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pisiMtimeous.
jg L E C T It I C
TELEGRAPH IN CHINA.
THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S
OFFICE,
Nos. 23 & 25 Nassau Street,
NEW YORK.
Organized under special charter from the State
of New Y'ork.
CAPITAL $5,000,000
50,000 SHARES. $lOO EACH.
DIRECTORS.
HON. ANDREW G. CURTIN, Philadelphia.
PAULS. FORBES, of Russell k Co., China.
FRKD. BUTTERFIKLD, of F. Butterfield A C
New Y'ork.
ISAAC LIVERMORE, Treasurer Michigan Cen
(ral Railroad, Boston.
ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American
Express Company, New l'ork.
Hon. JAMES NOXON, Syracuse, N. Y.
O. 11. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union Tele
graph Company, New Y'ork.
FLETCHER WESTRAY, of Westray, Gibba A
H&rdcastle, New Y'ork.
NICHOLAS MICKLES, New Y'ork.
O FFICERS.
A. G. CURTIN, President.
N. MICKLES, Vice President.
GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com
monwealth,) Treasurer.
HON. A. K. McCLURE, Philadelphia, Solicitor.
The Chinese Government having (through the
Hon. Anson Burlingame) conceded to this Com
pany the privilege of connecting the great sea
ports of the Empire by submarine electric tele
graph cable, we propose commencing operations
in China, and laying down a line of nine hundred
miles at once, between the following port t, viz :
Population.
Canton 1.000.000
M ACG& sdooo
Hong-Kong 250,000
S watow 200,000
Amov 250.000
Foo-Chow 1,250,000
Wan-Cbu 300.000
Ningpo 400.000
Hang Cheaß 1.206.000
Shanghai 1,000,006
Total 5 910.000
These ports have a foreign commerce of $900,-
000,000. and an enormous domestic trade, besides
which we have the immense interna! commerce of
the Empire, radiating from these points, through
its canals and navigable rivers.
The cable being laid, this company propose?
erecting land lines, nnd establishing a speedy and
trustworthy means of communication, which must
command there, as everywhere else, the commu
nications of the Government, of business, and of
social life especially in China, She has no postal
system, and her ouly means now of commuuicating
information is by couriers on land, and by steam
ers on water.
The Western World knows that China is a very
large Country, in the main densely peopled; but
few yet realize that she contains more than a third
of tbe human race. The latest returns made to
her central authorities for taxing purposes by the
local magistrate make her population Four hun
dred ana Fourteen millions, and this is more
likely to be under than over the actual aggregate.
Nearly all of these, who are over ten years old,
not only can but do' read and write. Her civili
zation is peculiar, but her literature is as exten
sive as that of Eurepe. China is a land of teach
ers and traders; and the latter are exceedingly
quick to avail themselves of every proffered facili
ty for procuring early information. It is observed
in California that the Chinese make great use of
the telegraph, though it there transmits messages
'n English alone. To-day great numbers of fleet
steamers are owned by Chinese merchants, and
used by them exclusively for the traosuiissiou of
early intelligence. If the telegraph we propose
connecting all their great seaports, were now in
existence it is believed that its business would
pay the cost within the first two years of its suc
cessful operation, and would steadily increase
thereafter.
No enterprise commends itself as in a greater
degree remunerative to capitalists, and to our
whole people. It is of vast national importance
commercially, politically and evangelically.
Ls?"The stock of this Company Has been un
qualifiedly recommended to capitalists and busi
ness men, as a desirable investment by editorial
articles in the New Y'ork Herald, Tribune,
World, Times, Post, Express, Independent, and
in the Philadelphia North Amen can, Press,
Ledger, Inquirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph.
Shares of this company, to a limited number,
may be übtained at s.>o each. $lO payable down,
$l5 on the Ist of November, and $25 payable in
monthly instalments of $2.50 each, commencing
December 1, 1868, on application to
DREXEL & CO.,
34 South Third Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Shares can be obtained In Bedford by applica
tion to Reed A Scbell, Bankers, who are author
ized to receive subscriptions, and can give all ne
cessary information on the subject. sept2sy 1
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And moderate prices with the best workmanship,
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ALL
HAVE HEARD OF
lIOOFLAND S GERMAN BITTERS,
AND
lIOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC.
