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Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

! LOVE AND MARRIAGE.-It is unwise
to hope for domestic happiness i'll the
! possession of "A single favorable trait OF
character it is better to look for q COM
bina!iou, and they are most to be con-
gatulated who can discern and WOO and
win the pOsseSsor of the largest number
of good points. First of all, the man
whom you love. the women whom YOU
adore, should certainly possess high
sense OF right aad wrong; next bodily
health; aud thirdly, Moral bravery, a
courage to be Industrious, economical
and self denying. With these three
traits. principle. health, and soul that
can dare aud do all that one ought to,
domestic felicity will abide. None
ought to marry who cannot command
the means of enabling them tc
ton in life, without grinding econo-
mics.
1t is useless TO talk about love in a
cottage. The little rascal always run
away when there is 10 bread aud but
ter on the table. There is more
love i'll full -four barrel than all the
roses and poisas and woodbines that ev-
er grew.
No-inechanic should marry until he
is master OF his trade; nor a profession
al man until his income is adequate to
tue SlSle Ot HE Nulch nc uetelmiu0S
upon nor the merchant, until his clear
annual gains are equal to his domes-
tic expenditures, unless, indeed, there
are. i'll either case, independent and
unconditional sources OF income.
No man ought to marry who has to
work like horse from morning until
night to supply family necessaries.
whether it to be by brain or body !;
for if the body is thus made u drudge.
it perpetuates impaired power to the
Face while if the brain is overwrought
its effects will be seen in children OF
feeble intellect, if, indeed, they be not
demented. TO calculate, therefore, on
a reasonable share OF domestic enjoy
ment, the parties most interested
should aim to find in each other az
may be of high moral principle, OF bodi-
iy health and either the actual posses
sion of suitable maintenance, or an
individual ability to secure it without
peradventure.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06
NUMBER 10.
a TorJcYING PAssAcp d.

A TOUCHING PAssAGE.-How elo
quently does Chateaubriand reply to the
inquiry, s'Is there God 2"
"There is God The herbs of the
valley, the cedars of the mountain, bless
Him the insects sport in His beams
the elephant salutes Him with the rising
orb OF day (; the thunder proclaims Him
in the heavens the ocean declares
Him immensity. Man alone has said
There is no God y Unite in thought at
the same instant the most beautiful OBJ
JectS III nature I; suppose that you see at
once all the hours of the day and all the
seasons OF the year morning of
spring and morning of autumn q
night bespangled with stars and night
covered with clouds meadows enamel
ed with flowers and hoary with snow
fields giided by tints of autumn-tten
aione you will have just conception of
the universe. While you are gazing upon
that sun which is plunging under the
vault Of the West, another observer adj
mireS him emerging from the gilded
gates of the East. By what ineonceiy-
able magic does that aged star, which in
sinking, fatigued and burning in the
shade OF the evening, re-appear at the
same instant, fresh and humid, with the
rosy dews of morning7 at every
instant of the day the glorious orb is at
once rising, resplendent at MONDAY, and
setting in the West ; OF rather our SEN
ses deceive us, and there is, properly
speaking, no East, West. North or South
in the world. Everything reduces it
self to single point. from whence the
King OF Day sends forth at once tri-
pie light i'll one substance. The bright
splendor is perhaps that which nature
eau present that is most beautiful, for
while it gives us n iadea of the pe-petu-
al magniticence and reSistless power of
God, it exhibits at the same time a ski
ming image of the glorious Trinity"
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

Cg Mems wants vary One man
wants wife; another don't. One man
wants to be rich another is content
with only hundred thousand or two.
One man wants u fine horse, another a
Gno house. One man wants Office Ga
pretty common weallness), another
shuns it. One man wants honors, an
other dou't care fig for them. One
man likes TO have q lot of pretty girls
for acquantances, another "a man of no
taste aud sentiment, CT courSe) won't
look at them. One man wants to be a
swell, AMI another rather likes the con
tracing process. So on aud so forth,
No two men are precisely alike ia these
and other matters.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

