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For the LAuLdry.-Free from OxNiic Acld.-see
Chemisps Certificate
Patent Pocket Pncushion Emery Bag In each
Twenty Gent box. (7I mwtSm
For sale by all respectable GrooeTa and DruggisA.
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as a matter Of pride, to be the author of the
national banking system. In regard to the
rings repeatedly expressed desire and deter
mination to have a higher tariff we apprehend
the tax-burdened people will have something
to say. There is now assessed and collected
on imported goods an ad valorem tax varying
from fifty-two to three hundred and twelve per
cent II the managers and lobbyists Of the
combined high tariff and Treasury rings think
the people will stand higher taxes than these
they will certainly find themselves mistaken.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-18

Reverdy johnson, according to the cable,
''ascribes the attacks upon him in the Ameri-
can newspapers and elsewhere to secret dis
like for the preservation Of peaceful relations
between the two countries" There are two or
three points here worthy passing notice. Mr..
Johnson is quite right in saying that there is q
dislike here to the preservation Of peaceful
relations between the two countries" quite
right in the implication that we would little
rather fight England than not and we are glad
that he has said this, for this is just what we
want England to know. Now let him go on
and tell the reason, and show his English hosts
that this feeling grows from the national con-
viction that England has treated us shabbily in
the Alabama business. Then he will have full
filed the object Of his mission. But If the
above is true, Mr.. Johnson, Of all men, should
have been the last to say So for il is an acknow-
ledgment that he has not properly represented
us at all In his amiable palaver. Let this toe
amiable Minister Of o disguised people come
home.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-18
American Sentiment In spain.

very remarkable feature in the popular in
surrections in Spain is the prevalence of good
feeling towards the United States. It appears
that in the midst Of the tumult in Cadiz cries
rang out in favor of America, showing the ten
dency of the public mind among the masses
towards institutions similar to ours. Then we
learn that the United States Consul in Cadiz
did much to stop the bloodshed by mounting
the barricade, wearing his consular uniform,
and displaying the American flag between the
insurgents and the government troops. The
effect, we are told, was a stay of hostilties,
thus making the Stars and Stripes act as flag
of truce. This is not the only instance in
which the influence of the United States is en-
phatically stamped upon the public sentiment
Of Europe. Mr.. Motley, in his address to the
Historical Society, which We published in full
in the HERALD yesterday, dwells upon this
fact very pointedly as having come within his
European experience.
1t is not surprising that the Spanish popu-
lace should echo the cry of Free America, y
because it was to our example in breaking the
links which bound this country to England
that the freedom Of the Spanish American
States is due. Following u.s. they also severed
their connection with the mother country, and
thus 1t il natural that every sentiment of free
dom in the Spanish race should be allied with
America
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Mr.. Motley ON Human Progress.

The address delivered before the New York
Historical Society on Wednesday evening last
by the Hon. J. Lothrop Motley was, we dare
say, the most comprehensive, brilliant, elo-
quent, compact and instructive discourse on
''human progress" that can be found in the
records of any historical society in existence
His general argument that through all the
vicissitudes Of the human family, even when
most disastrous and depressing, the cause of
human progress has never been arrested,
though bafled and delayed, is a conclusive
grouping of great historical facts and events,
the landmarks Of history, from the east to the
west, which lead us from the dim twilight of
tradition into the full blaze Of the nineteenth
century. From the same line Of landmarks he
shows as conclusively that the law Of human
progress is from petty independencies and
homogeneous considerations to great national
tiles, and from the so-caled divine rights of
kings and oligarchies to the paramount rights
Of the people. Coming down to our own
epoch, his estimate of the grand impulses in
both hemispheres given to human progress
from the triumph of the Union in our late civil
war is that of an en- thusiast who is also
historian and philosopher, whose demonstra-
tions take the place Of prophecy.
Here" says Mr.. Motley, ''are the chief
events thus far recorded in human progress,
as time, in its deliberate patience, was one
day 10 prove-speech, the alphabet, Mount
Sinai, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Nazareth, the
wandering Of the nations, the feudal sys-
TEN, Magma Charta, gunpowder, printing,
the Reformation, the mariners compass,
America" Next he takes up our gigantic
struggle with privilege as embodied in our
late Bouthern oligarchy, and says that "never
Ia human history has there been such battle
for such stake" and never such victory
for human progress. But here tho learned
historian, in branching of 10 ''thc fluid state
Of Europe" omits the filling up Of his Ameri-
can picture. He fails to tell MS that the great
agencies resulting in the overthrow of our late
Southern rebellion were, and the great land
marks Of modern progress are, common
schools, an independent press, the steam
engine and the electric telegraph. Through
these mighty nstrumentalities not only has the
barrier Of slavery been removed, and not only
have our Southern States been thrown open to
FREQ labor and Northern drveonnent hut The
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-18
The Era Of Complimentary Dinners.

