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Year: 1871

RED HILL.--Mr. Peter Weise, of Red Hill,
came to town last Saturday bringing with him
the proceeds of the first clean up of his claim
this Winter. He has been working four weeks
with but little water, and cleaned up the head
of his hume only. Nothing was taken out of the
bed rock bitches, nor had any bed rock been
cleaned. The gold was that washed out of the
bank through the bed rock bitches into the
fume. Mr.. Wese, like most others, was back
ward about telling how much dust he had, but
we have learned enough to warrant us in saying
that it amounted to between one hundred and
forty to one hundred and fifty ounces. The
claim has always been rich one and still holds
ont
Year: 1871

Several hundred persons went on an
excursion to Bonnet Carp Crevasse yes.
terday. The levee on either side Is still
giving way, although unrcmitting labor Is
being made to stop the furthersprea of
the crevasSes. Fheroar Of the current at
the break can be heard more than a mile.
Well informed planters estimate the loss
to the sugar crop WIN exceed 6. 10000 hogs
Year: 1871

THE plan of hanging little basket on
the front door, to receive the cards of New
Years callers is becomming yearly more
general. The Albany Euening Journal
tells the following story of practical joke,
which this custom enabled a young man to
play upon some young ladies of that city:


"There was one heartless joke played
New Years of which we must make men
ton. 1t deserves universal scorn, and how
can it get its deserts sooner than by being
told of and held up in these columns? At
the house of one of our most wealthy and
generous-hearted citizens, ample prepara-
tions were made for the reception of guests
Three young ladies of much individual
and collective bewilderment, wore their
brightest eyes, their most climacteric
clothes, their fiashiest jewels for the de-
lectation of callers, a table containing
everything to tempt the palate in the way
of fish, flesh and towel was set out, and
everything good TO drink that didn't make
q mock was in abundance. And yet, al
though the host had troops of friends, al
though the hostess and her charming
daughters were petted in many circles and
general favorites, they had no calls until
nearly o'clock in the evening, and, when
the house was closed, list which should
have contained at least one hundred and
fifty names showed some twenty five re-
cords.


"The strange state of things was pro-
duced by the preparation of the heartless
joke of which we spoke. A young gentle
man, a friend Of the family quietly went
to the door of the house where such
good time was expected, about noon, and
hung nice little basket on the door-bell,
smiled, and passed off. OF course, would
be callers saw the basket, desposited cards,
and withdrew. About o'clock, an old
uncle of the young ladies thought he'd go
in anyway. basket or no basket, and he did
so. Finding his nieces with red eyes, as if
they had been weeping, the old uncle beg
ged to apologize for coming in-in spite of
the basket. In flash the mystery OF their
uncalled-for solitude was unveiled, and the
basket was taken in-with no pet name al
lusion to the young gentleman who hung
it there. Not pet name for him indeed,
one of the young ladies remarked, with
flashing eyes, that she thought twould
serve him right to treat him as he had
treated the basket"
Year: 1871

THE following from the New York
Journal Of Commerce is well adapted to
every locality: There is far too much
negligence, everywhere, about the pay
ment of small amounts of money. It not
untrequently happens that men will have
a small account charged, when they have
money sufficient in their pockets to pay it,
and subject the creditor to the trouble of
sending it for collection when he needs it,
taking the chance of learning the debtor
is away from his place of business, or from
home, and perhaps subjecting him to the
lmputation of being in needless hurry
for payment


More attention to this point, and es-
peclally by those to whom the time of
payment is smmaterial, who can pay at
one time as well as another, would be
vast improvement upon the present mode
of many persons in doing business.


The prompt payment of small bills is a
matter of much more importance than is
generally attached to it. There are not a
few who, in times when business has been
little depressed, and the prospects for the
future seem more than unusually unsettled,
will hold on to their cash in hand, and tell
all the collectors who wait upon them
with overdue bills to call again." while
the payment would not give them any





accommodate large and deserving class
of creditors.


