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Lock HAVEN, Pa.
LIPPISCoTr & BAKEvELL, Pittsburg, Pa.
GENTs:-We have been using your make
of Gang Saws in our Mill, and find them, in
point of quality, superior to amy we have
ever used. Yours. &C.
SHAW, BLANCHARD & co.
ORIN SHAv Foreman
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MaChinervI

TNHE BLBERTSON & DOUGLAS Ma
CHINE CO., New London, Conn, manu-
facturcrs of Steam Engines Boilers, Circu-
lar Saw Mills, Cotton Gin Materials, and
every description of Mill and Plantation
Machinery. Have had thirty years expert
ence in the Southern trade and can refer to
every Cotton Gin manufacturer at the
South doing business before the war Cir
culars sent to any address
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Early Rose Potato

GALESMEN WANTED by manufactur-
y ing company travel and sell by sam
pie a new line of goods. Situation perman-
ent: wages good II. ii. RICHARDS & Co., 4l3
Chestnut St, Philadelphia. Pa.
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GEORGE WARREN, Editor.
GEN. ELr II. MURRAY has been nom

GEN. EIr H. MURRAY has been nomi- /
mated by the President as United States +
Mirshail for the District Of Kentucky. /
GrS. LoxasrREET has been confirmed
Surveyor OF the port of New Orleans /.
ty vote of - to 10. The majority OF
thoso opposed to him lodged the vote.
GzS. II. II. HoBsoS has been appoint
ed Internal Revenue Collector for the
Z Epurth Kentucky District, in place of
vR. Beckiey.
A BILL is now before the Arkansas
Senate prohibiting the sale Of intoxicat
ing liquors in quantities less than five
gallous, except upon the prescription OF
physician
THE friends of Hon. Pierre Soule
have written TO DR.. Chipley. Superin
tcndent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum,
at Lexington, TO engage apartments Tor
Mt Soule in the asylum.
The order discontinuing the Depart
mcnt of the Cumberland has been re-
yoked by direction of the President and,
sSsst.-f - t.-etcoFysSzG GsOLs- aSssess--@
to the command when relinquishcd by
Major Gen. Thomas.
THE Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas
reconstruction bills in Congress, are to
be delayed until next December, the
States in the meantime will remain under
the control of military commanders
TIRE President has at last decided to
sign the civil tenure bill. He Informed
Senators that this bill was not what lie
wanted, but that it was an improvement
GU tie old law, and lac believed that the
Senate and himself could getalong under
il without much trouble.
lN spite OF all the statements to the
contrary, reports from Japan show that
the persecution of Christians goes on in
some parts of that country with great
rigor Late letters state that on the GotC
Islands hundreds of Christians have beer
imprisoned and tortured, and many dy
ing after great suffering.
Miss E. j. KETcHAM, of Philadel
phia, has been appointed to clerkshiI
in the Treasury Department. Mis-
kctcham is the first colored woman ap
pointed to clerkship in any Of the de
Partments by the new administration.
L
private advices from London that tn
English government has consented t
recognize the Cuban insurgents as bel
ligerents, and allow the purchase of wa
material in British ports. 1t is believe
that FRANCE will follow the English ex
ample.
y PIECE of silver money, about th
size of a Mexican quarter Of a dollal
was found near Plymouth, North Care
lima, last week, by color Gman neme
John Beaseley, bearidg z of s629;
This coin was dug up frofnSi.
eighteen inches under tlna(
coin is over f,2O0 years
ia the money line,
- ,I-oa.l-- r--ssisl1-sss- - - Z s''slli,
curiosity socfetv
TnE fouo-s eleet= prove the
ments have bet fasten thr
s.-o-.1,- %
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alew Aarertistments.


CONTAINING important Physiological
information to young men contemplate
ing Marriage, sent free on receipt of % cts.
Address the Chemical Institute, 40 Clinton
Place, New York.
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7 late la,neuted King Of Siam left
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oR1N SHAW, Foreman
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Castings.

Three tons Castings, assorted for sale, by
4 j. FL. REYNOLDS,
81 Texas street, Shreveport
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Grocer r. Bakers
HIGHESTs PREMIUM
ELASTIC STITCH
Family Sewing Machines
POINTS OF EXCELLENCE.

