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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-01-27


There il popular priudice concerning
the evil effects of night air, about which
n word must be said In her admirable
writings ON hygiene and the management
Of the sick. Miss Nightingale has done
much to correct this mistake. It was
formally the universal belief that the mir
Of night was very injurious But the
fact Is, that, except under certain circum-
stances, it is as healthful, or even more
so, than that of the daytime. The night
air of large cities, such as London, when
the hustle and connection, which cause
it to be loaded with dust particles, is COM
paratively quelled, and the numerous
fires which contaminate it with their
smoke are mostly extinguished, is purer
than that of the day. Nothing conduces
more to healthy sleep than good yentila-
ton, and no mode of ventilation sur
passes that obtained by opening window
at the top, by which the influence OF
draught is avoided, while the upper STRAIT
UNI of air, to which impurities ascend, is
certainly renewed. But there is still an
other reason for at times adopting night,
even In preference to-day. In sultry
weather it is a common mistake to open
the windows instead of keeping them al
together closed, as is the case in very hot
climates. But little reflection will show
that since the hight of the thermometer
in the sun always greatly exceeds that
shown at the same time by another Their
mometer placed in the shade, by opening
the window we admit air much heated in
to our rooms. The proper time, under
such circumstances, for ventilation is dur
ing the night, when the external atmos-
phere has cooled down. BY adopting
this plan in hot weather, the temperature
of room may always be kept sevesal de
grees lower than if the opposite course Is
pursued. Good Health.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-01-27
What Constitutes the Mississippi
Valley

The Mississippi Valley includes most
of Minnesota, most of Wisconsin, Illinois
and Indiana, three-fourths of Ohio, near
ly cne-half of Pennsylvania, little of
southwest New York, and west Maryland,
most of Western Virginia, western parts
of Virginia and North Carolina, north
west Georgia, north Alabama, half of
Mississippi, two-thirds of Louisiana, north
Texas, northeast corner of New Mexico,
east half of Colorado, most of Wyoming
and Montana and Dakota, and all of
Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska,
Kansas, Indian Territory, Kentucky and
Tennessee. Chicago, Milwaukee, Mar
quette, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Erie,
Dunkirk, Buffalo, Rochester, Toronto,
Oswego, Montreal and Quebec are in the
same natural valley; while in the Missis-
sippi Valley are St. Paul, Dubuque, Oma-
ha, Leavenworth, n Louis, Alton, In
dianapOlis, Cincinnati, Pittsbnrg, Louis
vile, Wheeling, Nashville, Vicksburg,
and New Orleans. Chicago Times.
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PHILIP NIcCAHE
YOUNG LADIES' INsTIC

YOUNG LADIES' INSTlI,
Has a beautiful and convenient ha
upon the eminence from which taa
name. It's history has been o. record
interrupted property.
Its course Of instruction runs .-
three departments Of four years e0a /
cial or elective courses ofstudy
sized as far as students may wbb il
advantages are thus offered young
who have already taken The orl.lr
glish studies. The best of IHr
given in music, drawmg and punlH
crn languages and other extras 3
the most competent teachcr ar
Apparatus Is furnished for ever
ment. Libraries containing .Han
sand volumes Of standard book A
accessible. Physical culture ha
tended to.
For catalogues or further Informs
dress,
REv. A. J. ROWLAND rn
or, 1. II. WHITE, treasure
No. 143 Race Street CiHg.haa-
Adg7 WY
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NOTICEABLE accordance with an act
Of the Legislature Of the State Of Mississippi,
approved, Feb. 2lst 1867, entitled an act to
Incorporate the President and Directors Of the
Mississippi Society of Arts and Sciences; on
February 2lst, I'd, 23d, oath, 18th and 18th,
1870; drawings Of Lotteries, to dispose of mo-
neys of said Association will take place at
jackson, Miss. ]. T. BURR,
Jan 20wtf President
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| MATRIMONIAL SEONOMANI-
AZ
An Arbur1l- Haired Female Who Is Bound
to Marry.
From the Louisville Courier Journal, Jan !,

Al Arbura-H Haired Female ITh0 Is Bound
to Marry.
From the Louisville Courier Journal, Jan 8
1t has been said that the chief aim of wo-
man is TO get married, and there is some evil
dence to substantiate the truth of the re-
mark. Many aud varied are the devices en-
ployed to achieve the aim. The majority of
women. bound and fettered as they are by
the customs and usages of society, wait UNI
til an eligible party offers, but occasionally
some females can't wait. and overstep the
limits laid down by society and create a sem
sati0n. a day or two since a rather good
looking, well dressed female, about y or d
years of age. with flowing hair of decided
w auburn hue, entered the office of q staid.
Well-to-do physician. and in a very modest
and lady-like manner, requested a private
interview. Such requests being matter of
everyday occurrence with physicians. the
request was at once granted. No sooner
were they alone than the lady. without any
circumlocation. informed him that she was
bound to get married, and as two were ne
cessary to bargains of that sort, she had Sc
lected him TO assist her in accomplishing her
object. Biz was biz She was ready, and
there was no necessity for delay. She was
bound TO get married, and ut once. The
worthy doctor was taken hack by the prop
osition, an4 not being prepared 70 take such
large share of matrimonial happiness on
such short notice, attempted to evade a di-
rect answer. Out the ahAAtOus taHlAle was NOT
to be put of in that way. and he only escap-
ed the hymeneal halter by informing her
that he had married only few days ago
This at once satisfied her as to him, but still
wanted to be married. Further conversation
convinced the doctor that she was a mono
maniac upon the subject of marriage. Find
ing the doctor was not eligible. she left the
office and called on several Of the neighbor-
Ing physicians, in each instance proposing
matrimony. She also called on several law
yers and merchants, but failed to find any
one willing to accept her offer She Is mod
est and lady-lIke in all her actions and con-
versation, and only upon the subject of mat
rimony does her insanity--for she Is evident
" insane upon the subject-betray itself
She is said 60 be very respectfully connect
ed, and until recently, has exhibited the
signs Of mental disorder.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-01-27

