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WE nu= on the inside pages of this
Taornioug's GszErrn &send page
-.Poetry;..Epherneris, Miscellaneous. Third
and Sixth pages: _ Coinmeniai, .Afereantite,
,INnanciai and River News, Markets, /Im
parts. Seventh page: Literary" Item,
Nets .Publications.
Gown closed in New York on Saturday
at 131.
Prranstaa - at, :.twerp, 56@5iif.
No TELEGRAMS were received over the
cable by the Associated Press yesterday.
We presume there is something wrong
- with the ocean wire.
IT Is gravely hinted that the ammuni
tion bred off. in Senator iiirassua's
speeches, 'is borrowed frorii the legal mind
of arelative by marriage. - Judre WOOD
wanrr seems to think so, at all events.
Tim, much talked.ofAlums case
`has-been finally dismissed, by the Su
preme Court. of the United States, the
repeal of the law, under which that pro
ceeding was instituted, haling abolished
the jurisdiction of the tribunal. •
Tag, Erie Railway claims to bari se
cured at bust ita long-desired connection
with ChicagC, by a branch connecting
Akron with Toledo, and thence westward
under ain arrangement now matured with
the Ittlaiigan Southern. Company.
TUE Public Credit bill gave up the op
tion of lifting the five-twenty bonds until
,specie payment may be resumed. The
rapidsadvance of quotations in these se
curities since the passage or that act
seems to indicate that bonds bearing
lowei interest could be sold readily at par,
in coin
TEE Unitied States Revenue detectives
to 41Eastern Tennessee are having a good
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• ~ , Itimem turning up illicit - distillers. From
• -4, , ,lft k e number of seizures already made,-the
mountains of that State must be more
itickly studded with coppei worms, than
Ireland contained in the palmiest days of
poteen making.
Frrrxxx mrLtaons of dollars are to be
annually saved to the Treasury by the
reduction ofthe army, as orderedby Con
gress, and by the reforms in its adminis
tration which Gen. &moult has inaug
urated. The House Military Committee
continues towage a relentless war upon
the fey Tite Barnacles who still cling to
the fragments of the exploded system..—
.which affords a hope for still larger sav
ings on that line of expenditure. •
Iv xs highly probable that a new pen—
insular State, formed of Delaware, en.
tire, two counties from Virginia and
eight counties from Maryland will ; soon
be established. The proposed new State
will have a population
,approximating
three- hundred thousand souls. As it is
now, Delaware has but little oiler one
third that number, and yet has as large
representation in the Senate of the Uni
ted States as either New York or Penn
sylveoa.
Ei-PRESIDXNT jonnson has been very
ill, but his recovery is announced. Be
suffered from a slight stroke of paralysis,
with an acute attack of gravel. Be em
barks at once upon the political tide in
Tennessee, being posted for several
speeches -.within the coming fortnight.
Doubtless, he will succeed in producing
some temporary Imitation, but results are
likely to show that he has personally and
polilially outlived his once Unnidable
Tim worldag-miners of the anthracite
region of Pennsylvania have organized
an association, or' "General Council," to
whieli` la committed the supervision of . the
interests of that branch oflabor. A jour
nal has been Projected,: &itd Is to IniPub
lishe4 aa soon.. as the_ needful arrange
ments can be ComPleted. SU counties
arezetnesented in the Council and others,
included in that &salad& maybe added:
When any four of these counties vote for
a suspension, the, Council will order
general strike for six months.
7112 xrirreart apparently involved in
liettiltrfe of the Georgia Legislature to
ratify the With Articleafter it had been
made evident that a majority in each of
the Holism could be secured : for it--is
now sought to be explained in the lilachirt.
vellian tactics of Governor)3um,ocx Who,
it is ;said, 'purposely engineered its de
' &Et - Whatever the Governor's motives ,
may have been, or the potency of his influ
enOin bringing about the rejection of the
A.rticle, he will find himself relieved froin
atilce altogether, if the propositions now
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pending in Congress—either the Butler
or Trumbull bills---for the re.reconstruc
tion of that State, be matured into law be
fore the adjournment.
