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The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-27

NEW ORLEANS, January IL, 1853
Board Of Directors have resolved to declare scrip
dividend THIRTY PER CENT the net earned partici
psng premiums for the year ending December 81 lS and
further resolved Six Per Cent interest all out
standing certificates of Scrip and after the second Mon
day Of March, 1858. J. rUYEs President
j. w. HINcks Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
Geo. Urquhar, T.B. Blanchard Jr, Chs. LATTE,
A. Rochereau, Vim. Stevens, J. NJ. Lspeyre,
G. W. Babcock J. A. White, A. Schneider,
Juo. Gauche. W. y. Williams. j. Tuyes
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frONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE, 20l B0wBRY.
i The new Comic Drama overaowins with humor and
THE FEMALE fSp, fSSpE,ur JACKETS.

THE FEMALE BLUE JACKETS.
abounding In Songs, Dances, Mfrthful Situations, "a
THE FEARLESS 0YMNASTs in new feats Of Daring.
MEsSR6. HOYLE AND KEKFE.
The last sensation received with enhusiastic -.
LIE CAN CAN. LR CAN CAN,
A danced al the soiREEs Az JARDIN MABILLR. !
TONY PASTOR in new casket Of C9mic Songs 80,
New Ethiopian BurlesQue. MAGIC hADE EASY
New songs new Dancss new ExtravagausaA a new bill
MATINEEb WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. ~ O'Clock.
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SHIPPING NEW S.
>~>->s~--~~-~>~~~
Aiassae for Now York-This Day.
sun visss...-.". Z 0L Mccs rises."..evs 9 ?!
PoRT ~ NEW YoRK, TEDRCAaH ., 1865.
ARRIVALS,
IEpoRfYp ~