Good dinners, a well filed stomach, wine in
abundance-three things necessary to make
small brains move to purpose. We have
dinners diplomatic and legal, dinners for would
be politicians, for art, science and literature;
dinners for the Japanese, for dance houses,
prize fighters, and, last and meanest, for Com
mon Councilmen. OF the diplomatic class we
have that given to Reverdy Johnson. John
Bull has caught Reverdy with his mouth open,
and has poked him so full Of dinners that
Reverdy's hide must shine like that of well
filed woodtick. But Reverdy cannot stand it
any longer. He cries for mercy, apologies
for the dinners he has stolen under false pre-
that he has never represented the American
people in his management Of the Alabama
claims. A member Of the bar retires from his
wranglings, and no matter IL he is entitled to
"Blair's Kentucky penknife," he must eat Tor
his friends, acting on the principle that "hand-
some is that handsome does" are determined
to ''do the handsome thing by him.
Then there are the literary dinners given 10
retiring members of the press. Greeley, ior
instance, when he drops his pen Tor cabinet
pudding must take the consequences and pre-
pare to be gorged. Dana, II ne goes 70 Eng
land, must make ready to be stuffed like
Christmas turkey by the hungry fraternity
whom be leaves behind him. An inventor gives
something to the world, and his friends immc-
diatelv load him up TO the bursting point. An
artist daubs a piece of canvas, and his admirers
reward him with dinner. OBaldwin, the
Irish Giant, and Wormald, his opponent, arc
caoh swollen with dinners by the lovers of tne
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highways and byways Of all the four CONT
nents and the islands of the sea are made
accessible to the over-populated nations Of
Europe, and to American enterprise, in filling
up the waste places of the earth. Such dis
course, however, as this of Mr.. Motley is one
OF those rare historical treats from which the
listener or the reader rises with clearer views
OF the past and brighter hopes for the future
OF the whole family of mankind
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senator Morton ON the Resumption
Specie Payments.


ana, intended to bring forward at an early
day his bill for the resumption of specie pay
ments. On Wednesday he introduced it in
the Senate with carefully prepared and
lengthy speech, and then had it referred to
the Committee on Finance. The speech is one
the Senate on the subject of the currency and
national finances since the war. The Senator
contemplates by his bill to fix the time for
resumption, and states that to be on the LIST
of July, 1871. He argues that fixing the time
must be the starting point Of any plan which
proposes to bring about resumption without
crash and disaster, and he thinks that two
years and half is long enough for the ac-
complshment of that object His plan is to
accumulate gold in the Treasury by stopping
all sales Of il by the Secretary, SO as to enable
the government at the time stated to redeem
the greenback currency with specie. He
says by stopping the sales of gold
there will be accumulated in the vaults
Of the Treasury at the end Of two
years, over and above the sums required
to pay the interest on the public debt, hun
dred and seventy millions of specie, and that
this will be sufficient to enable the govern
ment to redeem all the greenbacks in coin that
would be presented for redemption for he
maintains that as soon as it should be known
these notes are redeemable in specie, and
therefore at par with it, large amount would
be kept in circulation, as being more con.
venient currency than gold. He would, how
ever. extend the time for resumption ST,
months longer-that is, to January, lS72-tc
the national banks, but compelling the banks Il
hold in their vaults the same amount Of green
back reserves as now to redeem their notes
This, he holds, would make the process o
resumption gradual and prevent rush upol
the Treasury or the banks. Such Is, In brief
his plan for resuming specie payments.
This is undoubtedly the most feasible plar
OF any yet submitted to Congress by thu
resumptionsts. But the question arises here
is it practicable? Can we resume specie pay
ments within so short time or within an.
stated time by legislative enactment withou
producing crisis? If we look TO the teach.
ings Of history-particularly to the histor.
1 of England in the efforts made there Il
Z force specie payments from 1916, when peac
was restored, to 1S24-we shall understand tn
difficulties and danger of forced resumption
II took England over eight years after war wa
Q ended to reach specie payments. aud vet th
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

