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Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16
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Oh, what a wonderful stream is the River of Time
AS it runs through the realms of tears,
With faultess rythm and musical rhyme,
Aud a brt ad'uing sweep, and surge sublime,
That blends with the Ocean OF years.
Howthe winters are drifting like flakes of snrw
And the summers like buds between,
And the years in the sheaf--so they come and
they go
On the Rivers breast. with It's ebb and its flow
AS it gldes through its shadow and sheen.
There's magical isle on the River of Time,
Where the softest of airs are playing;
There's cloudless sky and tropical cline.
And song as sweet as vesper chime,
And tie Junes with the roses are staying
And the name of this isle is the Long Ago.
And we bury our treasure there;
There are brows of beauty and bosoms OF snow
There are hea os of dust, but we loved them SOL
There are tr nkets and treasures of hair.
There are fragments of songs that nobody sings,
A nd part of an infants prayer;
There's a lutte unswept and heart without strings,
There are broken vows and pieces of rings,
And the garments size used to wear.
There are hands that are waved when the fairy
shore
BY the mirage is lifted in air;
And we sometimes hear through the turbulent roar,
Sweet voices we heard in the days gone before,
When the wind down the River is fair
Oh! remembered for aye be the blessed isle,
All the long days of our life Till night
When the evening comes with its beautiful smile
And our eyes are closing TO sumber the while
May our greenwood of soul be in sight.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

THE GAME OF EUCHRE.-A friend
who has been spending year in Eng
land, Informs us that the John Bulls
have become much addicted to the
American game of "Euchre," of late,
and who have made some improvements
upon the American game, description
of which, no doubt, viii be interesting
to Euchre players.
For example, with every pack Of play
ing cards sold there is one blank card at
the top of the deck, used in this coun-
try frequently as n "marker," But the
English make better use of this white
faced card. They include it in the suits,
making % to the deck, instead of 81;
and to the euchre deck % instead of %
cards. This blank card at first was
called "Louis Napoleon" but has been
subsequently, corrupted into the less Gu
phonious title of "yerker." The yeTker
then is the highest ranking card in the
euchre deck, having capacity to capture
either of the blowers or the ace, so
that man may be euchered with the
ace and two blowers" Whenever the
''yerker' is tnrned up by the dealer,
that person has the privilege of "mak-
ing the trump" and can "make it to the
most advantageous suit ia his "hand."
The game is novel one, and, we under
stand, affords much diversion to the
players.-[ Nashville Banner.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

The following little extract from a
speech of Biasson-a leader of negro in
surrectionists on the island of San Do
mingo-is found in Victor Hugo's Jar
gal, and sounds good deal like some
of the Radical promises made to the en-
franehised negroes of to-day:
stLet us overturn the earth that it
may swallow up the whites. We will
conquer or die. Conquerors, we shall
enjoy, in our turn, all the joys of life;
dying, we shall go to Heaven where the
saints await us in Paradise, where each
brave will receive a double measure of
aguardiente (brandy) and dollar a
day.'
This was the "mule and forty acres
of 1891, in San Domingo.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE.-THE
Columbia Phoenix says: The list of del
egates stands 63 negroes to "a whites.
Ia three or four districts the delegates
are all black, and in many others there
are three or four of that color to one
white. Most of the negroes are igno-
rant, brutal, field hands, and will go to
the EXTREMIST lengths of diabolicalism
that their beastly passions and the wick
ed suggestions of the fiends who control
them suggest.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

The FIRST TWENTY YEARS.-Livc as
long as you may, the first twenty years
form the greater part of your life They
appear so when they are passing; they
seem TO have been when we look back to
them; and they take up more room in
our memory than all the years that sue
coed them. If this be so, how important
that they should be passed in planting
good principles, cultivating good habits,
fleeing from all those pleasures which
lay up bitterness aud sorrow for the time
to come! Take good care of the first
twenty years of your life and you may
hope that the last twenty years will take
good care Of you.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

Louis Blanc, the manager and princi-
pal stakeholder of the Hamburg she'll"
was penuiless in 1910, and, what is a
great deal worse, his name was IN the
black book of the Paris police, where he
figured as an unprincipled swindler. 10
is now worth between twenty, -. -
thirty millions of francs, s,,d vrl,ev, IL IL
makes his appearance IL Paris. the 1,,o %
mates of the B0urse prostrate then, ssI,,sss
before him. 1850 -
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16
NUMBER 7.