Prepared by Dr. C. M. Jackson, Philadelphia.
Their introduction into this country from Ger
many occurred in
1825.
THEY CURED YOUR
FATHERS AND MOTHERS,
And will cure you and your children. They are
entirely different from-r-r the many preparations
now in the country cal I—l led Bitters or Tonics.
They are no tavern A-"-preparation, or any
thing like one ; but good, honest, reliable medi
cines. They are
The greatest known remedies for
Liver Complaint,
DYSPEPSIA,
Nervous Debility,
JAUNDICE,
Diseases of the Kidneys,
ERUPTIONS OF THE SKIN,
and all Diseases arising from a Disordered Liver,
stomach, or
IMPURITY OF THE BLOOD.
Constipation, Flatulence, Inward Piles, Fullnes
of Blood to the Head. Acidity of the Stomach,
Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust for Food, Full
ness or Weight (n the Stomach, Sour Eruc
tations, Sinking or Fluttering at the
Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the
Head, Hurried or Difficult Breathing,
Fluttering at the . Heart, Choking or
Suffocating Secsa fl I tions when in a Lying
Posture. Dimness of Vision, Dots or Webs
before the sight, Dull Pain in the Head, Defi
ciency of Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin
and Eyes, Pain in the Side, Back. Chest,
Limbs, etc., Sudden Flushes of Heat,
Burning in the Flesh, Constant Imagi
nings of Evil and Great Depression of Spirits.
All these indicate diseases of the Li ver or Di
gestive Organs, combined with impure blood.
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS
is entirely vegetable and contains no liquor. It
is a compound of Fluid Extracts. The Roots,
Herbs, and Barks from which these extracts are
made, are gathered in Germany. All the medi
cinal virtueus are ex s-v tracted from them by
a scientific Chemist. I I These extracts are
then forwarded to this country to be used ex
pressly fur the manufacture of these Bitters.
There is no alcoholic substance of any kind used
in compounding the Bitters, hence it is the only
Bitters that can be used in ceses where alcoholic
stimulants are not advisable.
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC
is a combination of all the ingredients of the Bit
ters, with PURE Santa Cruz Rum. Orange, etc. It
is used for the same diseases a? the Bitters, incase
where some pure alcoholic stimulus is required.
You will bear in mind that these remedies are en
tirely different from any others advertised for the
cure of the diseases named, these being scientific
preparations of medicinal extracts, while the oth
ers are mere decoctions of rum in some form The
TONIC is decidedly one of the most pleasant and
agreeable remedies e'ver offered to the public Its
taste is exquisite. It is a pleasure to take it, while
its life-giving, exhilarating, and medicinal quali
ties have caused it to be known as the greatest of
all tonics.
DEBILITY.
There is no medicine equal to HooflandV Ger
man Bitters or Tonic in cases of Debility.
They impart a tone |-t and vigor to the whole
system, strengthen A the appetite, cause an
enjoyment of the food, enable the stomach to di
gest it, purify the blood, give a good, sound,
healthy complexion, eradicate the yellow tinge
from the eye, impart a bloom to the cheeks, and
change the patient from a short-breathed, emaci
ated, weak, and nervous invalid, to a full-faced,
stout, and vigorous person.
Weak and Delicate Children are
made strong by using the Bitters or Tonic. In
fact, they are Family Medicines. They can be
administered with perfect safety to a child three
months old, the most delicate female, or a man of
ninety.
These remedies are the best
Blood Purifiers
ever known aDd will cure all diseases resulting
from bad bload. Keep your blood pure; keep
your Liver in order, w keep your digestive
organs in a sound, I healthy condition, by
the use of these reme -Li dies, and no diseases
will ever assail you. The best men in thecountry
recommend them. If years of honest reputation
go for anything, you must try these preparations.
FROM HON. GEO. W. WOODWARD,
Chief Justice ol the Supreme Court of Pennsylva
nia.
PHILADELPHIA, March 10, 1867.
I find that "Hootland's Herman Bitters" is not
an intoxicating beverage, but is a good tonic, use
tul in disorders of the digestive organs, and of
great benefit in cases of debility and want of ner
vous action in the system.
Yours Truly,
GEO. W. WOODWARD.
PROM HON. JAMES TAOMPSON.
Judge of the Supreme Conrt of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA. April 28, 1866.