Indeed, we know of nothing that in a
quiet way would go SO far to give life to
the markets throughout the country as the
universal payment of these obligations at
the first opportunity. If all the little
debts, for the discharge of which the
debtors now have the cash in hand. were
paid at once, the wheels of business would
be fabricated, and general jollity" soon
prevail throughout the land. The first
serious effect of any public excitement
comes from the sudden check of these
little streams. 1t is true that large trans
actions are arrested, but if everybody went
to paying these little debts the check
would be but momentary, as business
would be forced along by the current thus
continually renewed. Let every one whose
eyes fall on these lines pay out his ready
money for bills he knows to be due, and
stop not until his pocket be emptied
Probably before this is realized the re-
turn current will reach his pocket too, and
he will be able to fulfil all his obligations
there is as much money as ever. Who
stops its flow? Let it move on by a
| prompt payment of all bills now due, and
new business will catch the inspiration
| and start of upon fresh gallop.
Year: 1871

BY PHGBE CARY
WHY are we so impatient of DELAY,


Longing forever for the time to be:
For thus we live tomorrow In te-day


Yea, sad to-morrows we may never see.
We are too hasty; are not reconciled


TO let kind nature do her work alone;
we plant our seed, and like q foolish child
We dig it up to see if it has grown.
The good that is to be we covet now,


We cannot wait for the appointed hour;
Before the fruit is ripe we shake the bough,
And seize the bud that folds away the flower.
When midnight darkness reigns we do not see
That the sad night is mother Of the morn;
We cannot think our own sharp agony
May be the birth pang Of a Joy unborn.
Into the dust we see our idols cast,


And cry, that death has triumphed life Is void! !
We do not trust the promise, that the last
OF all our enemies shall be destroyed!
With rest almost in sight the spirit fainte,
And heart and flesh grow weary at the last,
Our feet would walk the city of the saints,
Even before the silent gate is passed.
Teach us to wait until Thou shalt appear
To know that all by ways and times are Just;
Thou seest that we do believe, and fear,
Lord. make us also, to believe and trustl
Year: 1871

THE sum and substance of nine
thousand words received by telegraph
last night by the APPEAL are found
under the heading Telegraphie Sum
mary. News from all quarters of the
globe and synopsis Of the worlds
history as its pages were unfOlded yes
terdsy is this briefly given. So wide
IL distributed are sources Of telegra-
phic information that men can hardly
do more than keep pace with the
course Of current events. It is almost
impossible, therefore, 70 read books,
and the newspapers becomes the IL
brary OF this age. For this reason, II
there were none other, its pages
should be untarnished by vice and
unpOlluted by revolving recitals of
crime. It should lash the corrupt in
Office and maintain, in morals and
politics, the loftiest standard OF purity.
II the press, like governments, be
come defiled there viii be nothing Of
purity left, and Atheism and vice
would reign everywhere. The pulpit,
unheralded and unsupported, would
fail of its aims, and despot would be
required 10 repress the supreme dia-
b0lism Of the depraved.
Year: 1871

An officer from Georgia has ar
rived in Washington with warrant
for the arrest OF Governor Bullock
on the charge of a misrepresentation
of the State bonds. Had he not re
signed it was the intention of the
authorities in the State to proceed
with his Impeachment. The story
goes that two or three millions are
involved.
Year: 1871

ses for Sunday or night work. We
may add that there are in Chicago
about five hundred lawyers.


The Journal certainly forgot, in
its enumeration the five hundred
petitions for divorce. If any Of the
unhappy couples desire to return TO
their first love, the way is now
clear. There is no evidence that
any petition for divorce has ever
been filed by any of the numerous
y,o,45ou
Year: 1871

The opponents of Gov Brown are
endeavoring 10 deceive the public
by declaring that lie urges AN in
crease of faxes to pay the interest
oh the bonded debt of the State,
when ia fact Gov. Brown recon-
lnends a decrease Of taxes ten cents
OH the hundred dollars and clearly
leaves the payment Of interest to the
next Legislature which will be bet
ter able TO determine what should
be done, than can now be decided by
this legislature Union.
Year: 1871

