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FAMILY FAILINGs.-The habit of viewing eYerys
thing in a ridiculous light is one Of the family fail
ings that would against. It too often leads to
unamabe desire to detect and hold up to ridicue
the faults of others, and it almost always destroys
the finer feelings of admiration for what is beautiful
and the tender and more oYahe qualities Of putting
the best construction upon the action of Others etc
critical, censorious, aultiindng person is a most
unamiable being and let us not conceal the true
odnusnes Of such propensites in ourselves under the
guise Of a sense of the lndcrous.
In many families, however, where both love and
good temper PREVAIL there is what may be called an
rksome, rather than sinful, mode OF carping and
cOntradicting one another. No harm is meant, and
no otfense is taken but what can be more irksOme
than to hear two sisters for instance continually set
in5 from each other in opinion for no apparent rea
habit does it become that one may sometimes see
statements just made, the moment any one advances
the same opinion It is generally such tries that
this bad habit shows ITSELF SO that it may need
less to advert to it hnt it is family fault and should
be watched against, for it is an annoyance, though
petty one never to be able to open your lips without
being harassed by such contradictions as, ooh, no.
that happened on Tuesday, not Wednesday ~ or, if
YOU remark that the clouds look threatening, to be
asked with tone of surprise, "Do You think looks
like rain? am sure there is no appearance of such
n thing Narrate an incident, every small item is
corrected hazard an opinion, it is wondered at or
coatradcted assert a fact, it is doubted and ques-
toned till you at length keep silence in despair.
Friends Inteiiigeneer.
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Schedule of Mails,
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
From 1st November, 1853, to Ist june, is;
NEW ORLEANS P0sT-oFFICE.

WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
From lst November, 1858, to LIST June, 1859
nFFTCE unTTPe W.. n. 90
ocIoct p NJ ei oGh GayS, rom a. ". 10
Iooi " " 9unuaSS auu mondays from 70 II
w oo s.4 - -,
EASTERN mAlL-Due dailyat M; closesdaily
at2 = ~, except on Sunday, when the mails
LAKE COAST MAIL-Fort Pike. Raw ST. Lonis
Pass Christian, Mississippi City, Biloxi and
ocean Springs, on Tuesdays and Thursdays at
a NJ, and Saturdays, at P. NJ; Pascagoua on
Tuesdays and Saturdays at 3 p NJ.
ROUTE 8,l66zNew Orleans to Memphis Supply
I n! Baton Rouge, Red River Landing, Natehez,
gicksburg, Lake Providence, Grand Lake, Ark;
GIeen.lLlef aii75ti Columbia Ark; Casters Land
3'%'yqol L1slena alq memphis. Closes on
on Monday Wed1esda anu od Ivy az ~ ue
ROUTE 7Gi93To Cane:yia Miss aa "v Nov
New lIrieans eycr Fr4n,, NeW
cry Saturday at 6 P, NJ. - - ,''S w
yTCKSRURG MATT srrnlr;ro, r,ou,1s,o,,,,;,1o
Plaquemine Baton Rouge, Port Hudson st, Fran.
cisville, Pointe Coupee Morganza, Red River
Landing, Supplying Alexandria. Grand Ecore
Natchitoches Shreveport and Eastern Texas
Fort Adams Natchez Waterproof Rodney *
joseph, Grand Gulf, Ashwood, Warrenton, New
carnage ana YlekSpurg Closes on Tuesday
thursday ana saturday at r NJ. Due on Mon
aay' Ihursday and FRIDAY at 10 A. N.
ST. FRANCISYILLE OR COAST MAIL.-Supply
ing MGCutcheon's, st. Charles Taylor's Grande
Pointe, Bonnet Care, Edgard's Vacherie. Brn-
giers, Cantrell's, Tureaud's, Donadsonville, (and
INTERIOR New River Bayou Goula Iberville
Plaquemine, Manchac, Brulys Land'g, Baton
Rouge, (and inter'r) Lobdell's Store, Port Hud-
son, Hermitage, Waterloo, and St. FrancisYille
(and iin.terlor.) Closes on Sunday, Wednesday
ana Eaay, al A. Nj and Mondays at ) T. NJ.
Que on MONDAY, wednesday, thursday and Sat
,,r,I II4%y ~ . a. W. ~,
W. LoN ~ mall. IN LANE M AIL'-Closes on
y, v, a NJ, a
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why is It E?


