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The TEMPERANCE QUEsTI0N.-The October mum
Der of the Westminster Review contains an article Of
singular ability, starting with the proposition that
drunkenness cannot be cured 6y fegisatio It is writ
ten and published in view of very persistent efforts in
England to obtain the enactment OF Maine law by
Parliament. Tt tveses the whole field Of discussion
of the questions Of prohibition and regulation Of the
liquor traffic. An extract or two will serve to show
the strength of the article. y
" The world would be very different world if great
evils easily cured and If ten lines IN statute
book could crush vice and make virtue
Experience tells different tale. It tells that law is
in itself poWerless, and that it is onysron when it
is the outward and formal expression Of what men
really wish Even if Law, such as the Maine liquor
law were obeyed which it might be for tirlc among
orderly and law-loving people, there woaId be no
escaping in one shape or other, the penalty Of so
gross an infringement of the principles Of State
government. 1t would be an evil worse than that Of
drunkenness if nation learnt to lean on the rotten
zeal of external enactments and thus sapped the very
foundations OF right and destroyed the springs of all
moral acton.o 8izE#55-EGjS E5igr
Again, in regard to personal nghts-the denial to
men of their freedom of choice who live under the rule
of laws which recognize the great fact Of personal
liberty-the writer remarks
"To deny the of Intoxicating liquors aItogethers
to withhold by law the of indulging because in
diligence is often carried to vicious excess is, in
fact. an attempt in very signal instance, and on a
very wide scale, to increase the sphere of State gov
ernment and to deaden the sense Of individual re-
sponsiblity. It would be impossible furnish more
conspicuous example of that mode of viewing man
and morals which makes wrong and right the subject
of State policy and not Of individual conviction
"A subtle poison taints the moral atmosphere in
which such a law is upheld. The mind of man be-
comes narrow and crippled when he is no longer his
master; his actionsa meaning when stripped
of the beauty of choice; his sympathy for others
grows dead when he has no longer to assist them in
encountering moral trials and to Gain and give the
strength Of mutual counsel. Prohibition advocates
are fond Of prophesyng that as men cease to drink
they will goto church. 5ggy2t
g What will they find when they get there2 Is the
faith OF the churches of chrstendom so warm their
words 50 full Of meaning. their appeal to the con-
science so direct that they afford to be guided by
law which, as far as one law can, deadens response
hy and obliterates the distinction between good and
evil The text will be the keenest satire the SER
mon. The text will say, Use yourafreedom those
who stand or fall to their Master; the preacher will
fsay My Christian brethren abstain altogether, for
there penalty Of five dollars for the first offence
and ten for the secoud.sf y 80
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huEa =. 2. .s.TR1-yyEE1SLY MAIL LIME

Es!lslI[6asEES Ess9!lsl[6a g FROM NEW ORLEANS TO VICKSBURG-
For Donaldsonvile, Plaquemine, Baton Rouge,
Port Hudson Bayou Sara Red River Landings Fort Adams
Natchez Waterproof Rodney St Joseph Grand Gulf Warren
PRINCESS Capt. Holmes, TUESDAY, at5P.
SOUTHERN BELLE, Capt Broadwell THURSDAY, at5PM.
NATCHEZ, Capt Leathers, SATURDAY, ats P. NJ
The above mentioned splendid passenger packets will leave
their regular days without fail at the hour appointed Al
business entrusted to their will be promptly and faithfully
attended Freight taken for Yazoo if consigned to W. NJ
SHAW the Agent of the boats at Vcsburg who will forward
it without delay, and without any extra charge.
These boats will not be responsible for letter package
containing money iewey, other vauabes unless regular
bills Of ng taken specifying the contents value and
the freight paid for vauabes deposited with the clerk
by the passengers in their baggage.
For freight passage apply on board, or to
CARROLL, PRITCHARD & CO.,
se5 If Union Row, 50 Carondelet street.
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YAZOO RIV Err.
w H l T E RI Y E R

