Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1874 — Page 4

The Secretary of State.

Ok the day that the Virginius was taken from the harbor of Havana to be returned to the United States—a proof both of the efficient energy of our Governmeal and of the good faith of that of Spain—Mr. Ox, of New York, declared in the House of Represei atatives that Congress was pusillanimous and without the courage to kill a mouse, and that the diplomacy of the Government had draggled the flag of the country in the dust. On the evening of the same day a meeting was held at the Cooper Institute at NewYork, at which a most insulting insinuation was made in regard to the Secretary of State by the Rev. Mr. Hepworth, the chief orator—an insult-which demands the most public apology. We are glad to add that on the same day, also, Mr. Beck, aDemocraticmember of the HouSb from Kentucky, said that If there was anything which the President had managed well, it, was the negotiation with Spain ; and General Hawley, of Connecticut, one of the most gallant Soldiers of the late war, eloquently and forcibly rebuked Mr. Cox, who, he said, when there was pressing opportunity, did not seem so anxious for war; and General Hawley expressed his admiration of the “Christian temper and Christian statesmanship” of the President and the Secretary of State in settling the Spanish difficulty. In these words General Hawley, as we believe, expresses also the general opinion of the American people. Mr. Cox forgets that the Donnybrook-fair kind of patriotism w ent out with slavery and the Democratic party. The country knows what war is, and has a very profound contempt for the vociferous applause and prolonged cheering with which clerical and Buncombe exhortations to bloodshed and unspeakable sorrow are received at immense meetings safely removed from the seat of war. Throughout this negotiation with Spain the Secretary of State has promptly and fully maintained -the honor of his country, "and in nothing more than in his trust in the good faith of Spain, and his candid consideration of her difficult position. If he has not been in accord with Mr. Sickles, it is probably because of the tone which Mr. Sickles would have preferred to adopt. For this politician was bred, like Mr. Cox, in a bad school. He was secretary of legation with James Buchanan in London when Buchanan, John Y. Mason, and Pierre Soule, at the instigation of Franklin Pierce, then President, whom Mr. Adams describes as “the most insignificant and unworthy candidate ever yet presented to the suffrages of the people,” concocted the Ostend Manifesto, a declaration that if Spain would not sell Cuba to the United States, they would steal it by force of arms—one of the grossest international outrages in history, and a fair illustration of the spirit of the slave-holding Democracy which so long, to the shame of humanity, controlled this Government. There is nothing in the recent negotiation which an honorable American may not regard with satisfaction, as there was nothing which involved the least humiliation to Spain. It was no more a point of honor for Spain to defend the Tornado in a violation of national right than it w&s for the United States to insist upon justifying Captain Wilkes in seizing Mason and Slidell from the Trent. No intelligent American thought his Government pusillanimous or afraid of a mouse because it had the courage to abide by its own humane traditions and to do right. The attitude of a bully is as contemptible in a nation as in an individual. It would have been very easy for the Secretary of State to put this country ip that attitude towaid Spain during the late negotiation. In not doing it he showed himself to be an honorable American citizen, a statesman and a gentleman. Since Mr. Fish took office he has had to deal with two very difficult foreign questions, the Alabama trouble with England and the prolonged Cuban complication ; and he has managed both with such good temper and address that he deserves the most cordial gratitude of the country. Had his patriotism been of the Donny-brook-fair kind, we should have had war both with England and Spain. He -has been pursued with the most constant and malignant detraction. He has been more lampooned, ridiculed, caricatured, and insulted than any of his predecessors. But neither disheartened nor foolishly angry, he has firmly and skillfully main tained the national honor and avoided war. With Sir James Mackintosh in his condemnation of the French war of 1793, the Secretary holds that ‘ war is just only to those by whom it is unavoidable; and every appeal to arms is unrighteous, except that of a nation which has no other resource for the maintenance of its security or the assertion of its honor.” How Sir Robert Walpole was abused by tlie war party I But how fine is Thackerav’s eulogy—“He gave Englishmen no conquests, but he gave them peace and ease and freedom.” There have been times during the last ■five years when there were strong influences at work for taking part with Cuba against Spain. It requires a very steady will and a very clear mind to resistthem; and the Secretary has The Cuban revolutionary’ base has been here in New York, and the sufferings of the Cubans have stronglv appealed to the general sympathy. ‘There is always a certain but s shameful popularity in the cry of war, especially if the cause seems to be worthy, and there are always demagogues ready to raise it. But the Secretary of State has plainly seen the path of duty from the first, and he has faithfully pursued it. Until our interests were involved, or the fact of belligerence was established so that we were obliged to act, it was our duty not to act. This has been the just and, in General Hawley’s phrase, the Christian policy of the Government We do not believe that the statesmanship of the Cooper Institute Or of Steinway Hall would have improved it.— Harper's Weekly.

HORRIBLE!

