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Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

WOMAN AND MARRIAGE.-I have
speculated great deal on matrimony.
have seen young andbeautiful women,
the pride of gay circles, married, as the
world says, well. Some have moved
into their costly houses, and their
friends have ALI come and looked at their
furniture and their splendid home for
happiness, and have gone away and
committed themselves to their sunny
hopes cheerfully and without fear.
1t is natural to be sanguine for them,
as the young are carried away with SINH
lar feelings. love to get unobserved
into a corner, and watch the bride in her
white attire, and, with her smiling face
and soft eye meeting me in the pride of
life, weave a waking dream Of future
happiness, and persuade myself that it
it will be true.
think how they will sit upon the
luxurious sofa as the twilight falls, and
build gay hopes and murmur in low
tones the not now forbidden tenderness;
how thrilling the allowed kiss and beau
tifuI endearments of welded life will
make even their parting joyous and how
gladly they will come back from the
crowded and empty mirth of the gay to
each otber's:company.
Ipicture to myself that young crea-
ture who bushes even now at his hest
tating caress, listening eagerly for his
footsteps as night steals on, wishing he
would come, and when he enters at last
with an affection as undying as his pulse,
folds her to his bosom, / can feel the
tide that goes flowing through the heart.
and gaze on tthe graceful form as she
moves about for the kind offices of af-
lection, smoothing all his unquiet cares
and making him forget even himself in
her young and unshadowed beauty.
l go forward for years and see her
luxuriant hair put soberly away from
her brow; and her girlish graces resigned
into dignity and lovliness, chastened
with the gentle meskness of maternal
affection. Her husband looks ON her
with a proud eye, and shows the same
fervent love and delicate attentions
which first won her; aud her fair child
rem are grown up about them, and tthey
60 on full of honor and untroubled years,
and are remembered swhen they die
Irving.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

QUEENs.-William the Conqueror died
from enormous fat, from drink, from
the violence of his passions, and Injuries
received from the falling of his horse.
William Rufus died the death of the
poor stays that he hunted.
Henry the First died of gluttony.
Stephen died a natural death.
Henry the Second died of n broken
heart, occasioned by the disobedie2 nee.
ingratitude, and rebellion of his child
rem.
Richard the First, C9ur de Lion,
died like the animal from which his
heart was named, by the arrow from the
bow of an archer.
John is said to have died from the
effects of poison and increasing troubles.
Henry the Third is said to have died
a natural death.
Edward the First died OF a natural
sickness" att an advanced age.
Edward the second WAS most bar
barously and indecently murdered by
ruffians employed by his own mother
and her paramount.
Edward the Third died of old age,
andhis grandson, Richard the Second,
of starvation.
Henry the Fourth died from excessive
care and anxieoy.
Henry the Fifth is said to have died
of fistula.
Henry the Sixth died in prison by
means then known only to his jailor,
and known now only to Heaven.
Edward the Fourth died from the eff
fects of his many excesses.
Edward the Fifth was strangled in
the tower by order of his uncle, Rich
ard the Third.
Richard the Third was killed in bat
tie.
Henry the Seventh wasted away as a
miser ought to do.
Henry the Eighth died of carbuncles,
fat aud fury, while his son and snc-
cessor, Edward the Sixth, died of a de-
cline.
Queen Mary is said to have died of a
broken heart, whereas she died of a sur
felt from eating too many black pud-
dings. os ID.
Queen Elizabeth is said to have died
of drunkenness.
James the First died of drinking, and
the effects of vice.
Charles the First died on the scaffold,
and Charles the Second died suddenly,
it is said, of apoplexy.
James the Second died in exile.
William the Third died from consump-
tive habits of the body, and from the
stumbling of his horse.
Queen Anne died from her attachment
to "strOng water" or in other words
from drunkenness, which the ply sicians
politely called dropsy.
George the First died of drunkenness,
which his physicians also called an apo
plectic fit.
George the Second died of a rupture
of the heart, which the periodicals of
that day called visitation of God.
George the Third died as he lived-a
mailman. Throughout hts life he was
at least consistent monarch.
George the Fourth died of gluttony
and drunkenness.
William the Fourth died amid the
| sympathies of his friends.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