POINTS OF EXCELLENCE.
Deauty and Elasticity of stitch.
ID Perfection and simplieit, III machinery.
Using both threads directly from the
spools.
No fastening of seams by hand and waste
of thread.
Wide range Of application without change
of adjustment.
The seams retains its beauty and frmness
after washing and ironing.
Besides doing all kinds of work done by
other Sewing Machines, these Machines exc
cute the most beautiful and permanent EN-.
broidiery and ornamental work
~ The highest premiums at all the fairs
and exhibitions of the United States and
Europe have been awarded the GROVER g.
BAKER Sewing Machines, and the work
done by them, wherever exhibited in cOmpe-
tition.
Eg The very highest prize, The Cross OF
the Legion of Honor, was conferred on the
representative of the GROVER 81 BAKER
SEWING MACHINES, at the Exposition
Universelle, Paris, 1867, thus attesting their
great superiority over all other Sewing
Machines.
Salesrooms, 1872 Canal Street, New Or
leans. feb 20, ems
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English Railroads.

Thepower of Parliament over
railways, writes an American
in England, is indicated by the
exquisite manner in which they
are run. They are built very
extravagantly and yield moth
ineyto stockholders. The Or
binary way stations look like
lodges to a country gentle
mans dwelling, and the sta
tons in the city are more ele-
can't than the palaces Of her
Majesty. 1t is a felony to cross
a track at a station. If you
want to reach a train on the
other side, you must either go
over the bridge or under the
track. Officials in uniform
guard the gate, and no one is
allowed to enter the cars with
out a ticket. For a person to
ride in q frst-clasS ear who has
q seceed class ticket is a fraud
punishable by fine and impris-
onment. The switches are call
ed points. These are carefully
guarded. A room elevated on
tall posts, completely walled
With glass, is assigned to the
handles of the switches. In a
comfortable room, carpeted,
and in the winter warmed and
well lighted, the man who tends
the points has his position. he
can see in every direction, and
there is no excuse if he does
not attend to his business. Ele-
giant eating rooms are connect
ed with the station, and rea-
Sonable charges are required by
the authorities. The trains come
in one side and go out the 9th
er. Baggage is never checked
The traveller must see his bag
gage on the van, and if it is
taken off at the wrong station,
which seldom happens, he has
no redress. A broad paved
road is found in every station
where the cabs stand in a line
There is no noise, confusion OF
solicitation on the part of the
cabmen. On your arrival the
policeman asks you wether yor
will have a cab or a hansom.-
The first cab in the line takes
your baggage, and the rate il
fixed by law for the distance
you ride. For a first-class coacf
on the line the fare is probably
higher than in any other city
in the world. The guards arr
in uniform, and are usual,
very civil. If you are travelling
800 to 400 miles, a shilling tt
the guard is a good assessment
The law requires that ever,
line in the kingdom shall rul
what ia called a Parliamentary,
train once each way. This trail
runs at inconvenient hours ant
stops at every station. 1t cor
responds to our emigrant train
No one takes it who can hell
it.
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The tide of emigration is
settleing West ward. Thirty
seven thousand dollars worth
ofKansas Pacific Railroad lands
were sold by the National Land
Company in the month of
April. The lands were sold
to actual settlers, mostly in
tracts of from forty to one
hundred and sixty acres, aver
aging about three dollars per
acre. The emigration to the
line of the Kansas Pacific road
is greater than ever before
Colonies from all parts of the
country are forming and NOV
ing on these lands. One hun
dred and fifty families from
Northern Ohio went up during
the past month and settled
near Bavaria, in Saline county,
and many more from the same
region are expected.
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The Confederate monument
at Cynthiana, Kentucky, il
said to be quite a work of art
1t is twenty-five feet in height
and rests on a granite pedestal
On the north side, in bass-re.
lief, are the emblematic pal.
metto branch and laurel sprig,
above q group of guns, swords,
drums and standards. The
monument is surmOunted with
q Confederate flag, beneath the
folds OF which are disclosed the
stars and bars. The monument
was made in Italy and cost
S225O.
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The New York Farmers
Club, in answer to an inquiry
says: "There are now five
English steam plows running
in this country, one in Ken
lucky, one in Texas, and three
in Louisiana. They cost about
$4,000, and give great salts
faction, as they do the work
of twenty or thirty horses, with
the labor of two or three at
tendants. In England there
are two thousand of these
plows, and in Egypt four hun
dred. They run a gang of from
three to six plows, and pulver-
ize as deep as fourteen inches
They can 60 much deeper il
the farmer wishes. Two OF
three inventors are working
out the Yankee steam pillow
One proposes to build, fol
about $4,000, an engine that
will move back and forth on
the line of a wire rope fastened
Mt the headlands to a Self-ad.
vancing anchor"
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Relative Cost of Railroads.