C~ The following article which
we copy from the Louisville COu-
Tier Journal, cont ins so much of
what we have long believed, and of
ten in our feeble way attempted to
express, that we commend it to the
careful consideration of-not mere
partizans-but every man who is ca
pable of rising above the level of the
partizan, and looking from the stand
point of patriotism and a native love
of free government:
Year: 1871

Whatever be our earthly lot,


Wherever we may roam,
Still to our hearts the brightest spot
Is round the hearth at home
The home whore we received our birth
The hearth by which we sat,
No other spot on all the earth,
Win ever be like that.
When winter, coming in its wrath,


Piled high the drifting snow,
Safe clustered round the cheerful hearth
We watched the freight glow;
Nor brighter seemed the ruddv flames
Than did our hearts, the while .
A loving mother breathed our names,


With sweet approving smile.
When wearicd with our eager chase


Through many tangled path,
How sweet the dear accustomed place,


To talk around the hearth;
And still, when by our toll and care
We feel ourselves oppressed,
Our thoughts forever cluster there,


And there alone find rest.
Bright promise of the rest above,


Sweeet shelter from the storm,
Home hallowed by a mothers love,


Hearth by that love made warm
Though wildly roared the storm without


What rocked we of the cold,
What place for any fear OF doubt
Within the loving foldl


And when some little trouble weighed


Upon the childish heart,


TIL from our brimming eyes it made


hegushing tear-drops start;
How quick before the genial glow,
We felt each sorrow cease,
2 And bacBthe crystal current flow,
e Tofood our hearts with peace
u And brighter with the passing years
5 Seems childhoods sweet employ,
II And even sweeter still appears
= Each well remembered joy


Around the cheerful hearth at home.


Where we in childhood sat,


No other spot where'er we roam,


Will ever be like that.
Year: 1871

Train the understanding
Take, care that the mind has a
stout and straight stem. Leave
the flowers of wit and fancy to
take care of themselves. Stick
ing them on viii not make
them grow. You can only in
graft them by grating that
which viii produce them.
Year: 1871

There are proper times for
talking, as well as themes for
it. Men should take care not
to talk much when their mouths
are full, OF when their heads
are empty. In the former case,
they nauseate in the latter
one they bore. Unless a man
has something sensible to say,
he certainly had better be con-
tented without saying it. A
good listener is as hard to find
as a good talker, and yet tho
knack of listening is easy of
attainment. IF one only can
contrive to look as though one
listens, one may often get the
credit of doing so.


| When a company Of takers
are laundering away, their


thunder ought to be attended


by a brilliant flash of silence on


the part of some good listeners.
Conversation, when all talk is
noise, is not conversation.
When ladies talk together, their
, tongues move all at once, and
! no one ever stops to listen.
} This is why, among them
3 selves, ladies talk such utter
0 nonsense. But ladies can talk
}. sense when they have men of
e sense to talk 10, for then they
P take the trouble to say some
thing worth answering. Ii
u every one keeps talking, no
i body is, therefore any wiser for
q their saying it.


Remember, when you talk,
: that, very often listening pleas


es more than talking. BY lis
70 tening to q man, you pay him
20 a great compliment, for you


de,icately indicate that what
he he says is worth your hearing
n Moreover, though, by listening
ae you may hear Unpleasant
IT. things, the occupation offer
ch saves you from the chance o
en- saying them. In short, thougl
ey it may seem anomalous TO sa,
ry it, one of the greatest charm
as of talking is to hold one
Ell tongue well. The man wh
of holds his tongue in course G
DIV conversation will often Civ
lu- more pleasure than the ma
IN who merely uses it.
Year: 1871

