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Year: 1870

ATTORNEY GENERAL AKERNAN has declined
to address the Southern Republican Club on
the ground that he would have to allude to Geor-
gia matters, and the questions at issue In that
State will soon come before him for q lega,
opinion. 1t is said the Attorney General fayors
all election in the State this fall.
Year: 1870

A sharp swindle Was perpetrased early
last evening on our neighbor of the German
Gazette, by which large check came into
the possession of their cashier for small
amount of cash. A rough-looking customer
brought to the counting room of the REPUB-
LICAk an advertisement Of Leeds foundry
to be inserted one month, and presented in
payment check for eighty dollars, pur-
porting to be signed by Leeds & Co.


The mail clerk then in the counting room
declined TO accept the check and pay the
balance in cash, and the man went off
Not long afterward the cashier or q clerk
of the German Gazette brought the adver-
tisement of Leeds s. Co. TO the REPUBLICAN
counting room, marked TO make five squares


1t subsequently appeared that he took an
advertisement from the smart operator for
the German Ge-etle and for REPUBLICAN, for
sixty dollars, and gave him back twenty
dollars in greenbacks, that being the differ
ence between the amount of the check and
the advertising bill.


Special officers were searching for the
unscrupulous operator in fraudulent checks
last night. Verify, the world is given to
swndling.


A similar operation was once successfully
attempted on the REPUBLIcAN. Tho cashier
took iu the advertisement and q worthless
check, and paid out good money.
Year: 1870

ELEvATING.- Ben. Morse has placed some jack
screws under the floor Of Hubbard q Andrews
banking house, and is raising it to position
commensurate with the grand cash on hand. We
hope while Ben has possession of the screws he
will place them under the ed toral cranium Of
the Stripes and elevate il to a respectable po-
siton in Journalism. We mean no disrespect to
the bankers in this connection.
Year: 1870

THE DANCE AT THE AMERICAN.-We learn from
those who attended that the social dance which
came off at the American an Monday evening
last was one of the most largely attended, So
ciabe, gcntecl and pleasant parties ever held in
auburn. This is saying great deal, for there
have been many tip top parties in Auburn, but
still our authority is so direct, respectable and
convincing. that we must admit the fact. Many
gentlemen and ladies from a distance attended
and add their testimony in corroboration of the
above statement
Year: 1870

TEA PIANT.-We were show this week, by Rev.
N. r. Peck, three tea plants which he was bring
ing from the japanese colony in Ell Dorado
county, to plant at his residence at Ophr in
this county. The leaf is very similar to that
OF the monthly rose. They were carefully pre-
pared io- trasplanting and the curious can be-
yond doubt see them growing by calling at the
Reverend gentleman's residence lew weeks
hence.
Year: 1870

propose to give evidence that this Remedy is
not patent medicine. The objection which gener-
ally lies against all discoveries and inventions in
medicine is publicity" If somebody should dis
cover remedy to prolong life or an infallbe cure
for cholera or consumption, what monster would
he be to withhold his knowledge We have yet to
learn from what chapter or verse in Scripture to
quote, that may not heal others Of their fellow men
of any disease"


Nor have we asked Pckwicks, affected prudes,
or, in short men who are possessed of every kind
of sense but common sense, and all kinds Of opin-
ions but their own. The Buchu is a good thing. 1t
has hundreds of thousands of living witnesses to
attest its virtues and commend it, 1t is the preju-
dice of bigots and the envy of "Quacks."
Year: 1870

An excellent old deacon, who,
having won fine turkey at a charity
rattle, didn't like to tell his orthodox
wife how he came By it quietly re
marked, as he handed her tho fowl,
that the 'SbakcrJ" gave It TO him.
Year: 1870

PROPOSED ORGANIZATION OF A TELEGRAPHId


CIRCUIT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.