The completion of the Pacific
Railroad has induced a writer,
who has had full access to rail-
road statistics, to compile some
statements, which will be read
with interest, respecting the
relative cost of the construction
of railroads in our country
compared with other parts of
the world. Whether these sta
tistics are in every way trust
worth is not stated ; but it is to
be presumed that, having been
derived from official documents,
they will at least approximate
to the truth, with as great a de-
gree of accuracy as can be cas-
lily attained.
The total length of railways
in the word is 109,177 miles;
the entire cost has been S10,-
829, 751, 9S2. The United States
have 42,247 miles; Great Bri-
tain, 14,247; France, 1884; Rus
STA, 4317; Prussia, 1925; Italy,
4109; Austria, 1920; South Ger
many, 268l; Spain, 2429; Bel
GUM, 1903, and the North Ger
man States, 1911. British In
dia has 1902, and the Canadian
| Dominions 134S. No other
lands exceed 1000.
The distribution of railway
to the area of territory and the
ratio of population is sufficient
ly curious, but we have not
space for the comparison. The
cost of construction was great.
est in Great Britain, and next
greatest with us. She has laid
out S2,511,314,435; our expen,
diture has been 81, 64,519,313
France is next, S1,576,664,S 1872
and then the tables show nc
more billions. Prussia has spent
STAT $3.50, 346, and Russia 1924.
700,274 Belgium 1S2,198,861
The relative cost is greatest il
Brazil, where a mile of railroad
costs on an average SPOIL
: against $176, $50 in. Great Bri
tain; $130,714 in Frauce; S97,
, POI in Holland; $57, 114in Den
| mark, and $44,255 in the Unit
: ed Stated. This is a wonder
J full disparity, and is more re
markable from the fact that la
} Dor is cheaper everywhere elst
/ than in the United States.-TN
Y. Bulletin.
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Radicalism is the opposite to
all reason as prac,iced by the
party in power. This party adj
vocates one thing and practices
another, as for instance, it adj
vocates freedom and imposes
the worse form of slavery upon
the South. 1t advocates equal
ity and places the negro over
the white man. 1t talks of
morality and practices vice and
corruption. 1t prates about in
telligence and is found revealing
in ignorance. 1t blows about
liberality, and gives nothing to
charity. 1t is a boasting, over
bearing, robbing, wicked and
corrupt party.
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The n. o. Republican says
the government having found
that the quantity of sugar and
coffee struggled into the coun-
try through the port of New
Orleans is larger than at first
supposed, and that it has been
sent all over the West and
Northwest, the revenue officers
are now at Cincinnati looking
after the goods, and it is rumor-
ed that seizures are being made,
and that holders will be CON-
PEELED to prove that duties
have been paid in order to re-
tain the goods found in their
possession.
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From the Congressional
Globe we learn that in the
House there are 131 lawyers,
seven editors, ten merchants,
seven bankers, eight manufac-
lures, fifteen farmers, two plan
tiers, five general business men,
one coal operator, two lumber
men, two real estate agents,
two physicians, two railroad
managers, three clergymen, one
printer and one agriculturist.
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y At Portland, Oregon, there
has been a rain storm from which
millions of small white worms
shOWered with the rain drops.
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Henry Ward Beecher has
said that it would never do to
preach cream and practice skim
milk. This is a milky way of
expressing a very profound
truth.
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No E9nes'isssent.
AN EsTABLIsHEDFAoT.