Further Concerning the Sufferings of the Virginias Prisoners. New York, December 28. A reporter of the TWtarie, who boarded the Juniata, obtained full particulars from a variety of sources concerning the treatment received by the prisoners at the hands of their Spanish captors. All these reports agree in one particular, namely: that the treatment received was uniformly harsh and in some cases barbarous. A fact which has not generally been known, by statements of prisoners now comes to light, which is, that they were robbed by the crew of the Tornado, and nearly ail who owned anything were robbed of money, jewelry, watches and other valuables. The prisoners were taken to the jail of Santiago soon after their arrival in port. Here they were crowded together like cattle; here their sufferings began. They were not confined to separate cells —indeed, there was no,opportunity for such confinement in the contracted quarters of the Santiago jail—but the entire party of nearly 200 were driven into a small room, hardly fifty feet wide by ten feet lons. Here they were obliged to live as best they could, 1 hough the air, of course, was almost deadly, and there was little or no opportunity for exercise. The prisoners were supplied with provisions which, though sufficient as regards quantity, were poor in quality, and hardly fitted to tustain life. The provisions consisted wholly of rice and water. One night the prisoners were stealthily taken from the jail and marched with the greatest haste I

to a point seven miles below the city, in the vicinity of Morro. The road lay through a rough tract of country, and the journey was most wearisome, while some of the prisoners were so sick as to be almost unable to stand. The sufferings of the number were intense, and no pity was in the breasts of the Spaniards. At this point on the coast they were placed on board the steamer Bazean, which at once set sail for Havana. At Manzeilla it was met by the mail steamer coming in the opposite direction. On the steamer was General Burriel, who at once ordered the Bazean to return to Santiago. She turned about, but soon run aground, and the passengers were transferred to another vessel. There they suffered horrors heretofore unknown." They were crowded in the hold of the vessel, where scarcely a ray of sunlight could struggle in, and the air was poison. The darkness was almost continuous. The food they ate was wretched in quality and insufficient in quantity, and the water they drank was what remained in the buckets after the dumb animals were satisfied. These animals consisted mainly of horses and mules. They were kept on the deck above the Virginius’ prisoners, and were thus a constant source of annoyance to the helpless people confined below. It was in the midst of all this filth and suffering that the prisoners were not allowed to wash for ten days, and their hrms were pinioned behind them the larger portion of the voyage. They were occasionally beaten on the slightest provocation, and sometimes on no provocation at all. These punishments, however, seem not to have been of a nature so serious as to produce any lasting effects.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Cut glass. fringe is fashionable. ' A bear has been bruin mischief in Kalamazoo, Michigan. A. good time to secure heavy artillery— When it blows great guns. A child with two tongues is the latest in Wisconsin. Need it be said it is a female? The men who do the most for their kind are generally forgotten in givingout rewards. Why does the sting of a bee carry conviction? with it? Because it makes you a Bee-leaver at once. When you hear a man say the world owes him a living, don’t leave any hams lying around loose. “Au revoir” is a French phrase, pronounced “O revwar,” and means farewell (or good by) till we meet again. What disposition of the butcher of , Santiago de Cuba would best please the Cubans ? His Burriel,of course. Telegraphing is a good and profitable employment for-ladie-s,~and requires only a common school education. San Francisco has a hotel equipped for twelve hundred guests —with a gentlemanly hotel clerk in proportion. Reversible Elizabethan ruffles are the latest. They are worn with any costume, and are lined with light-colored silk. When a bit of ostrich feather is found by a wife in her husband’s beard no one cd” blame her for being down on him. Never keepanything from your better half.— Brooklyn Argus. Quilp says he never has, and that is the reason he is so poor. A sufferer suggests an improvement in the orthography of the word panics. He thinks it would be better to spell it Influence, good or bad, comes riot from the opinions a man possesses,. but from the. character he has formed, and the life he leads. In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers. A new material for sacks has just been introduced, called sealskin cloth. It equals in. appearance the seal-skin, and is very much cheaper. A new style of collar, said to be intended for gentlemen, is the nearest approach to the kind worn by “end men” in min strel companies we have seen. California agriculturists .are going largely into ginger. They haven’t got much‘beyond the first syllable yet, bur hope to do so when their plants" germinate. It is to be noted that out of the list of complaints made by ladies about servants one complaint is universal, and is almost always madein the same language, “They will have the last word.” This is a peculiarly feminine grievance. The “American Uniyersity-of Philadelphia,” which has the reputation of supplying bogus medical diplomas to applicants therefor, is to have its business examined by the State Supreme Court at the next session. Many grave charges are made against the I’niversity.—-——< The latest physiological discovery is that the human liver distils alcohol from the food as it passes througji the system. This is something new in these parts, s,ure enough. We know of several distillery who are good livers, but we never heard of a liver that was a good distiller before. —Frankfort Yeoman. Cheerfulness is an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the hearj. It gives harmony to the soul, and is a perpetual song without words. It is tantamount to repose. It enables nature to recruit its strength; whereas worry and discontent debilitate it, involving constant wear and tear. Louisville has unwittingly committed itself to a grand temperance reform, by voting to send drunkards home, instead of to the lock-up. The worst cases are cured in this way. The men come out in a day or two with somewhat less capillary adornment and a chastened look which tells of the refining influences of home. Electrical Gas Lighting .—A novel device for lighting gas by electricity, lately patented, is made as follows: A glass cup is immersed in liquid, and when the gas is turned on it enters under the cup and lifts the same, thereby establishing connection with a battery, which heats a platinum wire placed over the burner, and thus ignites the gas. Professor Goldwin Smith doubts “whether a more virulent poison was ever infused into the veins of a nation than that infused into she veins of the AmerP can nation by such school histories as are used in the United States,” and wants to know what can be expected “if people are fed through their childhood on such stimulants of national vanity and malignity.” When a storm is approaching we see lightning but do not hear thunder, because there is a limit to appreciation of sound by the human ear, while there is none whatever to ligjit to the human eye. Sound will travel a mile in six seconds, while light will travel 192,000 miles in a secund. No one ever heard thunder without seeing the lightning that caused it, •unless some . object, like a mountain, for instance, intervened. Professor Rogers states trial the splendid researches in the deep sea are rapidly progressing, and are intensely practical, and may ultimately give us a topographic chart of trie sea-bottom, its valleys, banks, and plateaus, so fully that a sailing-mas-ter ought to be able to very nearly tell his position by the lead. The American coast generally shelves gradually into the Atlantic—so much so that our best sailingdirections assure- the cautious mariner he may, with the lead and chart, find the marks underfoot so plain that he cannot, If he will try them, get unknowingly into the danglers of the shore.