TTarerErs STATES have thus far rati
fied the XVth Article. Missouri has been
counted among the assenting States, but
must in fact be excluded. As with Rip
VAN WINKLE'S pledge for reform,
Missouri's first step counts for noth
ing. The Article was .transmitted
to Jefferson City by telegraph,
the second section being omitted,
and thus a part only of the amendment
received the legislative sanction. The
authorities of Missouri now have notice
from the State Department that their
action was fatally incomplete, but the
sine di adjournment of the State Legis
lature must postpone the needful correc
tion to next winter.
BY . rs&LTY made in 1866, a large
domain in the extreme Southwest was
secured to the Cherokee Indians. Nev
ertheless, since that date, other treaties
have been made by our authorities, with
various other Indian tribes, providing for
their settlement upon this same domain,
- The Cherokees naturally and rightfully
pEotest against this, as flagrantly bad
faith toward themselves, and avow their
resolution to resist such encroachments.
And this is fairly an example of the hap
, hazard, reckless and unprincipled Indian
policy of our government for the past
twenty years. Is it not high time for its
reform ? Should we otherwise be aston
ished by these Indian "outrages," which
are usually nothing else than the barbar
ous expressions of Indian despair?
EDWARD BATES.
The iieatik :of grow4Cliwrits, at the
advanced age of sevent*Wyears, which
occurred at St. Louis on *May last, has
already been announced. Die deceased,
though.not : of any, school of
public men, nor a citizen conspicuous for
a very high order of talent in any direc
tion, has( left a good record and his name
will long be recognized as that of one
who discharged faithfully the duties of a
protracted publics and private' life.
Mr. BArEs was a Virginian' by birth;
and surrounded by neither wealthy nor
influential connections, he was early
thrown upon the world, and by dint of
hard labor and close application to study
he acquired good education, and became
a self-made man. rn 1814 he reniovedto
St. Louis, then a small village, where he
studied law, and where, almost, during
his entire life, he resided, identifying
himself with the interests of Missouri.
Mr. BATES, at diffeient times, held the
offices of Circuit Attorney, Attorney of
I the United States for the District of Mis
souri, member of the Convention which
' formed the first Constitution of the State,
member of the 'State Legislature, Judge
or the St. Louis Land Court, Member of
Congress, and Attorney ,General of the
United States in Mr. Lxxcousi's Adminis
tration. During the Administration ,of
Frw.tonic he was appointed Secre
tary of War, but declined to accept the
office.
Mr. BATES was brought up a Jeffers°.
nian Republican. At the time of 'the
Presidential election in 11824 he was a
supporter of Mr. .CRAWFORD, and upon'
the election of Mr. Aliams supported his
administration. His single term hi Con
gress was during the last two years of Mr.
ADAMS' administration. After the forma
tion of the Whig. party he was always
of that party,' big. whezi it ceased to
exist he acted with the Republican party.
In 1861 he was called into Mr. 1.11
COLD'S cabinet, and was among the very
first to'urge the crushing out of rebellion
by the adoption of vigorous measures of
war. He retired to private life on the
re-ele:ction of President Liscour, and
lived to cast his ballot for - Gen. Onsicr,
and to see the country, in whose interest'
he was so warmly enlisted, in _the full
enjoyment, of; old.faahlohed peace and
PrailmFitY• .
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD AND THE
BELLIGERENT FIN&
It is not Impossible that Mr. jeans
"Fin, Jr., is just now engaged in a bust
nese which promises to result in some
public advantage. He has addressed
himself to <an investigation of the real
management of the trnion'Pazific Hall
way Company—and that seems to mean
a forinidable conflict with the most promi
nent railway corporation of ,the country.
Mr. Prsg's easus belli is purely a privete .
one, rising out of certain alleged trans
actions in the Union Pacific stock, but he
finds it good strategy to carry the war
into' the enemy's camp, and to its secret
councils, and, whether before Congress
or the Courts, he startles the financial
world, with the most extraordinary alle
gations, which do not seem to be alto
gether, unsupported by proofs. Never
theless, the statements of .either .party-to
this, as to other controversial, are, upon
well-settled principles and uniform Judi
cial exPerience, to be taken with more or
lese of allowance.