AN ESTABLISHED FACT.
The Leading Life Company Of the West.
THE ST. LOUIS MUTUAL !.
Life Insurance Co.
Begina the year'CJanury lss) 1852 With
Assets, So, 619, $40 S7l
Increased over 81 ,OOO, 900 during tia pase
4 wear, after paving losses by death Ads.
45O1 and dividends 1865, 1866 and 1855. ana
purchased Policies t$305 ,0S9, amountinR a
sum total to $760, 5S9
Total losses by death paid since organic.
ton of the company,
$s66,25O!
Total return dividends paid since organ
cation Ofthe company,
$4l4,2O9!
Policies issued during the year 1868,
1864!
Total number Of Policies issued since d.
ganizati0n of the Company,
A490OO:
Assets and Reserve secure and ample ios
all contingencies.
Present Annual Income,
%, 500, 600!
Our past success is guarantee for Il.
future. Long lists of reference are eaS;Iy
obtained, but are no real guarantees a.
safety and success. The cheapest IA,
surance is in tried and experienced CON.
panies.
The higher per cent of interest West. ana
cur present annual income toyer a., 500 0aM
will appeal largely to those desiring Assn
anee as an advantage with us in tkS faAurs
of theiF Policies.
V Examine cur plans and Rahss besara
i8suring elsewhere. IN
| A strictly Mutual Company With the Al.
ditional security Of paid ap guarantea
Capital of $lO0, coo paying itsswn dividends
The most popular and advaAsasssusforma
and favorable teBms for KnsuSanee present.
ed a lean or credit of saa-tRisa lie aasire6,
of the premium given Sarp2us disaDibuted
on the fEst of January each year, and div.
dends paid annually thereafter on the Con.
| tributiOR Plan.
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A few Radical journals are

II lC" 1GdulCdI .JOuAudlc dLO I
beginning to see where the cur
rent of bigotry andintolerance,
of intense loyalty and negro
equality, which has flooded the
land for some years, is drifting
the nation. Among the con-
verts to a better faith is the
Yates county IN. " Chronicle,
which touches the subject in
the following manner:
eff a man busters vocifer-
ously against the black curse
of slavery, and makes rhetori-
cal and high-sounding flourish
es in regard to the glory of
free labor and the rights of
man, we elect him to Congress.
And so long as his public rec
ord is consistent with his politi-
cal pretensions, he is permitted
to be eminently vile in other
respects. That he is a whisky
guzzler and gambler, a political
rotten, a compatriot Of the
lobby, a chum of office brokers,
and a perfect political prosti-
tute, is all overshadowed in
the public estimation by the
simple and easy merit of being
sound on the main question:
The consequence of this state
of things is every way bad. 1t
breeds a swarm of political
hypocrites and shysters, who
make a trade Of politics and
sink the whole thing to the
meanest and most mercenary
level. We have seen abund-
ant verifcation of this state
ment in our own county and
Congressional district. Men
of known degradation as camp
followers and political swim
dlers have borne rule, and al
most publicly made sale, OF
offices in the name of the Re
publican party; and yet other
men of pretended daintiness in
! personal and political purity.
would excuse this state of af
fairs on the ground that the
: political shyster is a "usefuI
: man in politics." What better
: evidence could be afforded o.
: the utter decentralization Of
public sentiment.
We have never suggested the
exclusion of cotton or sugar
from cultivation, but that these
should be made, after provis
ion crops were secured by al
} lotting land and labor enough
, to them, and making those
: crops which are taken off the
land, and which impoverish it
: only the surplus crops by which
$ money is to be got.
/ The best course is for every
: man to make property rattle
T than money; and to make hi
t homestead more and more val
| liable, rather than fill his purs,
: with that which, by luxury
3 i'll health, discomfort, a love O
t foreign pleasures and associa
, tons, Weans him and his fami
: ly from home. He can get ricI
/ faster and more securely by in
creasing the value Of his homj
possessions, than he can b,
making crops to get money t.
l spend or hoard.
4 "The love of money is til,
root Of all evil" and as mucl
!. so to the planter as to any on,
l else. Better love bloodeC
. Stock" fruit orchards, enrichet
l lands, comfortable dwellings
, well kept and worked fields
: the work all paid for as fast a
done, good schools ant
> churches, and a happy, prosper
GUS and thickly settled neigh
, borhood, whence only the mer
chant cares to go to the city
l or has a city agent, evel
though but little money passe
at a time through your hands
= for cotton, which has eaten on
|, everything else around you.-
: IN. O. Picayune.
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fl Large Stock,

ell Large SgOCks
Of Staple and Fancy DR. Y GO obs,
" Clothing, Hats,
Boots and Shoes,
Rugs,
Carpetings, Mating, Floor Oil Cloths, No
j. II. REYNOLDS,
feb20 6m 81 Texas ST., Shreveport.
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TO THE MARRIED.

