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Year: 1871

The new mineral land bill which has
passed the United States Senate, that the
mines OF the public domain shall be free
to occupation BY all persons, subject to le-
gal regulation and to the local customs.
The miners of each mining district may
determine the size Of the claim, but the
lode claim of any person must not exceed
200 feet, nor of any company 5000 feet
In length nor shall the width be more
than 800 feet nor be less than rs feet on
each side Of the middle of the vein. The
title shall cover not only the vein taken as
the basis Of measurement, but all other
veins that come to the surface within the
limits of the claim. The location Of ,<.ry
claim must be distinctly marked on Il !
ground, so that its boundaries can be reaeN
ly traced, and description Of the location
with reference to some natural object or
permanent monument that will identify
the claim, must be filed in the mining
records


Heretofore it has been left discretion
tionary with the miners to apply for pat
ents or not. This bill has new feature
requiring application for patents to be made
in specified time. The section contain
ing this provision reads as follows:


Locators, their heirs or assigns, of all
mining locations heretofore made shall
commence proceedings to obtain patent
from the United States within three years
from the passage of this Act, and locators,
their heirs or assigns, of locations hereafter
made shall commence proceedings within
three years of the date of their locations,
and upon failure to comply with this sec
tion the claim or claims shall be open to
relocation.


The application for patent must show
that the applicant has complied with the
local rules; notice must be published by
the Register of the Land Office; copy of
the a notice of intention to apply for
patent, must be posted in the claim; a
certificate of the U. S. Surveyor General
that work to the aggregate amount of
81, 900 has been done on the claim, and
that the plat is correct, must be filed with
the Register and then, ifno adverse claim
is set up within ninety days patent will
be issued, unless it be shown that the ap-
plicant has failed to comply with the re-
quirements of the Act An adverse
claimant must commence suit within ten
days or his claim will be disregarded.


The lines of the claims shall be described
with reference to the lines of the public
surveys, but need not conform with them.
Sections /, 2, 8, 4, and 6, of the Act of
July rs, 1866, providing for the sale of
of lode mines, are repealed.


While the proposed law provides for the
disposition Of quartz and gravel mines, it
provides that all applications made or pend
ing before the passage of the new law,
may be prosecuted and secured under the
old laws. Under this provision miners
who desire to make application immediate
ly will not be required to go to additional
expense should the new bill become law.
Year: 1871

The notorious forger and counterfeiter, Charles d.
vanderpoo alias BrockNay alias seymore Water
man and Pike, who was arrested at Detroit and
brought to this city in charge OF Detective Sampson
on Tuesday, as stated IN the HERALD came up before
Judge Bowling al the Tombs Police Court yesterday
and desired to be allowed to go out on ball.


This was at once refused. subsequently he said
he had great horror OF The cells in the old prison.
and desired to be sent back 10 Mulberry street. TO
police headquarters where he had been lodged since
his arrival from Detroit After numerous remarks
the Judge ordered him TO be kept In the City Prison
on the Indictment found agaidsl HIM by the Grand
Jury on charge OF forgery preferred by the
Bank OF North America for $ll 200, and stated that
the prisoner would find ~ much more difficult 10
obtain a pardon from Governor Holman than the
trouble experienced IN getting his freedom through
the influence OF the President OF the United states
on the countelfeIting charge on which he was con-
victed for ten years. His case VIII once be un.
dertaken by the District Attorney
Year: 1871

WIFE BOUGHT AND SoID.-strange as II may
seem man in this city actually sold his wife 10
another man on Tuesday OF this week. The .syaua-
ble consideration was ten dollars In money which
sum was actually paid over. The couple so lacllely
divorced, have been husband ana wife for term OF
eight years, and have son years old and one
child younger. In the arrangement the father was
10 keep the older child ana the new "pair were to
have the younger. The "purclaserm is a young man.
and, after the transaction, ne took the woman and
went home with her, 60 take the place OF the husband
OF the house, he having bought furniture ,dad
(Colo1 dao) Enterprise.
Year: 1871