A Boston journal calls attention to the
fact that there is an immigration of
Americans to Germany, as vel as Ger
mans to this country. 1t says this is
owing to Che increasing cost of living in
the United States, and that persons of
fixed moderate incomes have discovered
that living and education cost far less
in Germany than in American cities;
they are settling in many of the CONT
mental towns. In Stuttgardt the
Americans outnumGer the English resi-
dents.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

| A RUSSIAN LEGESD.-IVheD in st.
Petersburg the winter draws near to a
close, and the time is at hand for the
Neva to be freed from its icy covering
the advent OF e peculiar national fes-
tiyal is an4iously expected The win
ter is very severe and tedious in Rus
sia, aud its end is therefore celebrated
ny. All the world makes merry and
puts on its best clothes. No one must
fail to be present at the ceremony which
takes place on the banks of the river.
This is celebrated few days before the
breaking up of the ice, the time OF
which event can always be determined
beforehand with considerable accurary.
Platforms for the court and the di-
| plomatic corps are erected on the banks
of the Neva, and police officers line the
brink OF the stream in order to retain
the multidude which presses forward as
closely as possible to the shore, so as to
see TO the best advantage, and which,
were it not for these precautions, would
crowd upon the ice, already weak
and unsafe, in such numbers as to
cause the most fearful accidents.
Suddenly the drums beat, the bands
strike up, gold and silver epulettes gilt
tex i'll the sun, and tie Emperor APP
pears, followed by his whole retiuue of
State.
Two men go upon the ice and cnt a
hole in it with an axe. AS soon as this
is done an officer of the court fills a
glass with Neva water and hands it to
the Emperor, who, in accordance with
| an old traditionary usage, must drain
it to the last drop. After he has ac-
compiished this feat the Emperor fills
the goblet to the brim with gold pieces.
which are the perquisitcs of the officer
who handed the water to his sover-
eign.
This custom formerly led to the conf
cal, but, for the monarch, q very uncom-
Portable abuse. The officer used to Sc
Iect the glass from which the Emperor
was to drink, and IN order TO receive as
many gold pieces as possible, he iucreas-
ed each year the dimensions of the COB
! let, until at last the Emperor was com
PEELED to swallow full quart of water.
An end had then to be put to this
abuse the size of the goblet was regu.
lated, aud a limit filed for the acqui-
sitiveness OF the official.
The ceremony concludes with the
Messing of the river by the clergy.
After the Emperor has drank the multi
| tude flocks to the opening in the river.
and fills TASKS brought for the purpoSe
with Neva water, which is taken home
and carefully preserved.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

E- Struggles gives strength. a man
or woman that has never been compell-
Ell to struggle hardly has any conception
of strength. 1t is the storm that tests
tire power and worth of the ship. The
world progressed by the workers; in
other words, the strugglers. People
who think the condition of struggle an
unfortunate one and to be lamented, do
not see the bearings of life aud the best
destiny OF the race. Think in the midst
of your struggles that it is to Ice the
making of you, and that under it you
get power and strength.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

EYOur flowers may be blighted our
pictures destroyed, our ornaments StO-
len bat eur beautiful thoughts are
with us always, under all circumstances
Of riches and poverty, health and sick
ness, success or disappointment. They
are more surely aud safely our own
than amy jewel we can possess, and
what is better sttil we can bring them
out and share them with others with
out the least fear or gTudging, because
neither friend nor enemy can rob W OF
them.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