sRYoRfYp ~ rHR HBRALp STEAM vAours.
s,.smship Rising star, Conner, Aspinwan Feb l. with
d,s treasure and passengers 70 shs rsains Man steam.
s,..mshtp dsu Meade. sampsca, New Orleans yss !,
wi,n mdss and passsnssr1 to Csomwsll Coz
~d.s and pss.nssss 70 karsi: PERT. cs "a, -.
sud passengers. 70 q Msr9an Co.
E,samshlp safat,ea, King Rlehmond "a vita mdss ana
slsauship somsrssA chi.da eSumors with mdss 70
s.:...sc ws.y.,s. m. yss Bedford. With udss sss
ship Nsptun {Norw Einerscn, CArdi6. 81 kkyb, With rail-
wayiron 10 order ssh inst % AbsssuA. look pilot l
wsss viii SAV Is n.ss iss" Pp ssnty G ssEss l
aesn rs ns snss ;ssw e e t siIf, "a a. scu ss
fsss Of the pioL weud No dedbt hayl RSsp hs fa q 81
hands, Wh tsok heavy gale from WV durlne yhScn iay
lon % spcks bark Broawsrshavsn txsckl IRON java
sarI Nan. JNorN, Hansen Seville " days via bermuda
" days with cork icovcc, & 70 Punch, Msncke Wendh
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AMUsE MENTS.
ERENCH THEATRE.
VI l.. BATEMAN, .Lessee and Director
hMR. LARXRIs BENEFIT
TUESDAY EyENiRd FEBRUARY L.
LES BEAUx MEsoIEURS
AND
CHANsoNs POPULAIREs
french Thursdays and Saturdays
The theatre 10 be lot for the other nights Apply the
ssass secured Al the theatre asd a, 7oi Broadway
NrIBLo's GARDEN
THE cTRixIS RISES PRECISELY AZ ,p .na iis
ENTIRR PERFORMANCE Terminates a, 10 80 'ciocs
TRIUMPHANT sUCCRss
HOUSES COMPLETELY CROWDED.
MONDAY FEBRUARY 10 1868
will be presented Q entirely
NEW FAIRY SPECTACULAR ExTRAvA0ANzA.
THE WHITE FAwN ' '.''s
PARtsIENNE BALLET TROUPE.
The piece produced with everything uew and after pre-
!. one H1NpREP THOUSAND DoLLARa
COsTuMEs AND APPoINrMRSrs
INCREASED ORCHESTRA AND FULL CHORUS
CAST OF RARE EXCELLENCE.
0R4ND sEr 1E sEyENTx KIsHnoM SiSsHEn rs 4srIsTs
ACT INTaE YELLOW EMPiRs. MPiRGA - 'ANA''
Act s-THE KiNGDoM or AKA,
ACT l-REvEALING THE
AN ENCHANTING Scene or doRoEoUs sPLENDoR,
UNAPPROACHABLE
IN EXQUISITE BEAUTY AND FASCINATION.
GRAND MATINEEE EVERY
SATURDAY. AT O'CLOCK.
Seats secured SIX days In advance
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Tuu LAYs JAN faAaEDs ~ 8. Jossfn ho,-os me
sftsrroos of tns ls, Isstant a. fvs o'clock ~ the
iaer Mr. Craig enter u the g. Joseph jail Tor he
cusposs OF ockug the prisoners In their Gems ne was
NET A the door after opening H. by I've dsspsradoss
vsu,sd Leland and Barker, tho drst of whom sssaliee
bIu kreeking him down, snd taxing the keys pushso
s,n irto Z csII and looxed tbs door. The MOSS
sii,so,sd NJ Harry n FISH, brother sf the sbsrl6 70
Tho door sssiag he state sf Affairs, he ran gp 20
Csre's room 70 get . pistol. Meanwhile hrs CMm
d,,ieIus the cause os The disturbance. rushed dsw.
ssirs with pistol 10 each hand and meeting Lc.nS
nrsd al Am the ball entering bis lsf side prsaSSG. ~.
,rshsd 20 her rescue rss one shot Leland the os.
lodging In his shoulder. Lsiaad 'ssn a sMuSL Sssu.
Fish on The head With blliss ...os~ y 49,
escaped i've Of wbon have tlnos been ssp.uss % cs s
cssuaiuss Of the anhr may bs sainmsd c~,s
~ .c,nSsS ), blow from . elsb and NJ osai{ daf
Ssrsvs2 weuadsd 10 IKE manner Tns sly On sn,sr AVE-
Ssv nrbs VAS eli sseitsrsent iAsgs voiuhssH ps'"s
so,yss Ssiss n sssrch Of zoe fugitvsA
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=, !. s.sbosabis pubic school~ln this CITY TIE IaAy
.sc,psi osossonay dvsrts ths attention of her yosne
sdy pupils By sxsrcisss like these - "Ml those ycnd
,sSss vbe are matrufbnsiy nclnsd Stand. OPP" rA.s
ia ss whose affections already engaged pease rsA
sG,rs who d,Apprsvs Of early marriages WIZ psass
maad," As
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DROOKLYN ACADEMY.
- Third night OF the immensely successful
LA GRANGE AND BRI0NOLI
GRAND ITALIAN OPERA COMPANY.
THIS (MONDAr) EVENING, FEBRUARY TO- 1885,
win be presented Fio.ow's Comie % Opera.
With MIss MecvLLocH; M,,: ADELAIDE PHILLIPS
Musical Director and Conductor. SIG NICOLAO
Reserved seats now be had a. tho box office OF the
Academy, Mr. Jones' jewery store l Atlantic street, and
Nacoy's ia broadway, New York.
Thursday, February l3
LA TRAvIATA.
Second joint appearance OF Nine. LA GRANGE and Big.
BRl9kOLI In Brooklyn.
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riy. <I
with coffee order a. las - Ion %, spoke brig
Un'one tAusp from Bahia for New York IN
sugar. 40 10 master Been days oS Hsttsras
Brig Home tbr ieain. Rio Jansro ~ days, ve Hamp
Maye had eon,n.an 81 SeNs, ss Hamo
ton Roads 9th Inst was on lh- Woodlands but was com
Brig Union AUST Bouomo. Bahia Is ds,s with sugar.
10 9 Ludmann co. Had come very had weather.
ha Dec "a savaaiis 2sh Oarthaaeaa Jan vita Hampton
Roads Feb with hides coffee &e Been 10 days
Of Hatcras with strong NV and SE gales and snow
Brig scio tof Barbsdosl. Brown 4, J.so days with
sugar to Miller Hoaghon Has bees days north OF
Brig n s Emery yof Portland, viM. Cardenss Il days.
with sugar. 40, 10 Moss a Ward
Thompson a Hunter Been days N Of Hatteras With
strong N and NV winds.
DAYS with moasses. to Brett s,n a 70 Fab !. OF Cape
Iiatieras company with bark coison hound r.
seSr Henrie.a II sseo9 & aa Masnnas a T IL dass win
sugar % master Has beens days III Of Hstsras WI
away foro gar and split foresall
schr Menawa, Dissosway Saeslta IS DAYS With sagsr.
TO Thos Owen Had very heavy weather all the
schr ID b warner Horton Charleston 10 days 9th
&C. to Jonas Smith co Had heavy NE and 81 6aiss
schr Tunh D-pew Butler, Virginia.
Schr VIM Tufts Wilson Virginia
schr Mary Ellen Cummings, virgni.
Schr Sam Eddy. Let's Virginia
sshr II Dean. Cook, Balimofe TOR Taunios.
Schr Cathr rne, Price. Egg iiarbor .
schr Dunbar Holmes Gloucester "a ro,t Morris
schr Charles NJ freeman, Russo, Proyinccown. tAe
sIoop Nancy Grimm Ma son Bristol "a Port MoUis.)
Soop Camilla jackson, Green wich tAt Port Morrfs)
n- The OF the arrival of ship Alexander
Marshall from vefPoo 70 sss,erday, e'a'd vas pre"
Wind At sunset Ssw
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WoRRELL SISTERS NEW YORK THEATRE. 72s
w and $50 BROADWAY,
opposite New York Hotel Admission 80 cents
MONDAY and EVERY EVENING DURING THE WEEK.
the highly sensational and successful Local Drama OF
TIN STREETs OF NEW YORK.,
10 all its original John x. Mortimer Especially engagedl
Will appear n his great character OF Badger r. Pars
loe Jr AZ Bob the Booblack creation OF hs own. aud
performed by him throughout the Union with uneyampled
success Mr. G. q Clarke Paul. and Miss Irene Worrel
Lucy Farweather together with tho entire strength Of
the company In the cast.
New appointments Scenery Music. 10.
Erday--Beneht Of Thomas Thcall Treasurer
AATINEE ON SATURDAY AT O'CLOCK.
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THE WHITE FAwN.
The undersigned hereby give notice that tho spectacular
fairy extravaganza OF the White Fawn has been copyrighted
and that the mechanical effects and scenery have been
patented Any using the title any coorabe im
ation OF the play Its effects will prosecuted to the
fullest extent OF the law.
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AMUsEM ENTs.
ACApEMY or MUsIC-LA
"A GRAND ITALIAN OPERA COMPANY.


