davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-05-24

THE CROPS IN MARILASD.-The Hagers-
town Nail says Of the crops In Washington
county;
From almost every farmer In our county
we have the most favorable accounts Of the
growing crops In this valley, although we
have noticed some that appear TO have been
badly attended,, which are not at all promis-
ing. The application Of fertilizers this year
is double what Is has ever been before, and
even on the richest lands has been found to
pay heavy percentage Of profit. We re-
grct to say that a large proportion Of the
wheat crop Of our county remains on hand,
ard that farmers who have been holding
since last harvest are only now beginning to
sell generally. 1t Is estimated that the loss
by fall In price to Washington county alone
will be half a million dollars.
In Baltimore county, says the Towsontown
Union!
Wheat Is looking very we'll, giving promise
OF an abundant yield. Corn Is coming up
finely, but great fears are entertained that
the crop will be greatly injured by cut-worms,
an unusual number Of these pests having
already made their appearance. Oats, 1t Is
said, does not look very we'll, great deal
having been killed In the ground. Rye Is
beginning to head, and indicates very large
yield.
The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-05-24
PROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY.
w Ds soASE Or NE ". I,srT9,s sIS

WAAHIEdrON. D. c., Nay "a, 1850. !
Proposals for furnishing sHoh articles Of Station
cry as may be required by this Department aud
the Bureaus aud Offices thereof, during ths hscAI
year ending June 20, 1870, will 30 received until u
o'olOek, m, Saturday, June 10, 1859,
Each proposal must be signed by the individual
or arm making 1t, and be accompanied by sAtis-
factory guarantee that the bidder will execute .
contract with good and fioient bonds II his bid
IL accepted for any or all articles, All articles
furnished must be Of the best quality Of their kind
Bond with approved security will be required Of
the party TO whom the contract may be awarded,
On failure TO furnish any article when required,
10 reasonable time, the right iA reserved Of pur-
chasing in open market or OF declaring the contract
forfeited and II greater price than the contract
price Is paid for such article, the difference will be
charged to the contractor
The Department reserves the right TO jeet or Ae-
cert the bid in all articles sinEiy or eolsetiVely
An estimate Of tho quAntities which will DO
needed. and blank forms for bidding. containing
full Information 10 accordance with this AdyeF.
tsement, will be furnished on application.
. Proposals ulacGOmpanisd by satisfactory guar
antes will not be considered ald contracts VIII be
awarded only TO established manufacturer or
dealers In the articles,
Bidders will be required to conform their bids
to the furnished. and failure to do so
will cause the rejection OF any bid.
Proposals must DO addressed to the Secretary OF
the Interior. and be indoned "PTGPOsals t9I Sta.
tiOnery.' J. ID, cox,
my2i-2awtd Secretary.
The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-05-24

A LIFE OF BISMARCK, recently published
In Leipsig, represents the Prussian states
man In the unexpected character of q hu.
morist The blographsr relates the follow
ing anecdote as an illustration Of Bismarck's
teIaclty Of purpose "When studying law at
Berlin he had been more than once disap-
pointed by a bootmaker who did not send
home his boots when they were promised.
Accordingly, when this next happened, a
servant OF the young Jurist appeared at the
bobtmaker's at six In the morning with the
simple question, 'Are Herr Blsmarck's boots
readyP When he was told they were not
he departed, but at ten minutes past six an
other servant appeared with the same In
qulry, and SO at precise intervals OF ten min
utes 1t went on all day, till by the evening
the boots were finished and sent home. In
one OF his letters from o watering place TO a
member of his family we ind the following
droll description: Opposite me sits the old
Minister -, one Of those forms which APP
pear to us In dreams when indigestion comes
on in our sleep; q fat frog without bones,
who at every bite makes his mouth yawn
like a carpet-bag to the very shoulders, so
that turn giddy and hold on to the edge OF
the table.'p The e1trayagance OF this pas
sage hasa real American aavor,
The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-05-24