!The New York press have lately occu
pied their b;oad columns with this busi
ness, printing the charges and counter-
charges, affidavits pro and eon, and aver
ments, rin purport quite broad enough
to insureSzt interested public attention.
For erimple,'Mr.,-Fres alleges that two
imudred and forty-seven miles of the
road have been built by 3 ii concern known
as the Credit Mobilier of America, while
'the contracts for the entire residue were
given to:Messrs. Aims and , DLNIS, the
former a Director of the. Company; that
the Credit Mobilier was but another name
PITTSBURGH GAZErrE: MONDAY; MARCII 29, 1869.
for an inside ring in the same Directory ;
thatthese contracts were corresDondingly
fraudulent; that the profits to these con
tractors have been so enormous that the
Credit Mobilier has divided among Its
shareholders, to-wit: the ring of Direc
tors, &c., as atoresaid, an amount in
stocks and cash already equal to 752 per
cent. on its paid capital, and that at least
500 per cent. more is yet to be distrib
uted; and that these enormous profits
from the construction of the work have
not enured, as of right they ought, to the
Union Pacific shareholders at large. All
these allegations purport to be sustained
by the `sworn testimony of witnesses,
who profess to be able to speak by the
book.
—All which, if true; amounts to just
this, so far , as concerns the American
public,—thai, we made a bad bargain with
the Union Pacific Coiapany, and there is
probably no way is which we can legally
escape ftom the existing agreement, and
that Mr. Flex would very cheerfhlly
arouse, if he could, such a degree of pop
ular odium against that corporation as to
promote effectively his own ends in the
way of personal profit. His'revelations,
if worth anything, will serve but one
solitary purpose of use—and that will be
to put. Congress and the people on their
guard against similar blunders hereafter.
THE OFFICE-TENUREQUESTION.
The non-concurrence ;of the House in
the Senate amendments to the repealing
bill, remits this question liven to the Sen
ate, which will, doubtless, to-day insist
upon its own action and ask for a Com
mittee of Conference. There is reason to
think that the line taken by the House
will result in strengthening the Senatorial
position, which now becomes one of priv
ilege,, and not readily to be surrendered at
the capricious demand of the other body.
We may look, therefore, for a stronger
vote for insisting upon the amendment,
than this secured when it passed the Son- -
ate. Moreover, the latter has something
to gain and 'nothing to lose by the con
tinuance of the present law, under the
persistent refusal of the House to accept
the offered compromise.
The opinions of the President are well
known to his friends in eitherliouse. - He
would prefer a total repeal, but' has dis
tinctly avowed his willingness to ac
cept the Consineo amendment. His gen
erosity in thus waiving his personal pre
ference 4, in the interests of harmony, and
of the speedy reform of the public) ser
vice in all of the Executive departments,
is not the loss gratefully rccog nized by the
country; because the House declines to
emulate his patriotic example. It - seems
as if there were, among both Senators
and Representatives, a small clique of
politicians who are altogether incapable
of appreciating the true character of Gen.
GRANT. He says to-day, as he has said
before, that he does not like the compro
mise bill, but that he is willing to tahe ft
as it is—the best attainable adjustment of a
difficult question. This much he declared
last week, and he adheres, if we under
stand him at all, in as good faith
to that compromige, as in frankness to the
same objections. 'lt ought to be easy
enough to understand'_ this sort of man—
and plain people have.really no difficnity
in 'citing eo. But, unfortunately, there
are in Congress, as well as out of it, some
men who ate themselves set incapable of
a magnanimous sacrifice oftheir own per ,
sorrel preferences, that they must cling
tenaciously to the belief 'that the Fred
, dent is not to be taken at his word ; that
he would rejoice over the' failure of the
agreement upon which - the Senatorial
action has been founded. In this view,
they are officiously super-serviceable in
the attempt to outstrip the supposed
wishes of General GRANT. Wi doubt if
le thanks them for it, or feels all flat
tered by their estimate of
, his official and
personal sincerity.