a aaASp ITALIAN OPERA coxPAST.
AAx sTaAKEsSsHf AiHsosfxsT xSsovaoRHEsf Director
TS. S II: 81 .%s Cs
sasrns patronage tssy bestowed the perform
during The wScS just closed
season more brilliant has never been known even 10
th: city Of srumgh and % and me director scn
".sssss sad other well iaown he 2as BEEN
enabled presa, the standard works 10 such variety and
s.s.ras support from Il. public the sod. ts.ossI
In iSs eonSsc.on MT strstossh :. glad :. announce
As having secured hs lss;' S pf sc Ssr period Of As
he enabled in defeencs 10 desire OF his
& @ X. % M Il
great artists have -Sn ,1 shsIs Sr'gaw: .adS ,sms.
MnITH!b nI4i!b - s5w slsaf sfassEiars si5ars
THREE MH1rSEEs.
rEs FSFsJse sgsSrGq sEPsgish 81 Eas "a srS
prior 70 their dsp.r.ors for Phi.sdslgn. a., sad The West
enthusiastic rscepoa accorded 70 sas representation
IL rRovArosE. .
Ss sSsa o o pn on pssas
With n powerful cast new and uasnnesn' drss'ss sp
'',.'a's. ,. ' tssHn. ANNA pz "A GRANGE.
Ia =. .. 7 ssspsHsa
ia hi. original srA.,es = = sxssic1.' ssffSs.'
bis great 's's sfs r oSGsl sSsSH pT I. jSlEassp
'!s'$sSs !.i;;S s;sl2 Ss;S; q; s;sS;;,ss. \ ,ss.ss 'ss
-'';s s4sSsc;i rs si;:'is :s i:;s R;sAi 'F
Price Of .dnSson u So s.ss,vsa seats y ssau ss.rs.
.oasass ss%s i5is y ss.s ii. " :s,:: s,:
On McSs.s s.e the 30, 'e. q s. ss az AZ
s:sssss . a :s.s9 ss% sss s.ss, E % VS.
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FARR-PARhsLs In this city, on fussday. Dscsubs
"a, h. q. FARs 10 AUGUSTA A. PARMkLs. No cards.
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Marine Disasters.