TKLE6RAPHISG IN FAo-SIMLB.-Where
may we expect discoveries In electricity to
stop An invention, not many removes from
one for telegraphing a portrait, Is said to
have been made by Mr.. Meyer, an official
engaged In the French telegraphing service.
lie has discovered q plan for telegraphing
fde-sin.is. The details are not given, but II
what is published Is fact, the new system Is
as wonderful as the electric telegraph Itself.
There Is no transmltter wanted; the sender
Of the dispatch is his own clerk. The mes
sage itself does the duty Of the Interpreter,
and controls the electrical power so as TO
make 1t perfectly faithful. "That which the
Meyer system gives us Is not copy, more or
less exact, of the message sent to us II Is
the facsimile Of our correspondents writing,
SO that, thanks to this apparatus, Geographic
dispatches will present, so far as regards
exactitude and authenticity, all the guaran.
tees now found In postal communications"
II this be not an enigma, and does not refer
to some kind of cypher-and there is no rea-
son for thinking that 1t does-Mr. Meyer
will be among the famous OF the future. We
are further told that the apparatus Is at work
on tho railway from Paris to Lyons, and the
lines from Paris 70 Marseilles, and from
Paris to Bordeaux, will soon be provided
| with it.-LoRdon Post.
The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-05-24
MAR BED.

ToPHAM-GIBsoN.-In tbs city, 90 the l2th
instant, at the ChuIoh Of the AscensL CON. by the
Rev. DR.. Plnekuev, Mr.. RICHARD u, ToPHAN. Of
salem, n j., to Miss RATR, youn gest daughter OF
Woolmsn Gibson. Of Prince Georges county, Nd.
No cards
The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-05-24
DIED.

MCCAULEY. On the 2lst instant, Commod ore
CHARLEs STEWART MoCAULET, U. 3. In the
10Th year Of HIS age.
MoLINDEN.-on the 22d Instant, after a short
aud painful illness, JOAEEA, the beoy cd daughter
Of Henry and Mary MeLinden. aged years, 10
months and % days
MAGRUDER.-0n ThurdAy evening, the 10Th
instant, RBzIE hA0RupBR. eolored. aEed about %
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17

BENEFIT OF ST. ANNA AsYLUM.-On the 1st
of February is to be inaugurated an affair
that promises to be one of the most enter
tanning and pleasurable that the winter has
yet produced. 1t will embrace a series of
tableaux, fine music and dancing; refresh
ments, of course, to be obtained. The place
will be Odd Fellows Hall, whose magnificent
ball room and handsome supper room are so
well adapted for an affair of the sort. The
proceeds of the entertainment are to be de-
voted to the st. Anna Asylum, refuge for
widows and orphans, which is now, we under
stand, sadly in need of funds to enable 1t to
continue its operations. The entertainment
will last five nights, so there will be many
opportunities given to the charitably dis
posed to lend helping hand to deserving
institution. We are under obligations to the
managers for complimentary tickets OF ad-
mission.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17

The MEMORIAL REcoRD.-We have received
from Mrs. Mary Gate Overall, of Crystal
Springs, Miss, the prospectus of new publ
cation to be called the Memorial Record, of
which the first number will be issued on the
18th of February. The following extract from
the prospect shows the object of the publ
cation which, we may remark, is one that
can not fail to commend itself to the Southern
public:
The undersigned DESTROYS of aiding her South
ern sisters in their noble efforts to rescue from
neglect and Dissertation the remains of the Con-
federate dead. proposes TO issue on the 18th Of
February, 1850, the first number of the Memorial
Record. which will be devoted To the memories
and traditions of the Confederacy. Among its
weekly table Of contents will be found revised
lists Of the dead heroes who fought and died for
us and pOsterity: cemetery reports from the
Southern Memorial Associations; accounts of bat.
ties lost land won; biographies of leading Con-
Tolerate officers; "reminiscences, tales, anec.
dotes, etc.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17

An investigation into a recent kerosene ex-
plosion in New York, reported by the New
York World, reveals the fact-at least it is so
officially stated-that the frequency of these
accidents results from the use of an inferior
and highly inhammable article, composed
chiefly of benzine, which is largely sold in
New York city. We presume that similarly
inferior and dangerous article is sold and used
in other places Pure kerosine oil is not at
all dangerous; but as long aspersonsare care
less in their purchases, just so long they will
be apt to buy bad article in place of good
one. The vaporizing point of good and safe
kerosine oil should be at least SO degrees,
and the burning point ITO degrees. In some
of the oils examined in New York the vapor-
izing point was as low as 6S degrees, and the
burning point as low as so degrees. An at
tempt has been made to protect the public by
means of legislation, but the result shows, in
this case, as in all others, that when govern
ments try to do for people what people
ought to do for themselves, the evil is only
aggravated instead of abated. The remedy
lies in increased vigilance and knowledge, and
the cultivation of an improved moral senti-
ment
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17