EFFICAY OF ONIoNs.-People are
often troubled with severe coughs, the
result of colds of long standing, which
may turn to consumption or premature
death. Hard coughs cause sleepless
nights by constant irritation of the
throat, and strong effort to throw off
the offensive matter from the lungs.
The remedy we propose has been tried
with great results, which is simply to
take into the stomach before retiring for
the night piece of raw onion, after
chewing. This esculent in an uncooked
state is very heating, and collects the
water in the lungs, causing immedi-
ate relief. Let the afflicted try it.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

The newspapers ola town are its life's
blood. Without them it cannot pros
per. The better they are supported at
home the more powerful will be their
influence. In young cities, struggling,
as are those along the Missouri, for mu-
nicipal supremacy, the daily papers
have done more and and are dong more,
to aid in building up the towns in which
they are published, and to increase their
business, than all the merchants to-
gether. To the merchants they are in
dispensable, as those who have made
use OF them as medium through which
to reach the public we'll know. And
they contribute largely to the prosperity
of every citizen, for their influence is
felt in thousand ways, and exerted in a
Thousand different directions.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28
NATCHITOCHES, La, MAY % 1868.

Under him acted as commanders of di-
visions, Sir Chas. Steevely and Colonel
Malcolm, while Col. Merewether com
manded the Cavalry. The distance
from Massawah, the landing place of
the troops, to Magdala, the capital of
Theodore, is about three hundred miles.
The English had to overcome great
difficulties, but they have overcome
them with remarkable energy. King
Theodore gradually retired before the
English without risking a battle until
he reached his capital. Then he made
a stand and fought bravely for his
crown, but IN vain; he was defeated, the
capital captured, and the King himself
slain. King Theodore was, on the whole,
the greatest ruler Abyssinia ever had;
even according to English accounts, he
exce,led in all manly pursuits, and his
general manner was polite and engaging.
Had he avoided this foolish quarrel with
England, and proceeded on the way OF
reform which he entered upon in the
beginning of his reign, he would proba-
bly, have played an important part in
the political regeneration of Eastern
Africa.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

GENIUS AND INsANITY.-Some one
has said that every man is insane on
some point, and that the question as to
what constitutes madness depends on
the majority. However this may be, it
is certain that many eminent men have
been insane. Blaise Pascal, the famous
French astronomer and mathematician,
was so melancholy that at one time he
deemed it a sin to look upon beautiful
land -seape. Barton was victim of de.
jected spirits and disordered fancies for
years, and wrote the ANATOMY of melan-
choly,' to relieve the tedium of life.
Collins, the poet, was wretched, and in
the decline of life used to frequent the
Chichester Cathedral, and accompany
the organ with sobs and groans. The
horrible state of DR.. johnson and Cow
per is known to all. Smart was at one
time confined in a madhouse and III
prison. CrudeQ, the author of the Con-
cordance, completed it during insanity.
The wife of Southey, herself an
authoress, became insane and the old
poet, overtaxed with study and weighed
down with sorrow, then received a
shock from which he never recovered.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

A COOP ADvERTISEMENT.- West
ern paper states that there is a mer.
chant in the town in which the paper is
printed, who, whenever n man buys a
good bill of goods from him, makes the
purchaser apresent of the village paper,
in which he advertises, for one year, and
thus he manages to keep the customer
constantly reminded of his business
and he will never forget such a present
Should that man give his customers five
dollars in greenbacks or in goods, il
might soon be forgotten; but when he is
once a week, for fifty-two weeks, placed
in receipt of his friends bounty, car
any one doubt its being good way tC
ADVERTISED This is worthy of imitation
by business men.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