Ba,o Ex,ts (Rr, loaded At savanna IL Mar FOR New YORK;
with wood .ans a. the forme- port a'o" 10Th inst Vesss
FoaraRss Mosnos Feb THE cutter Norherner.
Lieut. Chase ~ command returned fron cruise outside
Cape Henry but owing 70 the heavy swell from tho east,
VAS The breaking outside of hcr Inside cape
Henry found me austrian org Door, M,as "a ,,ho,s 70.
n .1s s.S The Ssd ws osTns s gale from
bilged during the gale of last night,
Forcian Ports.
Asr,rw.l, Jan 2s-Arriyea .ehr. M.,,h. MARIA Dean,
et. do 18th schr osngnre Yates 10 27th. brig Ethel
s, n eh sssy aons "Sss : smith
Giles GH s'aoa d. r''''' Aa's"' e''"'u's'' ''a' 1"'
CAILao. Jan s--Arrvsd. ship Nercn. Neses Ch,nchas
,bss sssa s STS msaan 9, os%Sss M"s0 'n
for Sss.in.. would ssl ia asoa, ] Az. s...-
II Gs port ia seS I Brootins: Douglass. for Syors ds
1sa MANN sI pS1 or 0s' omAA for SY0t ia
saioa2i.L, .ear KGls,, rhlsaepha ,.
ford. from Aspnwall FOR HYola.
Central American porsi Sis. sacramento. Parkor saD
Sailed 25.h steamship. salvador Douglas Central Amer.
lean pors, ylst Golden 0ty Isp,dgo san francisco;
TUass lsL1sDs Jan lsIn po,. brig Henry Perkins say
VAlrAaAlso Jan o-saisd shp v,orsA. Peabody. Cork.
Amsrican Ports.
BOSTON. Feb o. AM-Arrivrd, shp Alaska tnow, Of Bos
eaIed-Steamer Kensng,oD, Hedge. New Orleans bark
Walker. Lawson, Kingston ia, schr Galeiia, Hae,
Turks Islands and a market
Saed-ship BoTueoi bark Rowland.
9th Arrived barks Annie MoCann, Lewis, drossan:
Leparte, Kennsbunkport; brga Arthur Egsego oorse;
CHARLEsrON Fob s-sailed, steamer Manhattan,
Woodhul, NYork.
sh-Arrivsd. steamer James Adss NYork, scbr Miner
", Havana
..PHILApELrnIA. Feb . AM-clsarsd. 'chr Adoiph
PORTLAND. Feb = Arrived, steamer Chesapeake.
Bragg NYork. Signal for . brig
Clearcd-Bsrk Rschol Mitchell Maanzas; sohrs Hattie
Ross. ulrlch sagna; Ne lie Chase, strout Havana
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb s--saiiod, ship John Tucker,
HAllett, NYork. -,
SAVANNAH, Fab e-Ari,ed, steamers virgo. Bukiey,
and Thames Pennington NYork.
Clcarcd-seamers Jaolnto, Atkins and Huntsville
Croweu, NYork, ship Nctaur. Macarthur. Liverpool.
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HArwARD.-On Saturday, February 8, the wife OF Hf
J0toph l. Hayward Of . daughter
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-08-21

Our constitutions elastic. They are not easily
shattered In fact, strictly speaking Death alone
shatter Them for they represent the of vitality,
which enables the enfeebled system react when the
pressure of disease is oved from it. But it is tbs
fashion, when the body is weak, The circulation angud
the tremulous and the mind depressed to say
that the constitution is ruined broken down shat
tered In cases OF the kind described administer HOS
LETTERS STOMACH BITTERS. and it will soon
DC how little ground trere is for this sereotyped
not Of alarm The tonic and Alternative properties Of
the specific rapidly difused through the whole organ
zation BE- the stiuuant which forms its basis will i'm
mediatei create favorable reaction, and this reani-
mating process viii the medicine is continued
until strength health and mental activity complete
IL restored Every dag cures of this kind are
pished Let the debtated invalid, when told By his
condoling friends that Ibis constitution is shattered
at to this strength recruiting prep
aration in which the finest stomachcs and alternatives
of the vegetable kingdom represented, and he vii
be able to meet their gloomy forebodings with
confident smile, and to announce that he has taken
new lease of life under its vtalizing operation.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-08-21
Personal Items.