We respect hitt sterling good sense too
highly to doubt that the President con
templates, with a characteristically good
natured and quiet scorn, one, unfortunate
element from which even the Republican
party ie not by any means exempt: We
mean these extraordinary officious would. .
be. of the Executive—we don't
call them zealots, but ratter sycophants, ,
flunkies,.parasites clinging to the skirts
of power—these journalists and bogus
politicians whose subserviency outruns
alike their wit and the wishes of
the dispenser of r patronage. These
were the men who, only the other
day, we heard 'bawling themselves
hoarse for the repeal of one of the wisest
laws remitted to us by the fathers. Their
zeal altogether outstripped the needs of
the occasion, and was fitly rebuked by
the manly candor of one who, President
or mauOlarett*wayatCdo,right; even if ,
it involves tlie'delmd*Yedgnient eff ands
'taken impression in which the whole
country had shared; Those journalswere
still wet from the press, at the moment_
when the Presidtmt was hastening to re
pair the oversight which they Were eager
to justify. There was a lesson inthat
business which Mr., Bun= and his Co
adjutors would profit now_by remember-
Mr. .B. F. BUTLER. is a shrewd politi
cian, but - he has now made a notable mis
take. He asks for the President, not
more than the President has always de
sired, but very much more than UV? Pre°'
ident has avowed his willingness to Ac
cept and abide by. What was announced
by Judge TRUMBULL, on this head, to the
Senate' and country, upon the President's
authority, has been since reiterated by
the Preside* to Speaker BLAINE , of the
House. Yet Mr. • BITTLEIII has for - the
moment,succeeded in:leading off fifty of
the one hundred and twenty Republican
members, into a false position where,
backed only by the opposition - support,
they are really confronting the coordi
nate branch and tile practical advice of
the President himsaf\And, if this be
not thC fact, the best t at BUTLER can
claim would be one corner in a triangu
lar fight.
It is natural for Representatives to re-
tain some unpleasant recollections of the
scandalous duplicity of Senators, who de
liberately invited the co ordinite branch
into certain grave constitutional proceed
ings for the impeachment of ANDREW
JOHNSON, and then, by eating their own
words, betrayed the country, the House
and themselves. It is very natural for
Mr. BUTLER, and his coadjutors to re.-
member, with perhaps vindictive indig
nation, the, inexplicable and arrogant in
consistency of a body' which succeeded,
in the case of Georgia's Electoral vote,
in blotting the records of Congress with
a precedent which 1 . every one now de
plores. But no multiplication of errors
can make any wrong right. Nor is the
question now separating the two Houses
properly an occasion for satisfying there.
venges of Representatives.
'There was a majority of twenty among
the Republican representatives for the
compromise bill. The minority will not
content themselves finally in the company
of the opposition. We think that they
will listen to wiser and more patriotic
counsels, and ultimately concur with the
Senate and with the President upon the
amended bill. A day or two more will
show.
THEnz is something well worthy 'of
consideration in the suggestion made by
a New York journal, as follows :
Cuba has had wrongs enough, certainly,
and no American can desire the success
of the Spanish power against the Repub
lican and Abolitionist revolutionists; but
it is unfair to charge the present Liberal
Government at Madrid, which but lately
overthrew the Bourbon despotism, with
the crimes committed by that despot
ism. Thb very hour the Liberals achieved
success in Spain, they set about the work
of conferring upon Cuba the rights which
they had conquered for themselves. It
is but just to bear these things in mind,
even 'while we sympathize with every
struggle against European domination
on any part of American soil.
Do You BELIEVE II ?-A writer in
Lippincott's Magazine, April -number,
says:
s'For every man whose heart is broken
—we use a phrase current in its romantic
sense among women, and which among
Il i
men den tes the state of mind revealed
by prof smoking and spasmodic devo
tion to bi iards—twenty have their eyes
opened and are on the whole considera
bly improved by the process. We forget
to whom is due the credit of the remark
that a map's usefulness generally dates
from the time he loses his interest in
women; but, without going - so far, we
are content to rest upon the conclusion of_
our own experience—that until a man
has had one or two serious flirtation's he
is not to be relied on for earnest effort."
FAR.% VARDEN ADD HOVSEHOLD.
The Crow's Value to the Farmer.
Whatever wrong the Crow commits
against the cultivators of the soil maY, by
a little painstaking, be materially lessened
or wholly prevented. The benefits he
confers are both numerous and important.