CALENDAR FOR 1874. j s Wil g iWih Jan.!. ..i i 12l 8 July. 4: 4 5 fli 8| 910 I A! 8910 11 11 12 18 14 IS 16 17 <1- lite 14 15 15.17118 18 19 30 2122 23 24 ; 19 20 21'22 28 21 25 25 26.27 28,29,30,31,! _ 26,27,28.29,30.31:.., reb.,'i:'2 ’3 '4 r 5 6'’7:| ” b ‘ 'i ji 4| S«7i S Is 9 10 11'12 13 14' 9 10 1112 13 14 IS 15 16 17 IS 19.20 21 16 17 18 19 '2O 21 22 22 23 24 25 26 27,28 ; 28 '2l 25! 26,27,28 29, Mar. i '4’3'*4'‘s ‘a 7 : SeptLC^'l''j‘4 al's I H 91011 12 1314 i 6, 7' 8 9 1011 12 13 16 17 18 10 20 21 13 II 15 16 1798 19 27'23,21 25 26.27 28 20 21 22 23 21.25,26 . ~1293031:.27 28,29!30.. .. ..! April. ,1 1| 23 4 Oct, ..:..1..L 12 3, 5 fit 7 8 0 10 11 I 4 5! 6 7 8' 9 10 1? 13.14 15 16 17 18 11 12 13 14 15 16:17. 119 20 21 22'23 24,25 • 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 (2627 28 29 30,.. 25 26'27 28 29 30,31 May. 1 2 : .. .. ..'..1..1.. .. 3 I 5 6 7 8. 9 Nov. 1 2 S' 4 1 51 0 7! 10.1112 13 1115 16 8 9 101112 13'14 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 _ J 5 16 17.18 l» ,20 211 24,25 26 27.28 29 30 22 23 24 25 26'27 281 _ 31..i......|..,.; 29 90,.. ........ I June. ..I 1 2 3. 4 5 6 1>ec.1..1.. 1| 2 8| 4I 5 7 b: 9 10 11 12 13 l 6 7 8: 9 10 11'12. II 15 16 17 18.19 20 'l3 14 15 16 17:18.19 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 I i -- 28,2930 ..1..!..:..: . ;27 28 » 30:311..!..;

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Minute Sponge Cake —Beat three eggs two minutes; add one cup of flour, arid one teaspoonfu) of cream of-tartar; beat one minute; add half a cup of cold water with a teaspoonfur of soda and a spoonful of extract of lemon; beat one minute; add one cup of flour; beat one minute. Kettle Scraper.—Daisy Eyebright tells in the Country Gentleman how to make a useful article for scraping saucepans and iron kettles, so as to save one’s finger nails, which are the means generally employed for the purpose. She says any tinman can cut a piece of sheet iron about t tvo inches wide and two and a half inches long. It should be made in the form of a square, with three sides left straight and the other one cut off at each corner so as to make angles, which, coming in contact with particles adhering to the kettles, will remove them. A smart boy can make one out of any old bit of iron. Cure for Earache.—Children are sometimes afflicted with earache to an alarming extent, and there is sometimes a difficulty in obtaining an effectual remedy for the disorder. A writer in the Household says that she takes a piece of salt pork, say an inch or more long and half an inch square; cut down one end to fit the ear, and insert it, taking care to have the piece too large to slip in. Tie a hardkerchief to keep it in place, if the child will allow it. She also uses pork for sore throat, croup and lung colds. Cut slices half an inch thick, dip in warm water, sprinkle on a little pepper, and sew on a flannel. She has used pork for earache especially, and always found it to give instant relief. How to Cook Potatoes.—Peel and either boil or steam two pounds of potatoes till they fall to pieces ; if boiled drain the water from them, and let them stand by the side of the fire, with the lid off, for five minutes, to let the steam evaporate; add a lump of butter about the size of small egg, or more if wished, and when this has melted, break up the potatoes as small as possible with a fork; and tlien_ mash with a wooden spoon, adding milk by degrees till they are the proper consistency. Turn into the dish, and smooth them with a spoon. If liked, they may be put in the oven for a few minutes to brown. Salt will, of course, have been put in while they were boiling. Pepper is sometimes added, but this is a matter of taste. Late Chickens for Summer Eggs.—ll is<quite usual for many poultry raisers to save the earliest broods for layers the next Beason. This is all right so far as late w’inter and early spring eggs are concerned. One of the principal reasons, however, why farmers do not have a continuance of eggs during the summer is that they do not save late broods of chickens for successive-laying of eggs. We al way s •'save some, both from the earliest clutches and also from the late ones, even so late as August, by which we have eggs all through the hot weather. Try it and note the results. You will not be disappointed. —Young hens do not make so good mothers as older ones and we should not allow them to sft until they had laid eggs one season. If not allowed to sit, they will soon recommence laying, and by having some two-year old pullets for sitting you will find your profits largely increased thereby.— Western Hural. Rapid Pickling of Meat.—The following is an English recipe: Put the meat in a mixture of sixteen ounces salt, one half ounce saltpeter, and one ounce sugar, so that all parts may be completely salted : then wrap closely in a piece of cotton cloth previously well scalded and dried, and place in a porcelain or other vessel. The cloth is essential with small pieces, to retain the brine formed in contact with the meat. After about sixteen hours, however, some brine will drain off into the bottom of the vessel, and it will be necessary then to turn the meat, still wrapped up, daily. A piece Of six pounds, treated in this way for six weeks, then unwrapped and boiled, will be found quite palatable and sufficiently pickled. For larger quantities the cloth may be dispensed with, since the brine formed will be sufficient to cover the mass, provided the pieces are closely packed, and :any unavoidable cavities filled with stories. . . ' '