Leaves on SATURDAY. 18th inst. clock P. NJ.
fT%S, FOR WHITE AND ARKANSAS
Rirers-The and light draught j.
ssn4M1Az NIorrisett, D. Brandenburg, master, will
leave for IacksenpoTt Elizabeth Augusta Des Arc Duva's
landings above For freight apply board
LEWIS SEAPP Il CO. 81 Front street.
HFreight taken for Napoleon and all the Bends also
Arkansas River if consigned to Des Arc, Duvals Bluff
Aberdeen. fe5
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, GSa =. PORT HUDSON AND WAITER
l@25E4s a. s LOO PACKET New Latona, Emile Gross
fsM3a master. having been thoroughly overhauled and
repaired and newly painted will her trips in the above
trade leaving New Orleans FRIDAY O'Clock A. NJ
and every MONDAY, at 5 O'Clock P. NJ.
latona will be ready to take freight Monday
and Thursday for all landings the Coast Donaldson Bayou
Gouln Plaquenine Baton Rouge Iobdels Store, Port Hud
Waterloo and all intermediate landings
For freight having superior Accommodations apply
board o23 6m
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HoRR1BLE-An English paper publishes the follow
ing account of the exhnmation of the bodies of the
wife and brother of William Palmer, who was charged
with having poisoned them and sixteen other per-
sons "a 4s9 ea N .a5iszg.sa5
The cofins containing the remains of the deceased,
Ann and Walter Palmer, were, upon their exhuIna-
ton, conveyed from the family vault to the Talbot
I at Rugely and opened in the presence of the cor
oner and jury, in the commercial room Of the Inn.
The coffin of Mrs. Palmer, made Of oak, was first
opened. Having been buried q long time, and the
gaseous exhalations being able to escape through the
porous wood, the corpse was comparatively dry, and
the smell educed endurable. On the removal Of the
in which Walter Palmers body was confined, and in
stantly most sckIy and noxious ef1uvium escaped,
which penetrated the entire building, affected parties
at the other end of the inn and produced sckenng
effect all in the immediate vicinity Of the coffin.
Subsequently the leaden lid was removed, and the
spectacle presented by the body was absolutely
frightful The cheeks were SO terribly dstended as
to extend to either side Of the coffin one eye was
opened, and the month partially so presenting ap-
pearance Of horrible grin and grmace. Each limb
was also swollen to prodigous proportions and the
sight was revolving in the extreme Nearly all the
jurors were afflicted with vomiting and fantng. At
ter the refinement of the corpses, considerable time
elapsed before fumgations could make the house at
all bearable; even week afterwards, the cfese room
in which the bodies opened strongly set OF the
disgusting odor and it found necessary to have
the walls scraped and repapered the doors and wood
foul matter had dropped from the coffin of the male
deceased, re-aid, it being found impossible by the
planning to diYest the boards of the noxious stain and
STENCIL .54.-5+-- =
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STEAMBOAT DEP PARTUREs.
--..
FOR RED RIVER.