PURE -AIR.--Whatever renders sba
blood impure tends to originate CON
sumption. Whatever makes the air i'm
pure, makes the blood Inquirer. IT is
the air we breathe which pnrifies tl,e
blood. And as, if the water we use to
wash our clothing is dirty, it is impos-
slple Tor 1T to abstract the Impurities
from the blood. What, then, are some
OF the more prominent things which
render the air impure2 1t is the nature
OF still air to become impure. Runnine
water purities ITSELF Air in motion,
drafts of air, are self-purifiers. Tins il
IS that the air of close room becomes
impure invariably.
mus 1t IS that close rooms bring con-
sumption to countless thousands. Hence
ali rooms should be so constructed as to
nave q constant draft of air passing
through them. The neglect of it muir.
aers myriads. A man of ordinary size
renders a hOgshead of air unfit for brea-
thing. consumes i1s blood purifying
qualities every hour. SO perfectly that if
"a man could re-breathe a fall breath of
has own the next instant after its expi.
ration, without any intermixture with
the other, he would be instantly suffo-
Gated. Hence sleeping in close rooms
even though alone, or sitting for q very
short time in crowded vehicle, or
among large assembly, is perfectly
corrupting to the blood Close bed
rooms make the graves of thousands.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

The official vote of Georgia has been
declared. The registered voters mum.
0ered 1867. The vote cast is 106, 40.
For convention, 1O2, 2S2; against, 4, f27.
Majority for Convention, 6,15G. The
number of whites voting for the conven-
ton is about 3G 800.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

Female suffrage, when once inaugu-
rated, will soon admit women to the jury
box. Then what q rush there will be
among the masculines to get on juries.
Who would object TO sitting up all night
discussing legal point with a bevy OF
fair ones!
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

A dilapidated old darlley in Mont
gomery, while watching the monkeys in
a menaGeiie in that city, on Friday,
spoke thusly:-"Dem chillen got toe
much sense to come Outen dat cage
white folks cut dar tails Off aud set ,em
to votiu' and maxim constitutions"
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

A Southern lady, who is the wife of an
extreme radical, residing in one of the
Northern States, while engaged in pluck
ing the gray hairs from her husbands
moustache, was asked by him, "What
are you doing, my dearq'' "OnIy carry.
ing out your policy, my dear-extermi-
mating the whites for the benefit of the
blacks" was the reply.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

SHoEMAKER'S MEAsURE.-No. 1 of
small size, is II inches i'm length; No.r1,
OF large size, is 8 11-24th inches in
length; and each succeeding number of
either size is one-third OF an inch adj
ditonal length.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

'sWhat makes your COWS so CROSSE"
said an old lady to q milllman. Gross,
madam? they are the gentlest things in
the world" ''NNell, the milk is always
souri, the matron sharply replied.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

A HORRIBLE CHEAT.-There is no
telling the ways that men, greedy for
gain, will not avail themselves of to adj
vance their fortunes, especially during
and since the war, as men have been
found willing and anxious to sell soul
and conscience for a little filthy lucre.
A few days since an incident occurred
which very forcibly illustrates this. An
Irishman was employed to dig mp and
remove some of the bodies of Union
soldiers in the Wesleyan cemetery of
this city. In lifting the collins he thought
they seemed unusually hollow in their
sound, and opening some of them dis
covered that no bodies had ever been
placed IN them ut all, nothing but planks
or square blocks of wood. The mystery
to the honest Hibernian was great, but
when it was told him that the Union
soldiers were buried by contract, the
undertakers receiving so much per cof-
fin, and then that the bodies could be
sold at handsome profit to some med
zeal college, the doubt was at once re-
moved, and the avenue to wealthy
fortune immediately disclosed. This
was only one of the ways that the war
made men rich.-[ E,rchaRge.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

There is said to be a dog in New
Albany, Ind, who is specially fond of
playing on the piano. He gets on the
stool, strikes the keys with his paws,
throws his head back, aud seems to
enjoy himself thoroughly.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

An ex-lieutenant in the Federal ser
vice, who is now a conductor OH the city
railroad in Memphis, has been arrested
and held for trial, under the civil rights
bill, for excluding negroes from his car.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

a wag on the Wilmington, On. c., }
Star says: 1.-THE members of the Louis
lana Convention have voted themselves
$40 per day. This is an enormous price
for field hands,
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