Ole Bull has reached his native city, Ber-
gen, Norway.
The Orangomen in the north of ireland
have burned Mr.. Gladstone in effigy.
King George, of Greece talks Greek, not
withstanding he is a Royal Dane by birth.
Bismarck says when his health has been
fully restored that he viii try to visit Amer
lea.
John Brougham is reported TO have clear
ed $17 900 by his Lottery of Life, at Wal
lacks.
Senators Conklng and Harlan have
joined the senatorial stampede to the noun
tsins.
Edwin Forrest is to appear At Booths
new theatre, about the fourth week after Its
opening.
Judge Potter, a brother-in-lsw of ex-
President Pierce, died in Flint, Mich, Mon-
day last.
carleton" of the Boston Journal, is
drinking, in India, Massachusetts, ice, har-
vested three years ago.
George Augustus Salla says land we know
of no better Judge than he isl he thinks most
of the English are born fools.
Miss Braddon, on her arrival in New
York, is to be ''lunched" at Delmonicos by
the Literary Sisters Society.
Mrs. Lesdernier, the well-known poetical
reader, has written a novel which she calls
Samuel B. Virgins, owner of the Wig
gins ferry at st. Louis, died recently from a
canoes of the nose caused by wearing eye
glasses.
-Rumor has it that Pike has offered
Schneider $500 in gold for each night of her
performance, and will have her at his new
opera house next autumn if she will come.
The Saturday Review says: "Three women,
and three only, endowed with true poetic
faculty, have lived in England during this
century They are Elizabeth Barrett, Brown
ing, Christina Rosetti and Emily Bronte."
Tom Placide, the famous old comedian,
married near New Orleans, the other day, a
woman to whom he made love forty odd
years ago. Placide has been q bachelor and
the lady has been lately left a wealthy widow.
The New Haven Courier SAYS that Miss
Gertrude Frankau, a native of that city, is
pursuing her musical studies in New York
with Rivarti, the instructor of Miss Kellogg.
who predicts that she win become as great d
singer as Miss Kellogg.
Mr.. Hosea Laws is the Oldest truckman
in Boston. He has been in the business
about sixty years, and still retains that s.Bos-
ton notion" the old-fashioned hong truck,
which is now the only one used in that city.
He proposes 10 retire soon.
Felix Mendelssohn's son. DR.. Charles
| Mendelssohn-B artholdy, is professor at the
University Of Heidelberg, pleasant maya
zine writer, and one OF the most agreeable
conversatlontsts n Germany. His father
left him comparatively little property.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-08-21

THE UNDISPUTED SUPERIORITY of the me-
dicinal virtues of ROback's Blood Pills, Stomach Bit
tiers and Blood Purifier all other remedies prepared
to relieve suffering humanity, is shown in many ways
but especially Is it evnced in this important fact
That responsible druggists and merchants all ovez the
country take active interest in introducing them their
best customers and friends, while, the time
is quite much to their peeuniary interest to recon-
mend other medicines. The for this is obvious
They are in positions to the preeminent efficacy of
the pills in of Liver Complaint and all distractions
of the bowels, and, in fact, all where cathartic
medicine can be employed While the Bitters, by their
gentle tonic, smulant and laxative properties and
safe and certain remedy in dyspepsia, have the
admiration of every who has given them trial.
the Blood Purifier is acknowledged to be best
remedies to search out disease, Scrofula, Old
Sores Erupons and Skin Diseases and to purify the
blood extant; hence the people must naturally give
their voice in favor of remedies which effect SO much
real good in the world. Sold by all druggists every
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-08-21
pOetrD
A sEA-sHELL,

Cool iips Of shell. sing sea-shen warm and sweet
OF rippIes curling on the creamy beach,
Of soft waves singing in each others ear,
small wavelets kissing one snothers feet
Where fakes Of foam make music, low speech
Tenderly sad 10 hear
Tel me Of haIf-forned little broken words
Sung by the rippies 10 the sill ses-howers
In silent sleeping, rGeless deeps Of sea-
Tor there the flowers have voices ike 70 birds,
That sing fuil-throated in this world of ours
On each melodious tree.
.ict now, not Low, sweet shell some other day,
Teu me Of sighings on the lonely shore.
And seas that sob 70 birds that scream above;
1en ne not now Of earth grown weak and gray,
Nor longing for the things that come no more,
Nor any broken love.
TO me tl1y breathing bears another tone,
Of fresh coal currents running under sea,
and happy laughter Of the sunny spray
al nearest thou the words that are thine own,
Enow'gt thou the message that they bear to me,
The things they seem 20 sayf
Ah, ssa-shell 1t is this-"Ihe soft blue deep,
Which thrills with heart that knows thee and II
kind,
S.gLed for thy EoTToW, E0W II lstl5As VAN thSs
Love is 6 secret which man cannot Keep,
Hide Il from heaven and the needless WIND,
But trust it with the seal"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-08-21
A Brute will not swallow Drugs.