WASHINGTON, Sept. At is understood that
the Western Union Telegraph Company proposes to
operate with the War Department for the rapid TRANSMITS
sion the telegraphc reports Of the observation and
report Of storms for the benefit OF commerce ON our
Northern lakes and seaboard" The management Of thd
company regarding the undertaking as OF national i'm.
porance propose place their wires at the service OF
the War department liberal terms The organization
of the teegaphic circuit for the simultaneous transmits
sion OF the weather reports to and from the Board Of
Trade rooms, and principal cities throughout the United
states will be the most extensive that has ever been
attempted The organization is complete that 1t q
expected unparalleled speed in teegraphing will be at
tanned.
Year: 1870

WHARF AT AQUA CREEK.-The railroad
CONF any are row at work enarging and i'm
proving their WI, arf at the mouth OF AIuia creeL


80 as to accOmmt. date the increased business M
the read, which is anticipated in a very short
time, as preparations are being made to nut on
a daily line OF steamers TO ply between the month
OF the creek and Baltimore by the ay of Chesa-
Ntrs
Year: 1870

On FOURTEENTH STREET there is no regular
rule as to the driving of vehicles along the sim
gle railroad track on that rOughfare, and
the result is that sometimes vehicles come in
collision. neither party being willing to turn Off
the track. Some drivers have adopted rule in
going nOrthward to turn out for all vehicles
coming southwark, and to keep the track i'm re-
turning. Some such rule should be generally
adopted, SO that alterations may be avoided.
Year: 1870

AsH-NEDSE=DAY.-With to-day begins the
forty DAYS OF Lent. which will be observed by
several OF the Christian Churches, and more
especially by those of the Roman Catholic faith.
In al the churches OF that denomination this
morning the faithful were sprinkled with ashes
typical OF the humility of the Saviour Of the
world when he began his forty days suffering
before his crueihSiOn. The occasion Is one OF
great solemnity, and ends only with the snniyer-
sary OF the Resurrection, Easter. which cores
ponds with the Passover OF the IsraelitesL
Year: 1870

and make il our whole study TO furnish the VERY
BEs of everything IN the way of Family supplies
generally our facilities for buying surpassed by
none, and We guarantee % sell a. low as other
house in the city; also o. give the article duat
and quantity represented. Please give sing 10
trial al least.
Year: 1870

Oxygen is a colorlessSand transparent
gas; without odOr or taste; a little
heavier than air, its specific gravity
being 1.1056.


4 lighted taper lowered into a jar of
oxygen burns with surprising brillian-
cy. A glowing spark upon the wick is
all that is needed; the oxygen Instant
ly and with a slight explosion, kindles
it into a vivid flame. Experiments like
these illustrate the fact that bodies
which burn in air, will burn with
greater VigOr in oxygen.


Again: let an iron wire or steel
watch spring be tipped with a bit Of
wood. Set fire to the wood and at
once plunge it into jar of oxygen /;
quickly the metal takes fire and burDs
the iron with a steady and beautiful
light, or the steel with q multitude of
star-like sparks. Experiments such as
this illustrate the fact that substances
which do not burn in air may burn
with great rapidity in oxygen.


It not only supports combustion; it is
also necessary to the life Of animals. 1t
is in the air, and animals breathe It; it
goes into their blood and purifies it.
And vet were an animal to breathe
pure oxygen, death would surely fol,
low. BY being mixed with nitrogen
its violent action is toned down so that
the most delicate organ may not only
Withstand it, but be invigOrated by its
presence.


Oxygen is the most abundant ele-
ment in nature; minerals, plants, and
animals alike contain large quantities
of it. One-fifth part of the air by
weight is oxygen, eight-ninths Of all
the water on the globe, and about one
half Of all the solid rocks. Besides
this, it forms about four-fifths of the
weight of vegetable bodies, and about
three-fourths of that of animals. 1t is,
perhaps, not too much to say that one
half Of all the matter of the world, as
far as it has been examined, is oxygen.
And yet when freed from its prisons in
solid and liquid bodies, oxygen is a gas,
invisible as air and but little heavier.
0ooIeJJs (Ibc,laisfy3I
Year: 1870

'Tis sad. yet sweet to listen


To the soft winds gentle swell
Our childhood knew so we'll;
To gaze out on the even.


And the bOundless fields OF air,
And feel again our boyhood's wish
To roam like angels theni
There are many dreams Of gIadness
That cling around the past
And from the tomb OF feeling


Old thoughts come throngiag fast;
The forms we loved 50 dearly


In the happy days now gone,
The beautiful and lovely,


So fair TO look upon.
Those bright and gentle maidens


Who seemed so formed for bliss,
To glorious and too heavenly


For such 8 world as this;
Whose dark soft eyes seemed sW INNING,
In a sea OF liquid light,
And whose locks OF gold were streaming,
Ger brows SO sunny bright.
Whose smiles were like the sunshine
In the spring time Of the year
Like the ehangeful CLEANS Of April,
They followed every tear!
They have passed-like hopes-away,
And their loveliness has fied
Oh, many q heart is mourning