Sawdust in The Stable.

The New England Farmer says: “The doctors and the professors are discussing the value of sawdust and shavings when applied to land. Mr. Knox, in the New York Tribune, cautions against the use of shaving's as a mulch, . and believes they must prove injurious, Professoi S. W. Johnson thinks otherwise. Both argue the case from a scientific stand point. Mr. Knox believes that potash must be fed to plants in an elementary or uncombined state. Mr. Johnson claims that pure potash is destructive to vegetation, and can only become plant food when combined with an acid. When doctors disagree who shall decide’ We do not claim to know much about the chemistry of sawdust, but we have used it several yea’s as an absorbent of urine, and as bedding for horses and cattle. We prefer to have ’it seasoned and dry, and should choose that made from hard wood, but we take, such as we can get, which is nearly all made from pine logs. Our conclusions are that sawdust is the cleanest bedding we have ever used; that if tht manure is kept trodden down hard to prevent excessive fermentation, it is no injury to the manure heap. Our experiments prove that sawdust soaked with urine and used as a top-dressing on grass land, will show where it was spread by an increased growth of grass; that when the manure is made up largely of sawdust, that is, when enough is used to Soak up and retain all the urine, it has never injured any of the urops to which it has been applied. We have grown all kinds ,pf crops bn it, without perceiving an}- injurious effects therefrom. We shall continue its use in such quantities as will make Comfortable bedding for our cows, and as an absorbent, till we see some harm done by it, as long as it can be obtained by carting two or tlieee miles. As a fertilizer, perhaps sand or loam, or drymuck, or straw would be better; but all cannot have these in abundance, and we must use for bedding tjie best materials within our reach.” Our own experience with sawdust (whether pipe, hemlpck, spruce or hard wood) has been similar to. that of our r

contemporary. We would not apply sawdust to land without composting it; but it is one of the best methods of composting, to litter the cattle and horse stables with it-*— Rural Neu> Yorker.

Air and Light.

Did you ever think of the difference between air and light, in the way they come to us? You cannot catch the sunbeam in you/fingers; you cannot shut it up; you cannot even feel it. It seems as thin, as intangible, as the air itself. Yet the air penetrates everything; it creeps through; it glides under; it goes behind. There is no escaping it; while the sunbeam is turned aside by every obstacle. What if light moved as air does, instead of only in straight lines? Do you see what would happen? There would be no shadow; no escape anywhere from the piercing brightness. Tne thick green leaves would not turn it aside; there would be no coolness of the woods; no “shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land;” no use at all for hat-brims or sunumbrellas. Some One seems to have planned very wisely and kindly, in this one little law of light, to keep us all comfortable and happy. Then thei sunbeam itself, though it looks like a simple gleam of brightness, isireally a bundle of different colors tied "up together, and each color has a different office to perform. The artist can separate the ray into its original -colors, and- letting them fall upon his prepared plate, will show you that it is only one or two of the darkest rays that have anything to do with printing his wonderful sun-pictures.— Little Corporal.

Postal Telegraph.