During the time he 'remains with us he
destroys, so says no less authority than
Wilson,"myriads of worms, moles, mice, -
caterpilars grubs, and beetles." Audu
bon also affirm that the Crow devours
myriads of grubs every day of the year,—
grubs which would lay waste the fEmer's
fields, and destroys quadrupeds inAumer
able, every one of which is an enemy to
his poultry and his flocks. Dr. Harris
also, one of the most thithfill and accurate
observers, in speaking of the fearful rav
ages sometimes wrought in our grass
lands and gardens by the grub , of the
Hay-beetles, adds' his testimony to the
great service rendered by the Crow in
keeping these pests in check. Yet here
in Massachusetts, regardless of such testi
mony in their :fav or , we have near
ly exterminated these birds,' and
the destructive grubs, having no
longer this active enemy to resist their
growthzear by year increasing with
' fftrful stence. e have seen large
farms, an hour's ride of Boston,
in which, over entire acres, the grass was
so ccrmpletelyttuldermined and the roots
eaten away, that the looeened turf could,
be rolled ttpas easily es if it had been cut
by the turfing-spade. In the same neigh
borhood whole fields. of corn,' potatoes,
and almost every kind of , garden veget
able, had been eaten at the root had de
stroyed: Our more intelligent farmers,
who have more carefully studied out the
cause of this unusual insect growth, have
satisfied themselves that it is the legiti
mate result, the natural and inevitable con
sequence, of our own acts. Our short
sighted and murderous warfare upon the
crow has interrupted the harmonies of
nature. disturbed her well-adjusted bal
ance,. and let loose upon, agriculture its
enemies with no adequate means of arrest-,
ing their. general increase.—Atiantit
Nonthip for April.. . .
mattartn ron mamas° coast Bows.
First mark your 'ground one way with
a plow or sled of two or thfee runners at
proper distance apart; then for crop mark
ing, take a light pole of -sufficient lenkth
to allow of five or six distances of rows
to be marked upon it. At each of these
marki—leaying one space , at the 'end—
attach a cord sufficiently strong to drag
a stay, drawing or , other chain heavy
to make a visable mark. This you will
And to be the cheapest and most expedi
tious way of marking corn ground, and
in planting you will always find hands
ready to drop the hoe and take' up the
marker. One hand at each end of the
_pole will mark rows mclt- more correct
than, horses can be driv n, and will mark
ten or twelve rows at a round. ;
Such a marker I have had on my farm,
and such missiles as we used to throw at
,"Johnniefs in Dixie"_ would obliterate a
ro*tif corn from one'end to the other. •
YOIING WARIMII.
PDACTICAkRECEIPTIL
Remedy against Croton Rugg and Cock
Roaches. 801 l one ounce of poke root in
one pint of water until the strength is ex
tracted; mix the decoction with molasses
and spreaddt in/plates in the kitchen or
other apartments which are infested by
these insects. All that have partaken of
this luxury during the night will be found
"organic remains" the next morning.
A Silvering Liquid, which has no
poisonous quality, may be prepared by
dissolving I one part lunar caustic in
eighteen or_twenty parts of distilled wa
ter, adding one half part sal almoniac and
two parts of hypo-sulphate of soda, and
then mixing the clear liquid thus obtained
with two parts of whiting. To use it, a
portion of !this liquid is poured into a dish
and applied by means of a tooth brush, or
any small brush, or a bit of rag, to )the
article thus to be silvered; and after a
little rubbing a fine coating of silver will
appear. After it has been rinsed off with
water, it may be dried by means of a
cloth ;vith'a little gentle rubbing.
Vegetable Bfains.-z-The best method of
removing stains from linen and cotton
fabrics, produced by spilling wine or
vegetable juices, tonsists in moistening
the surfacniffected (previously wetted)
with a solution of hypo-sulphate of soda,
dissolved in hot water, and then adding
on the point of a knife a little pulverized
tartaric acid, and rubbing this well in.
After the stain has disappeared the cloth
may be washed oat In lukewarm water,
and when dry no trace of the stain will
remain.,
HOUSEHOLD RECEIPTS
Avpio Dumpling, baked.—Select nice
tart apples, -peal and core them, 811 with
sugar and a little cinnamon, make your
paste, and cover each apple, bake in `a
shallow pan. eat with any sweet sauce.