T consider '•Il-ajfland's German Bitters"' a valua
ble medicine in case . of attaeks of Indiges
tion or Dyspepsia. I A can certify this from
my experience of it. -LA- Yours, with respect,
JAMES THOMPSON.
FROM REV. JOSEPH U. KENNARD, D. D.,
Pastor of the Tenth Baptist Church, Philadelphia.
DA JACKSON—DEAR SIR:—I have been fre
quently requested to connect my name with rec
ommendations of different kinds of medicines, but
regarding the piactice as out of my appropriate
sphere, I hnve in all cases declined , but with a
clear proof in various instances, and particularly
in uiy own family, of the usefulness of Dr. Hoof
land s German Bitters, I depart for once from
my usual course, to express my full conviction
that for general debility of the system, and es
pecially fur Li ver Com "TWT plaint, it is a safe
and valuable preparation. In some cases
it may fail ; bnt usual -i- sly, I doubt not, it
will bo very beneficial to those who suffer from the
above causes. Yours, very respectfully,
J. H. KENNARD,
Eigth, below CoatesStreet.
CAUTION.
Hoolland's German Remedies are counterfeited.
The Genuine have the signature of C. M. JACK
SON on the front of the outside wrapper of each
bottle, and the name of the article blown in each
bottle. All others are counterfeit.
Price of the Bitters, $1 per bottle;
Or, a half dozen for $5.
Price of the Tonic, ill 50 per bottle;
Or, a half dozen for $7 50.
The tonic is put up in quart bottles.
Recollect that it is Dr. lloofland's German
Remedies that are so universally used and so
highly recommended; and do not allow the
Druggist to induce I lyou to take anything
else that he may say-'--'is just as good, be
cause ho makes a larger profit on it. Tbse Reme
dies will be sent by express to auy locality upon
application to the
PRINCIPAL OFFICE,
At the German Medicine Store.
No. 631 ASCII STREET, Philadelphia.
CIIAS. M % EVANS,
PROPRIETOR.
Formerly C. M. JACKSON A Co.
These Remedies are for sale by Druggists, Store
keepers and Medicine Dealers everywhere.
Do not forget to examine the articU\gou bug
m order to get the genuine.
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POI'LTKY AND EGGS.
A great deal of experience has taught
us that success in the poultry yard de
pends as much upon good general
management as upon any one thing.
When the eggs of any hens indifferent
ly are kept for the purpose of raising
young chickens, and when little atten
tion is paid to the particular hens re
served for laying, it will in general be
found that the profits aro small, and
the quality of fowls raised rapidly de
teriorates.
In addition to the usual plan of selec
ting only the best formed and quietest
hens for breeding purposes, we have
found it of advantage to pay consider
able attention to the age of tbe fowls
which we retain. For the production of
eggs for domestic consumption we nev
er keep hens beyond their second year,
but for raising chickens we have found
it to be poor policy to employ eggs
laid by hens less than two years
old. We have always found that the
chickens from the older hens are more
easily raised, have stronger constitu
tions, and turn out every way better
than those raised from eggs of young
er hens. The eggs consequently cost
more, but this extra expense is but a
small item on the number of eggs
usually employed for hatching.
In order to have eggs during win
ter, beside the usual appliances of
meat, lime, sand, bones, Ac., we always
make sure of having some very early
chickens. The pullets of these will
commence to lay in October or Novem
ber, and will lay throughout the win
ter. Next season we draft a few of the
very best of these and keep them as
breeders, the balance being fattened
and killed off as soon as they have
positively ceased laying. At this time
it is wonderful how rapidly hens take
on /at. We often see accounts of hens
not laying because they are too fat.
When considering the ease with which
hens fatten as soon as they cease lay
ing for the season, we have often
thought that the true way to state
the case is that they fattened because
they did not lay. At this age they
are delightfully tender and juicy, and
we would about as soon think of fatten
ing a cow that gave twenty quarts of
milk a day as to think of fattening a
laying hen.— Country Gentlemen.
MALE IS REEDING ANIMALS.
The good of every individual, man,
woman, and child, in the State would
be as directly affected by an improve
ment in our breeding stock as in any
other increase in our productive indus
tries or great internal .Improvement.
