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The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-03

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DESTRUCTION OF AN AMERICAN SHIP BY FIRE AT
HAvRz.-Havre, Jan. 27.-The American snip
Alaska. Capt Small, which had just arrived mere
from New Orleans with cargo OF cotton. LOOK
fire this morning in this harbor, and, owing 70 tne
combustble nature of the material, is burning
furiously. she will probably be totally destroyed:
The Alaska was built at Kennebunk in 1865: and
wss 1915 tons burthen. She was owned by Thay-
er h Line 10, of Bostou.-[N. Y. Herald.
The Alas ka was cleared from this port on the
9th of Dec. by Messrs G A Fosdick eco, with the
following cargo: 4O2l bales cotton and 1000
slaves .nliH
Boston, Feb. 2.-By telegraph to VIM Creevy-
The steamship Kensington sailed on saturday,
arrived from New Orleans same day.
Exports.
GALvESTON--St Steamship Harlan-350 bbls
-four 80 bbls whisky so bbs potatoes % bbls mo-
lasses 10 hhds sugar so SKIS bran 100 SKIS corn aud
sundries
UTILLA-Schr VIM Fisher-600 feet lumber
Is pkes mdse
ST LOUIs-steamer Shark and barge-lS esks
wine
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-03
GREY sAcKSr nrrrrn.,

And popular did Trey soon cOne that they are ct this
early date "a little thresycars from their hrst manu-
hcture) used all over the south3
THE MATERIALS We UiE NOW ARE THE SANE
AS WERE EMPLOYED BYkUs AT FIRST.
AND WE HAVE so AR HEARD NO CON-
PLANTS OF GREY JACKf BTTTERs BEING coUN-
TERFETTED, while the psrtrs are allied with warnings
from Yankee manufacturer X pretended real
fats Of their medcAttd splritsi
THAT THESE SPIRITS twEBE BAD WAS UN-
DENIABLE.
But with whom the respens lily properly rested the sosth
.rp people could not REASONABLY know do suppose
they cared.
They only ceased to pureha hem and bought the GREY
JACKET BITTERs in their Isce
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-03
New Orleans. De .mso- L. 1855.

In year 1865 the UNDER gned, percsivng that their
friends South bein imposed upon by thousands
Of vie compounds under the Of whskes BraAdles,
Gins sehnapps Bittsrs etc, determined TO begin the
manufacture of pure medct spirit Of honeraised
Southern herbs to supply the Of the public line
which had created the dsmandI We called our spirit
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-03
Ser Challenger, Joseph. days from Ruatan
Island, to e Pillsbury ECO
schr Oriental, -, days from CardinAs, 70

Beiow waiting Orders.
Shin Lord Dalhouse (Br). Ronald, from Liver.
pool, to Meeker, Knox ECO n
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-10-30

in espsratioa, y c>snty seat N 30 isoss-
sibls frpn all points. which will have . srstt
tendency to prstS.t my effort to wide ont
esunty. Sz ~
We hope the officers Of said road viii make
arrangements TO have the roate surveyed this
fsii,so that they cen tell rs people aScat tAs
cost Of grading tn rod, and then cali sRon tie
towns. through tse papers, 70 give boads suoush
to grade the rod through their towns. In any
event Let the nsttef be agttstsd and pushed for
ward. Yours, .ri tfsa WALrHAA.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-10-30

How PROF AeAssiz COMPOUNDED MAYOR
The Grafton Of Prof Agassis upon tho characvsr
OF Humboldt, delivered in Boston, recently, re-
pinds the NeyNk Adccrtiser Of an snsc ,9t
WESTERN cisy lid to MIN thss 10 had himself
been deeply iutsrsstsdI ID natural sCienoej bat
the pressure ot bpsinsss bad Apesvented its pur-
suit, II became banker, sir, and am what
ann The style Of grandeur Ia, which the words
wSte uttsrea II inaeseti AAgsssis itninedi-
atsly reoitsdr iispo~m ARtufys how his father
had provided n place in n bank for him on his
Leaving college, how he had begged first fosrone
yeaf more o. study, then YSr anoth her, and When
No E6t q third, III fAte wss Axed.' @" Ana, Mr.,
w." saa 4Ayssais, "itit bad lot besa tor Ahat
little Armness, should to-day have been moth.
ing but . banker" Somehow, the mayor looked
rather foolish.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-10-30