W. leave ." TF5fSDAf F6 III VII fs%Ss dRHsD
s5ss=z5, tons Landing and ali intemedate andings. The
' aH s s aSs"s s al sn3g 5K
F2s e5 freight passage ay g. s% ssfFf e New evse
T leave on 7FSHsPkE FoH AED 81! a s3s E }Fsr
er at sesmfF @ ease Pr ea1se b shsn VI kn
a5n saS m nSs S11
rGs 1ss p..."fss SE2!y sisEe ::
rHGHsnAH oH eHSD IN 5si He6RE {; ai53s G5 < H
@ 3 teshes AID aisxanaIs T6s regular PIsssnsss
@1sSs FOR rf PeisS sS co so1
T leave FoK SBEhERAx IaE Esi BisFssxG Il i fSsfE
pe1fy yna asr vii asa savf gaosa a3sye so of
Alexandria and all ine1neiae landings For freight
fsis on Do"'" LEWIS ssApp CO. Front street
W Leave ." HGUhhk ESESRAI II RIB I KVE 3s'Ss fHok
sy s9 ss a1f T eses as assys s
Jefferson, Shreveport Alexandra and all Intermediate land
'E Fiji tsh' passage "PI oH s@ Shrf ve
~ ss5nsH e VI ffF:5
steamed nRa g. g. E ar< sB sssk gs19a N
leave above taking freight through high water rates For
freight Eli or passage, apply on board 8 ,,rrr
y Leave FUR EG5RAE s1iRivHPSfT LII is 4 Si?f; sMAsD
isS draft steamer LINDA, Wis s' slan 'a ma;- nsi
ter will leave above For freight passage apply board
r 4: n: ROBINSON & co, 100 Grayicr street;
E leave u hE{RAE II KED B: 4 RfyEM fsI34 y AND
Ike W p9sn IsT X "na T. Fsafs ] i'ssss is5sz
SSf
superior apRly s%T N hPd IS q ys 1evsoe
The R, " Powell will responsible for any letter
or package containing ewely other vluabes unless
yane and freight Padnor valuable articles depoted
T oi REgnEaM HEsRAI IL II RED ivfn fsSs AND
1s K W nf" e. f na aaTs slsnns sssf W
sszs o oss egsa5 and % Esa 'sn I al
teTIneae landings as above For freight or passage having
superior EW spsyN sNPP Pf'a CO., :? Front street
NB-The R. W Powell will not be responsible for let
less rsuar bs Of nins are atsn spsefyng e Contents and
viii hs clerk by passengers % bassass s'
YAZOO RIVER.
win leave FoH e GH'FTRE TAnhA1HhTohh IL 9 & RIVER
so5e vsoo , anS saon Messs Lasns
ter Phelps master win leave above For freight pas
s"t fs2 H'p's Oh D0Ap' B. SMITH L New evse street
wv s5TgRRay II T. 6; fs9ss4 AM
1HllLs e Yazoo RirerThe fine fast running passenge
fsss4==-aa steamer Moses Greenwood, a. Thomas
MASTER will leave above for mouth of Coldwtcr Tatoba
Ieore. Greenwood Sdon Honey Island Thnla, Yazoo City
Saartia, Ecksbug and all intermediate landings
yf For freight Go
Leaves on SATURDAY the 10Th inst. at O'clock P. NJ.
| FSg, FOR TALLAHATCIIIE RIVER
! ia Letore, Greenwood, Sdor McI'ees Laling
ssa-s1z Yazoo City and Satartia-The superior, lgh
running passenger steamer Noses Greenwood, A. Tho
mas MASTER will leave above For freight passage apply
on board or to -
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FEMlNoLoGY.--A queer gatherer of statistics says.
that out of one hundred and pretty women
whom he met in the streets Of fashionable resort in
agiyen time, one hundred were sucking their parasol
handles. s
In an omnibus, four young ladies out of every seven
invariably look through the front window at the horses
Alta party, seven ladies out of ten prefer vanilla
icecream, while only in ten habtually eats orange
water ice. "a, ~ ;E4g4.5g EE,,Ta
The stouter lady is the more she rolls her eyes
up while Waltzing.
The smaller lady is, so much the more does she
affect sun-fower rosettes, enormous founces, and
extra-Sized ornaments. Eft 'sN @z51E5.
Diminutive ladies admire giant-ike gentlemen
and cice uersa. es ,.sss :.rs
Ladies who are greatly admired by their own sex,
are seldom viewed in the same light by gentlemen.
Some ladies speak of tsladiesS beauties and gem
| tlemen's beautiesa i.d{ss53f szB5 tzFsLE
1t is a curious fact those women who have made
the most acquaintances during long course OF years
have by far the best memory for faces and persons.
Although women are supposed to be the laxative
SEX it is not less true that in learning foreign tongue
men acquire more readily the facility inspeaking IT.
while ladies understand it better and sooner when
| spoken to. E, b., .-s .<.,f ii ,5sy-75 y.r
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HITA RIVER.