A lawyer engaged ina case tormented
a witness so much with questions that
the poor fellow at last cried for water.
"There,'' said the Judge" thought
you'd pump him drY.'
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

In Wabashaw county, Minnesota,
with 1900 voters, 8,2t9 votes were re,
Gently cast on a question of locating the
court house.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

The New York Tribune says that half
n mlillod OF dollars was lost aud won on
the rate election in the city of New York
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

What is the difiel ence between man
who has risen from his bed with his
stockings on, and negro hoeing corn!
One rose in hose, the other hoes in rows.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

On February 18th, the Freedmen's
Bureau will cease in Tennessee. Except
the Superintendent of Education, all the
Officers will be discharged.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

1t is aDnOuced that pencil directions
will hereafter cause letters to be sent to
the ad-leiter office.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

The ladies' in Brazil, expect when
they are introduced to a stranger, TO be
embraced. We may look for emigration
thither. ward.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

Men refine liquor but liquor never re-
turns the compliment.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

What is the difference between q
barber and mother 2-One have razors
to shave, and the other has shavers to
raise st
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

IF a man is without enemies 7
wouldn't give ten cents for All bis
friends" says Beau Hackett.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

But lntle over five per cent OF the
area of the Southern States is cultivated.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

The Empire gold mines, eight miles
west of Charlotte, n. c., produce $1,000
per week.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

English railways are not making
money.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

The ultra fashionable women in Paris
are wearing garters with diamond
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

WORTH kNowING.-It is stated that
hungry man who sits down before n
pound OF beefsteak. tender, juicy and
an inch thick, and eats it, will find upon
analysis, that sixty-fve per cent. of his
steak was water; that eighteen per cent.
viii go to give him an aldermanic flesh
ness, and that IA per cent. is assigned
co warm him, and make him feel com
Portable on cold day. OF the flesh
forming ingredients, according to Dr.
Playfibir, every one, on an average, re-
qnires % pounds annually to keep up
proper bodily condition. If it is not OBJ
tanned from steaks, then it must be Sc
cured from something else. Cheese is a
flesh former, $50 per cent.) and taken
with beer speedily conceals all traces of
unsightly bones. Two ounces of flesh
formers per diem will keep a man alive
If he is not forced to labor, bnt hard la
Dor requires SIX, or the body will run
short of starch and sugar, and go be-
hind in health and strength. In 100
parts of wheat there are 10 pounds of
flesh, but there is nearly double the
amount in the same quantity of oatmeal.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

USEFUL HINTs.--Save your soap-suds
for garden plants, or for garden yards
when sandy.
Wash your tea trays with cold suds,
polish with little flour aud rub with a
dry cloth.
Frozen potatoes make moro starch
than fresh ones; they also make nice
cake.
a hot shovel held over vanished fur
niture will take out white spots.
a bit of glue dissolved in skinned
milk and water will restore Grape.
Ribbons of any kind should be washed
in cold soap-suds and not rinSed.
If your tlat-irons are rough, rub them
with fine salt, and it will make them
smooth.
Oat-straw is the best for filing beds.
1t should be changed once year
Wood-ashes and common salt will
soak the cracks of stove and prevent
the smoke from escaping.
Sal Soda will bleach very white; one
spoonful is enough for a kettle of clothes.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