A human being ought to exercise at least as much
wisdom beast guided only by instinct Take an
apple in hand spoonful of medicine the other,
approach child, and which il viii choose. In
brute force is required to force medicine down
the throat OF any child Men and women loathe and
abhor the cursed dose our natural instinct rises
florence to this out heathenish practice, handed
down to relic OF the dark conceived by the
most superstitious composed of soothsayers and
astroiogeIs We md some ignorant at the present
day. who believe that medien act Under this delu
sion they swallow pills physic, cod liver oil bttefs.
soothing syrups, etc The snpietons think this drug
acts ON this syLptom disease and gulp down anot
expecting II to operate a different manner
reach that organ or that complaint. Folks passessed
of common know that all drugs medicines of
any kind simply dead Inert nIatter-have no life,
but are chaos dose viii purge the bowels, it will
physc the box bottle from which il taken. Pour
dose of 1t into dead person, you have two dead
things together, your boosted relic of berbar
ism acts the corpse Now try dose of this desta
bic stuh turn It down your own throat The living sys-
tenn acts upon IT, and rejects 1t enemy throws
ont at natures general outlet by the WATER through
the action OF the kidneys at the pores. Some doses
most ao0mna e thrown with violence and disgust
back again ont of the mouth The living system acts
upon the drul. not the drug the system
Gall and test it free of cost
l. \. IRWIN CO.
lark
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-08-21

THE new American invention of sinking
wells rapidly, has recently occupied the at
tention of the Emperor Napoleon III. while
at Fontainebleau, 81 miles southeast from
Paris The Emperor being conscious OF
the great service that these wells will be to
agriculturalists and to armies during cam
paigns, has been making experiments with
the process and with the implements as
well as with American pumps generally
Several American pumps, worked by hot
air engine, are now in operation at Fon-
tainebleau. They can throw 1859 gallons
of water per hour into the artificial river,
which was formerly supplied by the Belle
Eau fountain, that gave its name to the an
cient city on the site of the present Fon-
tainebelle-eau. Though the original city
has long since disappeared, traces of il
have been recently found by the excava-
tons made at the command of the Empe-
r0r
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-08-21
The Feiee Islands.
Mark Island Navy Yard July p Correspondence Of
the New York Journal of Commerce

nafh isianc Navy Yard July y Correspondence of
the New York Journal of Commerce.
The United States steamer Tuscarora, re-
Gently arrived at this station from a two
years cruise in the Feiee and Western
islands, brings interesting news. After
hearing the narrative of Lieut.. G.. G. Merri-
man, one OF her officers, venture to give a
brief synopsis.
The FeJee Is recognized as an iudepen-
dent government under King Thak-am-tow.
His secretary of state is a Mr.. st. John an
American, and DR.. Brewer, formerly of Gin
cinnati; is tbs American consul. These
gentlemen represent the king as exceeding
/ ly DESTROYS Of encouraging immigration
| from the United States With this object
he has offered to sell fertile tract of &, 900
acres for So, 900, the same being admirably
adapted to the culture of cotton. tobacco.
and coffee. DIR. Brewer has already acoIlir-
ed the title to an island of 1900 acres.
Several OF our naval officers speak of these
islands as the only group on the Western
Islands worth having Most of the other
islands IN that quarter are under French
domination The Friendly islands are
more important than is generally under
tstood, one OF their number Yeti IebII being
as large as the state of New York; and in
the Sa-Vau, the most northern of the proup.
there is "a magnificent harbor completely
land-locked. The entrance is nine miles in
length completely studded with little
islands, all Of them covered with evergreen
and appearing exceedingly beautiful. The
king Is said . desire an American proteco-
rate. In stature the inhabitants are
described as being remarkable, and in ali
respects fine specimens of the genus homo.
The chief is six feet and seven inches in
height and weighs $50 pounds, with no sur
plus flesh. The boys in blue" would evil
IDENTIFY like authority to annex the territory
to the United States and make citizens Of
the voting population, as they ale spelling
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