Charles Downing Gays that he once wit
messed a remarkable change produced on the
body ofa,pearTtreer by means means of wrapping il
in straw, The tree was Brown Bgerre,
grated about seven feet from the ground, up
ora stalk which f6r years had not grown rs
rapidly as the gruft, and presentede very de-
cided'hulge or swelling at the junction OF the
graft This smaller portion was encased in
straw about two inches thick, aud at the end
Of two seasons il was found on removing the
straw that the contracted, Or the heretofore
stem, had swollen to tile full size Of
the graft above, presenting but slight indi-
cation of the point of union between graft and
stock. This is an item of interest, and many
e-growcrs who have trees with contracted
stems, evidence of some natural want OF atfini-
ty with the graft, may find it a hint for. prac-
teal use.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-10-30

=, Professor Fsrsdsy adopts Flourln's theory
that the natural duration of mans Life is
hundred years, This theory is. founded on
observation of facts as periods in the time of
growth. It is thus stated: When once the
bones and epiphysis are united, y the body
grows no more, aadaat- twenty years this
union is effected in man. In the camel it
takes place at eight !, in the horse at five; and
in the rabbit at one. The natural termina-
ton of life is five removes from these several
points Man, being twenty years in growing,
lives five times twenty, that is one hundred.
The camel lis eight years growing, and he
lives FIVE times eight years, that is to say forty
years the horse is FIVE years in growing, and
he lives twenty-five years, and SO with other
| animals The man who does not die of sick
ness, battles, bullets, railroad accidents
quakes exceptedA-lives everywhere from
eighty to hundred years. soId tirJ
Providence has given to man a century of
life, but he l9esInotj attain it because he in.
| herits diseases, eats unwholesome fruits, gives
licensei ito passions, and permits vexations t
disturb his healthy equipoise. lie does not
\ tlie4-he kills himself The learned professor
| divides life into equal halves, growth and de-
cline? and the Halves into infancy, youth,
yirility and age. Infancy extends to the
twentieth year youth TO the f:sieth, because
| it is during this period that the tissues be-
come firm viriity from fifty to seventy five,
during which the organism remains complete
at seventy five old age commences, to last a
longer or shorter time as the Jdiminution, of
reserved forces is FASTENED or retarded.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-10-30

SUaAR FOR HoRsEs.-A gentlemaa In New
York is the possessor of a 81 900 horse, whose
orgaa for approbativeness is prominently act.
i've. He CA be coaxed, but rarely driven
against his will When the considerable own.
er enters the stable the horse greets him with
a hearty whinny, his own language, which il
equal to cheerful expression Of delight. He
is at, once. treated to a lump Of, loaf sugar,
which the beautiful and sagacious creature
knows is usually carried in a vest pocket fol
he rubs, his nose directly in there. On return,
ing from a drive he expects two Jumps. As
two Are invariably forthcoming when un'
harnessed, it isIunmistaksble evidence to. the
horse that his conduct and efforts were satis
factory. sRfse sight of a whip to that animal
would bean insult and an outrage to listaf
fectionatc regard for one who looks carefully
to his health, security and comfort. Such, al
Instrument of barbarity does not belong te
that good mans carriage, ana may God speed
the incoming day when tlley, will only be seer
in museums, to illustrate the conditions, 'ol
countries that ultimately became Christian
A60-eGmoo hHE 9argo1t "a 3ita > bua err
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-10-30

EDIroRs FREE TRADER:--The Mendoza,
Paxton and DanvilleR r. route is admitted to
DO good one, und we hope the day is not far
distant, when the route will be surveyed and an
effort made TO have it built.
H. Theoountry through which it passes, from OF.
tawa to Mendoza. is among the best in ONE coun.
ty, and a. far as my knowledge extends the oiti.
zeus Of walthem aud Uphir would cheerfully as
sist, all In tSSir tSwer TO have such colamuni
cation visX n. So6hty Scat, and viii be ou HIND
10 give give lisa With this road EXCEEDING
through the county from northwest to southeast
and the Fox River Valley R. R. from southwest
TO northeast, with tho other railroads already
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-10-30