That they are with the dead.
Like the brightest buds ofSummer,
They have fallen with the stem;
Yet oh, it is a lovely death


To fade from earth like them
And yet the thought is saddcning
To muse on such as they,
And feel that all the beautiful


Are passing fast away
That the fair ones whom we love
Grow to each loving breast
Like the tendril of the clinging vine,
Then perish where they rest.
And we can but think of these,
In the soft and gentle Spring,
When trees are waving Der US,
And the flowers are bloSsOming5
And we know Winters coming
With his cold and stormy sky.
And the glorious beauty round Us
Is budding but to die!
Year: 1870

When man was made, it puzzled Satan much


How Adams S soul and body he could Win,
So he invented woman; ; and with such


A soul endowed her,sghe was sure to sin; I;
And once got Adam underneath her thrall,
Satan was certain both of them aF0Ild fall ,.
But then another difficulty rose


How to get Adam to accept his bride?
This he o'ercaIne, as everybody KNOWS


BY sending him to sleep then by his side
Place Eve. For Satan knew this much Of life,
That, wide awake. he'd never take q wife.
Year: 1870

COMMENTARY ON TIE FORCE BILL.-1t Is
rather singular fact that IN the past two
days the only persons who have enjoyed
the hosptalties Of bed and board furnished
by the city for evil-doers have been the u.
S. A. order-preservers, sent here to protect
the sacred ballot from all sorts of imaginary
violations. Twenty-nine of these doughty
warriors were Gagged by the city police for
being drunk and disorderly. The last batch
of them Oourteen in number) were turned
over to their officers on yesterday, and we
suppose have ere this departed with tne
rest of their comrades to that bourne
whence they came
Year: 1870

SOMETHING LOST SIGHT OP.-Judge Gui-
gon ordered an election to be held on last
Tuesday in Jefferson Ward for magistrate
to ill the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Justice Brown. Bya singular oversight
no candidates were announced, and not q
single vote was cast for anybody to till the
office in question. .......
Year: 1870

ADJOURNMENT OF THE LEGIsLATURE.-The
General Assembly OF Virginia adjourned on
yester day until the next session, which
commences on the 1th Of December next,
without acting finally upon the bill for the
compensation OF, Jurors. There will be
sent up IN angry howl from the profession
ais, and shcrtfs will not be able to pick up
iury around the court. house doors as for
merly; the intense desire to serve ones
country becoming extinct along with the
pay. The bill in relation to the selection
and mpannellng of juries is now law.
Year: 1870

~ An American traveller in Italy has
dumbfounded the Government by serious
ly proposing to lease Mount Vesuvius.
He says he will make roads and lay out
pleasure grounds upon its rocky sides.
build hotels and set up soda fountains on
its summit, and help the visitors up and
down by machinery. To pay him for all
this outlay and amass fortune besides, he
will charge small admission fee from all
who wish to step up aud see the show.
Year: 1870

~ "hP' 'hi'h e. ihVHh's
Homo of the green enduring pine
Land Of the wintry wind and storm
A race Of noble men is thine,


with purpose firm, and spirit warm
Apart from fashions god who dwell.
In crowded cities by the sea,
They ring from hill and vale the bell.
Of Love, Religion Liberty.
Mid all the fertile states that lie d.
From southern gulf to northern bound,
None pile their harvest gifts 30 high
Or with such cheer home fires surround
No prouder lustre e'cr hath stood
Upon the wrecks Of parted years,
Than that whose laurels twined in blood
Gave glory to our mountaineers,
When over yon old fort was heard
Brave Ethan Aliens loud huIzab
When Mary's Height and Gettysburg
Rolled back the fearful tide of war
Just dyed in blood, we press some hand
Tender aud true, nor blush to own
Their aid to save the noblest land
On which the sunlight ever shone.
They lift the marble from its rest
For halls Of art in other climes





The ocean storm and wave sublime
They build fair altars unto God
Where Learnings light in beauty glcws.
And Labor bids the forest clod


To bud and blossom as the rose
The focks that fill the pastures fair,
The brown-eyed cattle at the font,
The toilng steed, the courser rare,
Repeat the praise of old Nermont
The south is rich with cotton plains,
And gay with orange groves and bowers,
But Slavery left their withering stains
That neer have touched these homes of our.
Champlain's blue wave that upward bore
Of old, the red mans frail canoe,
Now smiles in light from shore to shore.
As sweeps the mighty steamboat through
And Mansfeld's grand eternal head
Unto the sky an echo rolls,
Then yonder car with kingly tread,
The bound Of time and space control.
We claim Collamer. a Foote,