It is the business of the State to foster
industries, and to carry out or promote
improvements. Now, there is not a
State in the Union in which there are
not five, if we may not say ten, poor
bulls, stallions, boars, and rams, to one
tolerably good one. If in a dairy re
gion only thoroughbred bulls were
used, farmers would soon get in the
way of using only those of good dairy
breed, and we venture to say that the
yield of milk would be increased on an
average 2 quarts per day during the
milking season. With 50 cows this
would make 24,000 quarts, worth, at 3
cts. per quart, ss72o, which is clear gain
to the farmer, and so much more taxa
ble property in the community. It
becomes a question of no little impor
tance for Agricultural Societies, Boards
of Agriculture, and the legislators of
the various States to discuss, if by en
couragement or taxation they may not
be able to effect some such change.
Suppose, for instance, that a State
should tax all bulls twenty dollars a
head, and allow the officers of the
State Board of Agriculture to remit
the tax on all which came up to a cer
tain standard of excellence. How long
would it be before an essential change
would be observed in the whole char
acter of our neat stock and dairy pro
duets? It is certainly a question of
great interest, how the State may best
secure the advantage to accrue both to
its treasury and to its citizens by the
general use of well-bred or thorough
bred male animals as sires.—Agricul
turist.
A correspondent of an English paper
describes as follows the method by
which a rat stole eggs from a shelf.—
"Having concealed myself, I soon saw
a rat mount the shelf, nearly three
feet from the ground, hike an egg l>e
tween his claws and break at one end
a hole large enongh to insert the end
of his jaw; clasping the egg against
his stomach with his two paws, and
steadying it with his jaw in the hole
he had made, he walked backwards to
the edge of the shelf, and then deliber
ately threw himself down, so that he
fell with his back on the ground, and
the egg nestled at his stomach. He
turned over, and was decamping with
the egg, but I stopped him and recov
ered it, unbroken, save the little hole
at one end in which he had inserted
his jaw."
The days come and pass, and life is
soon ended. Is it worth while, then,
to hate or be at enmity with each oth
er? Life has little enough to give,
and we should give our fellow pil
grims all the charity and love poor hu
manity is capable of. Time will glide
swiftly by, and the young and joyous
will soon be knocking at the gloomy
portals of the land of silence. Then
will the mind wander back, and through
the famished years will gleam the
white faces of those we hated. Will
the retrospect soothe our last hours?
No. Then is it not better to love than
to hate?
"I don't believe it's any use, this
vaccinuation," said a Yankee. "I had
a child vaccinated, and fell out of a
winder a week arter and got killed.
"Let us have peace," as the fellow
said when he locked up his wife in the
coal celler.
SETTIAU THE HIVKK ON EIRE.
Joe Walter was one day fishing in
the river. He had fastened His boat to
a drift-log that had anchored itself a
few rods from the shore, and on this
he was standing when Solomon Ary, a
clever colored man, time along the
river road.
When Joe saw Solomon, he began to
cry out lustily, "it's going to rain!
See that big black cloud! It's going
to rain !" This he repeated several
times in a provoking way. Solomon
passed on without seeming to notice
the unkind jest.
A miller who was at work near by,
heard what Joe said, and exclaimed,
"Joe hold your tongue. If you were
my boy, I would set you at work. An
industrious hoy is less likely to he ill
mannered, and to speak unkindly.—
You are one of those boys that will
never set (lie river on fire."
Joe was a little confused, but he
said, half saucily, "Yes I will."
In a few moments some round shin
ing patches came floating down to the
place where he stood.
"Oil," he said to himself, and kept
on fishing.
Soon larger patches of oil floated past,
and looking around, he saw that the
river above him was more than half
covered with it. This appearance was
no new thing on that river, for there
were eoil-oil depots, and several oil
factories upstream, and the escape of
the refuse and other oils would some
times completely cover the surface of
of the water with a scum.
Joe drew in his line, for it was no
use fishing. The oily patches he called
floating islands, and he watched them
as they grew larger, and united one
with another, forming, to his imagina
tion, a continent, stretching from bank
to bank.
"How smooth the river is," said he.
Then a bright idea struck him. ""The
miller said I will never set the river on
fire. This oil will burn, I should
think. I have matches here ; I'll try
it."
Joe struck a light; and touched the
match to the oil, which blazed up at
once, much to his amusement and grat
ification.