When You are near me every form of speech
Is put to flight, however well.deVised-
Ny tongue is at your presence paralyzed,
Ny simplest thoughts to utterance cannot reach
When other friends are round me, tits not So
have sense of ease, am self-possessed,
feel no throb or thrill within my breast1
My cheek is tinged with no unwOnted glow.
And yet the feeling IS not one Of fear;
/ am but too content to linger still,
AS long as it may he your royal will
For there exists no void when you are near.
| feel by intuition that your eyes
Are fixed upon me, though / dare not raise
Ny own to meet your penetrating gaze
Lest reveal what in my souls depth lies.
have no inclination to depart
Though conscious | have no excuse to stay;
I only know that when You are away
A shadow seems to fall upon my heart.
The cause cannot for my life divine
If you can tell me, set my mind at rest
You who are always calm and self possessed
Impart the secret to this heart Of mine.
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Rossini being asked by friend why he never
went to any lyrical theater, gave among other rea.
sons the following am embarrassed said he,
.at listening to music with Frenchmen in Italy or
either side of me is a man stability dressed, but who
feels the music as do in Paris have on each side
Of me fine gentleman in straw.colored gloves who
explains to me all that feel, but who feels nothing
Al he says IS very clever indeed and it is often very
true, but it takes the gloss off my impresson-if I
happen to have any.
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The Orphan Boy.


a LITTLE boy, an Orphan too,
Whose fingers ends with cold were blue,
With pearly drops in either eye,
Ready TO start when PHYS nigh,
With timid steps approached the door,
Some scanty pittance to implore,
Whose brazen knocker smooth and bright,
Mocked all the efforts Of the wight,
His little hands its place supplied,
And open flew the portal wide
A clergyman Of modern date,
Less fam'd for kindness than estate,
Now eyed the boy from top to toe,
And listening to his tale OF woe,
said, take this crust, It's mouldy, too,
But, still, 'tis good enough for you!
The boy received it with good grace,
and tnrn,d about to quit the place.
stop. said the priest, an orphan boy
should not pursue such bad employ
Answer me this, pray can yOu read?
Alb no, sir, It's truth indeed.
Not read why, then you cannot pray!
III teach you-atter me thus say
Oar Father who in heaven art.
Our Father touchesih his little heart,
Is He your Father, then, and mine?
Yes, said the reverend divine,
God is the Father Of Us all,
OF rich and poor, great and small.
With feelings undisguised, the boy
Summ'd up the whole in this reply:
We're brothers-Iet it not be said
You ever gave me mouldy bread.
[Albany Argus,
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NEW GRANADA, WEST COAST OF SOUTH
AMERICA, CALIFORNIA AND OREGON,
SANDWICH ISLANDS, AUSTRALIA AND
VAN DIEMAN'S LANE, NEW SOUTH WALES
AND CHINA.-GIOses on the 4th and 18th of
each month, at 6 P. NJ Arrives on or about the
18th and 2Sth OF each month,
NJ Postage to South Pacific Letters, 34C.; papers,
SC.
Az5-Postage to New South Wales Victoria, South
Australia, etc, via England, bypacket or private
ships, 33 cents single rate, prepaid via France,
10 cents each quarter ounce prepaid,is added to
the above postage; via New York, by private
ships, cents, prepaid.
FsB- Postage to Peru Letters. 22c.; papers, &c.
R8-Postage to Bogota New Granada) Letters, 49,;
papers, &c.
E8- Postage to China, New South Wales, Sandwich
Islands, via San Francisco: loo, prepaid,
The postage to places on the West coast Of South
America via Panama, is: On each single letter,
34cents; and on each newspaper, 6 cents, when
sent and 10 cents on each letter, and cents on
each paper, when received.
E8- The postage to New Granada Directs 10 cents
single rate, and cents each newspaper; and to
the Sandwich Islands, Australia, Van Deman's
Land and China, (via San FranciscoO is, on
each singIeletter, 10 cents, payable in advance.
81 The single letterrate to California and Oregon is
10 cents, prepaid. On newspapers etc, the do
nestle rates apply.
S. F. MARKS, P. N.
NEW ORLEANS, November /, 1868.