A dealer in pork had a preeOciOus
sOp who was expert in cards, and. in
playing with his young companions
was seldom on the losing side. He be-
gan at first to bet on the game, and ere
long would play regularly for money
with any Of his age disposed to
accept the risk. He came home
one day bringing several dol
lars which he had acquired in
his small way Of gambling, and
exhibited his gains to his father
with an air Of triumph. The thought
full father shook his head and told his
son that the money was not honestly
acquired. "But ! did not cheat, said
the boy. 81 hope not" replied the
father: "but did you give the loser
any equivalent whatever for 1t ~
The boy hung his head and the parent
added, money is honestly gained
where there is an exchange Of pro-
duets or services, and the receiver
gives an equivalent for it; to take
another mans property and give him
no equivalent for 1t, is to rob or cheat
him.n


a few months after the father came
home from the Produce Exchange
with an elated aspect, and announced
that he had settled his speculative con
tracts in pork by the receipt Of nearly
So, 900. His son eyed him steadily a
moment, and then said. "What did
you give the other man, father, as an
equivalent for the money ?'-M =.
JClirnOf COHlH6Tce.
Year: 1871

/ The following beautiful poem, which pos
| sesses such rigid simplicity and tearfu
| pathOs was composed by the authoress whel
/ but fourteen years OF age, on hearing tn
physician tell her nurse one evening, durin
I illness, that she could not live till morning
/ No one OF real feeling can peruse it withou
a strong inclination TO tears. Its Irresistible
charm is its absolute truth-the unafecte,
naturalness Of its thought.
II hath been said-for all who die


There is a tear;
Some pining, bleeding heart 10 sigh


Ger every bier
But In that hour Of pain and dread,


Who will draw near
Around my humble couch and shed


One farewell tear?
Who viii watch life's :ast parting ray


In deep despair,
And sOothe my spirit on its way


With holy prayer?
What mOurner round my bier will come


In weeds OF woe,
And follow me to my long home


Solemn and slow?
When lying on my clayey bed,


In icy sleep,
Who there by pure affection led


VIII come and weep;
By the pale moon implant the rose


Upon my breast,
And bid Il cheer my dark repose,


Ny lowly rest?
Could l but know when am sleeping


Low In the ground,
one faithful heart would there be keeping


Watch all night round,
As If some gem lay sArined beneath


That sod's cold gloom,
'Twould mitigate the pangS OF death,


And light the tomb.
Yes! in that hour If could feel,


From halls of glee
And Beauty's presence one wnuld steal
In secresy,
And come and sit and weep by mo


Innight's deep moon
Oh l would ask OF memory


No other boon.
But ahI lonelier fate is mine,
A deeper woe:
From all 1 love in youths sweet time
I soon must go;
Drawn round me my pale robes of white,
In dark spot
To sleep through deaths long dreamlsss


night,


Lone and forgot.
Year: 1871

a rogue was once begging charity
on the pretence of being dumb. A
lady having asked him with equal
simplicity, how long he had been
dumb, he was thrown off his guard
and replied: 'From birth, madame y
"PoOr fellow" said the lady,and gave
him q dime.
Year: 1871

An English writer, speaking on this
entertaining subject, says: The ques-
ton is naturally suggested whether
our own moon, which is but quarter
of million of miles from us, ought
not first to be examined for signs Of
life5 or, at least, of being fitted for the
support of life When the telescope
was first invented, it is certain that
astronomers were more hopeful of re-
cognizing such signs in the moon than
in any other celestial body. AS tele-
scopes of greater power were con-
strucfed, our satellite was searched
with a more and more eager scrutiny.
And many a long year elapsed be-
fore astronomers would accept the
conclusion that the moons surface is
wholly untitled for the support of any
of those forms of life with which we
are familiar upon the earth. That the
belief in lunar men prevailed in the
popular mind long after astronomers
had abandoned it, is shown by the ea-
ger crednlity with which the story of
Sir John HerscheIs supposed obser-
vations Of the customs and manners
of the lunarians was accepted even
among weH-educated men.


sdi Yet f3astfonomersi have longoknown
full certainly that no forms of life,
such as we are familiar with, can exist
upon the moon. They know that, if
a satellite has an atmosphere at all,
that atmosphere must be SO limited in
extent that no creatures we are ac-
quainted with could live in it, They
know that she has no oceans, seas or
lakes, neither clouds nor rains. and
that if she had, there would be no
winds to watt atmosphere from place
to place, or. to cause the clouds to drop
fiatness upon the lunar fields ii9


They know also, that the moons
surface is subjected alternately to "a
cold far more intense that which
binds our arctic regions in everlasting
frost, and to heat compared with
which the fierce noon of o tropical
day is as the freshness of a spring
morning. They search only oyerthe
lunar disc for the signs of volcanic
action, feeling well-assured that no
traces of the existences will ever be
detected in that desolate orb.
Year: 1871

