The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-08-12
A Child Wonder Strange Episode
in a Ball Room.
FOOTBALLS ON THE BOUNDARIES OF ANOTHER
WORLD.
TFrom the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner.


WORLD.
[From the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner.
The company at the ball given at the
Court House by the Nashville Base Ball
Club were somewhat startled by most
extraordinary and singular occurrence
Anna Daisy, apparently thirteen years of
age, had made her appearance without an
escort. She had danced every set, and had
partaken freely of all the refreshments Civ
en- her up to eleven o'clock, when, over
heated and looking very pale, she
ran to the nearest seat and sat down.
Here she pressed her hands to her fore
head and leaned forward as though she
were about to faint. Her singular conduct
having attracted the attention of young
man who sat beside her, he at once has
tened for water and fans, with hope of
speedily relieving her from her precarious
situation. All the simple remedies that
could be thought of or recommended were
used without avail. She sank into kind
of stupor from which it was thought she
would never awake. Her respiration was
sions. She was laid ont upon some chairs
and seemed without the power of moving
either limbs or body. Her eyes all the
while being wide open, all believed her in a
trance. DR.. Menes was summoned and
administered several restoratives, which
seemed partially to relieve her from the
stupor, but not from the hysterical condi-
ton into which she had fallen. Her coun-
tenance then assumed lively appearance,
and she commenced bending the fore finger
of her right hand soon after, and most
gracefully, raising her hand, pointed it to-
ward Heaven and said, Mother" She
next let her hand fall upon her breast, and
for moment her .countenance wore an ex-
preston of deep melancholy. There issued
from her lips most beautiful and eloquent
prayer, the language of which was select
and appropriate, insomuch that all were
astonished. She next repeated great
number of verses, and where her memory
lacked she supplied with remarkable de-
gree of aptitude. After this, she told a
story, following out the thread and closing
it in beautiful language.
All her remarks We're seemingly address
ed to her mother, though dead, yet living
in the memory of her child. She sang a
song, ~ am dying" with SO much pathos
that every eye was filed with tears. All
this time DIR. Menes had tried in vain to
attract her attention.
She awoke at quarter to one, and said
she would again enter the same state when
one clock should come, which was veri-
fed. She continued in this condition,
which was not so severe as before, for an
hour, when she awoke and became eXtrem-
ly lively and vivaclous in conversation. She
resumed the floor and danced until late in
the morning.
She is represented as being very pretty
and intelligent for one of her age. Her
mother died some time since, leaving her
with her father, and three brothers, the first
of whom seems to care little about, and the
last three to abuse and crually and brutality
beat her.
One of her brothers is now in the work
house, having been sent there for seventy
two days, for violent treatment of her,
While she is cruelty beaten, she is also
starved for days. Her appetite at the ball
room is said to be most ravenous, and she
is said to have eaten much more than three
healthy persons ought to have done with
out suffering arrangement of the system.
the most absured Of all the absused claims
Radical orators and Radical editors are
just now setting up, is the allegation that
the soldiers are going to vote for Gen
Grant. That bubble has often times been
collapsed by the soldiers themselves
the point was well taken by Governor
Perry. of South Carolina, in his 4th street
speech, when he said:
"FELLow- CITIZENS: do not believe in
the military glory which is said to belong
to the chief of the Radical party. do not
believe that their leader, who sacrificed
hundred thousand aen in Virginia in
marching to point to which General
Mcclellan marched without the loss of q
man; say do not believe in such man.
Cheers and applause.] General Grant
threw his men against the veterans of Cen
eral Lee, it would seem merely to have
them slaughtered I, and, gentlemen, / can
not believe that the brothers and fathers
and kindred of this man can feel any en-
thusiasm towards the party which chose
such general. And; gentlemen, further,
when your soldiers were captured by the
Confederates, and when the Confederates
were so poor that they could not furnish
CEelT own OF your SOiulers WIN 1000 Sucn
as they ought to have, they applied to
General Grant and to the United States
Government to exchange prisoners, and
what was the response Of all these solicita-
lions on the part of the Confederate Gov
ernment? we can't exchange. Because
if we exchange the prisoners we will be re-
turning Confederate soldiers to fight us
again. And although our own soldiers
are left to p IRISH in Southern prisons, there
they must perish and die for their country's
sake Now, gentleman, do not believe
that the friendsssnd kindred Of these SOL
diers who persisted in the South can have
very great inducement In elevating General
Grant to the Presidency"
The Governor is right. The Soldiers
Convention, recently sitting at the Cooper
Institute, representing army and navy, are
pledged to vote, not for Grant, but Horatio
Seymour; not for Schuyler Colfax, of Indi:.
ana, but General Frank P. Blair, Of Mis-
souri.-[New York Express.
FOOTPRINTS ON THE SAND-EOvEL
MODE OF CATCHING A THIEF.-About
three weeks ago, Clark Mills, Esq, the emf.
nent sculptor, had stolen from his studio
pieces of copper castings which were por-
tiOns of a statue which he ia now enDared