The flames spread with great rapid
ity, and soon Joe's delight gave place
to sensations of grief and terror.
The scene was awfully grand. The
river was one mass of flame, above
which rolled upward volumes of black
smoke in thick clouds. The heat a
long the banks, which were lashed con
tinually by the billows of flame, wae
intense, and the houses and stores that
stood by the river were in the greatest
danger. Great crowds gathered at the
-place; consternation reigned among the
people; firemen and parties of men
run here and there, mid eomo of thoi
tried, by means of engines, to keep the
fire down ; but it is impossible to extin
guish an oil fire with water, and, in
deed, oil fires are the most difficult to
master.
Where was Joe all this while ?
Feeling the flames, he threw himself in
to the bottom of his boat ; but that was
in danger, every moment, of taking
fire. It is impossible to keep himself
from being burnt, and what was quite
as alarming, the turbid smoke threat
ened to stifle him. Once or twice he
raised his head above the boat's edge,
only to feel the fury of the fire ; and so
dense was the smoke that nothing
could be seen on shore. Overcome
with fear and pain and difficulty of
breathing, he sank down unconscious.
When he came to himself he found
himself on shore, surrounded by a
crowd, some of whom were preparing
to carry him home, and among them
stood Solomon Ary, a very interested
spectator. Joe looked to the river, the
smoke had partly cleared away ; there
lay his boat, burning to the water's
edge.
And to Solomon Ary did Joe owe
his life. Returning by the river's bank,
just as the fire was kindled, Solomon
saw the peril in which his young perse
cutor stood and undertook to save him.
He had heard that an oil fire on the
river was sometimes checked by means
of a boat, cutting off" the flames above
from those below ; and having found
a boat he managed to get it off, though
to reach the boy he must pass through
a sea of fire, and put in jeopardy his
own life. The miller, who understood
his movements, jumped into the boat
with him, while all wondered to see
the two men rowing so fast amid
waves of flame and clouds of smoke.
Finding Joe lying in his boat, they
lifted him into theirs, and with a few
burns which they did not mind, they
bore him still unconscious, to the
shore.
Joe suffered many stings from the
burns which covered his face and
limbs, but these were not so bad as the
stings of an accusing conscience. He
felt much mortification in remember
ing how foolish and unfeeling he had
been, and the long weeks of sickness
and confinement that followed, were
spent in resolutions to live a better life,
and in thinking what return he should
make to Solomon for his noble action in
his behalf.
"You did set the river on fire, my
boy," said the miller when he came
to see him ; "you made a big noise in
the world. But if you keep thase reso
lutions, you will make a greater noise
in a better way; for who knows, in
this free country, whether you will
not be a great man, if you live? And
I am glad to find you mean, hereafter,
to be kind to every body; for (his less
on you have learned, you will be like
ly to keep in your memory; for if I
am not very much mistaken, it has
been pretty well burnt in."
John Ohl has beaten, his wife and
gone to jail therefor in Cincinnatti.
He is an Ohl brute.
The Louisville Journal says Greeley
is white all over—except his dickey.
WISDOM IN SID LL LOTH. —Sum men
are great by chance, but I know a
darned sight uv 'cm that are mean
from choice.
There ain't no man that's wise; sum
ain't as big fools as uthers, however.
A rale strictly konseeusliua honest
man won't bet—unles he's got a sure
thing*
I hcv always thot that ef the kollery
could be managed with discreshun it
might prove a public blessin.
A wise man don't want to go to Kon
gress- and mity few uv 'em do it.
About all the difference I can see in
Kourts is that the biggest Kourt lias
the last guess.
I know some of the best kind of men
that never had an office.
I never will patronize a lottery as
long as I can hire anybody else to rob
me at reasonable wages.
Some men t hat do a great deal of lazi
ness in their line, I notice, do a groat
deal of lieu in their biziness.
Death, taxes and the grave you can't
escape, and I'll bet you four dollars
that you have to hi your wife a new
bonnet if she wants it.
I knowed when all them fellers in
Ohio and New York was running for
office, that there woulden't more'n 4
of em be elected.
None but the brave deserve the fair,
and none but the brave can live with
some of them.
It's my opinion that a man oughten't
to have nary a confidant. People can
come near enough a findin' out yure
biziness by pure gessin'.— Josh Bil
lings.