Potato Pudding.—Boil one quart of
potatoes, -rub smooth, have ready half a
pound of melted butter, six eggs, beaten
to a froth; mix butter with half a pound
of sugar, stir in eggs, half a pound of
currants, one nutmeg, mix all well to
gether, put in cloths and boll one hour,
eaten with sauce.
Apple Pudding.—Take one pint of
stewed, sifted apple, six eggs, half-pint of
milk, four ounces of butter; mit the apple
and egg before the milk is put in. add
rose water, spice and sugar to taste; bake
in a rich crust.
Carrot I Pudding.—A coffee•cupfall of,
boiled and strained carrots, five eggs, one
ounce of butter and sugar each,, mina
mon and rose water to your taste; bake
without paste one hour.
Graham Biseuit.—Take one quart of
Graham flour, and a little salt and a is
biespoonful of melted butter; mix this
with buttermilk, v(ith a teaspoohful of
soda added to the milk; .mix them to the
consistency of drop cakes; bake in a pan
for twenty minutes in a quick oven.
Federal Pancakes —Take one quart of
boiled rye flour, one quart of bolted In
dian meal; mix it well, and stir it with a
little salt into three pints of milk; mix to
the proper consistency of pancakes, fry
in lard and serve while warm.
Tea Cakes.—One pound of sugar, half
pound of butter, two pounds of flour,
three eggs, one ill of yeast, a little cin
namon and orange peel; bake fifteen min
utes.
Beef Tea.—To make it properly., cut
half pound of good lean beef into very
thin slices, spread the slices in a hollow
dish, and having poured over one, pint
and a half of boiling water, cover up the
dish, and place it near the fire for half an
hour, and then boil for about eight min
utes; take off the scum and let it'stand ten
minutes, then pour it off and season with
a little salt. This tea is very useful.when
the stomach is in a:weak, irritable state;
it is good for Infants, and nothing answers
better as a breakfast forthose who are sick
in the morning.
To Stuff a Pig to Roast. —Boll the in
wards tender; mince fine, and a half loaf
of bread,• half pound of butter, four eggs,
salt, pepper, sage, *miner savory and
thyme. ' Mix the whole well together;
stuff and sew up. If; the pig be large let
it be doing two hours and a half; bast
with salt and water. ' Gravy for the same
—half pound of butter; wor k in two
spoonfuls of flour and one, gill of wine, if
agreeable.
Wastantcten Items.
Postmaster Gineral Cresswell declared
today he would not leave one Democrat
in office if he could find a•competent Re
publican to fill the place.
Secretary Boutwell is instituting need
ed reforms bl the Treasury in the manner
of controlling patronage. He has issued
an order requiring each female clerk to
give her name„ place of residence, by
whom recommended, andwhether she has
a father, mother, brother, sister or hus
band employed n_the department. The
girls ate also to undergo an examination,
and only those who are capable clerks are
to be retained.
Form couples In West Lebanon, N. H.,
stood up recently and went through the
ceremony of a 'nor* marriage "for the
fen of the , thing." After the ceremony
had Nen performed before a large com
panYit was found that the gentleman'
:who performed the ceremony was a jus
tice of the peace. It is thought that the
marriage will:have to be dissolved by the
legislature. The justice of the peace
acted out of the county for which he was
commissioned, and has been lined 11 1 10().
Several of the parties were engaged to
other persons, and one, a professor in a
seminary,' was to have been. married In a
fortnight. One couple are said to have
made utitheir minds to "accept th 6
situation."
•
Tnic first rehearsal of the Boston
Peace Festival was held oh Mondily. In
reeponfe to the advertisement of Mr.'
Tourjee, a large number of ladies and
gentlemen completely filled Btmistead
Hall,,and , not a few were compelled to re
turn home to await the opening of the
second Genes of,,rehearsals, which are to
follow , next week. The hall contains
something less thin seven hundred seeds,
and not only were , these filled, but double
revs of gentlemen lined the walls. The
enrollment books in •the hands of Mr.