TIE LAUGH OF WoMAN.-A woman
has no natural gift more bewitching g
than a sweet laugh. IT is like the
sound of flutes Oh the water, IL leaps
from her in clear, sparkling rill and
the heart that hears it feels rs if bathed
in the cool, exhilarating spring. Have
you ever pursued an unseen fugi-
tive through trees led on by q fairy
laugh, now mere, now there, now lost,
now found ? We have and we are
pursuing that wandering voice to this
day. Sometimes it comes to us III tn :
midst OF care, or sOgrow, OF irkEame bu-
siness, and then we turn away and hear
it ringing in the room like q silver cell,
with power to scare away the evil spirit
Of mind. How much we owe to that
sweet laugh ! 1t turns prose 10 poetry
it filings towers OF Sunshine over ihe
dai kness OF the wood ia which We are
travelling il touches with light even
Our sleep, which is no more than the
image Of death, but il consumed with
dreams that are shadows of imnoatali-
tV.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

The Albany Jonrnai asks this peril
nant question: "If Hancock became q
second Washington for obeying orders,
is not he who issued the orders a greater
than Washington! That is the question
which President johnson would have
placed at the bottom of his Hancock
message if modesty had not restrained.
Sc he generously left it to be inferred.
For if pat in words. it would have torn
every button from every waistband on
the continent"
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06
A Dictatorship fer Grant.

The destructives az Washington, af
ter six years of hesitating aud contr;.
dictory legislation, have at last deter
mined to extinguish the ten states O
the Sonth, and to erect in their stead 1
vast dictatorship in the hands of Gen
eral Grant. This radicalism, "built il
an eclipse and freighted with curses
has passed on it's destined course t,
darkness and despotism. aud hate anG
What tue secessionists failed to ac
this achieves by the stroke of the pen
Ten states are not merely Withdraw,
from the Union-they are obliteratel
from the civil geography of the world
1t is treason to recognize them!
The Federal Union under the Consti
tuition has ceased to exist. The militia
ry domination of the South overshad
ows and blights what was left of liberty
at the North. The original counterpoist
of our system is destroyed, aud an oil
garchy controls what. was once repub
lie.
General Grants despotism is to ex
tend over countrys,as large as all Eu
rope, and to embrace q population three
fold that of our colonies at the time O
the Revolution. Throughout this vast
domain, and over all these people, the
sword is to rule, and the law is to ba
Frustrated.
The process by which the Executive
Office has been emasculated is to be ap
piled to the federal Judiciary An ar
my of $4,000 men at the South, and :
horde of hundreds of thousands of cor
rupt officials at the North, are to com
bine to perpetuate their own power anG
hn -
liberty. The Presidential election o
1865 is to be a farce, unless the mad
ness of the people turns it Into trage
dy.
And General Grant, who IS to bt
crowned as dictator, what of him2 Viii
he accept this investiture2 1t is a pois
oned robe which will cling to his tester
ing sides. if he does. He has been 81
lent and moderate and prudent, anG
men have looked to him with some
hope. Will he make himself the poiBt
OF attack, the target of hate, the ecu
tral figure in the Infamous nsurpation
VIII he make his fellow w-citiZens forget
his battles for the Union, in his victory
over the Constitution, his prostration o.
civil liberty2 They accredited his vic
tories in the field to the patriotic pur
pose of restoring the Union and re-es
tablishing the law. Will he now, il
the service of faction, demand, "tht
unconditional surrender" of all that il
vital i'll the Constitution, of all thai
makes communities free and honored
and of the attributes OF independence,
i'll the Executive and the Judiciary! j
were better for him that he sheatheC
his sword i'll his Own body than that Ii,
should weld it in such = cause.-T AlLa
ny Aryms.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

INDIAN COTToN CULTURE.-The In
dian cotton culture is the subject Of p
late report Of the Cotton Commission
ers of India. they represent 6l1,722
acres as under corton in the central
provinces, and 1861 ,7S9 i'll Bombay.
la the former there is much the same
acreage as last year, or 81 per cent of
the cultivated land. In Bombay it is
less, the area in 1S66-'7 having been
,97S,4Si acres.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

There is man in the Georgia Con-
vention named Straightback, one in the
Louisiana Convention named Pinch
back, while in all the Conventions that
have been held there has been largo
sprinkling of lampbldck We know an
honest German in Washington county
Eve bclievc) named Standback, whom
VIC insist upon the people of that coun-
ty sending TO the Texas Convention
Yes. let as have a StdRdbdck in our Con-
vention, to give the proper check to ne
ro egislation.-T Journal.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