UACHITA RIVER.
VIII leave on SATURDAY February l6. at s p. NJ.
m@ FOR OUACRITA RIVER-FOR
esEElEa Camden, Beech Hills, Champagnolle, Pigeon
;s4s ;ssssss Hills, Marie san, Alabama Landing Ouachita
City Mouth Arbou Trenton Monroe, Pine Bluff, Columbia
lIarsonbug, Trinity and all intermediate andingsIhe fine
fast running passenger steamer Louisa, Frank Keeling
master will leave above For freight passage apply
fell LEWIS SNAPP / co, 81 Front street.
FOR ARKANSAS RIVER.
viii leave THURSDAY l+h inst. at o'clock P. NJ.
, re- =. FOR FORT SMITH, VAN BUREN,
rAAl4g Little Rock, Pine Bluffs, Napoleon, Greenve
ssza and all intermediate andinGs.-The superior pas
senger steamer Cora No g. D. B. Mosby master will leave
above. For freight passage apply on board or to
fcS 7. B. SMITH, l2 New Levec.
nThe Cora receiving freight the foot of Custom
house street Shippers and Merchants may rely her she
will remain permanently in the trade duriu, the
Will leave THURSDAY, l4tl inst. at O'clock P. NJ.
f7sss FOR ARKANSAS RIVER-THE
fine fast running passenger steamer Corn No
q d. y. Mosby master. will leave above for
Fort smith Van Bq1en Ozark Norrsown Dardanes Lewis
For freight passage apply on board, or to
fe8 LEWIS SNAPP Il CO., 81 Front street.
n The Cora No receiving freight at the foot of
Custonhose Shippers and Merchants may rely her.
as positively going into the above trade
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LOWER MISSISSIPPI.
TEN NNESSEE RIVER.


EA entirely and splendid steamer Cherokee.
james Irwin master, will leave above for
Enspor, Florence and Tuscmbia For freight passage,
having superior accommodations, apply board
L. SNAPP d CO.. 81 Front street
The Cherokee takes freight for Napoleon Memphis Helena,
Hickman New Madrid, Cairo Paduca, Nashville and all
landings.
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FOR MOBILE DIRECT, DAILY
lh4FIk4E5a U S. MAIL. LINB.-Winer Arrangement.-The
splendid low pressure packet steamer Cuba, Il.
A. IIern, MASTER Florida, s. B. Frost master and Ore
gOn Myers master, having been built expressly the
Take trade with superior accommodaons of the above
daily the arrival of the o'clock P NJ Returning
will stop Pascagoula Monday and Thursday evenings
z
r. .GEDDES, Agent, 10 Bank Place.
New l n5
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Tes. LAKE SHORE PACKET

lEIMAELHt = STEAMER Creole.-Wnter Arrangement
ssassEa For Ocean Springs, and intermediate landings
extending trips far Pascagoua Tuesday and Satur
day of each week.
The splendid low packet steamer Creole VIM II
Hutclng built expressly for this trade with superior
accommodations will leave the Lake Pontcharaiu
Railroad arrival the Lake Of the cars follows
Leaves Ponclartrain Railroad Ocean Springs
TTEsDAYs:s... ?. " cars WEpNEspAY MORNING,
THURSDAYS. 9 a. NJ. cars FRIDAY MORNING,
SATURDAYS,...4 a P. NJ. cars SUNDAY EVENING.
Tuesday and Saturday she will go far Pascagoua.
n5 R. zGEDDES, Agent, 10 Bank Place.
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Will leave on THURSDAY. 18th inst O'clock p "
gY@E. FOR SHREVEPORT, GRAND
falEfE Ecore, Grand Bayou, Compile, Alexandria, Cor
TOMS Landing and all Intermediate landings The
fine light draught steamer Compromise. Capt B. W. Kay,
will leave and all intermediate landings above
For freight passage apply on board, nd, or t9
fel2 r. i. SMITH, II New Leyee street
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OU,s-sPERM, WHALE, LINsEED AND PALM OILS
<. lof S"' " ALFRED KEARNEY, u Magazine street.
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THOS JOSEPH
GRIFFIN s. BLEDSOE1, ATTORNIEs-AT;LA
VI Austin Texas will give prompt attention to collecting
money in any part of State and act agent for
owning Lands or attend any BUSINESS pertaining General
,Elft
The Empire County argus., 1856-03-15