Peck-each applicant being compelled to
,register his or her name and the part
sunp—showed the assemblage to be made
up as follows: Sopranos, 214. altos, 101.;
tenors, 150; bassos, 220.
ihimenns have recently been brought
to the attention of the Faculty of Knox
College; Galesburg, Illinois, and a meet
big has been held to determine whether
the students should be allowed to keep
up a club for playing the game. ..The
President of the . College stated that he
saw no more harm in a game of bMiards
than of hand or football, so , long as it was
/kept separate 'from drinking, betting' or ,
gambling of, any kind. The conclusion
was finally arrived at, that if the bye
laws'of , the association were framed so as
to prohibit these vices the club would be
permitted. .
Thelley of Jehosiptiat.
The efforts the Jews have made, and
sufferings, losses and humiliations they
have borne for the purpose of obtaining
sepulture in the Valley of Jehosaphat,
form a singular feature, in human history.
No other nation has ever thus struggled,
not to live in 'their own land, but to be
suffered to lay their dust therein. Many
descriptions have been made of this mar
vellous place; but I confess none of them.
ever afforded -me a notion of its actual
appearance. Wandering alone past the
fountain of Siloam and by the arid bed of
'Bedron, it suddenly opened to me a per
fect mountain of graves—a hillside paved
with sepulchral slabs. Each I stone is
small— so small as to lead to tbetconclu
sion that the bodies mast be bided per
pendicularly. At all events, if the mul
titude there interred were simultaneously
to arise, the would form a crowd as
dense and co mp act as it would be error
moue. Short ebrew inscriptions, some
evidently of great age—are on all the
atones; and these are laid together with
intervals of only a few inches, as in our
oldest churches. The slabs. are almost
on a level with the ground, and of equal
height, so that it is literally one large
pavement of death—an appalling, almost
an overwhehnhig sight.
KEROSENE. Om.—The pyrouseter, in
vented by the inspector or kerosene oil,
in New York City, is described ss fol
lows: The instrument consists of a
closed receptacle of water upon •a
stand, with a lamp under it. Into
this receptacle ametalic cup ,containing
the fluid to be tested is placed. The cup
has a cover over it, level except at one
place where it is elevated into a semi
globular dome. In the level part of the
cover are two valves for the admission of
air when it is required, and in one side of
the dome la a small orifice. The testing
process is as follows: A. thermometer,
resting in the oil to be tested, is affixed
to the inside of the cup; ; the lamp is then
lighted, and by warming the water it in
turn warms the oil, which, when heated
to a certain degree, emits a vapor of ex
ceedingly exploliive qualities. This vapor
rises into the dome over the cup. When.
it can be ignited by a match thrust into
the dome through itaorifice, the oil has
reached what is known as the vaporizing
or flashing point. This point is ascer
tained by consulting the thermometer.
The burning point, when the whole body
of oil is ignited, is' ascertained by con
tinuing the process. , •
BRITISH newspapers display a singular
genius for confusion in discussing Amer
fain affairs. Even the Pall Mall Gazette
mixes up Mr. A. T. Stewart, of New
York, and Mr. George H. Stuart, of Phil
adelphia, together, so that neither •of
them would , know himself or the other,
informing ui that Mr. A. T. Stewart,
just appointed Secretary of the Treasury,
"is a native of Lisburn, near Belfast,
from whence he emigrated to America
forty years ago in search of fortune.
When the Lisburn 1 andlooni weavers
were thrown out of.work some years ago,
&ring the cotton famine, he sent a cargo
of food supplies to Ireland for their use:
In 1866 Mr. Stewart, who Is a Presby
terian visited Ddblin, and was enter
tamed by that body. Hs i has since been
expelled from the church of whiohle was
a member in New York for singing
hymns, an innovation upon their 'psalm
singing,' but this proceeding increased
ha popularity in that city."
BAYARD TAYLOR has completed the
translation of the first part of "Faust,"
and is now at work upon the much•dis
cussed second part. The translation of
the whole poem will probably be com
pleted during the coming summer; but
the explanatory notes and papers giving
the sum of all important German critic-_
lam and comment on the .poem will re
quire some additional , months for4.their
preparation.
A SIGNIFICANT LETTER.