Mrs. NJ. E. Joyslyn Gage writes to
the Revolution that the cotton gin, one
of the greatest inventions ever made,
was originated by Mrs. Greene, wife of
General Greene of revolutionary fame.
After the revolution, the family moved
to the neighborhood of Savannah,
where General Greene died, leaving his
widow and FIVE children in comparative
poverty. Eli Whitney went to board
in Mrs Greene's house as law stu
dent; and the first cotton gin was made
by him in that house, under Mrs.
Greene's supervision, and entirely IN
accordance with the idea which she ex-
planned to him before the work was
commenced. Mrs. Greene afterwards
married. a man named Muller as her
second husband, and he became Whit
ney's partner in the manufacture OF
gins, after the invention was completed
and had proved successful in practice.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28
STRANGE STORY FROM CHARLESTON.


pondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, tells
the following inhis last letter:
A South Carolinian of unquestioned
personal honor and of the best standing
at home, has been telling one of the
managers of impeachment q curious
story. 1t seems scarcely credible, yet
witnesses are named and dates given
with a minuteness that warrants its
repetition.
In the winter of 1s60-61, before Maj.
Anderson had left Fort Moultrie for
Sumpter-the story runS-a small boat
one night approached the landing before
the gate of Monltrie, and was hailed by
the sentry. The gentleman in the boat
sent word to the commandant of the
fort that he was the bearer of q mes
sage from the President of the United
States. 1t was after midnight, and Maj.
Anderson on being aroused to receive
the message, sent word he would see
the gentleman in the morning. In a few
moments the puzzled sentry returned.
The gentleman said that he was instruct
ed by the President of the United States
to deliver certain message; that his
Instructions required him to deliver it
forthwith; that he had used all posi- BILE
dispatch in presenting himself, and that
he must insist on being received with
out delay. - III
Thereupon Maj. Anderson hastily
dressed himself, and ordered his untime-
ly and pertinacious visitor to be admit
ted. The gentleman proved to be an
officer holding responsible position in
the civil service of the government in
South Carolina. He presented q COM
munication addressed to the command
ing officer in Charleston harbor, aud
on Il M
the United States. 1t required him to
deliver, on receipt of the order, fifty
cases of rif1ed arms, then i'm his posses
sion, to the civil authorities of the State
of South Carolina. al9l1 ~
Maj. Anderson demonstrated. The
| bearer of the order persisted. .There
is the handwriting" he said, "of your
commander-in-ch / insist upon an
obedience to it's requirements" Or, il
the Major were unwilling to obey, he
insisted upon an explicit statement to
that effect. s9q
Thus pressed, the well-intentioned
officer, the story goes on, saw no escape
| from obedience, and an order for the
guns was signed. These we're the guns,
the South Carolinian adds, with which
sharp-shooters afterwards picked of
! Federal soldiers at the embrasureS of
Sumpter, while the Condolences re-
duced the fort.
1.-THE question arises" said the mana
ger who told me the story, whether
the order thus presented was p forgery.
| | If nut, ttiiten / hold we ought yet to try
and hang James Buchanan" For my
self / confess that the VIII ole thing wears
a mythical look, but the people who tell
| it are men whose words cannot be ques-
toned, and it can do no harm to ask
whether any body else knows anything
about the sending or the delivery OF
such an extraordinary order shortly
after the transfer of Anderson's garri-
son from Moultrie to Sumpter.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

A correspondent of the Bangor,
(Maine) Wing says that in Orland there
is family consisting of, four persons,
viz: A Miss in her teens, her mother,
her mothers mother, her mothers
mothers mother. Thus there are three
mothers and their three daughters, OF
three daughters aud their three mo-
theirs, and only four persons in all.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE CHURCH,
1t is said the reason assigned for the
refusal of Queen Victoria to consent to
the Ciisestablishment of the Irish Church,
is that she entertains conscientious scru-
pies in regard to violating the oath she
took at her coronation, to preserve the
Established Church within her realm.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