THE DAUGHTER AT HOME.—TO be
able to get dinner, to sweep the room,
to make a garment, to tend a baby,
would add greatly to the list of a young
lady's accomplishments. When can
we behold a more lovely sight than
the eldest daughter of a house, stand
ing in the sweet simplicity of her new
womanhood by the side of her toiiing
care-worn mother, to relieve and aid
her? Now she presides at the table,
now directs in the kitchen, now amus
es the fretting babies, now diverts a
half score of little folks in the library.
She can assist her younger brothers in
their studies, read the newspapers to
her weary father, or smooth the aching
brow of her fevered mother. Always
ready with a helping hand and a cheer
ful smile for every emergency. She
is an angel of love, and a blessing to
the home circle. Should she be called
out of it to originate a home of her
own, would she be any less loving or
self-sacrificing ?
DODGING A HATTER.— An individu
al purchased a hat in a shop kept by a
tradesman by the name of Dodgion.
The article was got in his absence and
the purchaser left the shoo entirely
forgetting (by mistake, of course) to
pay for the aforesaid "tile." The
tradesman, upon hearing the facts,
started after him, in hot pursuit of the
delinquent. Upon overhauling him,
the following scene occurred :
"See here, sir I wish to speak to
you."
"Move on."
"I am Dodgion the hatter."
"That's my fix."
"I tell you I am Dodgion the hat
ter."
"So am T; I'm dodgin' the hatter,
too—and very likely we are both of us
dodgin' the same chap."
The scene ended with a "striking"
tableau, in which Mr. Diddler found
himself considerably "mixed up" with
"Dodgion the hatter."
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW.— To-day
we gather bright and beautiful flow
ers—to-morrow they are faded and
dead.
To-day a wreath of leaves shade us—
to-morrow, sear and fallen, they crum
ble beneath our tread.
To-day the earth is covered with a
carpet of green- to-morrow it is brown
with the withered grass.
To-day the vigorous stalk only bends
before the grain—to-morrow "the land
is taking its Sabbath after the toil*"
To-day we hear sweet songsters of
meadow and forest, the buzz and hum
of myriad insects; to-morrow—breathe
softly—all nature is hushed and silent.
To-day a stately edifice, complete in
finish and surroundings, attracts the
passer-by—to-morrow a heap of ruins
mark the site.
To-day there are cattle on a thousand
hills—to-morrow they fall in slaugh
ter.
The fashion of the world passeth a
way.—But let Christ dwell within us,
and though we may pass away like the
faded leaf and the sapless stalk, we
shall "arise to newness of life,"
Where everlasting spring abides,
And never withering flowers.
A good story is told of one of the
baggage masters at a station between
Worcester and Boston, a fat, good-na
tured, droll fellow, whose jokes have
become quite popular on the road.
His name is Bill. A few mornings
since, while in the'performanee of his
duties in changing baggage, an ugly
little Scotch terrier got in his way, and
he gave him a smart kick which sent
nim over the track yelping. The own
er of the dog soon appeared in high
dudgeon, wanting to known why he
kicked his dog.
"Was that your dog?" asked Bill in
his usual drawl.
"Certainly it was; what right had
you to kick him ?"
"He's mad," said Bill.
"No he's not either,"said the owner.
"Well, I should be if anybody kick
ed me that way," responded Bill.
Gen. Grant will have control of 53,-
000 offices and officers, whose annual
compensation amount to thirty mil
lions of dollars.
A Sunday paper says it is in favor of
women voting if they want to. We
should like to see the man that could
make them vote if they didn't want to.
VOL. 64.—WHOLE No. 5,475.
UPS AND DOWNS OF FORTUNE.—
Two men who were instrumental in
discovering sources of incalculable
wealth to the country, and in enrich
ing thousands of individuals, are to-day
in next to indigent circumstances, and
one, at least, is in fact appealing to the
nation they were in a measure the
means of enriching for pecuniary re
lief. Gen Sutter, of California, whose
name is inseparably connected with
the discovery of the gold fitelds in that
State, and on whose farm the precious
deposits were tirst discovered, is in
Washington. llis sole dependence
consists of a small pension, granted by
the State of California, and the object
of his visit to the Atlantic States is to
seek Congressional relief. Mr. Drake,
who first discovered oil in Pennsylva
nia, it seems, did not "strike oil," in
the metaphorical sense, for he is to-day
in a state of destitution.