PIXIES OPERA HOUSE, corner OF Eighth avenue and
esd sircet-LEs BAvARDs-BARBE BLEUR.
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wALLACKiS THEATRE. Broadway and 18th street,
CAPTAIN or THE WATcH-WooDCocK's LITTLE GAME
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OLYMPIC THEATRE Broadway.-HUMPrY DuMrrY.
WITH NEW FEATURES.
BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.-THE EMKRALp
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FRENCH THEATRE Fourteenth street and Sixth av
nue.-GESEyIEvE DE BRABANT.
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NIBLo's GARDEN Broadway.-AFTER DARK Or, Los
nos NIGHT.
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NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.-TnE BuRLEsau
BArEE BLEUE.
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BowFRY THEATRE, Bowery.-MIss FANNY HERRIN
Al LysIAH, TUE JEwEss. &c.
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Providence smiles ON IN

We are glad to record that the news
from every quarter continues. to betoken
the reaping of large crops during the
year 1868. Cotton is always so precari-
Gus, and beset with 80 many .dangsses
from the seed to the reception of the cash
balances, that it is hard to predict any
thing respecting it but corn and such
ikuits as we have planted and in bearing.
will, this year, yield bountifuIly, beyond
anything we have enjoyed for years.
We could wish to hear of more diver
sified farming, pf more attention to wheat
and barley, live stock, and all the multi
tude of things which make home desira-
BILE and which tend to prevent emigration,
which store up a mans wealth and gains
upon his homestead, inducements to rear
there his children, and thence bury his
dead, and to learn him to regard it al.
most like saerilege to permit It to pass
into other hands.
This perhaps viii all come in due
time As men learn to cont;ne their ef-
forts to smaller tracts of ground, thew
will also learn to make each foot of ground
more productive, and to plant on it such
things as are either perennial in their
Yell. or which will the more continual
" minister to their sustenance and gra-
tifcation. ~.
Mobile has lately tried the experiment
of sending early vegetables and fruits to
Northern cities. We can all, who are
adjacent to water communication or rail-
roads, do the same. All we want is sys-
tenn and proper managers to be stationed
at all points of transfer and sale. On
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~ ! From the New York Ledger.
THE OLD RED. SLEIGH.
by MARY KYLE DALLAS.
aAImon Crair-halIo, there ~

EAlmon Craig-hallo, there %
7 stopped short. Jem Studley was
behind me, waving his fur-cap and as
nearly out Of breath as fellow with his
splendid lungs could be.
o "Are you walk ing for wager 7" he
asked, as he came up. ''You are strid-
ing as though you wore the seven league
boots. have been looking for you all
the morning. We are getting up a
sleighing party--will you 90 r.
Il. ""Yes,' I said. Yon might have coun-
tod On that before you asked me. Where
in it atf5 tF%st- #3
eve meet at Hulda Whipple's-at
her fathers 7 mean,"', said Jem, blush-
ing--for Hultla was his sweetheart
tsand we drive to the Red Farm, and
have our dance and supper there. As
usual, you invite whom you please to
share your sleigh. always providing it
is lady, and--But you'll meet with us
to talk il over tonight. At our home,
you 4know-sharp eight; and I'll not
detain9you here any longer, for you
seemed In d hurry" 5e. .
II was in haste, told him, and prom
ised to meet them and went my way.
It.was the same way that it had been
the short cut to the house where Hepsy
Harrqw lived. na
i had fashion Of going that way
about twilight, when the district school
was closed and she (the teacher) had
gone home for the evening. I never
staid long, but / went often--always
telling some little story as to how !: T
happened to pass, and thought I'd stop
and speak 70 her r. e s,s. .
,Anysotlser young fellow would have
owned to coming on purpose, and would
have spent more time with her and said
something more to the purpose than +
any one who liked Hepsy as well as 7
did. .,...s, I'D s,,I.'g
Liked l---that vas. cool word for it
/ zored her. II had loved her ever since
I saw her first coming through the gold-
en-grain fields;in hez, white dress; max
ing me think of Ruth amongthe reapers
because she looked 50 like d picture paint
ed By some great artist, that had once
seen, which illustrated the beautiful
story-so like the Ruth in that picture,
only prettier. / did not know it was
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T The immigration into Southern
Kansas is very large. and he people say
their railroad enterprise is the cause II
it. The Loudon Times once sail thai
in Europe the railroad followed the turn
pike, but that in America matters were
reversed, and that there the turnpike, if
it ever came at all, would generally have
to follow the railroad The first thing
to be done in these times, for A country
which has natural resources, is to run a
railroad through it; the people who are
looking out fer homes will take care Of
everything else, not forgetting to return
the railroad company a large profit on
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thes Illinois Central Railroad therpsare
fruit trains which run through, without
break or transfer, to the tart!lrst cities oi
the North and East.
We can have he same on our ra alroads.
and our steamboats, can at Nirksburg,
Memphis and Cairo, connect with rna S
so as to cause very little detention at
such points. There is no reason vhv
Lou's1ana's peas, potatoes, and other ear
ly spring vegetables, sl"uId not be pIa"rti
on the markets Of New York from two
to three months earlier than t|t :, can
get them from their own n~igIhvlI.osri
Providence Smiles on us. Let Us .,
to work under such encoararrmtnt, auI
make ourselves first, independent, then
rich, within The precincts of orr own
home, and then of our abundance feed
the ice bound North fer hail the yelr.
bearing home wiki US the tribute we
wele wont to pay into its treaSnry.-
Pirur4&c.
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y
UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE, :
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THE VICAR.