During the recent season" at Sara
toga, a little knot of ladies, seated in
tho parlor of Leland's Hotel, were dis
GUESSING the subject of marriage. One
of the party, a single young lady. said:
matches are made in heaven" VERY
lady, her friend, land they are often
dipped in the other place."
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

A gentleman who had been Justice
of the Peace for thirty five years, was
not allowed to register in the estate of
West Virginia" because ne purchased
a horse named StOnewall jackson. The
registrar remarking that he'd be Id if
any ''trooly loil'' man would own a horse
by that name.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

SHE BROUGHT IT.--An Irish girl in
the employ of one of our first families
was sent by the lady of the house one
day last week to dry goods store, with
Instructions to bring home bed COM
forter. She returned, after q short ahs
senee, with one Of the clerks.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28
Jones went to the depot of one of oul

Jones went to the depot of one of our
railways the other evening, and finding
the best car full, said in loud tone:
''This car isn't going!" OF course
these words caused a general stampede,
and Jones took the best seat. The cars
soon moved of. In the midst of the
Indignation, Jones was questioned: lyon
said this car wasn't goingq" 'tWell, it
wasn't then; it is now"
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

SIX HUNDRED A MINUTE.-A print
ing press has been invented by NJ
Marrinoni, and is in use in Paris, that
makes SIX hundred Impressions q min
ute. Four of these presses are at work
in the office of the Petit Journal, strik-
ing off IA, 900 copies an hour. The
entire daily issue of that paper is 446,-
600.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28
nR al w oUARLEs

Having permanently located in Nat chi tdn
offers his professional services to the town
and surrounding country. With more than thlrty
wears experience, he feels qualified TO give saLs
faction, aud will give prompt Afternoon 10 all ei'7
both day and night. c.o.o II.
He can be found at DR.. Breda's Drug store du-
fling the day, aud at night at the former residence
of Mrs. Dassize Bossier, on Washington street
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

The crops are looking remarkably fine,
and the accounts that reach us from all
parts OF the State are, that the freed
men are working better than they have
at any period since the close of the war.
II Teras Republican.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

Affected young lady, seated in q rock
ingchair, reading the bible, exelaiming;
."Mother, here is grammatical error in
the bible'' Mother, lowering her specta
cles, and approaching the readerin very
scrutinizing attitude, says: kill i'll kill it,
it's the very thing that has been eating
the leaves and bOokmarks.'
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

1t is reported that a manufacturer in
New York city has an order for 200, 900
thimbles at Is cents "a dozen for a "gift
enterprise" tickets 80 cents, and no
blanks
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

The recollection of kindness is like
the perfume of a violet after some heavy
foot has crushed the flower, or the fra
GRANGE that fingers when the roses are
dead.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28
ahe Natrbitofbes 5peftator:
r e r N s :

THE SPECTATOR will be issued every Thursday
Morning Subscription price-$5 per annum,
SO for six months, IN ADVANCE.
ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the rate
of 81 SO per square, for the first and 20 cents
for each subsequent insertion. Eight lines, or
less, constitute one square:
Cards occupying the space of one square, $50
Liberal deductions from the above rates made
in favor of those who advertise more extensively
by the year, or for shorter period.
Marriage and Obituary notices exceeding four
Ines in length. and all others published for the
benefit of private parties, will be charged as
advertisements W8
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

Iowa has three lady editors named
respectively Money, Read and Harris
horn-wealthy, literary, pnngent.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

A Western paper says that an indian
rubber omnibus is about to be invented,
which, when cram full, will hold couple
more. .
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

A farm, It'll said, can be bought in
South Carolina for the price of q spring
overcoat in Philadelphia. uH
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

A lady in Missouri, not long ago,
wishing to build fire and having no
andirons, used a pair of bombshelis,
relics of the war, for the purpose. The
shells were loaded, and one of them
exploded, when the young lady, who
was somewhat injured, declared che
maght have expected it, as it was Friday.
She has resolved never TO use bomb
shells for andirons on Friday again.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