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ENCOURAGEMENT TO PRAYER.-Sir Walter Raleigh,
one day asking favor from Queen Elizabeth, the
latter said to him
Raleigh, when will you leave off begging ?n
To which he answered: " When your majesty
leaves of giving
But tmnk how much more bountnl God is, who
did not give over granting Abraham his request for
5odom till be left Cd asking,
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sHoRTFELLow SUNS UP LoNGFELLow.
Miles Standish old Puritan soldier, courts gal Pris.
ella by proxy
Gal likes the proxy the best, SO Miles in a rage
takes and hooks it;
Folks think he's killed. but he aint and comes back
as a friend to the wedding,
II you call this nk.Standish stuff poetry, Punch
will soon reel you off Miles. [Punch.
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The Rev. John Pierpont was placed in an unpleas-
ant situation in Boston the other evening, lie was
to have delivered poem before the Apprentices
Library Association, after an Grafton by John T.
manuscript had been left in Brooklyn. So there was
poet without poem. The audience however, took
it good humoredly, especially after Mr.. P. offered
them his head in place of the poem, if they wanted
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Fl R N. To the Agent Of the Liverpool and
American Shipping Company. Perseverance, sash
Factory, Medical Dispensary 10. Clerk of Steam.
boat, or young man not married, but not President
Buchanan.
s. f. MARKS p M
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PREErioIANA.-" Douglas is in the ring for 1861
extlams an Enthusiastic admirer of the Little Giant
In the ring Well, as he yanlted over the canvass
this fall he nay be able to jump balloon oil fire at
Charleston, turning somerset as he goes through.
The current Of corruption threatens to submerge
the entire field of politics. Every good Christian
citizen should unite heartily in damning it.
If the two sections of the Democracy keep up their
work of kicking each other out of the party there
will be heavy demand for iack,boots- piping times
with the shUemakers
We warn the Buchanan editors in Kentucky and
elsewhere that the less they say against Mr. Douglas
now, the less of their own talk they will have to
swallow in 1860.
Mrs. Hem, Of Liverpool, has it is said amassed
splendid fortune by specializing in railroad shares.
The family are somewhat celebrated for eatherng
their own nests.
A eonntryman was dragging aellg by q rope in a
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A couutryman was dragging aclEE by rope in
cruel manner. An Irishman asked him if that vas
the way lie thr4ted . lelloWcaythur?
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Who WAS SnAKEsrEARE's "RUNAwAY 2"-Com-
mentators have been for years squabblng about the
meaning Of the word runaway in the apostrophe
Of Juliet in " Romeo and Juliet ~
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ago in Coranna, Michigan, which destroyed number
of stores and dwelling houses involving a loss Of
about $50 0OO
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0e6 0tIeans 9aiIu 6rescent.
LIST OF LETTERS
onc0lied for and Remaining in the Post
Once at New Orleans up 10
FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2G, 1858.
Ladies' List,

Adkins E miss
Adams B miss .. p.
ArCaksam Elmer miss
Adamson labena mrs
Adams Emily mrs
Barker Catherine mrs
Bradford Jane mrs
Barrett Louisa miss
Bragg VIM mrs
Brady mrs
Bass Mary D mrs
Blakesley Ellen miss
Brandenburg Ellen miss
Brandenburg E F mrs 2
Barrett Katy miss
Blake Ann mrs
Belsford Anna miss
Brewer Nancy
Bedell Manuel mrs
Belmont Carrie miss
Brewster Victoria mrs
Cattan Elizabeth mrs
Callahan J Cmrs
Carton Johanna miss
CARRIER mrs ....
Cantwell Catherine mrs
Cash Eliza mrs
Campbell B miss
Campbell Mary mrs
Craig Susan mrs
Clark S G mrs 49,.
Crandell Mary A mrs
Gayle Bridget miss ..
Connolly Mary
Collins Arabella j mrs
CoyIe Ellen miss
Davis Martha j
Davis Jno f mrs
Davis Helen j miss -
Day Emma Z miss
Dernody Sophie mrs
Devaney Caroline Anna
Drew Eliza mrs
Evans Minerva
Edwards Theresa mrs
Faussett Mary f miss
Fairchild NJ a mrs
Fellows Victoria miss
Field Julia miss
Fisher Clara miss
Firth Jane mrs w.
Field Alice miss
Garyy Bridget mrs
Gambol Meline
Canon Mary miss r.
Gray Maria P mrs
Gray Mary L miss
Gray II N mrs
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NEW ORLEANS, November /, 1868.