LOffIiVILLZ. March =di Is69.—Find enclosed
P. O. order for • • which yon will please
place to inferedlt, and send immediatelylalf a
gross of Blood Searcher, and a fun supply of clr-
eulars
The demand for your medicine is gradually in
creasing, and I belleYe will eventually take the
place of other similar preparations, now being
extensively advertised througnout Kentucky and
the Southern States, but there Is little advert's-
Inn needed that will reach the masses. Oren.
lore will •do very well In the locality where the
Blood Searcher is sold, but the greater number
are only to be reached through the medium of a
popular newspaper, a few ins, rtions is all that
is required. 'Let the people of kentucky once
know that DR KETSE3. , S BLOOD SEARCHER
can be had at th a Medicine and Toilet Depot,
Louisville, Kentucky, and I guarantee a profita
ble return. I have an extensive acquaintance
throughout Kentucky and the South, and though
I claim sot to be an exception to the generality
of my fellows, I flatter myself that the name of
W. W. WILLIAMS, as Agent for the Blood
Searcher, will ft least net lesson - the demand,
but on the contrary, will induce many to take
hold of it, and when they nave done soft will
matter very little who is the Agent, or where
it comes from. DR. KEYSER'S BLO )13
SEARCHER will be the medicine they
have tested and what they will want. The Blood
searcher is dgjoig good work in tato lecaltty.
There are numbers to whom L have recommended
it for dyspepsia, and as a general Tonic, and in
vceatll Rood rre r FtcZe Ustee ,gi st e is s
ore
been confined to his room since July last
with scrofula, a physician attending everyday ,
• and getting no better. Soon after received
your first consignment I sent him one of your
circulars, but it was sometime before I heard
from him, and not until 1 sent Mr. Boyd over to
see him did he conclude to try it. He is now get
ting well, and ref i rets that he did not adopt the
remedy sooner. Is case was as bad if not worse
than that of Mr. Boyd, and will prove a valuable
acquisition to the list of cures. Allow me to con
gratulate you on your removal to yournew store.
with the hope that it it will In no way detract •
from your former prosperity. Respectfully. 1
. To DII. BETSER, Pittsburgh, Pa. I
Dr. Keyser's Blood Searcher is sold by_ She
gross, dozen or single botlle,_AT Bib NEW
M.EDICINE STORE, - Igo. 67 LIBERTY STRIMT,
one door from Sixth. •
Consulting P.o.ms, No. 120 Penn street. •
THE'PRYING.SEABON •
The searching winds, the cold, &lasting rains,
the teary fins, and - occasional warm and moist.
days of March, render it utionthe whole, the most.
minealthirmonth of the year. Its depressing in
fluences are especially unfavorable to invalids,
and thousands of persons with feeble constitu
tions, Who hararborne the winter bravely break
down In the flrstmontb of Spring. The variations •
of temperatvre and cold east winda are a sor!ous
trial to the dyspeptic and bilious, whose symptoms
hey invariably euravate. Intermittent fever is
also rife wherever . here is evalvatee polsouln the
wiser evils soli. To nable likeste to combat
these there is nothing a good-mepeta
hie tole and among Ina class of nietlicines HOS
TETTER'S. men pre sc ribe
BITTERS stand pre me.
Medical men prescribe It in preference to any a
the tonic preparations of the pharmacopola.
They are aware that the ordinary tincture and
-extracts are all based upon cheap alcohol, which
is surcharged with an acrid essential oil, and ab- •
solutely poisonous. They. know, on , the other •
band, that the rectified essence of the finest rye
grown in this coon truss thelsole spirituous ingre
dient of HOSTETTER'S BffTERS, and that the
getable medicinal element. of which It is com
sed are of rare efficacy. Hence, It has the ten
ce of physicians, and finds Its way Into hos
pitals where no other proprietary medicine Is
- sanctioned...
A course of the BITTERS is esecially recom
mended to persons of oelicate habit, of both
sexes at this reason. In the fever and ague dis
tricts of the West ani South, quinine has been
almost universally discarded as a chologogne, and
this valuable antidote to malatious diaonlers
adopted in its d. B i t t ers , unlike the alized
by the change. forthe, t dan
gerous alkaloid, are agreeable to the palate, and
their Curative effect Is much more pensament.
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