Some years ago, ere Time and Taste
Had turned our parish topsy-turvy,
When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste
And roads as little known as scurvy,
The man who lost his way between
St. Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket,
Was always shown across the green
And guided to the Parsons wicket.
IN rose the Reverend Doctor Brown,
Ct Up rose the Doctors" winsome marrow
The lady laid her knitting down,
Her husband clasped his ponderous barrow.
What'er the strangers caste, or creed,
Pundit or papist, saint or sinner,
lie found stable for his steed
And welcome for himself, and dinner.
: The Doctor was sound divine, "
OF loud dissent the mortal terror;
And when by dint Of page and line
He Established truth, or startled error,
The Baptist found him Tar too deep;
The Deist sighed with saving sorrow,
And the lean Levits went to sleep
And dreamt of eating pork tomorrow.
His sermon never said or showed
That earth is foul, that Heaven is gracious,
Without refreshments on the road
From Jerome or from Athanasius;
And sure a righteous zeal inspired
The hand and head that pinned and planned
ss them; - jsss.1-. zS
For all who understood, admired,
And some who did not understand them
He always had a tale for me
OF Julius Cesar or of Venus:
From him learned the rule of three.
Cats cradle, leap frog, and Gue genus;
! used to singe his powdered wig
TO steal the staff he put such trust in,
And make the puppy dance a jig.
When he began to quote Augustine.
And he was kind and loved to sit
In the low hut or garnshed cottage
And praise the farmers homely wit
And share the widows homeer pottage.
At his approach complaint grew mild
And when his hand unbarred the shutter
The clammy lips fever smiled
The welcome that they could not utter.
Alaek the change In vain look
For haunts in which my boyhood trilel;
The level lawn. the tricklng brook,
The trees climbed, the beds riaed.
The church is larger than before,
You reach it by carriage entry;
1t holds three hundred people more
And pews are fitted for the gentry.
Sit in the Wears seat You'll hear
The doctrine of gentle Johnian .-o
Whose hand is white, whose voice is clear,
Whose tone is very Ciceronian
Where ia the old man laid Look down
And construe on the slab before you
!. Hic jacet Gulielmus Brown.
Rir nnila non donandus laura
IVA %ts& PRAED.
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JAMES WI. PORTER.

A I 70 RNEY AT LAW,
Office 5n Opelousas, near the Courthouse,
VIII practice in the Courts of the 9Th Judi.
cial district, comprising the Parishes of St
Landry, Calcasieu, Lafayette and Vermiliou.
Opelousas, Nov 23, 1867.
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TEsOM AS I'LL. LEWIS.

TORNEY AT LAW,
Will practice his profession in the Parishes
of st. Landry and Calcasieu.
Office with Col. Jas. NJ. Porter, in Opelou
SaS. Nov0.{,S7
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'o1i'Ah NJ MooRE. JOHN J. MORGAN.
MOORE 81 MORGAN,
/ 0 r n T. Us AT LAW,
opelousas, la.

Have formed partnership, and will prac-
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Coupec. |Noy2367.