The President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, in a letter to a New York paper, says■: “The Herald is probably correct in assuming that further reduction of rates will not be made by the companies now doing the telegraph business, for Some time to come.” The Western Union Company have adopted some uniformity in their charges within a few years past, and made a reductions in their rates, to the great benefit of the public and the company; but the public are under no obligations to the company for making these reductions; for President Orton, in his annualreport, informs his stockholders that they were forced upon them from the competition of opposing companies. They have recently purchased the principal opposition lines, and have reduced their rates so low that the remaining companies are unable to make any money. Now that this great monopoly is free from all fear of competition, they announce that they will make no'further concessions in rates. That the company are able to make further reductions is shown by the facts given in the annual reports. From these it appears that the rates have been reduced nearly one-third in six years, yet the cost of doing the business is so much less, in consequence of its great increase, that the net profits are greater at the lower than aUtlie higher rates. Mr. Orton has so often reiterated the proposition that the expenses increase in nearly as a ratio as the business, and therefore reduction~in rates cannot be made, Unit he has persuaded himself of its truth,.and is unable to appreciate the force of the facts which we have given. Mr. Orton truly says that the telegraph is only in its infancy. The growth of its business is much more rapid than that of the express or post-office, and at the same ratio of increase the number of telegrams that will be annually sent ten yea hence is larger than the number of letters sent when the postage was reduced to five cents. The immediate increase in the correspondence that followed upon the use of the five and three cent postage stamp was enormous,rapidly increasing from 50,000,000 to 500,000,000. There will be the same increase in the telegraphic correspondence if the same relative reductions in rates are made, for the same causes would operate to produce like effects. The people cannot hope for such reductions from the Western Union Telegraph Company, because -there is now no reason to induce- at—to. make them, and because the loss of net revenues from the,, great reductions in Tates necessary to popularize the tclegraph would be greater than the saving of expenses on each telegram from the great increase in the business. Such reductions can be made under the postal telegraph system, for that will save nearly one-quarter of the present expense, and would therefore authorize a reduction in rates of nearly forty per cent., and yet leave a sufficient profit on the greatly increased business. The Postmaster-General will ask Congress to purchase all existing lines,of telegraph, and build the new ones required for the business. The expense of purchasing tliese.lines has been estimated by committees of Congress at from $40,000,000 to $70,000,000. It is not likely Congress will feel disposed, in the “ present condition of our finances, to authorize such an expenditure, especially as the object sought can be accomplished without any expense to the Government” The Post-office Department will furnish the offices, and the Postal Telegraph Company will transmit the messages at r:\tes fixed by Congress. If the people desire to have a cheap telegraph, and to have the news furnished to the press at low rates, they must support the postal telegraph system, anil urge Congress to pass the bill authorizing the Postmaster General to contract as he now contracts for the carriage of the mails. If, on the other hand, they desire to perpetuate an overgrown monopoly, which is everyday growing more powerful, then let them continue the present system, by which a single .private corporation controls the telegraphic correspondence of a nation, and has the power to give or withhold news to the press, and to mold public opinion in its own interest. Such a power is too great for any private company to hold, and should be in tile hands of the people to be used only for their benefit. —Chocolate Puffs. —One half pound of sugar, sifted, one of chocolate, scraped very fine, and mix together. Beat the whites of two eggs and stir in your” chocolate and sugar. Continue to ‘beat until it becomes stiff paste. Sugar your paper, drop them in it, and bake in a slow oven. Will Wonders Never Cease?—When Dr. Walker proclaimed that he had produced from the medicinal herbs of California an Elixir that would regenerate the sinking system and cure every form of disease not organic, the incredulous shook their heads. ‘ Yet his Vinegar Bitters is noiw the Standard Restorative of the ■West<srn World.' Under the operation of the new remedy, Dyspeptics regain their health; the Bilious and Constipated arerelieved of every distressing symptom ; the Consumptive "and Rheumatic rapidly recover: Intermittent and Remittent Fevers are broken; the hereditary taint of Scrofula is eradicated! Skepticism is routed, and this wonderful preparation is to day the most popular .Topic, Alterative and Blood Depurent ever "advertised in America. We don’t sell Rum under the guise of medicine. We advertise to sell a pure medicine which will stand analysis by any chemist in the country. 23 If your horse.is lame, sore or galled, you Should Use Johnson's'Anodyne Lininient; wash the part with castile soap and warm water, rub dry with a dean cloth, then apply the lliirneuf; rub In ifell. with the hand, i

' 1 The attention of our many readers Is called to the attractive advertisement of J. N. Harris & Co., advertising their great and valuable lung remedy, “Alien’s Lung Balsam.” This Balsam has been before the public for ten years. Notwithstanding this long period, it has never lost one whit of its popularity, or sllwn the least sign of becoming unpopular, but, on the contrary, the call tot it has been constantly increasing, and at no l previous time has the demand been so great, or the quantity made been so large, as at this day. We earnestly recommend its trial by any one who may be afflicted with a cough or cold, and we warrant it to cure if directions are followed. It is sold by all our city druggists.

Wanted to Be Heard From. If anybody has ever used the thorough and scientific course of treatment recommended ■ bjl the proprietor of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy foT the cure of Catarrh, and has not been perfectly cured, the proprietor, Dr. R. V. Fierce, would like to hear from that person, and by addressing him at the World’s Dispensary, Buffalo, N. ¥., such person, if there be one, will hear of something to his or her advantage, as the Doctor is in earnest when he offers SSOO reward for a case of Catarrh which lie cannot cure, and is perfectly able to pay it if he failsin a single case, as any one may ascertain upon inquiry. The thorough course of treatment referred to and recommended by Dr. Pierce consists in the use of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy with Dr. Pierce’s Nasal Douche, which is the only means by which the fluid can,be carried high up and applied to all parts of the nasal passages, and the chambers connected therewith; in which ulcers exist, and from which, the discharge proceeds. In addition to this thorough application of the Remedy, which should always be used warm, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery should be taken earncstlyas constitutional treatment, without which few cases can be cured, as the disease is always constitutional, and must be treated accordingly. This treatment has no unpleasant features about it, and lias the advantage of never driving the disease to the lungs, as there is danger of doing by the use of strong, irritating snuffs or poisonous solutions. PLA/N PACTS. Frankfort, Mich., September 13, 1873. A year ago I had a bad cough from the Catarrh, which had got in my throat. I tried a good many tilings, but got nothing to do me any good until I used your Golden Medical Discovery and Dr. Sage’S Catarrh Remedy. They cured me in three mouths, for which I am very thankful. Amos .Fisher. Fob an Irritated Throat, Cough or Cold, “iii own’s Jlromhial Troches" are offered with the fullest confidence in their efficacy. They maintain the good reputation they have justly acquired. Sugar Trough Gourds -grown to hold two buckets full each. For 25 cents I will send a package of the seed and my illustrated catalogue, felling bow to grow tfifem. Choice verbena seed 10 cents per package. Catalogues free. Address Wald Brown, Oxford, Ohio. Have the readers of this paper over used any of Parsons’ Purgative Pills? If not, why not? They are the best family physic, besides being the greatest anti-bilious remedy there is in this country.