! IHC tOtloWtuS Is al CAIIhstU from II
address made by the Rev. Egbert Ii.
! OSBORNE, of Madison county, Tenn, on
the Emission of the Young Men of the
/ South" We heartily commend it to
our readers as we consider it very apro-
pos to the times
The bitter prejudices of to-day will
consume themselves in the avenging
flames of their own hate-become their
own funeral pile. Out of the shoulder
| ing embers of sectional strife and poIiti-
cal madness we hope to see arising the
angel of brotherhood-the spirit of holy
and beautiful peace. The country is
yet young, and we look 10 see manly
stride over the dark and bloody memo
ries of the past, and an unwearied march
to the goal of prosperity. Our fields
are resembling TO the hum of honest toll
the song of the reapers and the shout
of the harvest hymn thrills the soul
with its hopeful music. The click of the
citizens hammer, and the ring of the
anvil, tells us that honest labor las re-
sumed her stand by the post of duty
and toll. The pillow share, the AK, and
the hoe are doing their grand work of
regeneration throughout our Sorrowful
land. Commerce lifts her dropping head
and losses her golden locks like the an
gel of the SUN. Religion and learning
will give a grander impetus to the cha
L lot wheels of civilization; and, under
the beautiful Inspiration of peace and
brother.y love, Our wrecked covered
land will plume her pinions and arch
her proud neck for wider, grander
fight to the bright empyrean of immor.
tally. Cleaned for action in the wide
and shining fields of industry and en-
teIprise. the glorious South will resume
her old proud position, and wealth and
prosperity pour their golden treasures
in her lap. Though now tossed on
the waves of troubous times-passing
through the martyrs fiames-we trust
soon to see the dove coming over the
waste of gloomy waters, bearing the
olive branch OF lovo from every quarter
of our distracted country, AMI to hear
The lips that curse, breathe only words
of charity and tones OF forgiveness
May the ark of the Consttution-the
last hope of American liberty-bear the
freighted hopes and prayers of the PEG
pie safely to the mornt OF rest, the broad
and shining bosom of some heaven
crowned Ararat, where the whole nation
may bury the fiend of discord, and on er
its grave breathe the VOWS of friendship.
PRACTICAL RECEIPrs.-To kill roach
es--put your reaches in q barrel, put on
a pair of heavy boots, and get in and
dance.
To render mosquitoes harmless-Pull
out their bills with pair Of tongs.
For hCas-Tie them to the bedpost
with lo9-chains and let the dogs finish
them.
To kill mice-Flatten their heads
with a lemon-sqneezer.
TO kill rats-This receipt is cheap and
never fails. When you retire for the
night, place a small bit of cheese in
Your mouth. Care should be taken to
keep the mouth well open and when the
rats whiskers tickle your throat, bite.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

The old town of Edinburgh was built,
says the chronologists, in the time of
Moses, by son of PharaOh's daughter.
Other dates vary from the Siluvian
period to the fifth century, Al.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

The human heart is six inches in
length and four inches in diameter, and
beats seventy times per minute, 1920
times per hour, 100,S00 times per day
30, 772,0 900 times per year, 2,565, 440, 00O
times in three score years and ten. and
at each beat two and half ounces OF
blood are thrown out of it, and hun
dred and sevcnty-five ounces per min
ME, G5G pounds per hour, seven and
three-foIrths tons per day. All the
blood i'll the body passes through the
heart in three minutes. This little or
gan, by its ceaseless industry,
Iu the allotted span
The Psalmst gave to nan,
lifts the enormous weight of 0,7OO,-
200 tons.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

How Soon FoRGoTTEN.-So lately
dead! So soon forgotten! Ills the way
of the world. Men take us by the hand
aud are anxious about the health of our
bodies, and laugh at our jokes, and we
really think, like the fly on the wheel,
that we have something to do with the
turning of the earth. Some day we die
and are buried. The sun does not stop
for our funeral; everything goes on as
usual; we are not missed in the streets;
one or two hearts feel the wound of af-
diction; one or two memories still hold
our names and forms: but the crowd
moves in its daily circle, and. in three
days, the great wave of time sweeps
over our steps, and washes out the last
veStige of our lives.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-16

The following aphorisms on love are
communicated to the Galaxy:
Women like men who tlatter them;
but love those who despise them. Every
man, by the general law, loves all wo-
men; all women loves one man. Men
are by nature polygamists women, mo-
Inogamists. Magnificent lovers make
wretched husbands, and excellent hus-
bands the worst of lovers. Women be-
come attached to men not for what men
do for them, but what they do for men.
Gratitude payes the way to their esteem,
but selfiShness opens the way to their
love. The smallest tenderness out
weighs with IA woman the greatest sac
rifice. She will forget the hero who
would die III her behalf, for the mere
gallant who would give her caresses,
and nothing more. When women's
hearts are touched they are all kindred
The interest dowdy then becomes the
sister of the proudest duchess. Women
desire to love, primarily, and men to be
loved; hence, women idealize and men
analize, the objects of their Affection
If a woman Will not love you, make her
hate you, and she is half yours; for hate
is too unnatural to her to last, and its
first rebound is tenderness, and the Sc
cond passion. Men never love women
whomsthey do not, and women never
love men whom they do, understand.
Forever" in the rhetoric of woman's
affection, is Il sentimental hyperbole
meaning period of exactly two months.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-07-29

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