What a charming picture is
presented to the aGmiring eye
ofthe virtuous and philanthropy
ic, the lover of the beautiful and
the good! There is the hus-
band and father In the prime of
life, unbending his mind from
the toll and pursuit of business,
reading some favorite volume
to the wife of his bosom, or
playing with the delightful
prattler on his knee. While
the mother, with a countenance
radiant with smiles, plies the
needle for the accommodation
and wants of her household. as
she listens, and perhaps rocks
the cradle with her busy foot,
! or softly administers a gentle


word of rebuke when the little


ones become too noisy.
Year: 1871

Without kind Offices
and useful services, whenever
the power and opportunity ec-
cur, love would be a hollow
pretence. Yet what noble
mind would not be offended If
he were thought to value the
services for the sake of the
love?
Year: 1871

WALDRoN, IND, March Isl had a
nice flock of eight Brahmas. The cholera
having commenced its work among them,
and after trying most every remedy ever
heard of, and still nothing seemed to do
any good, I finally went and got some
white oak bark and made strong tea of
it, and gave it to them to drink, and it
checked the cholera Immediately. In three
or four days could see it was returning
again. set it out again for them to drink,
and by keeping it up every time it returns,
never lost chicken since. They must
not have access to any water while giving
them this tea, and they should not be let
go until ready to die before using it.
would advise all those that wish to save
their chickens to try this remedy as di-
rected above, and if it fails the first time
try it again before you condemn it.-J. r.
D. Cincinfsdtt Gazette.
Year: 1871

BEANS FOR GARaET IN Cows.-A cor.
respondent Of the Neto England Farmer
says: Some six or seven years ago, saw
beans recommended for garget in cows, by
gentleman who had a cow 80 badly af-
fected that she was nearly spoiled, but she
got to stack of beans and ate what she
wanted. The result was, she was cured.
Since then have used nothing else and
it has never failed to cure al yet. Beans,
we all know, will do no harm, and it is q
medicine that all farmers have on hand, or
ought to have. At first soaked pint to
a feed, and mixed them with meal to make
the COW eat them; but now I keep ground
beans, as I think the meal is the best. This
fall / had very promising two year old
heifer become SO bad in one teat that I
could scarcely milk it, and the milk was
very chunky and bloody. I gave her one
pint of the meal mixed with other meal
for four days, when she was as well as
ever, and has remained so. think If COWS
were fed with bean meal two or three times
year they would not be troubled with
gargetn
Year: 1871




NEW YORK, March ga correspond
ent who recently interviewed Napoleon at
WilhelmshOhe, says he expressed the be-
lief that France was drifting to anarchy,
which might not be confined to her alone !;
denounced the National Assembly as lille
gally and unfairly chosen, and not repre-
sentative Of the will of the people. He
said Thiers was a smart wire-puller, who
would do anything to retain power; de-
Tended himself from various calumnies.
In reply 10 question whether he intend
ed to retire to private life, Napoleon said !:
do not think that strictly speaking it
should be called private life. All my ef-
forts should be increasingly directed against
the rebels, who have conspired for the ruin
of France, which is the only. hope to them
of carrying out their sinister designs.
These men will force to make amends to
my poor people, which they can only do
by asking directly after their will and then
submitting to it without opposition. An
energetic government, with honest men,
may soon heal up the wounds of France,
but the power and authority of these same
men would be blasted at the outset, did
they not receive it Immediately out of the
hands of the people,"


CARDINAL ANroNELLI.


Another correspondent, who interview
ed Cardinal Antonelli, reports him to have
said, relative to the Italian Parliament:
They are occupying Themselves with guar
antees-guaranteesl We know that Jesus
Christ gave the Holy Father the right as
His successor, and the successor of the
Apostles, to rule His church, but we
never knew. before now, that He be-
queathed to them (the Italians) the
permission or duty TO concoct guaran-
tees for the purpose of establishing after
what way the Church shall be governed
guarantees which all Catholics on the face
of the earth, and the Pope first Of all, lie
Pope tout te Premier will refuse to accept,
Oh, there is no transaction possible with
them. You can say SO. There will never
be any between them and the church.
Year: 1871