A Douglas, mid the strorg of mind
SAKE to bind the glowing thought
In wreaths of poetry refined.
A Powers, whose earnest hand hath given
Inc maroie lines OF living grace,
Hope who hath for canvass riven
The glory of Creations face
Perkins, who unceasing waves
The quivering chords Of deathless song,
And in each heart and valley leaves
Harmonious chords that linger long
The green hills keep sacred shrine,
From which Christian band 60 forth
To sound the call Of Love Divine,
To all the nations Of the earth
The native home Of active mind,
Of honest brow, of willing hand,
Firm as thy cliffs, green as thy pine,
Thy fame in future years must stand
While favor dwells on every sea.
And clasps the earth from zone to zone.
This goodly land our pride shall be,
Vermont, our beautiful our own
Vt.
Year: 1870

There is more truth than poetry in the
folloming paragraph, which comes from IA
Memphis exchange. 1t may be suggest
i've to some Of our readers it is terribly
suggestive to many newspaper publishers
1t says


BY some unaccountable misapprehen-
sion Of facts, there is large class of peo-
pie in the world who think that it costs
little or nothing to run a newspaper, and
ifthey buy a copy from the newsboy,
when too far from the office to come and
beg Que, they are regular patrons and en-
titled to unlimited favors Men call ev-
ry day at newspaper offices to get copy
of the daily paper, just from the press,
for nothing, who would never dream of
begging a pocket handkerchief from il
dry goods store; an apple from fruit
stand, or piece of candy from confec-
toner, even upon the plea of acquaint-
ance, or having bought something once
before. One paper is not much, but a
hundred day amounts to something in
the course of time.


But this is small drain compared
with the free advertising newspaper is
expected to do. Some people who have
paid two dollars at an early period of life
for an advertisement worth four or five,
appear to think they are stockholders in
the establishment for eternity They de-
mand the publication of all marriage and
funeral notices. obituaries and family cpl
sodes, for the next forty years, gratis.
Speak of pay, and they grow indignant.
"Dont | patronize your paper? ?" "Yes;
but you receive the worth Of your mono y
for what you paid" But" says the
patron, sit will not cost you anything tu
put this in, which is just as ridiculous II
to ask man to grind your axe on hi,
grind stone, and graciously tell him tha
1t won't cost cent.


1t takes money to run newspaper Il,
well AS any other business, and no news,
paper will succeed financially that carrie,
dead-head system. Any mention of til,
peoples affairs, that they are anxious t,
see in print, is worth paying for and wh,
printed is generally worth AS much T.,
any other investment of the same
amount.


The newspaper business is very exac,
ing on all connected with it, and the pay
is comparatively small the proprietor
risk more money for smaller profits, and
the editors and reporters and printer,
work harder and cheaper, than the same
number Of men in any other profession
requiring the given amount of intelligence
and training and drudgery.


The life has its charms and its pleasant
associations, scarcely known by the out
side world but it has its earnest work
and anxieties and hours Of exhaustion,
which, likewise, are not known to those
who think the business all fun. The idea
that newspaperdom is charmed circle,
where the favored members live life of
ease and free from care, and 20 to the
circus at night on free ticket, and to the
springs on free pass in the summer, is
an idea which we desire to explode prac-
tically and theoretically.


Business is business, and tbs lourns
that succeeds is the one that is run on a
square business footing, the same as bak-
ing or building bridges, keeping hotel,
or running livery stable.
Year: 1870

To form an Independent character, one
must be thrown upon his own resources.
The oak, growing in the open field, where
it is continual y beaten upon by the tenn
pest, becomes its own protector. So the
the man who is compelled to rely upon
his own strength, ability and energy,
forms an independence Of character to
which he could not otherwise have at.
tanned. Strike out for yourselves, boys,
IT you wish TO succeed
Year: 1870