Sypher did one good thing in Congress the
other day in his opposition to the Niagara ship
canal job. The bill was recommitted, which
is said to be equivalent to its defeat. Whether
or not this result was due to Syphers efforts
We are unable to say; but we are pretty sure
that when it is conclusively established that
the Mississippi river is the best medium for
the shipment and export of grain, this fact
will be regarded as the very best argument
that the jobbers and monopolists can use for
devoting the peoples money to the construc-
ton of artificial competing routes. 1t would
not be astonishing if their next proposition
would be to obstTuct the Mississippi in some
way so as to force trade into artificial and
costly channels. The principle would be the
same as that of taxing the masses Of the peo-
pie to enrich the manufacturing capitalists,
and the iron, and SALT and copper monopo-
lists.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17

Among the few measures of merit offered in
Congress is the "Civil Service Bill as it is
called This bill provides means for procur-
ing the best, or, approximately the best, work.
ing talent for the minor offices of the govern
ment, and for keeping good officers in their
places. The measure may fail of its intended
effect for lack of efficiency in the means
proposed to accomplish its object; but it is at
least an attempt to do proper thing. Mr..
Logan opposed it as " aristocratic, which is
very natural. Logan knows himself to be
prominently unfit for his place, and he,
therefore, considers fitness for Office very
"aristocratic test. The same solt of test
would consign nine-tenths of the Radical
offce-holders in the country to congenial
obscurity and oblivion.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17
The New York Tribune notices the wonder
full salt deposits of Louisiana as follows:


It has been known for several years that there
was a most wonderful deposit of salt in Louis
lana and now since this has been proved aciu.
ally 10 be the case, il is still more wonderful that
II wss not drawn upon 10 supply the Mississippi
country. TIE locality referred to is on island
known as Petite Anse. in the parish of st. Mary,
80 miles westward from New Orleans, about a
mile and half from navigabe salt water, aud
something farther from the railroad running from
New Orleans to 0pelOusas. The Bay of Atchafl-
lsya lies few miles TO the south, and the ada
ceDt country Is similar to prairie while IL is but
a few feet above the level of the sea- The island
contains about 1000 acres and il rises gradually
hundred feet or more, while the salt il found ouly
ten or twelve feet below the surface. From ansly.
sis made at various times by several chemists this
mineral has been declared 10 contain 95 per cent
of chloride of sodium. or common salt IL is
white and unstained, Is in irregular cubioa crys-
tails about a quarter OF an inch ia diameter very
firm, and has the remarkable quality of being
able to resist moisture. In comparison with any
salt made by boiling, il is Of supeaior purity
while there is no rock salt in the world which ex.
GELS it. In attempting 70 ascertain the extent OF
this deposit, shafts have been sunk 10 depth of
fifty feet without finding limit. Dnriug the war
the rebels mined considerable of it, aud az va.
rogs times before and since attempts have been
made TO furnish it as an article of commerce, but
owing TO q want Of machinery, capital and bust
ness energy, little or no progress was made. Re-
Gently, however, a ST. Louis house has entered
into possession, and, with the requisite capital and
skill, they have erected steam engines, mills aud
other works necessary for developing the prop
erty, and the time now cannot be remote when
Liverpool salt will cease to be brought TO New
Orleans In cotton ships as ballast.
The Tribune expects this result to be ac-
complished by means of "machinery, capital
and business energy which are legitimate
and desirable agencies and backed by the duty
of 100 to 40 per cent on foreign salt will. pro-
baby, be successful. But suppose that the
St. Louis company, not content with this
duty, and with the prospects offered by its
possession of adequate "capital, machinery
and business energy" should modestly ask
for another hundred per cent or so, in imita-
tation of the Onondsga Salt Company, and
the iron and copper monopolists whose sad
condition, with 100 per cent. annual divi
dends, the Tribune increasingly deplores
what would the country say about it? But willis
Northern companies are plundering and bag
ging all that they can get or think OF, VIII,
may not Louisiana salt company have {
share of the spoils 1t
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17