STICK TO YOUR OLD FRIENDS. We've collect
ively-have bad habit of casting off old and tried
friends for new, and in many cases, worthless ac-
quaintances
"Pshaw never dreamed of doing such thing
my motto is, old shoes are most comfortable, and
old friends most valuable" you say.
An odd but common expression. Well, sir, we
don't doubt you at all-but you are poor yet, and
never have been tried Don't you remember we
spoke of certain chemical process which you, OF
course, have not yet been subjected to =! Now look
from your humble home across the street
swell, see nothing but barbers shop on one
side, and butchers stall on the other"
But between them through the narrow alley, you
behold the brick back Of one of the finest houses
on A street 1t belongs to Banks, the rich
specuator. Now, throw your mind back through
the lapse OF few past years, and you remember
that man as poor boy, starting like yourself in
friendless world, with nothing but his own exer-
tions, his own genius on which to depend; both of
similar tastes, disposition and talents. But fortune
has favored him-he had more cunning than YOU :
he was less scrupulous he said not to conscience,
thus far shalt thou go, and no farther" The re-
suit is, neighbor Banks has amassed a fortune and
forgotten you. Not but that he remembers your
countenance--knows your name--can tell your
age--passes by your house daily-and possibly rec
ollects that once long ago. when he was in strait
you assisted him with little money. But to be
familiar with man who lives in two story wood
en- house, and never gives parties, would be vastly
inconvenient. Your worth, fig for that in has es-
timation. That great chemist, gold, has mixed a
few shining yellow grains with the ingredients of
his nature, chilling every warm impulse while fash
ion has grated upon the good nature, foreign
tastes, and strange, extravagan notions, prominent
among which is the exceedingly foolish one, that
man must be limited to the outside of a certain Cir
Gle, until he has money enough to buy admission
In other words his of worth is the exceed
ingly short one of wealth
1t is a hard thing for poor man to become rich
and still adhere to simplicity and integrity; but
those who have natures too noble to be spoiled by
success pass the ordeal triumphanty and all honor
to SUCH
The Empire County argus., 1856-03-15
IS 1T COME {.

The following the poem that attracted the attention
of the Marquis of Landsdowne and induced him to make
present of e100 to the authoress Miss Frances Brown
Ladies O,0n.
Is it come? they said on the banks of the Nile,
Who look ID for the worlds long promised day
And saw but the strife of Egypts toll
With the deserts sands and the granite grey
From the pyramid, temple, and treasured dead
We vainly ask for her wsdom's plan;
They tell of the slave and tyrants dread
Yet there was hope when that day began.
The Chadee with his starry lore,
That built up Babylon's crown and creed
And bricks were stamped on the Tigris shore
With signs which our sages scarce read.
From Minus Temple and Nmrods Tower
The rule of the old Easts empire spread
Unreasoning faith and unquestioned power
But still, Is it come? the Watcher said
The light of the Persan's worshpped fame,
The ancient bondage its spendor three;
And once on the West sunrise came
When Greece to her freedoms trust was true.
With dreams to the utmost ages dear
With human gods and with godke men,
No marvel the far-off day seemed near
To eyes that looked through her laurels then.
The Romans conquered and revelled, to-
Till honor and faith and power were gone
And deeper old Europe's darkness grew
AS wave after wave the Goth came on
The gown was learning the sword was law,
The people served in the oxen's stead
But ever some geam the Watcher saw.
And evermore, Is it come? they said
Poet and Seer that question caught,
Above the din of lfe's fears and irets
1t marched with letters-it toled with thought
Through schools and creeds which the earth forges
And statesmen trfe and priests deceive,
And traders barter our world away;
Yet hearts to that golden promise cleave
And still, at times, Is it come? they say.
The days of the nations bear no trace
OF all the sunshine so far foretold;
The cannon speaks in the teachers place
The age is weary with work and gold;
And high hopes wither and memories wane-
On hearths and altars the fires are dead;
But that brave faith hath not lived in vain;
And this is all that our Watcher said.
The Empire County argus., 1856-03-15