The murder of citizen in Hudson street in
his store by wanton, drunken ruf1an Is
another instance of the characteristic crime of
this city-a bold, defiant, reckless, causelesa
outrage. This crime has the same character
az the Rogers murder in the absence Of any
apparently sufficient motive, and as 1t is the
assault Of youthful, athletic bravo upon an
aged, unofending, respectable citizen. It is
apparently an outrage for the sake Of outrage
an assault committed from mere love of vio-
lence and the display of recklessness in the use
Of the most extreme means. The rowdy Of
this town has no exact equivalent in any other
city. He is the growth Of our political sys-
tenn, our naturalization and our commingling
of the discordant elements Of human nature as
found in all the various races that centre here.
We have produced him, and we have yet to do
what every society must do when it discovers
that 1t has favored unwittingly the growth Of
monster-we must provide some remedy
against him. There will be no peace nor
safety to human life in this city until we have
either stamped out this horrible species or
cradicated the causes that conduce to Its
development.
Year: 1870

Another trial OF the junk pirate Perry,
charged with numbering the watchman Hayes,
has ended in the disagreement Of jury. 1t
seems possible that this man, Of whose guilt
there Is no doubt in the public mind, may
escape through the dif1culty OF fastening
the orime upon him by evidence legally good,
and, perhaps, through some difficulty with
juries. The Judge who sits on this trial has
weakened the case against the prisoner by
ruling that, carried to its evident consequence,
would rule out all dying declarations from
murder trials. It will be remembered that the
wounded man, with the last breath he had,
declared that Perry shot him. He knew Perry
well, and this declaration, taken with the fact
that Perry had threatened him for his vigil
ance in guarding property placed under his
care, made Q strong point. This point the
Court has broken by ruling that the dying de-
elsratiea is not admissible unless the man
knows he Is dying. Now, upon what evidence
must dying man know this fact2 This ques-
ton pushes the inquiry into the realm of meta
physics, and, because court cannot follow it
there, the ruling is bad. The man died, and
therefore the plain fact is that the utterance In
question was his dying declaration, and was
entitled to all the force, therefore, the law will
give it. This Perry case is fair one for the
use Of that good old expedient of justice--a
change of venue. Let it be taken to some
other county-somewhere far out into the
rural districts, where men are, perhaps, not
more honest than they arc here, but whore,
because of thinner population, men are
better known to their neighbors and the
prisoners friends cannot be put in as honest
citizens
Year: 1870

THO Pspe and she Church In America-


ssInndsl RevoIutionist.'' In Oar Midst.


A special news telegram, dated In Rome
yesterday morning, and forwarded through the
Atlantic cable, informs US that his Holiness
Pope Plus the Ninth celebrated his Sabbath
day mass in tho chapel of the American Col
lege in the Holy City. He afterwards break
the institution. A numerous party OF Amerl-
can visitors attended, by special invitation Of
the Prefect, to meet his Holiness. The Pope
addressed the students and their guests, con-
graduating them on the progress which has
been made by the Catholic Church in America,
the work Of the clergy being made easy to q
certain extent as ''the republican people Of the
American Continent were people fond Of the
practice and guide Of virtue" He added that
tho Church was condemned in America only
by 20 class Of infidel revolutionists, who are
just as dangerous to the cause Of law and order
In the United States as they are in Europe"


Our special telegram thus demonstrates to
the faithful that SO far from being dead Pho
Mono ''still lives. and also that his Pontiacal
hopes for great success OF the Church In
America and the ultimate completion Of the
new Cathedral in New York remain fervent
and unabated. The institution Of the Ameri-
can College in Rome, it's prefecture and man
agement, with the large attendance Of native
born students within its walls, afford, no
doubt very substantial pledges in this direc-
ton. They are. indeed, accepted In this
light by the Head Of the Church, as is evil
denced by the many valuable compliments
which he has already rendered to tho Ameri-
can ecclesiastical community in Rome.


His Holiness affords us considerable conso-
latiQn BY the assurance that generally as a
whole the American people are full Of intelli-
gence, fond of the practice Of virtue, and good,
stanch democratic republicans. This PontiHoal
certificate removes US to . pretty safe distance
from the debris and ashes of Sodom and
Gomorrah for while It Is to be hoped that
our people win make good use Of the tempo
rary opportunity and endeavor to got COM
pletely clear Of the binding, burning drift. OF
these dangerous infdel revolutionists' who
condemn the Church in America, we perfectly
agree with the Pope, that If they be ''inhdel
revolutionists" they are Q pretty ''hard set"
and ''bad cases" to manage. We have only
to regret that the Holy Father did not indicate
the class little more pointedly, so that the
God fearing people in our midst would be
enabled to give them ''wide berth" in every
day politics. Where do the infidel revolution
lists come from? No person can suspect Ire
land, Italy or Spain. The chaps themselves
will find out all about it when the Cathedral
is completed.