The State-diyiding mania seems not to DC
confined to Florida and Texas, or rather to
the carpet baggers of those States. In Ten
nessee the patriotic scalawags want to set up
nice little place for themselves in East Ten
nessee; then there is proposition to divide
Pennsylvania into two States, Pennsylvania
and Pennsylvania; and to erect the upper Pc
ninsula of Michigan into the State of Onto
hogan, or Superior; and to divide New York
from the city and Long Island, calling the
latter the State of Manhattan. OF course the
Radical .firore for Office and plumber is at the
bottom of these propositions.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17
PRRnfE .NufXaE life Insurance
COMPANY
OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

EDISON FEssENDEE, President
JAMES F. BURNS, SECRETARY.
The "PHGNIX MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COM
PANY invite attention TO the following Plans peculiar to
itself:
ist All the dvantages all Casa and half Com
2a II rarity insures to-day for 5000 aud pays half
cash ha note any taOe and should he die
morrow, week next month, next year the I'LL
o. NOTES All returned dvideni AM but
four any table II payment is made. ALL CASH
the insured IN cash the amount-s5V0 with div
bends, CASH ADDED.
3rd No restric ion Employment.
4th is permitted travel reside in any part
South America during and all of the free
charge This has cefOre offered by COnpa
without CHARGE varying from $40 TO
$50. for every Thousand dollars insure.
5th Dividends in the PHOENIX have b en- and now are
50 per cent
9Th The dividend 30 per all tables II the
annual premium IL 500. the dividend is $50.
claim.
s.h An its policies foreng thereby possible
chance of loss TO the injured.
9Th Ordinary Life Policies nonorfeiting after three pay
while the policy il in force for the full Of
EVEN DOLLARS OF PREM UMS PAID besides many
other great advantages The PHOENIX paid widows
and has 81 600 0CO safely secured for like purposes
10TH It's have been met BY the annual interest
and OF interest left to II
general fund belongii 70 the insured
h Its rates OF Assurance cheap as any Company
iz1h' 1T WILL SUT INSURE AN UNsOUND LIFE.
GEO. s. DARLING.
General Agent.
JOHN .. SCOTT. Local Agent.
OFFICE-D2 t;anal. corner - Charles street.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17

THE SUNDAY REPUBIIcAN.-We call the at
tention Of our readers to the advertisement,
in another column, of the Sunday Republican,
for this morning Among the articles Is an
explanation of the "Sue Murphy case,
which will doubtless allay the curiosity OF an
anxious and inquiring public. The Repubh-
can, under its present management, has dis
played spirit far more commendable than
that which formerly pervaded its columns, and,
barring its detestable politics, it is a very good
newspaper
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17
H. IN: Thompson,

PURCHASING hsD COLLECTING AGENCY, :
NO. Is EAST TwESTlErH STREET, NEW YORK;
osrzcIAL AsExsp ~ ssv oRIzIEs cKyssSrfl
An classes Of HEKCRAEDIsE AGRICULTURAL INA
ELEMENTS, etc., ETC., purchased commission
ood tpurchAssd only Of atst class Houses and low
40, low than parties car purchase thsnseveA
sufficient must tied freight conl
missions, the balance PAYABLE ON 9ELIVkHH.
Commissions sol xceedns sio, psi snt.; exl
eseding 500, ~ per GER,
Collections on AL p5lra promptly attended "a.
Esfersnce-OOL T. 20. NIXON propristN Of "a
L. OrIsann nxnsanEs:
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17

Morgan and Fenton are having desperate
contest for the New York senatorship. Morgan
is in, which is an advantage; but Fenton has
had more experience than his adversary in dis
pensing those inducements which are SO
powerful with Radical legislatures However,
after his disastrous failure in his campaign
against Colfax at Chicago, the lobbyists look
on him with some disfavor.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17

Our kind and ever thoughtful friend, An
drew Jackson, of Baton Rouge, has sent to
the editor of the CRESCENT most acceptable
present, being nothing less than dozen
plump birds. This is a sort of small favor
that is always thankfully received at the
CRESCENT office. and we are, therefore, under
obligations to our friend for his kind remem-
brance
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17

We have received from the Office Of the Propa.
gsteur Csiholique Sc An Historical Notice of the
Little Sisters of the Poor" pamphlet Of some
seventy pages This interesting little document is
sold for the benefit Of the House of the Little Sis.
,ers. an institution established only last year, but
Which has made its presence fel. by achieving
much real good. Let it have sigOod sale.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17
Honor Jsnere Honor Is Due.