GEN. GRAET.-In = life of Gen. .Graut,
by Col. Radeau, . member of his staff,
just published, it is stated among other
things not hitherto known to the public
that the General was STAKEHOLDER, and
that about the time when suspended by
Haiieck, Who at that time commanded
the department. When Halieck was
ordered to Washington as military
adviser and commanding general. lac
offered the command of Grants army at
COrinth TO a Quartermaster named Allen,
whose rank was that of colonel.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06
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Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

~ "The sound of your hammer"
says Franklin, ''at five in the morning"
or at nine at night, heard 10y creditor
makes him easy six months longer
but if he sees yon at billiard table, or
hears Your voice at tavern when yen
should be at work, he sends for his
money the next day"
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

A NOBLE SENTIMEET.-I look with
scorn upon the selfish greatness of the
word, and with pity on the most gifted
and prosperous in the struggle for of
ace and power: but look with rever-
ence on the obscure man who suffers
for the right, who is true to a good but
prosecuted cause.
There is but one solid pleasure in life;
and that is our duty. How miserable
then, how unwise, how objectionable
are they who make that pain.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

Mexico is getting on finely with that
boon 80 edom conferred upon her by
Sewaf the sake of the Monroe doc
trine. Several other Congressman elect
are in prison and others are hiding to
avoid being put in.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

A Paris Physician says that six ci-
gars dag will shorten a mans life five
years. That twelve cigars will shorten
it ten years, aud proportionate num-
Der will kill him on the spot.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

CY No mind so bright but drink
will befool it; the happiest it will ill
with misery the firmest health dissi-
patton will shatter no business so
thriving that WHISKY cannot spoil.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

JR- A Texas editor. on being asked
how he got along with his paper, said
he had written one editorial and shot
three men in the previous twelve
months.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

Milwaukee has officially decided the
value Of mans beard. In fight, q
rniiian y.ulled ont mans beard, aud the
court awarded him $I5 damages.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

In reply to paper which called Gene
raj Sheman "the coming man." n Geor-
gia journal pettishly says it hopes he
is not coming that way again.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

A Bangor Judge refuses TO hear di-
vorce cases this term, because the cold
weather is likely to bring the parties
together again if they are let alone.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

The rumor that Secretary Seward
has hnaght Stanton's ring, Jupiter's
moons aHd half dozen asteroids, is
condradicted.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

Ten deaths TO one birth is the ratio
among the happy "free" negroes of
Florida.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

~ 1t is thought by many that the
Gaming of Sumner by Brooks, and the
burning of old Thad Stevens Iron
Works by the Confederates, are among
the most important events in American
history, as they very largely contributed
TO convert ten States into Five Mon
archies. The South is too poor to pay
for the Iron Works, but can't some doc
tor cure Summers back
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

A WORD TO YOUNG MEN-My friend
did you ever know, can you call to mind
a single case of a perscn, who, having
his own way TO make in the world, spent
his time ia the street, in billiard saloons
around hotels, or in any form of disSipa-
ton or idlenesS, to succeed in an eni
neut degree in any enteTpIise2 Look
over your list of friends and acquain
tanceS and their course. DO You not
fnd upon examination that those who
to-day are men Of influence and honor
were the youth who made the most of
valuable time, turning it to good ac-
count; and on the other hand do you not
find those who stood at the corners
with a cigar or pipe in their mouth went
from bad 10 worse, from worse to ruin!
Sadly must the answer be made--oh
that it were not so-they have failed,
Will You not profit by the experience OF
othersl Go not that way. Never be
idle. Every moment of your time is a
golden one, use it as such; improve the
mind; fix your eyes upon some noble ob-
ject; be a man. The call is from men,
will you not be one Of that number who
can say,-'I am man."
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

gE When we look down upon the
earth, we think of the past when we
look up TO the eky we think OF the fI-
furF
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