LITTJ.K THINOS. —Springs are little
tilings, hut they are sources of large
streams? a helm is a little thing, hut it
governs the course of a ship ; a bridle
bit is a little thing, but see its use and
powers; nail and pegs are little things,
but they hold the parts of a large build
ing together; a word, a look,a smile, a
frown, are all little things, but power
ful for good or evil. Think of this
and mind the little things. Pay little
debts ;ifit is a promise, redeem it; if
it is a shilling hand itover. You know
not what important events hang upon
it. Keep your word sacred—keep it
to children ; they will mark it sooner
than any one else, and the effect will
probably be as lasting as life. Mind
the ltttle things.
There is no stronger evidence of the
falsehood of the assertion thatSouthcrn
people are opposed to settlers among
them coming from the North, than
the fact that the South is constantly
urging such to come. At a late meet
ing of the citizens of Canton, Missis
sippi, the following resolution was u
nanimously passed :—" liesolved, That
we say to the people of the North and
West, unite with us in restoring to
our benighted country its formor pros
perity ; that we have here abundance
of cleared land, capable of producing
the most valuable staple in the world,
and that we cordially invite them to
settle these lands with their families."
A DUTCHMAN ON "THICK HEADS."
—A great admirer of DE Witt Clinton,
who was then Governor of New York,
visited Pennsylvania where he met a
Dutchman, who was equally enthusi
astic in his praise of Governor Schnei
der, then chief magistrate of the Key
stone State. The New Yorker in his
laudations of his governor said that De
Witt Clinton was a very shrewd and
long headed man. "Yell," replies the
Dutcfiman, "Governor Sehneioerhasn't
such a berry long head, but it is berry
tick.
A colored firm in Newark, New Jer
sey, having suffered some pecuniary
embarrasments recently closed business,
and the senior member gave to the
public the following notice:—"De dis
holution of co-parsnips heretofore resis
ting twixt me and Moses Jones in de
barber profession, am heretofore resolv
ed. Pussons who oes must pay the
scriber: Dem what de firm oes must
call on Jones, as de firm is insolved."
"Good morning, Mr. Hen peek,"
said a printer in search offemale com
positors, "have you any daughters that
would make good typesetters ?" "No ;
hut I have a wife that would make a
very fine devil."
An editor referring to patent me
talic air-tight coffins, says: "No person
having once tried one of these coffins
will ever use any other."
It is thought that if the Florida fruit
supply continues to increase, the Uni
ted States need no longer look to the
West Indies for Oranges and lemons.
"Why is i the happiest of the
vowels?" "Because iis in the midst
of bliss ;e is in h—ll, and all the oth
ers in purgatory.
A Ken tuck ian was poisoned the oth
er day by chewing bark which he mis
took forslippery elin. Prentice says
he "barked up the wrong tree."
The people of Augusta, Georgia, em
play guards to watch their milk cows
while they are feeding during the day,
to protect them from negro hunters.
An irritable man, having been dis
appointed in his boots, threatened to
eat the shoemaker, but compromised
by drinking a cobbler.
A young physician asking permission
of a lass to kiss her, she replied, "No
sir; 1 never like a doctor's bill stuck in
my face.
St. Paul, Minnesota, has expended a
million of dollars in new buildings this
year.
There is a lady in Columbus, Ohio,
eighty years old, who is cutting her
third set of teeth.
A plantation in Mississippi, which
cost $OO,OOO ten years ago, was sold
lately for $269.
Professor Thrope, of Nebraska Col
plege, redicts that Pennsylvania will be
affected by earthquakes.
It is said that more money is paid
for cigars in the United States than for
bread.
The KingofSiatn leaves two thous
and widows. The price of mourning
clothes have gone up in Siam.
A Texas paper aaserts that not a town
in the State except Galveston uses any
thing except gold and silver.
General Grant has sold his Washing
ton residence.
Chicago claims to have erected CI
miles of buildings this year.
Gen. M'Clellan is about to take up
his residence permanently at Hoboken.
Six miles a day is the rate of track
laying on the Pacific Railroad.
A young woman's Christian Associ
ation has been formed iu Cincinnati.