The Illustrated Journal for January Is a very beautiful specimen of art. It contains six fttll-page engravings, including two flue views of Salt Lake City, besides several smaller illustrations of. places of interest in the Mormon capital. The table of contents embraces a very rich and varied collection of literary articles. The Journal is issued by the American Publishing Co„ of,, Chicago, for only $.’.50 per year, a price which brings it within the reach of all. Address Thomas G. _ Newman, Room 47, Tribune building, Chicago. ♦ Tur- Little Corporal.—The number for January contains the usual variety of choice literary matter, comprising stories, poems, etc. MThe Lucky-Stone,’' is the title of a new serial story, by the. editor, Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller, just begun in this number, and which promises to be very attractive and interesting. “Life on an ■ Island,’" by Helen C. Weeks, is continued. A beautiful,chromo is given free to every subscriber to this youths" magazine, the subscription price of which is only $1.50 a year. Single number fifteen cents. Address John E. Miller, Publisher, Chi-’ cagb, 111. ♦ Thirty Years’ Experience of an Old Nurse, Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Is the prescription of one oLthe best Female Physicians and Nurses In the United States, and has been used for thirty years with never-falling safety and success by minions of mothers and children, from the feeble Infant of one week old to the adult. It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, and gives rest, health, and comfort to mother and child. We believe It to be the Best and Surest Remedy in the World in all cases of DYSENTERY and DLARItHffi.IIN CHILDREN, whether it arises from Teething or from any other cause. Full directions for using will accompany each bottle. None Genuine unless the sac-simile of CURTIS & PERKINS Is on the outside wrapper. Sold by all Medicine Dealers. Children Often Look Pale and Sick From no other cause than having worms lu the atom ach. BROWN’S VERMIFUGE COMFITS will destroy Worms without Injury to the child, being perfectly white, and free from all coloring or other Injurious ingredients usually used lu worm preparations. «» CURTIS &. BROWN, Proprietors, No. 215 Fulton street, New York. Solti by Druggists and Chemists, and Dealers tn Jrbdutlnes, at Twenty-five Cents a Box. The Household Panacea and Family Liniment Is the best remedy in the world for the following complaints, viz.: Cramps In the Limbs and Stomach, Pain In the Stomach, Bowels or Side, Rheumatism In all its forms, Bilious Colic, Neuralgia. Cholera, Dysentery, Colds, Flesh Wounds,Burns,Sorjj.Throat,Spinal Complaints, Sprains and Bruises, Chills and Fever. For Internal and External use. Its operation is not only to relieve the patient, but entirely remove the cause of the complaint. It penetrates and pervades the whole system, restoring healthy action to all Its parts, and quickening the blood. The Hovsf.uold Panacea 1b Purely Vegetable and AU-Healmg. - • Prepared by CURTIS * BROWN, No. 215 Fulton street. New York. Forsale byall Druggists. Brown’s Bronchial Troches for Conghs and Colds, A COUGH, COLD OR SORE THROAT Requires immediate attention, and should be Checkaid. If allowed to continue, Irritation or the Lungs, a Permanent Throat Affection, or an Incurable Lung Disease is often the result. BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES, Having a direct Influence on the parts, give Immediate relief. For Bronchitis , Asthma, Catarrh, Consumptive and Throat Diseases, Troches are used with always good success. SiNoiMis'AND Public Speakers Will find Troches useful lu clearing the voice when taken before Singing or Speaking and relieving the throat after an unusual exertion of the vocal organs. Obtain only “Brown's Bronchial Troches,” and do not take any of the worthless imitations that may be offered. Sold Everywhere. YVIIEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS tv please say you saw the advertisement In inis paper 200 PIANOS AND ORGANS New and Second-hand,-o/Ffirst-class Makers, will benoldat Lower Pricea/or cash,or on Installinents, in city or country, during thisfinancinl crisis andthe Holidays, by Horace Waters &: Son\ 481 Broadway, than ever before offered in New York. Agents Wan ted to sell Waters’ Celebrated Pianos, Concerto and Orchestral OrsraQs. lliust’tedcatalogues mailed. Great inducements to the Trade. A large discount to Ministers, Churches, Sunday -Schools,etc. TT7OMEN. Men, Girls and Boys wan tea to sen out Vt French and American Jewelry. Books, Games, etc- No capital needed. Catalogue. Terms, etc-, sent tree- P. O. VICKEKY & Co-, Augusta, Me. aggK A MONTH—2 packages fine white envelops and 2 qui res note paper, value sl, mailed for 50 cents, c ircular for stamp HOOK. CejfLar liapids, One Box of Cary’s. Soluble Ink Powder will make a pint of Best Black Ink in five minutes. tI.M, per dor... f 1.35 by mail. H. G O, Cary. Zanesville, O. <TI AA A MONTH to Men, Women,'Boys and Gills JI ill! to work for us. PARTICULARS FREE. Address BOWEN & CO., Marion, Ohio, W£lX ALdEtt, Swd lOcw. Sv Am* book. Addraa Am* C*.. 6*. Mo. 1,000 Agents wanted. Bend stamp 010 to A. H. BLAIR & CO., St. Louis, Mo. DR. WHITTIER, Longest angaged, and mo. t auucesaful Physician 'of the age. ‘ (biuuiutton or pamphlet free. Call or write.