The Great Pacific. Railroad will cost,
when finished, over S82,000,000. The
road is 1 100 miles in length and the
cost per mile-track, equipment and sta
tions-is 5000. The company owns
IA, OOO, 600 acres of land along the route.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

The latest census of France shows an
aggregate population of 81 1856, S13 per-
sons, the numbers of the sexes being
almost exactly equal.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

It is stated that the whole amount OF
grain raised in New England each year
would not supply its inhabitants with
food for six weeks. aHfat 51G
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

Copy ola sign OH an academy out west:
Fireman y Huggs: Freeman teaches
the boys and Huggs the girls.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

Since trees have been planted in
Egypt, they are beginning to have rain.
A. country will produce more food II
one-fourth is covered with forest than II
the whole is cultivated.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

Not single divorce, it is stated, has
ever been granted in South Carolina
since its settlement. The new Consti-
tuition, however, contains section pro
viding for the legal separation of dis
satisfied husbands and wives. What
ever may be said about South Carolina's
notification policy, she never nuilified
the sacred relations of man and wife.
That is the work of the Union savers
and the '.trooly loil."
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

A lady correspondent of the Milwau-
kee Sentinel, who, writing under a nom
de plume, had attracted considerable at
tention, receiving 9 note from a gentle
man admirer, recently, in which the
writer states that 8 lady who could put
such beautiful thoughts on paper must
be equally gifted in person, ETC., and
wanted to meet her by moon light alone,
to which she wrote a consent. She came
to the rendezvous yelled; they walked,
he talked, he made love, finally gained
consent to take little kiss, the veil was
raised for the purpose, and the stricken
gentleman gazed upon the comedy fea
lures of his own wife.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

An exchange says: There Is some
thing sweet about little girls And 1t
grows OIL 'eni as they grow bigger-N
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

The greatest truths are the simplest
so are the greatest men and women.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28

If Won are looking at a picture you
try to give il the advantage of a good
light. Be so courteous to your fellow
creatures as You are 70 picture.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-05-28
prnfessional Card

- - Professional Card.
uihe undersigned has the pleasure OF informing
The Pnblic, in general, that he is still engaged
in the practice Of his Profession in all its branches
Special attention paid to Chronic Diseases
confidential affections, &C., &c.
Office at Dr.J. P. Breda's residence, aoou' on'-
half mile above the town OF Natchitocnes'
~'lSu'''-'D A. P. BREDA, NJ. D.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-12-01
SpstiaI, 4Ott~s,
PAIN KILLER.


All interested, please read the following Ntrpt
rom Il letter from Mrs. Ellen II. Mason, wife OF
Raw. Francis Mason. Tounghoo, Birmah:
NV sou was taken violently sick with
dptheria cold chils, burning fever, aud sore
throat. | counted one morning ten little vesicles
in hi, throat, very white, and his tongue, towards
the root. just like watermelon, full OF seeds {;
the remainder coated as thick as knile-bade.
So many children have died around here, | was
afraid to call physician, and thought | would
try your Pain Killer for gargle, with small
doses nwarllv. | did so, and Ionrd the gargle in
variably cut on the vesicles and he raised them
up, covered with blood lie was taken ON Sum
day; on We lnesdav his throat was clear, and his
tongue IA idlv,clcaring Of. Z also used it as n
linment with castor oil ami hdrtshorn, for his
neck Il seemed To mon wonderful cure. and |
can but with it could hp known to the many poor
mothers ir our land who are losing 50 many chill
dren by this dreadful disease.
have lound your Pain Killer one Of the most
valuable medicines ever used in Burmuh. Once
| was stung 10y very large black scorpion; the
pain was indtscribahc. Immediately applied
the Pain Killer, Ont ! never travel without =,
again aud again. AMI in hilfan hour my foot was
well. 3':2m