And Is certainly due 70 Dr. WINTHALL late Of Germa
ny residing Canal street. In this ely Who 10
acompsr atve short time has cured me Of Severe
Suffering hence removed the OF al ms ~
unhsppness, impediment TO future progress 10
life Many thanks him who fully deserves ~ which,
prompted BY "a altitude cannot fail 10 express pqonciy
B. MARTIN,
Cabinet Maker, 50 Rampant street
Residenee-s9 Dryades street..
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17
sSomfherns Landsn Agency.

We orer our services for the disposal Of LANDED PRO
PERTY ETC., the southen States References and ns
ormation promptly given.
LIVINGSTON, EGERT0N & CO.,
No SO Liberty street York.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17

Now that the election is over, some of the
Radical papers are beginning to be alarmed
at the corruptions which characterize their
party, and the vast schemes Of plumber which
the Radical rings are urging upon Congress.
The Cincinnati Gazette says: THE loose en-
dowment of the Union Pacific railroad, lohOSe
recklessneSS nee are nolo beginning TO see, instead
of being a warning against any extension of
so corrupt system, is made lever for grants
of the same kind to every geographical sec
ton, and to interesting roads sufficient to
form what Is now advanced as a complete
system of railroads between the Atlantic and
Pacific. This is lrhGt might hare been expected
from heprofigate manner IN 1ohich that railroad
company lods endOloed." But the Gazette
omits to confess that the reckless prohigacy
which marked the Pacific railroad swindle,
was only a necessary development of the
"trooly loil national" policy which has ruled
the country for the last eight years.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17
Prices Reduced.
WINTER CLOTHING SELLING OFF.

We are row Offering our HEAVY WINTER CLOTHING
at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, stock down to
make Cor Spring stock.
HEAVY OvERC0ATS, BEAVER SACKS,
FANCY CASHMERE BUSINESS SUITS,
VIII be sold very low for cash Buyers will do well
PIrKIN, PERSON & CO.'S.
Il and Is Csunp street.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17
DIED.

On Thursday Dec. 3ls at IL A W. at viekshurg, Miss
Mrs. j. b. CRUMP naiye of Baltimore, aged s. years.
wife sf Msjoy John h. Crump.
kator al Intelligencer, Washington, d. c.. Baltimore
Md, and Virginia papers please copy.
On Sunday January TO- at P. NJ, RICHARD p. RICE,
aged 60 years naive of Connecticut and resident OF this
city for the last sc years.
Tuesday January r. 1862 at 1 o'c eek beloved
mother AID mother-in law. FkAeZ,SKA BELLE nee
TALLER Belenstein. Obarsircn, kingd-m OF Baden
agt d 50years. months and % days
On the part of the children; hares. frask and william
Oherle; c. Barbecke and wife, @. Weimsn aud wife; IL F..
hturcken and vile.
On the 18th inst, NJ. RANDALL MARSroN, Brevet
Major First u s. Infantry.
The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-17
MARRIED.:

In this city Wednesday 18Th nst at the residence Of
the brides isther by the Rev. DR. Lewis, Mr. wALrEa Ia
JLwELL 10 Miss CAROLINE H. HART, daughter of E.
j. Hart, Esq. NO Cards.
On Thursday December 24b at St Peters Church by the
Rev j. F. GirauIt, Hon. MORTIMERF. SMITH, of st. John
the Baptist Miss DELLA VESSEL daughter Of Chsres
Vessel, ESQ, Of this city
On Thursday evening the oath utmo by the Rev BishOp
Wilmer at Trinity Church, Mr. JOHN WAYNE to Miss
MARY s. EALER both Of this city.
On Tursdsy December sls 1868 at Christs Church by
the Right Rev. Bthop Wilmer, J. A Fl. LAGROUE TO
FLORIDA MELVILLE, youngest daughter of the late
David Melville q.
IA st. Louis Mo-. and New York papers please copy