In tho first solitary hour after the
ceremony, take the bridegroom and
demand VOW of him, and givo him
a vow in return. Promise each other
sacrcdly, never, not even in jest, to
wran gle with each othcr-novcr to
handy words nor indulge in the best
ill humor-never, I say, mover |!
Wrangling in jest, putting on an air
of ill humor merely to tease, becomes
earnest by practice. Next, promise
each other sincerely, never to keep a
secret from each other, under what
pretoxt, and whatever excuse it might
be, you must continually and every
moment, soc clearly into others bos-
ON. Even when one of you has COM
mitted a fault, wait not an instant to
confess it. And rs you keep nothing
from each other, 80, on the contrary,
preserve the privacies of your house
from father, mother, brother, sister,
aunt, and from the world. You two,
with Gods help, must build your own
quiot world. Every third or fourth
one you draw with you will form a
party to stand between you two.
That should never be. Promise this
to each other. Remember the VOW in
each temptation. You will find your
account in it. Your souls will grow,
as it wero to each other, tand at last
will become as one. Ali if many a
pair had on their marriage day known
the secret, how many marriage
wcro happier than-alas they are
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ENERaY.-It is astonishing how
much may be accomplished in selfcul-
ture by the energetic and the pcrse-
vering, who are careful to avail them
selves of opportunities, and use up
the fragment of spare time which the
idle permit to run to waste. Thus
Ferguson learned astronomy from the
heavens while wrapped in a sheepskin
on the Highland hills; thus Stone
learned mathematics while working
as journcyman gardener; thus
Drew studied the highest philosophy
in the intervals of cobbling shoes F.;
thus Miller taught himself geology
while working as day laborer in a
quarry. BY bringing their minds to
bear upon knowledge in it's various as
poets and carefully using up the odds
and ends Of their time, men such as
these, in the very humblest circum-
stances, reach the highest culture, and
acquired honorable distinction among
their fellow-men. It was one Of the
characteristic expressions Of Chatter.
ton, that God had sent His creatures
into the world with arms long enough
to roach anything, if they chose to be
at the tronble.
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Work AND WIN.-Whatever you
try to do in life, try with oil your
heart to do well; whatever you de-
vote yourself to, devote yourself to
completely; in great aims and small
be thoroughly in earnest. Never be-
lieve it possible that any natural or
improved ability can claim immunity
from the compapionship of the steady
plain hard-working qualities and hope
to gain its end. There is no such
thing as such falfilment On this earth.
Some happy talent and some fortunate
opportunity, may form the two sides
of the ladder on which: some men
mount, but the rounds Of that ladder
must be made of stuff TO-, stand wear
and tear; and there is no. such sub.
stitute for thorongh-going, ardent
and sincere earnestness. Never put
one hand to anything on which you
can throw your whole seaf, nevea as
feet depreciation Of your work, what,
ever It IT,. These you wilh8n& to be
golden rules. '"s.'>'' '"f"''H has
Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1869-09-17

The DESTRUCTION OF THE REBUB-
L1c.-A correspondent of the Now
York Radical journal has been inter
viewing, recently, the celebrated
British Philosopher and Author,
Thomas Carlyle. Displaying tho
usual Yankee curiosity during his
visit to the home of this great man
toe correspondent would | mot be sat-
isfcd until he had obtained Mr.. Car
lyle's opinion on the "polisical situa-
ton" of the Unitee States. Finally
the oracle answered, and here is
what tho writer Of tho Lyeof Eeder-
ick the Great thinks Of affairs in the
American Rcpublicic: Gas sure as
the Lord reigns" said he, "you are
rushing down to hell with desperate
velosity, the scum of the world has
got possession of your country, and
nothing can savo you from your coun-
try, and nothing can saue you from
the devils clutches. Not, perhaps
cried he raising his voice to its shril-
lest notes, "a hell burning with ma
terial fire and birthstone. but tho wido
wcltcring fire of chaos and corruption
in high places, and the misrule OF the
people. A fino republic thatl Eng
land follows in tho train, and is even
now on the brink of the informal prec-
ipicc-and hell below"