THE COLUMN VENDoME.-It will excite no
less surprise than qualification with those who
have mourned over the devastation of Paris to
know that after all the column of the Place
Vendome suffered but little injury 10 its over
throw by the Commune. M. Charles GARNER,
the architect of the new opera house, esti-
mates the cost of its restoration exactly
at it stood at not more than 10000 francs, or
S52 200. 1t seems that ten only of two hund-
red and seventy-four bronze plates that made
up the exterior of the column have been in.
iured and these require but slight repairs. A
few bars of the baustrade and some pieces of
the capital have disappeared but can readily
be replaced. M. GARNER warmly advises that
the statue of Napoleon should be re-erected on
the top of the column, otherwise the whole
monument is an historical and architectural
absurdity. 1t is to be hoped that it will be the
First and not the Third Napoleon, the Little
Corporal in the overcoat and cooked hat, that
was taken down and removed to Neuilly in
1868, and not the Brummagern Bonaparte, the
Roman snob, with an image of Victory in his
hand, which subsequently surmounted it. If
the late Emperor is to be set up on the column
again with Victory in his hand he should be
as sitting statue in a Sedan chair.
Year: 1871

The example of the late General Lee, in re


tuslng all gifts, and declining to receive com


pensatlon for services not rendered, is w0rtl


more to his country and to all who followed i


than millions of gold. The facts here stated


will not soon be forgotten:


| In the winter of 1864 the City Council O


Richmond rendered General Lee an elegant
mansion as some small token of the high esti
mate IN which he was held by the city which
he so long defended. But the grand old man
replied: Il do not expect to be in Richmond
during the continuance of the war; and my
family are as comfortable rs they have n right
to expectsto be in these times. | must, there
fore. with my thanks for your consideration
most respectfully decline your offer If you
have money to give, hope you will bestow it
upon my private soldiers, who are more needy
aad far more deserving than myself"


At the close of the war, offers Of pecuniary
assistance poured in upon him from all sides,
but he steadfastly refused to receive them.


An English nobleman, thinking he would re-
loice in some place 0t retreat from his aiillc-
ton wrote to offer him splendid country seat
and a handsome annuity He nobly replied ::
Il am deeply grateful, but cannot consent to
desert my native State in the hour of her deep
adversely. | must abide her fortune and share
her fate


Soon after he took charge of Washington
College he was visited by the agent of an in
surance company, who offered him the presi-
dency ut salary of ten thousand dollars. He
told the agent that he could not give up his
position in the College. and could not properly
attend to both. But, General" said the agent,
eve do not want you to discharge any duties.
We simply wish the use Of yoar name; that
will abundantly compensate us"


Excuse me, sir" was the prompt and de-
cided rejoinder. Il cannot consent to receive
pay for services do not render"


He received many offers of this sort. And
just short time before his death large man
uacturng company in New York offered him
4 salary of fifty thousand dollars a year. if he
would become their president. For all such
offers be- had the same reply-his duties ir the
College fully occupied his time. and hr would
not receive pay where hc did not render SER
vice


lie refused to receive from the College any.
thing like SO large n salary as they desired 10
pay him; and when last year. the trustees
decided 10 Mrs. Lee house and an annuity of
three thousand do.lars, the General respect
lsllg declined, on Mrs Lees behalf, 10 accept
IT,


He declined all gratutics Aud though
loving people, for whom he had toiled so hero
caly would most ioyouSly have settled on him
a handsome property, he preferred to earn his
daily bread by his personal cxcrtion, and To
SET To his people an example of honest indust
ry.- Chrisiidn Obserrcr and Commonwealth.
Year: 1871

THE OLD DoDGE.-A Rev William H. Nor
ton, of 676 Broadway, New York city, recently
sent us a card of the quack medicine style
with the request to publish it one year, the
card to occupy a space of two inches, and in
forms us in his letter that he would pay there
for quarterly in advance on receipt of bill and
paper containing the advertisement That
dodge is the old thing and it is played out"
We insert such cards only after the cash is
received, unless they come from our regular
agents. We are inclined to think that the
Rev. Norton is "bilk," and though we de.
cline to advertise his medicine, we advertise
him to this extent gratis.
Year: 1871