France has already raised something
more than three millions of francs for
the Pope, and Belgium 36A,000 francs,
for the same object.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

The M0ngrel party struck boldly for
negro safrage, bnt found only it's twin
sister, negro suffering.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

IL The two leading lawyers OF Paris
have an income from their profession of
about thirty thousand dollars each,
and have seven times as much business
as they can attend to. One OF them
tends his name to eight young lawyers,
who draw up briefs. They have the
work and he the credit and the profit.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

Beauty of youth. 1t is not true that
the young not only appear but really
are, most beautiful in the presence of
those they love7 1t calls forth all their
beauty.
Instead of saying things to make peo-
pie stare and wonder. say what will
keep them from staring and wondering
hereafter, this is philosophy.
Value the friendship OF him who
stands by you in the storm; swarms of
insects will surround you in the sun
shine.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

EyIt is related of Persian King
that beng at u hunting seat, he was
about To have some game dressed, and
as there was no salt a servant was sent
to fetch some from neighbOTing vii
lage, when the monarch ordered him 60
pay the bTice of the salt, that the exac-
tion might not become a custom and
the village desolatPd. He was asked
"From this tIitie what injury can en-
sue?" and replied oppression was
brought into the world from small be
ginnings, which every new conner has
Increased, until il has reached the pres
ent degree of enormity, If the mon
arch were to eat a single apple from
the garden OF peasant, the servants
would pull up the tree by the roots,
and if the Sultan orders FIVE eggs to be
taken by force, his soldiers will spit a
thousand fowls. The iniquitous tyrans
remaineth not, but the curses Of man.
kind rest on him forever"
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

a TRUNP.-A man, while playing
cards fell off his chair in a ft After
half an hours steady application of
remedies he recovered, and Immediately
inquired, ''W hat are trumpsl'
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

T The Montana Legislature has ex-
empted lawyers, editors and idiots from
serving on juries.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

Washington City, by the municipal
census just completed. contains
population of 73,957 whites and 81, ,STS
blacks.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

1t may not be generally known that
Kansas is more than twice as large as
the State of New York.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

WHERE2-If all the worlds a stage,
and men aud women merely players,
where are the audience and orchestra
to come 'front.'
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

~ Two girls in Iowa offer to walk to
Chicago in 3 days for $500. They can
do it if they don't happen TO meet a man
on the way.
Natchitoches spectator., 1868-02-06

What is the difference between
Noah's ark and Joan of Arcl One was
made of wood--the other was maid of
Orleans.
Great takers are like broken pitch
ers, everything runs out of them.
Sobriety, temperance, and tranquility
are natures best physician. c
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-07-08

MoNEY.--Money does not make the man.
The world has notion that it does, but the
notion is erroneous. Money is good in itself;
almost everybody has hearty respect and
appreciation for it, but it will go only so far
and bring only so much. After that it is
powerless and goes for nothing. 1t viii be-
get neither brains for men, nor beauty for
women. 1t viii impart no gift over which
good sense can take comfort nor deceney re-
joice 1t may carry its possessor to the ends
of the world and pamper him with all that
the varied climes can offer, but it can not
add one jot to his manliness as citizen.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1868-07-08

BhEAsE BRAY-Right in the hottest of
the fight, at the first bombardment of Fort
Fisher, just when the big Parrott on board
the Canonicus flew into flinders, knocking
nine men down, and everything was adrift
..hn-,t derLs a hig, luhberly DEtoLnaan fell
down on his knees by the side of Jack Arm
strong's gun,and began to pray. But what
little English he ever had in him was all
frightened out, and afraid that the Lord on
this side of the Atlantic couldn't understand
Dutch, he held up his hands, and appealed
to Jack: so Shack mine goot friend, won't
you blease bray for me2'
''No, you ass, de your own braying I"
roared Jack, fetching the Teuton a kick that
sent him sprawhng into the scuppers.