- ~ 4 o8ON4AoCe 10 -tI
A correspondent of TIE New Yak Eeesisy
Post has found 1t tho obsosfe village Of Wash-
ingtos, Cenassticat, schsol sor boy, eondusted
Ion principles which, II be tells the truth, Aust
make it sssi Paradisa, compared With most
schools, and, 80 ssaz, this publicity given to II
will fesrfully *sst its easseity. TIE esrrespcn-
dent says: foigo aniifotJ yhha@ sbsm rtst 30
The moral tsas ofths school is It's Distinguish
ing feature. Any.opA esiity II dewitt or freud
is warned by MS comparisons to report himseH
ia ths head-masber; II ht seglects to do 90 he Is
at once informed upon By his coApaaioas. In
stead Of its being felt mean 10 reprtr Made
| the whole boy community 70 permit 2 misdeed
to go unpublished. The methods Of panishment
pursued at thsisclocE are geaerally On the spur
Of the mornent. al little boy pmaapeS too much
noise; he ia ordered to take q horn to the village
green, and to blow blast at the four corners a
the church; OF he is cent miis over the hill TO-
The Moody Ssra; r9he helps fake hsy for half
an hour in tho 6slds ;oor cleans Some bricks that
are required for buihing,I One day boy stole
sorae apples from poor widow; he was sent the
| next day to pick up stones from her fields as .
Punishment, abat the widows heart seltened, and
she made him come in 10 dinaer;and stuffed him
with good thangs and sent him home. ro4, 4 b.ts
A, little boy was caught ducking cat in the
rain.water hcEshead; up steps the teacher be-
hind him, aal Seixine him by the Aest Of the
ibrseches and tho nape OF the, neck, rlunges him
in after the catto show him how it feels. ~ Such
things as bullying and tagging are not tolerated.
There are no reles, no forbidden games; every
thing that en- afud amusement Is tolerated ut
proper times end u proper quantity. sThe maA-
ter of the sc&sol il uRable to distinguish between
the good DR.. Bxsby and the wickednass Of ordi-
mary playing cards, aud 30 the boys play whist,
if they know enough, openly and in the parloc.
The sinfulness ct daaclng ADD the orthodoxy Of
'calisthenics are metaphysical distinctions; and
the boys have dance when there is time for it,
and they feel like it. Those who are old enough
have breech-iesdiag rfiles, md they are taught
hew to use thea-~as the master of the school is
one Of the bet shots in The country. The older
boys learn all ABOUT the ha1nts of animals.
They know the track Of the woodehuck, the rae.
coon, the fox, and oan tell the name Of a bird
from its song, its Aessy~oe its egg. They roam
the forests Ga Saturdays and hunt, and fish in
the mountain streams: usome trusty big boy ac-
companies the snaller,ones, and no party goes
away without the knowledge OF the teachers.
All the boys wear good stout wooden clothing,
which necessarily meets With numerous rents
and tears, but j. kept in order by aunt Betsoy,
whose needle and patchwork are in constant de-
inand Such . beehive, such exubsrant spirits
and shouts ofhappiness constantly bubbling up
and running over ~ this school exhibits, it has
never been my lot to witness before. na'r, fsgf
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-10-30

- CeFA Eep In tho Unitea stasess
VI find III following statemsnt tAs La
Moathly Ripx # the Department 8 Aeicua-
tsss made y xAI, R. Degs to .. stsAists.
oiaa - hs stylas himssf, - the Secretary Of the
Interior. regarding the corn crop in the various
6tatss of the Uuioa: ,s--.-.
The oosM crop hh teen the prey OF numerons
ills in every sesti6n Of tie country. The only
States tA1e now show a 'svefsge S0nditiUn ne:
Nebraskx, Kansas, Elorida, Leuisiana, Cexas and
Arkansasj Excessive rains retarded the plsnts
ing, and aeosssitated teplanting in the spring
througheat the west end south cold, wet vesth-
or prevented good healthy, vigorous growth il
almost every Stats; and il the season Of caring
and maturing ssrious drought Aheoeed It On tho
Atlantic Quest, Nth injarious heat IN the South,
and un1avosahls reduction of tsmperstars in the
North. Ia desp soils, naturally drained, the q.
treme 0oisture At the West did no injury; IN
heavy or dat laads, with clay sub coil, tho dan-
age was great, In Some cases resulting In total
failure. The lose - shewn in the table, 10 forty
nine Per cent. in Virginia; from thirty TO forty
in Maine, Vermont, Maryland, North Carolina,
South Csroliaa, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin; from twenty to thirty in
New Hampshife, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Delaware, Georgia, Ind, Ohio, Iowa and
Minnesota hom ten to twenty in Massachusetts,
Penny ivania; and one to ten per cent. in Rhode
Island, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri and Cali
fornia Unless the Close Of tho season i very T.
vorabie, there must be one hundred and fifty
millions Of bushels less than . full crsQ- cit
, 1869-12-17
FATHER HYACINTHE IN
NEW YORK.
Men York Herald, Oct. 20.