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FATAL AcorDENr,-The Pauldng (diss) Clarion
of the Goth says:
A little boy, aged about two years, son of Mr.. J. V,
ROwell, living near this place, came to his death on
last Wednesday, by falling into the fire. The little
fellow left at the house by his parents who were
engaged about the lot and when first discovered by
his father he standing in the door, enyeloped III
flames. Medical aid was promptly procured, but he
died of his injuries the same night
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G. Ian II g


z The bed of Og was II feet long aud I
feet broad. The height of Goliah was 1 1
feet-His coat weighing $50 pounds
The body of Urestes, son of Agamemnon,
leader oe the Grecian expedition against
Troy, was II feet high, The giant Gal.
bara brought from Africa to Home, in the
first century, A. D., was ten feet high, and
q woman 10 feet. Maximus, q native of
Spain, the Roman Emperor, was Q feet
high. Maximus, originally from Thrace,
another Roman Emperor was 81 feet high.
His wife's bracelets served him for finger
rings. His strength was snch that he
could draw loaded wagon, break horses
jaw with his fist, crush the hardest stones
with his fingers and cleave trees with his
hands. His voracity was equal to his
strength. eating 40 pounds sof flesh and
drinking is bottles Of wine daily. Byrne
and O'Brien' Irish giants, were 8 feet high
A Tennesseean giant lately died, u feet
high, weighing more than one thousand
pounds. The Kentucky giant was I feet
ii inches high. The Canadian giant 8
feet tr srsf.-lf-ffTH = s't] - f-t-+ = -
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Potato Crop in Ireland.

According to the competent authority
of the Banner Of Ulster the breadth Of
land under potatoes this year in the north
ern counties will be found, perhaps, to
exceed l,250,000 acres aud it adds
"Last seasons crop turned out well, am.
Pile in yield, and, as q, general rule, ex.
cellent in quality. This seasons crop aol
the, early varieties is very superior. We
are now only in the second week of Au.
gust, and yet the prices for excellent po-
tatoes in the Belfast market are under
those which, at a similar period of The
season, ruled the markets before the ad.
vent of the potato disease. Some solita.
ry cases of the old disease are to be seen
in few fields in the country, those in,
stances, however, are so tri1ing as no: t.
be worth any serious notice. The sale O
superior qualities at four pence ston,
(about eight cents peck) will give som,
idea of the healthy and prolific state o
the crop. .r-DubEnp paper.
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GUN INVENTED BY LOUIS NAPOLEON.
The new gun invented by the present
Emperor of France, light twelve-p pound.
er, has been tested by Brevet Major Hunt,
of the Second Artillery, U S. A., on the
Western plains. and found much superio,
to any other in use. One of these can,
mons was recently presented by the En-
peror to Queen Victoria, II was named
by him, sAllianee. /" This arm has beef
extensively introduced into European ser
vices, and may be expected soon to b
adopted in our own,
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A THREE MINUTE HORSE.

A certain DR.. Blank had horse 81
thoroughly used up to be worthless-th,
only good points remaining being wher,
his bones glistened the skin. So he pre-
pared to dispose of him in this wise: ii,
went into the stable with lath and gov,
the animal regular rib wasting thre,
times day, until finally, whenever HI
excited horse heard his step. o.
saw his face, he would begin t,
kick and plunge like one posse ssed.-
Arrived at this point, the doctor borrow
ed the decorated blanket of once vel
known nag called White Feather ant
the remains of his horse in it
sent him to auction to be sold, with di
rections to the auctioneer to let him slide
is he could get bid of forty dollars. Ii
the mean time the brute was advertised q
q celebrated horse-kind in the harness
had made his mile inside of three minute
was handy at the plow-and sold onl,
because the owner had no further use fo
him.
On the day of sale, crowd gathered
among which was the doctor, whom tn,
horse no sooner saw, than he began I,
manifest signs of uneasiness, which th,
auctioneer called life and spirit Th,
first bid was seventy-five dollars, and sool
run up to one hundred-one hundred ant
twenty five-one hundred and ffty-a
which price the nag was pronounced sold
The buyer q down easter) paid the mon
ey, aud harnessed the spirited animal t.
his wagon, informing the crowd that h,
was going to Cape Cod, where he himsel
belonged. es7f -aH as esas
He had not been absent more than q,
hour, when he was seen vending BIZ
way back, not having got quite so far q
Cape Cod! He told the suctioneer tha
he had returned to make some enquiries
which perhaps it would have been as vel
to have made before he bought tn
horse. .saf Esaaad ..t
You say this animal has made his mil
ia three miautes?' 11 4t'
.Yes.' saa9 @
May l be allowed to enquire how lonl
since?' - ne u. a,lt ,aifts;- s i [.