WILDCAT AND DOG FiGIT-A great wild
cat and bulldog fight came off at the Opera
House in Virginia City Nevada on the night
of September 23d the stakes being $500 to ten
head OF cattle. a large cage ten by twelve feet


IN dimensions was constructed and the small
est of two wildcats was let into the pit first
and was quickly killed by one of the bulldogs.
After an intermlssion of few minutes to
sponge off the dog, the largest of the two cats
was then turned loose in the cage with the
dog. A desperate fight took place and the dog
was whipped, the cattle man who owned the cats
winning the $500. Another fight was then
made up and a1itte wiry bulldog belonging to
a'man named Kelly was let into the ring, and
a terrible fight took place with the chances
about even, but after fighting twenty minutes
the dog killed the wild cat.
Year: 1871

The unpleasant odor produced by per
spiraticn is frequently the source of vex
alton to persons who are subject to IT..
Nothing is simpler than to remove this
odor, more effectually than by the appli.
cation Of such costly perfumes and ingre.
dients as are in use. 1t is only neces.
sary to procure some of the spirits Of
amonia, and place about two tablespoon.
fuls in basin of water. Washing the
face and arms with this leaves the skin
as sweet and clean as one could wish.
The wash is perfectly harmless and worry
cheap. 1t is recommended on the au.
thority Of an experienced physician.
Year: 1871

| WASHINGTON, March %, 1871.


Dear SIR Il do not know precisely
what your idea of Golden Age" may
be. l subscribed to your paper because
l wished to know. But assumed that
you held truth to be characteristic OF
such an age, and that you meant to in
form, and not to misinform, your read
ers. Therefore l venture to call your
attention, and that of the public, to an
editorial in the Golden Age of the 18th
inst, headed ''Tbe Assault on Mr.. Sum
ner," notice your article instead of
any other Oh the same subject, not be-
cause yours is better or worse than 9TH
ers, but simply because Free Lance as
you are, in the field Of polemics, is un-
der no sort of obligation, partizan or Sec
tartan, to misrepresent. If, therefore,
you do not tell the truth at any time, it
must be either because you do not know
it, or because you do not choose TO tell
it. assume the former is the true rea-
son, and rot the latter-that you weuld
tell the truth, if you knew it, and so |
give it you.


At the opening of the present session
of Congress, the Senate. as has been its
usage since the foundation OF the Gov
ernment, made several changes in it's
Standing Committees. Two Senators
were transferred from the judiciary to
other Committees. The Chairman of
the Committee on Mines and Mining was
transferred to the head of the Commit
tee on Public Lands. The Chairman of
the Committee on Manufactures was
transferred to The bead OF the Commit
tee on Agriculture. The Chairman of
the Committee on Appropriations was
transferred to the head of the Commit
tee on the Library. 1t was proposed to
transfer the Chairman OF the Committee
on Foreign Relations to the head of the
Committee Oh Privileges and Elections.
So far as | can learn, both you and the
public are content with all these changes
-excep: the last. TO the last, you and
many others object. To that, these three
objections are mainly urged:


First, That the change was made to
punish Mr.. Sumner.


Second, That it was made to punish
him for his opposition to the annexation
of San Domingo.


Third, That President Grant dictated
the punishment. ....., .


Allow me to assure YOU that each one
of these assumptions is wholly ground
less. Allow me to convince you OF it.
Mr.. Sumner has not been punished at
all. To deprive a man OF office is not
necessarily to punish him. Much less is
it punishment not to confer an office
upon man. Least of all is it punish
ment to confer upon a man one office in
stead of another of no greater dignity
or elnolument. This last was the extent
Of the Senate's offending against Mr..
Sumner. He was not removed from an
office. He was not denied an office. LIE
was simply assigned to the post ofChaip-
man OF Privileges 8 Elections instead OF
that on Foreign Relations.
Year: 1871

The following mastery article appears in
the Golden Age, the TILToN organ, in answer
to Mr. TILToNs position on the SUMNER re-
moval from the Foreign Relations Committee.
We cannot afford to devote so much room to
the subject as to give Mr. Tilton's reply to it,
as in fairness, perhaps, might be demanded,
for one reason at least, and that is, the com
parative weakness of its arguments and fail
ure to grapple the subject with any thing like
vigOr of the article given:
Year: 1871

SLEEP, PAINTING, APoPLExY.-Whe
a man is asleep, his pulse beats and his
lungs play, but he is without sense, and
you can eas IL wake him up.