The newspapers are very much occu-
pied with Father Hyacinthe. Since his
arrival at New York on Monday he has
been interviewed, probed, and bored to
the limit of human endurance. He is the
latest and greatest sensation. His first
experience in the United States might
give him a strange impression Of the Ame-
rican people, bordering on the ridiculous,
were he not a mar of comprehensive views
and a philosopher. We have no doubt
he understands both the character OF
newspaper enterprise in this country and
that twaddle and rampant Bohemianism
which is the excrescence of it. No doubt
he will appreciate the real heartfelt vel
come he receives from a generous repub-
, 1869-12-17

The danger Of the King, especially at this
moment, when the enemies OF his king
dom and of Italian unity are gathering in
Rome, meant danger to Italy. On politi-
cal as well as personal grounds the illness
Of The King caused sorrow IN Italian
hearts,; and the prospect of possible dis
turbances to follow on his death could
not but excite the gravest apprehensions
in minds outside Italy, but interested IN
hekwelfare. The occasion for this sorrow
and anxiety is withdrawn, and the Italians
almost forget, in the Joy of their hearts,
the risk they have run. It is quite pos
sible that Prince. Humbert may be destined
to play. even a more important part than
his father in the unifcation of Italy, in
consolidating the power which for thous-
and years the House Of Savoy has so Ia
b~oriously and persrveringIy worked to
build up but hitherto he has not been
conspicuous in the paths of public life,
except in the battle of CuStozza, where
he showed all the courage of his race
while in his private relations he has over
much followed the example set before
him by his father. To such a prince The
Italians are naturally a little timid about
intrusting their political interests, at least
until "the hey-day in the blood'is tame,
and waits upon the judgment y and they
prefer to remain till then uuder the head
ship of IA man whose faults and whose
virtues they know, rather than commlt
themselves Just at this moment to one OF
whom it may be said that "his virtues
were So rare" On personal grounds. the
Joy of the Italians is even stronger than
on political grounds. There is an affec-
ton towards the King for the sake of
what his house has done and suffered in
the cause o fItaly, and for what he himself
has done in the same direction and there
is a bonhommte about the man, stronger
than that of our own Charles H., whom
in some respects he resembles, that en-
dears him to the hearts Of his people.
This feeling of personal regard will not,
we believe, be anywise lessened by the
fact that the King had the courage, when
weak through illness, and dying as it was
thought, to dare Archbishops and confess
sors to do their worst, and fatty TO refuse
the, conditions on which alone they at first
offered him the last consultations OF their
religion.-(L did,
, 1869-12-17