-A- xaExkEEsiysTIIAT WILL CUBE CONSUMPTION Will those who have been Long Afflicted with Consumption take Courage > PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING.: Columbia, Henry Co., Alabama, March 8,1873. Messrs. J. N. Harris & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio: Dear Sirs— I warn you to send me six bottles of Allen's Lung Balsam. Since last May I have bought and taken about twenty bottles of the Lung Balsam, for a disease of the Lungsof thirteen tears’ standing. Before that time I have bought and used nearly every Lung Remedy recommended, and your Lung Balsam Is the ouly thing that has given me permanent relief. I believe that If saved my life last spring, when I commenced Its use. Ido not expect anything wllrcure mo entirely, but the Balsam keeps me up so that I can attend to business. It givt sme Immediate relief, and I am greatly Improved In general health. I remain gratefully yours, D. D. POOL. What better proof of a good remedy for Consumption do yon want 1 N ew Market, Va.. March 24, 1871. Messrs. Peery, Davis * Son : Gents—Last December I was taken with a severe cough, and was confined to my room. But as I sat meditating on the names of different articles I had lu my store for coughs, thought I would try a bottle of Allen's Lung Balsam, of wbicb, at that time, I had not sold a bottle. I took a bottle and opened It, and commenced using with the most happy results, and was soon entirely cured of my cough ; since then I have recommended It to a number of friends, and I have yet to find a single Instance in which it has tailed. I consider It a complete cough-curer. O. P. SNYDER, Druggist. The Lupg Balsam never falls to do good for those afflicted with a cough. It Is harmless t. the most delicate child. It contains no opium in any form. It is sold by Medicine-dealers generally. CAUTION. Be not deceived. Call for ALLEN’S LUNG BALSAM. and take no other. CJCDlrectlons accompany each bottle. J. N, HARRIS & CO., Cincinnati, Ohio, PROPRIETORS. SOLD BY ALL MEDICINE DEALERS. MERCHANT'S GARGLING OIL The Standard Liniment of the United States. IS GOOD FOR Burnt and Scalds, __ RheumcUism, Chilblain*, Hemorrhoids or Piles, Sprains and Bruises, Sore Nipples, Chapped Hands, Caked Breasts, Flesh Wounds, Fistula, Mange, Frost Biles, Spavins, Sweeney, External Poisons, Scratches or Grease, Sand Cracks, Stringhalts IFindyalls, Galls of all kinds, Foundered Ffet, Sit fast,. Ringbone, Cracked Heels, Poll Evil, Foot Rot in Sheep, Biles of Animals, Roup in Poultry, Toothache, Lame Back, ifc., ifc. Large Size SI.OO. Medium 50c. Small2sc. Small Size for Family Use, 25 cents. The Gargling Oil has been in use as a liliiinent since 1833. All we ask is a fair trial, but be sureand follow directions. Ask vour nearest Druggist ordealei m Patent Medicines for one of our Almanacs, and read what the peapie say about the Oil. The Gargling Oil is" for sale byTfll respectable dealers throughout the United States and other countries. Our Mstlmom'a/sdate from 1833 to the pres, ent, am I are tni :..Un itcil. We also manufacture merchant’s Worm Tablets. We deal fair and liberal with all, and defy contradiction. Manufactured at Lockport, N. Y., U. S. A., by Merchant’s Gargling Oil Co., JOHN HODGE, Secretary. »x bad eJLm A R £ CONSUMPTION ja.xxd Its Cure. WILLSON’S Carbolated Cod Liver Oil Is a scientific combination of two well-known modiclnas. Its theory is first to arrest the decay, then bund, up the system. Physicians find the doctrine correct. Tlie really startling cures performed by M tilson's Oil are proof. Carbolic Acid positively arrests Decay. It Is the most powerful antiseptic In the knovjji world. Fn’terlng into the circilfattouTlt at-bnee, grapples with corruption, and decay ceases* It purities the sources of disease. . CodTii'er OU is Nature's best assistant in resisting Consumption. Put up in large wedgc-sliaped bottles, bearing the inventor’s signature, and 13 Hold by the best liruggistd. 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BAILEY & DONOVAN Danbury, Ct. fl BUllinC 3 doz. sl, sample 10c. Must have Agents erfrj'irZtere. Outfits 25 cents. F. K. SMITH, Bangor, Maine. AR DA V at y°ur own fireside. Address (with WU U U rAI Stamp) J. F. Beck, West Union, O. SWTHEft-NECTrR IS A PURE w!th the Wan ' ranted to suit all tastes. For sale everywhere. And for sale whole ’AS Z,l6aleonT i’ b y the Great Atlantic rcWwA&rSgN Pacific Tea Co., I‘>l Fulton st.and 2 and I Church-st, N. Y. P.O. Boj Mjgir circulai TUE HEW The most perfect and complete Sewing Machine ever mantifachMFßli. A N tnred. A model of Simplicity, Durability, Efficiency and Reliaouitu. Light-Running, and the only machine in the world having a Self-Threading Shuttle. Sold on liberal terms. Agents Wanted. Send for circulars and samples of work. Address AMERICAN SEWING MACHINE CO., 70 Stale street, Chicago, 111. AT I AftT^ e have found something new for HI kHV I ageuts. It will sell better than anything you ever handled. Samples‘2sc. EUREKA MANUFACTUR’G CQ. 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jh ilkliWdaalUaiKA. Dr. J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly fcom the native herbs founcT on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal properties of which are extracted therefrom without the use of Alcohol. The question is almost daily asked, “What is the cause of the unparalleled success of Vinegar Bitters?” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, andthe patient recovers his health. They are the great bloqd purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invigorator of the system. Never before in the history of the world has a medicine been compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing th'e sick of every disease man is heir to. They are a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, hi Bilious Diseases. The properties of Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Altera, tive. and Anti-Bilious. oruteful Thousands proclaim Vinegar Bitters the most wonderful Invigorant that ever sustained th° sinking system. Nd Person can take these Bitters according’to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, and vital organs wasted boyoud repair. • ' - Bilious, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, which are so prevalent in the valleys of our great rivers throughout the United States, especially those of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkansas,.. Red, Colorado,.Brazos, Rio Grande, Pearl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Roawrke, James, and many others, with their vast tiibytaries, throughout our entire country (luring the Summer and Av. jiiiin, and remarkably so during seasons of unusual heat and dryness, are invariably accompanied by extensive dciangcinents oLthe stomach and liver, and other abdominal viscera. In their treatment, a purgative, exerting a powerful influence upon these various organs, is essentially necessary. There is no cathartic for the purpose equal to Du. J. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters, as they will speedily remove the darkcolored viscid matter with which the bowels are loaded, at the same time stimulating the secretions of the liver, and generally restoring the healthy functions of the digestive organs. Fortify the body against disease by purifying all its Jiuids with Vinegar Betters, No epidemic can take hold of a system thus fore-armed; Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headache, Pain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Tasto in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, PalpitatatiOu Of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the region of the Kid neys, and a hundred other painful Symptoms, are the oflsprings of Dyspepsia. One bottle will prove a better guarantee of its merits than a lengthy advertisement. Scrofula, or King's Evil, White Bwe 11 i irgsyt’l c e rvß iy s ip«t‘ ls r&wcll eLrtfnckr Goitre, Scrofulous Infiiunniations, Indolent, Inflammations, Mercurial Affections, Old Sores, Eruptions of the Skin, Sore Eyes, etc. In these, as in nil other constitutional Diseases, Walker’s Vinegar Bitters have shown their great curative powers in the most obstinate and intractable cases. Fcr Inflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases ot the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, these Bitters have no equal. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood. Mechanical Diseases.— Persons engaged in Paints and Minerals, such as Plumbers, Type-setters, Gold-beaters, and Miners, as they advance in life, are subject to paralysis of the Bowels. To guard against this, taljo a dose of Walker's Vinegar Bitters occasionally. For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, Salt-Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, King-worms, Scald-head, Sore Eyes, l>iystpelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discolorations’ of the Skin. Humors and Diseases of rheJSkin of whatever name or nature, are literally dug up and carried out of the system in a short lime by the.use of these Bitters. Pin, Tape, and other Worms, lurking in the system of so many thousands, are effectually destroyed and removed. No system of medicine, no vermifuges, no anthehniniticß will free the system from worms like these Bitters. For Female Complaints, m young or old, iiiarried or single, at the dawn of womanhood. or the-, turn of life, those Tonic Bitters display so decided an influence that improyemeirt is soon perceptible. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find its impurities bursting through the skin in Pimples, Eruptions, or Sores; ClFansWTt "when"yon find' it obstructed-and-sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it is foul; your feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pure, and the health of the system will follow. k. ii. McDonald & co.. Druggists and Gen. Agts., San Franeiscq, California, Bild cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts < . N. Y. Sold by-all liinggists and Dealers* C K C 9 H P er ! Agents wanted! All classea 4>U LU 4*XU of working people, of either sex, young or old, make more money at work for us in their spar* moments, or all the time, than at anything else. Particu* lars free. Address G. Stinson A Co., Portland, Maine. / 1 4HD 4 aH l >e cured at yotir lionie. VA. A A ALAI II Send stamp for Circular. UIC VAN HUMMBLIa Indianapolis, Ind> SV fa fora full course of Telegraphing, when I ri taken with BUSINESSJCOV jISE. lor Bzl circulars address Jones Commercial (olXV lege, St. Louis, Mo. Open Day and Night. XTEW WAY OF FILLIMC TEETH. Inl ycu can fill ycnir own. No £ain or trouble; cost trifling. Send Btinip for circular on Prevention of Toothache and Decay. DENTAL ASSOCIATION, Box MO, Cincinnati, Ohio. A 11 V ■ sending us the address of ten persons, with 10 ftff I lets, will receivejype, a beautiful Chromo and al r* I instructions how tQ get rich, post-paid. City U N t IWW Co., lOS Sbiitli Blh St., Phila,,- Pa. DR. WHITTIER, *”’ 8 V. L C JASSS. ST ’ Longest engaged, and mbsl succesiful Physician of the age, Conaultattou or pamphlet free. Cali or write. A ii. A. 437- R P. ZflAnf nyullld or Gentlemen. Full particulars on Won*nrl application/rw. 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