An illusion is often practiced at
fancy fairs and bazaars. when spec
tator looking into what he supposes
to be an ordinary looking glass, sees
his companion instead of himself.
The way in which this is effected is
very simple. \ looking glass IS
placed diagonally across Il square
box. the apcrturcs in the sides being


50 arranged that the spectator does
not perceive that he is looking into a
glass that is placed ut an angle. OF
course the exhibitor endeavors to
show the illusion to two persons at
once; and if they are strangers to
each other. and of opposite sex, a


great deal Of fun is made out of the
trick. \ Snowman at Greenwich
made an immense harvest by show
ing two such mirrors, one to all the
Young girls who wished to see their


future husbands, and the other to all


the Young men who wished to see
their future wives. OF course he


had tOlerable good-loohlng male


and female confederate to help him.


With a couple Of mirrors placed


back to back in a square case, with


the opening on each side, the illu-
sion is still more perfect, as on look


ing through any Of the holes the box
seems to be quite empty.


The ''Speaking Head trick is per-


formed on this principle. When the


curtain Is drawn mp the audience per-


ceiye an apparently living head


placed on a small three-legged table,


the curtain at the back of the stage


being quite visible through the legs.


By-and-by the bodiless head, which
is generally painted III very fantas-


tic manner, begins to speak. answer


questions. and ends by singing a


song. The trick is performed in the


following way: The spaces between


the legs are filled with a looking


glass. consequently the spectators


SEE the reflection of the curtain at


the sides of the stage, which are


made exactly like those on the back,


thus giving the table the appearance
of standing on three slim legs, with
nothing between. Behind the looking
glass there is of course, plenty of
space for the body of the man be-
longing to the magical head. The
exhibitor naturally takes especial


care never to pass in front of the ta-
bic: otherwise the lower part of his
body would be reflected i'll the mir
rOrS.
Year: 1871

BROKE DowN.-A gentleman returning
from Hollywood last evening, in company
with an old lady from Manchester, met with
an accident when near the corner of Eighth
and Main streets. Z be two were In q buggy,
which gave way just Of the wrong time and
let-the pair out In the street. Neither OF
them WAS injured - Ss--ss'
Year: 1871

THE POLICE JUSTICE AND THE LAWYERS.
The case OF the city of Richmond against
the lawyers who have been arraigned to
show cause why they should not be fined
for failure to pay their license tax, accord
ing to the city ordinance, will be decided
this morning at 8 o'clock by Police Justice
White.
Year: 1871

A MUSICAL GENIUs.-There is in this city
q negro man whose business it is to /" blow
the horn" as the signal for the tobacco
breaks ut one. Of the warehouses who can
play any tune from Cid Hundred to the
Fishers Hornpipe upon an ordinary TIN
bugle and never miss a note. The most in
tricate piece of music is rendered with as
much apparent ease rs the most simple and
familiar. In anything, from a long-metre
doXology to waltz or jig, this wonderful won d s n
Republican,.
Year: 1871

Carlton, in his editorial poem, tells of
an old farmer who made his way into
the sanctum with a runt of a boy, who
being good for nothing else, the farmer
had designed for an editor. The poet
tells the story


The editor sat in the sanetum and look.
ed the old man in the eye:


Then glanced at the grinning Young
hopeful, and mOurnfully made this re-
ply:


as your son a small unbound edition
of Moses and Solomon both?


Can he compass his spirit with meek
ness, and strangle a natural oath?


Can he leave all his wrongs to the fe,-
ture, and carry his heart in his eheeka


Can ne do an hours work in a minute,
and live on siXpence a week?


Can he courteously talk to an equal.
and brOwheat an impudent Ounce?


Can he press all the springs of knowI-
edge, with quick and reliable touch?


And be sure that he knows how much
to know and how not to know toomueb?


Does he know how to stir up his virtue
and put check rein on his pride?


Can he carry a gentleman's manners
within a rhinOcerOus' hide?


Can he know all, and be all and do all.
with cheerfulness courage and vim9


If so, perhaps we can make an editor
'out'n o. him."