acceptance or the acknowledgement.
There has been no pride of shame in un-
dergoing the obligation. There has been
no second thought about mourning a debt
to a member of a community with whom
we have not been IN the friendliest of
terms. There is now no meanness or
s|ervility in our gratitude. There is rather
the feeling that would say, "See how this
proud, aristocratic England, that is some
times made mock Of for its haughtiness,
can at once acknowledge the great heart
edness that is nobility all the world over,
and can use its own conventional distinc-
tions to show that it at once admits the
brotherhood of the citizen-phllanthropis
with the most illustrious." And it is
we'll worthy of remark that the terrible
instrument Of war, the highest specimen
of destructive naval art we have yet
achieved, offers her first public service TO
a message of peace and good fellowship,
and visits our naval rivals not rs an enemy,
or the bearer of a threat, or a proof of
successful emulation, but as the represen-
tative of our highest power on the seas,
performing the Office of guard to the body
Of an American guest and friend.
We might we'll wish that, as this is the
first public mission of the Monarch-for
the trial in the naval excursion under the
First Lord of the Admiralty was but an
experiment of untested qualities-s0 ali
her errands in the future might be as
thoroughly in the spirit of amity and re-
gard for world goodwill. But we
are not yet at the end of the human his
tory. The Monarch, it seems, is to be
Immediately superseded in its dignity of
being the best Of q very imperfect squa-
dron. Besides Captain CoIes's turret-ship,
the Captain, fast approaching completion
at Birkenhead, it seems that two yet more
simple and genuine turret-ships, the De-
VISITATION and the .Thunderer, are put upon
the stocks. They are not to be encum-
bered with rigging; they are TO move by
steam-powet only they are TO be able to
carry coal for a voyage across the Atlantic
or to the Mediterranean and back, joining
in a combat if they are needed, and re-
turning by the help of their original load
of coal. If England is to pursue this race
of preparation, it is we'll, .undoubtedlg,
that she should be so prepared as to win.
The cry. Of reformers in France is that
war shoul&hot be made without the COM
sent of the people, and the fact in Eng"
land is that, without such @nsent, no
Government dares undertake it. More
over, it is sure that the people of Great
Britain will never permit the waging of
any war in their name unless they believe
it to be perfectly just and absolutely ne
cessary. Our strength, therefore, is the
power of keeping the peace. In that as.
surance we may rejoice that the two yes
, 1869-12-17
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ton of crustaceous fish is no longer utterly
despised. We heartily agree with the
Unrestricted, we have ourselves urged
the same point-that there must be varl-
Gus classes of vessels for different servi-
ces, without the futile attempt to combine
all qualities in one specimen. We be-
Iieve yet that small active %gunboats are
the true fighting craft Of the future, but
perhaps we are now getting as well upon
the road as our rivals. In one matter let
US resolve that they shall never transcend
us, in the moderation with which we use
our power; and we would fam hope that
the Republicans who are worthy to be
The fellow countrymen of Mr.. Peabody
will vie with us in this contention, and so
give the best security for the tranquility
Of the world.
Victor Emmanuel is convaIescent, and
there is Joy throughout Italy-the States
Of the Church only excepted. The States
of the Church, being ruled by the Vicar
of the Prince of Peace and Goodwill, are
of course concerned that anyone so heter-
odox as the King Of Italy should have
found means of recovery from deaths
grip. The Inhabitants thereof would. of
course, have preferred that the Kings
BODY should be delivered TO Satan, that
his soul might be saved in the day OF the
Lord. and think the u~nlooked-for recovery
may have an evil example. 1t is quite
evident that the Archbishop of Pisa was
never so much surprised-we suppose we
must not say disappointed-in his life, as
when he found that the King was not TO
die on this occasion. He must feel Just q
little disturbed at the thought that his
orders TO the Royal confessor to refuse
extreme JUNCTION to ~thadylng Klng, IN
less he recanted fully and humbIy all he
had ever said or done, or allowed TO be
said or done, against the supposed inter-
ests of the Church, are likely to win for
him a martyrs crown of "a totally different
character from that he thought to acquire.
The generosity of the King, and a certain
pity he must feel for such a m~ean-spirlted
creature as would thus have deprived him
indeed of "beneft of clergy" may secure
1.-THE Archbishop from harm. Victor EN-
manuel will, DOUBTLESS, prefer to keep
himself an honest man by not interfering
with priests while, as for this particular
Holy Willie,
A coof like that would stain his name
fit were kent he did il.
The clergy may regret the fact of the
Kings recovery as much as they please,
and take that comfort to themselves which
they took when Luther rose from the
brink of the grave. They had improved"
the occasion of his death TO impress upon
their focks how hat God would not suffer
so great a sinner TO live and when the
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-12-28
auluserTpeuFs.

OPERA HoUsE.-Tne audiences which
greeted Katie Putnam Christmas and last
evening, were much larger and much
more appreciatIve than on the previous
nights of the season. Fanchon was in the
main well presented, and Katie Putnam
fully established her power to render even
90 difficult q part, in q most excellent
manner. But IL seems to us that the
strength of the company is not nearly 50
Wen shown in the drama as in burlesque.
The troupe has fully established itself as
drst-class burlesque organization, and
with such bills as they have given us for
the past week, they viii certainly meet
with success. There has been manifested
here a willingness TO witness this kind of
performance, and the company would do
wei 10 bear this in mind. We have one
criticlsm-and one onIy-to offer on last
nights performance.
The actors did not adhere closely enough
to the text of the play, and INDUCED en-
tireIy too niue in side gags wholly for
eign to the sentiments intended to be ex-
pressed by the author. Katie Putnam, in
the title role, Interpreted the healthful
sentiments expressed in the words and
acts of the little Cricket with fulness and
satisfaction.
Tonight has been set apart for the bene-
fit of the Orphan Asylum. "Asnodeus;
or, The Little DEVILS Share" and the ez-
celIent burlesque of Po-ea-hon-tas," in
which Ada Webb made such a decided hit
q few years ago. viii be presented, with
the fun strength of the company In the
cast. This Is the most popular bin of the
season, and we need hardly urge our citi-
Zeus to attend.
The company go to Henderson on
IN
turn again and play on Friday and Satur-
dav