New ILLUSTRATION OF FACTS. The latest in.
stance of spiritual manifestations that we have
seen, is that recorded of an increduous young man
down east, whose father had promised before his
death, to hold invisible communication with him.
The spirit of the gentleman (who by the way,
had been somewhat severe in the matters of disci-
pline) called up and held some conversation
with the boy. But the messages were not at all
convincing, and the youth would not believe that
his father had anything to do with them.
'Well," said the medium, "what can your father
do to remove your doubts g
IF he will perform some act which is character
istic of him, and without any direction as to what
it shall be- shall believe it.'
Very WE'LL" said the medium, 'we await some
manifestations from the spirit land"
This was no sooner said, than Gas the story goes)
a table walked up to the youth, and without cere-
mony, kicked him out of the room
Hold on! stop him! cried the terrified young
convert: that's the old mani believe in the rap
pings"
The hero has never since had desire to ''stir up
the old gentleman"
The Empire County argus., 1856-03-15

FRENCH WOMEN. The French womans charac-
terstics generally that she is unexceptionably
shod that she wears inimitable gloves; that she
has toilette of two colors only, with dstracting
way of wearing shawl that her manners are
bewtchng full of small graces and delicately
shaped coquetres, but never wanting in the incest
appreciation of external proprieties, to which her
firtations are always subordinate; that she has a
marvellous faculty of walking clean through the
dirty streets of Paris and marvellous kuack of
holding up her skirts with one hand over her left
hip that she has a supernatural preservation of
youth, and widering habit of mistaking her
friends husband for her own.
French woman cleans her gloves, light boots
ribbons silks and aces at the cost of a few cents
and with surprising success. They pass for new on
any inspection but the closest, and are worthy to
do so. French woman never buys a lining for a
new gown; she cuts up her old gowns and worn
out petticoats instead. She unpcks and stitches
up again, turns, irons and renews, until every inch
of the stuff has served half dozen purposes, and
there is not an unworn thread in the whole gar
ment. French woman is always noticeable for
her clean linen-cufs and collars always white and
fresh; but then she works them herself, and thus
procures another feminine luxury at a small cost
1t is the same with her table linen Napkins at
breakfast napkins ut dinner and fresh table cloths
or upper napkins constantly renewed.
The Empire County argus., 1856-03-15
An Eventual Memory.

Our obituary head this morning contains the
death of Mrs. PASCAL, of this city, at the age of
103 years What events have transpired under
the observation and within the memory of that
woman! In the year 1852 when she first saw
light, what is now Detroit just fifty years old,
and lay in space two hundred feet square, sur-
rounded by pickets, south of what is now JeFer1
son avenue, and east of Shelby street. Water ON
one side, and bowling wilderness, filled with wild
beasts and wilder men on the other three sides
The flag of France La Belle France from which
her father emigrated, waved over her infant head,
and the ordnance of Louis XIV. were among the
first sounds that greeted her ears. The great con-
spiracy of Pontiac took place when she was nine
years of age, and shortly after it, Detroit passed
from French to English proprietorship but she
lived on in the only one of the nine fortified places
which Pontiac failed to capture.
At the creation of Fort lie Nouh, afterwards
Fort Shelby at the intersection of Fort and Shelby
streets, she was % years of age and when she had
numbered fortyfour years, in 1796, she saw for the
first time the stars and stripes" up by Proc
tor commanding detachment Of Wayne's army.
At the final destruction of the Fort in 1927, she
was seventy-fve years old When she was fifty
three years old, fire swept over and destroyed the
entire city of Detroit except one house. At the
age of sixty she saw Detroit again in the hands of
Great Britain, and at the age Of sixty-one she saw
it pass back again into American hands. She has
seen five changes of the National flag over Detroit
in her day.-Detroh AdUertiSer