'Certainly-within three weeks
'One question more-where did he d
Iit?' ~ 1
.On the Rutland railroad cars-dow
grade' 30
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into the carriage and drove off, Theil
destination was the house of Justice O.
the peace, at q distance Of eight miles.
l<Fing the FIRST part Of the journey
nothing was said. Both parties were de-
sirous of concealing their identity. A
length Squire Markham, considering tina,
after all, he could not marry the lady with
out her consent, and that the discovery
must be made before. the marriage, deci
ded to reveal himself, and then urge hi!
own suit as we'll as he might. nsin =,
"My dear Florence" be continued in hi,
natural voice. st@asa ~
"Why," shrieked the lady. Il though,
it was Charles" s5r5a. tao It
"And l." said Squire Markham, recog
mixing Mrs. Benson's voice with astonish'
ment, Thought it was Florence" t
"Was it you, sir, who was arranging to
elope with my danghter3" 81
mo, but concluded it was you ma'am
who was meaning to elope with my son. y
"Indeed Squire Markham you are
wrong; the affair coming accidentally to
my knowledge / concluded to take her
place secretly, in order to Illustrate her
plans" Ee 3t
"Egadl the very idea I had myself"
said the Squire laughingly, but the fact is
ma'am, we've both of us been confounded-
ly sold, and the mischief of it is, left a
letter for Charles, letting him know it; so
undoubtedly he will take the opportunity
to run of with Florence during our ab-
sence, and plume himself, the rascal, on
the way in which I was taken in"
Il confess that left note to the same
purport. How che will laugh at me.
What an embarrassment
II tell you what" said the Squire, after
moments pause, 1--WE can carry out our
plans after ALL We each camo oct with
the intention of getting married. Why
not marry each other. and then you know
we can make them believe we had it in
view all along, and only intended to fright
en- them"
Mrs. Benson assented with little urg
ing and in the course of On hour the twain
were made one. .......,
They Immediately returned. but found,
as they had anticipated, that Florence and
Charles, discovering their departure. had
themselves stepped off in different di-
rection with similar intent. vs
They made their appearance the next
morning, prepared to laugh heartily at the
frustrated plans of their parents. but learn
ing with no little astonishment that they
bad struck up bargain for themselves
Squire Markham and his new wife, had
the address to convince them that it was
all premeditatsd plan, and to this day
the younger pair ore ignorant of the plo,
and couuter-plot which led to this double
union of the two households. .....,,, =,
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SARCASTIC SENTENCE.

Old Elias Keyes. formerly first Judge
Of Windsor county, Vt, was q strange
composition of folly and good sense, Of
natural shrewdness and want oi cultiva.
ton. The following sentence, it is said,
was pronounced upon poor ragged fell.
low, convicted of stealing pair Of boots
from Gen. Curtis, q man of considerable
wealth in the town of Windsor. 5saie
WELL" said the judge very gravelv,
before pronouncing the sentence of the
court intending to read the fellow lee.
ture, "you're fine fellow to be arraigned
before the court for stealing. They say
You are poor-no one doubts it who
looks at you; and how dare you being
poor have the impudence to steal pair
of boots? Nobody but rich people have
the right to take such things without pay.
ing! Then they say worthkss-that is
evident from the fact that no one has ever
asked justice to be done you; all by unan.
imous consent pronounced you guilty be.
fore you were tried. Now you might
know you would be condemned. And
now you must know that it was great
aggravation, that you stole in the large
town of Windsor. In that large towa to
commit such an act is most horrible. And
not only go into Windsor, but to steal
from that great man, Gen, Curtis. This
caps the climax, of your iniquity. Base
wretch! why did you not steal the only
pair Of boots which some poor man had
or could gets And then you would have
been let alone; nobody would have troubled
themselves about the act. For your iui-
guilty in stealing in the great town of
Windsor, the court sentences you to three
months imprisonment in the county jail,
and may God give you something to eat. y