Democratic papers
in the whole State that will vouch for its
Democracy or deny that it is anything but the
mouth-piece of the vilest plundcrng monopo-
ly on the coast. We say again, we pity tie
poor court that has only the subborned sheets
of plundcriug corporation to defend it.


We know nothing Of the editors of the Re-
p01ter, but we do know that no man can re-
main long in that Office without doing dirty
work for his employers.
Year: 1871

rer of State. and if it appears that majority OF
all the votes cast for or against this law, as afore-
said, are in favor of this Act, then the same
shall have effect MS herNinbefore provided and
shall be irrepeolable until the principal and in
terest of the liabilities herein created shall be
paid and discharged, and the Governor shall
make proclamation hereof; but if a majority of
the votes so cast are against this Act. then the
same shall become void.


SEC. II. 1t shall be the duty of the Secretary
of State to have this Act published in one news
paper in each judicial district Of this State, for
three months mex. preceding the next general
election. for which publication no greater allow
ance shall he made than the rates allowed by
law to the State Printer.
Year: 1871

WE have seven new political announce
ments this week, and as we could find no
room for all of them, we hold them all for
next week, when they will appear and lie
formally introduced to our readers.
Year: 1871

Result OF the Recent Raid ON the ''Rnuches.,


Before Judge Hogan.


The examination into the cases OF the prOprietors
OF the dlsorderly houses in Greenwich street was
finished yesterday. After careful hearing OF all
the evidence in the several complaints Judge Hogan
decided TO let the people GO upon their own
promise never to engage IN the same bust.
ness again. SO far, then, as Greenwich
street Is concerned the late raid was a
decided success. The business entirely broken NJ
there and as an extra caution against these people
entering rpoG the same dreadful traffic Judge
Hogan has retained the ninety-three girls In prison
until he can provide for them satisfactorily. In dis
charging the people he saId:'It VIII be no use for
you to open houses OF this Kind agan. as the Super
intendent OF Police Is determined to break ND the
business. These girls who have heen arrested IN
your houses intend to keep mere until proper ar
rangemcnts can be made to send them to institu.
lions where they Will be cared for,
Year: 1871

The Charge OF Contempt Against Lawyer


Hirsrh.


Before Judge Gilbert.
Judge Gilbert yesterday denied the motion TO have
lawyer Samuel HIrsch punished for contempt Of
Court. IL was charged that Mr.. Hirsch had induced
the Court accept straw bail by certain false state.
ments. In rendering the decision Judge Gilbert said
that he was satisfied that Mr.. Hirsch mad acted in
good tath and that he could nothing in the case
TO impeach his character conduct in the particular
transaction. Mr.. H.rsch SAID that he himself had
been utterly deceived as to the responsibility OF the
DOndsmen