If a person faints, he too is without
sense, but he has no pulse and does not
breathe. Apoplexy between the two,
the heart beats, the lungs play as in sleep,
and there is nc sense as in fsinting, but
you can't shake the man back to life.


In sleep, the face is natural


In fainting tit, it has the pallor of
death.


In apoplexy, it is swollen, torpid and
fairly livid.


If a man is asleep, let him alone; ma
ture will wake him up as soon as Ire has
sleep enough.


When person taints, all that is needed
is to lay him on the floor, and he will
"come to" in double quick time. He
tainted because the heart missed beat,
tailed for only once to send the proper
amount of blood to the brain. If you
place the patient in horizontal position,
lay him on his back. 1t does not require
much force of the heart 10 send the blood
on level to the head; but, if you set a
man up, the blood has to shoot upward
TO the head, and this requires much more
force; yet in nine cases out of ten, il
person taints and falls to the floor, the
first thing done is to run to him and set
him up, or place him on chair,


In apoplcxy, as there is too much blood
in the head, everyone can see that the posi-
ton is to set man up, and the blood
naturally tends downward; as much So
as water will come out of bottle when
it is turned upside down if the cork is
cut.


If, then, man is scarcely asleep, let
him alone, for his face is natural.


If man has tainted, lay him flat on
his back, for his face is deadly pale.
fla man is apoplectic, set him in q
chair, because his face is turbid, swollen
and livid with excess of blood.
Year: 1871

We are at the chosen burial place of
this aged, weary, dying pilgrim, and
soon, with "'batcd breath and CULVER
ing lip" shall aid in consignipg him to
the companship Of the cycles which have
gone away to slumber forever in the
bosom of the dead past, where he, too,
may pillow his head for an eternal
sleep. He has been kind, yes, even
gracious, in his dealings with U.S.
Have we duly improved the opportu-
mites which he has given p? Are we
what We ought to be, in view of the
near approach Of death and tho grave.
The present is time for honest deal
ing with ourselves. We cannot escape.
Were We even now in the presence
chamber of the King who is to judge
US, would it bo we'll, or i'll? Think of
these things.
Year: 1871

Editor Transcript:-


SIR:-I wish to call the attention of
the readers of the TRANSCRIPT, to mat
ters in our School District, which is
No. 20. We have most excellent
school, kept by competent teacher-a
Miss Brown. The school progressed
most favorably until yesterday. Miss
B., at the commencement of the term,
adopted the practice Of opening the
exercises by reading part of a chapter
in the New Testament, and having the
pupils repeat the Lords Prayer in uni
son requesting all the school to unite
that felt so disposed, and those that dIl
not, to refrain from studying.


There IS a Catholic family here,
whose children attend the school,
One Of them yesterday broke out in
open rebellion against the devotional
exercises. If the Lords Prayer is anti
Catholic, it is something new to me-
Is that the doctrine taught by our
good bachelor fathers of the Church ?
if SO, they must be getting as particu-
lar as was the Priest who repeated the
18th verse of the 10Th of Matthew
Is the Catholic or any other sect to
dictate the course to be pursued by the
teac| .crs in our District Schools


Respectfully,
Year: 1871

GEN FROM LoNGrELLow.
Come to me, O ye children!


For | hear you at your pay.
And the questions that perplcxcd me


Have vanished quite away.
Ye open the Eastern windows


That look toward the Gun,
Where thoughts arc singing swallows,


And the brooks Of morning run.
In your hearts arc the bird and the sunshin


In your thoughts the brooklct. flow,
But in mine is the wind Of Autumn,


And the first fall of the snow.
All what would tho world be to us,


If the children were more?
We should dread the desert behind us


Worse than the dark before.
What the leaves are to the forest,


With ght and air for food,
Ere tho sweet and tender juices


Have been hardened into wood
That to the world arc ehildren;


Through them it feels the glow
Of brighter and SUMMER climate


Than reaches the trunks below.
Come to me, O ye children!


And whisper in my ear
What tho birds and the winds arc singing
In your sunny atmosphere.
For what arc oil our contrivings,


And the wisdom Of our books,
When compared with young caresscs,


And the gladness Of your looks?
Ye are better than al the ballads


That ever were sung or said;
For ye are living poems,


And all the rest are dead.