The Minneapolis Tribune says that
they have now employed in their Office a
man who has been jim the English army
for thirty-five years, was at the siege of
Lucknow, and had both ears cut off while
sticking his head out of a sallyport. He
afterwards served on the staff of Yelling
ton at Waterloo, and subsequently &C
eompanied.. Bonaparte in his celebrated
Egyptian campaign, where he was ar
rested for conniving at an elopement with
the Sphynx, and was confined In the Pyr-
amids for three years He has been in
four hundred and eighty-one pitched bat
ties, and a great many that were not
pitched. Everybody has read Of the
butcher who was killing beef for the
commissary when the Balaklaya charge
was sounded, and who seized an ak,
mounted horse and went through the
Russian battery and back safely. Well,
this is the man we are writing about
He relates that thrilling episode in his
chequered history with much enthusiasm.
He used to have medal, but a grizzly
bear snatched it off his shirt bosom while
he was laying the last tie on the China
and Siberian Railway, Eastern Division.
He says he Is now tired of travel and adj
venture, and proposes to settle down, and
it is the general opinion that he will. He
neither smokes, chewN drinks whiskey or
swears, and can set type as well as he
used to fight. He is a cuss in his way,
and can't be beat for stamps.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-01-27

NEEDING Fees. "A pigeon fancier at
Toulon has found novel use for the mar
GIN of postage stamps. When he finds a
cracked egg, and IS able to make out that
the living epiderrlis ii intact, he mends
the egg with the gunlmed paper, and re-
places it In the nest 10 be Matched. He
has done the same thing with pleasant
eggs. One precantion must be observed.
The paper used must be as nearly as pos
sible Of the same color ~ the egg, or 1t
attracts the notice Of the hen, who makes
efforts to pick il off when she turus the
egg. and IN so doing often breaks it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-01-27
The NKaddenimG Mechanism of
Thought.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks.
The Angel of Life winds them up once
for all, then closes the case, and gives the
key into the hand of the Angel of the
Resurrection. Tic-tac! tic-tacl 90 the
wheels of thought; our will cannot stop
them; they cannot stop themselves sleep
cannot still them; madness only makes
them go faster; death alone can break
into the case, and Selling the ever-swing-
ing pendulum, which we call the heart
silence at last the clicking of the terrible
escapement we have carried so long be-
meath our wrinkled foreheads. If we
could only get at them, as we lie on our
pillows, and count the dead beats of
thought after thought and image after
image Earring through the over-tired or
ganl VIII nobody block those wheels,
uncouple that pinion, cut the string that
holds these weights, blow up the internal
machine with guepowder? What a pas
sion comes over us sometimes for silence
and rest-that this dreadful mechanism,
unwinding the endless tapestry of time,
embroidered with spectral figures of life
and death, could have but one brief holi-
day? Who can wonder that men swing
themselves off from beams in hempen
lossos THAT they jump off from parapets
into the swift and gurgling waters be-
meath ?-that they take counsel of the
grim fiend who has but to utter his one
peremptory monosyllable, and the restless
machine is shivered as case that is
dashed upon marble floor? Under that
building which we pass every day there
are strong dungeons, where neither hook,
nor bar, nor bed cord, nor drinking YES
from which a sharp fragment may be
shattered, shall by any chance be seen.
There is nothing for it, when the brain is
on fire with the whirling Of its wheels,
but to spring against the stone wall and
silence them with one crash. All, they
remembered that-the kind city fathers
and the wallsare nicely padded, so that
one can take such exercise as he likes
without damaging himself IF anybody
would really contriye some kind of a lever
that one could thrust in among the works
OF thus horrid automAtion and check them
or alter their rate OF going, what would
the world give for the discoyerv2 Men
are very apt to try to get at the machine
by some indirect system or other. They
clap on the brakes by means of orir5ns
they change the maddening monotony of
the rhythm by means Of fermented LIQUORS.
It is because the brain is locked up and
we cannot touch its movements directly,
that we thrust these coarse tools in through
any crevice by which they may reach the
interior, alter its rate of going for a while,
and at last spoil the machine. Oliver
Wendell Holmes.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-01-27
COMMISSIONERS SALE
OF THE
SD wa rds' House, and other proD.
crty, i'm jackson, Miss.


ssEd wa rds' House, and other prop
crty, i'm jackson, Miss.
DY virtue of Chancery decree of the Uni
- ted States circuit-court for the Southern
District of Mississippi, rendered on the oath
day of November, 1859, in the of Lane
& Bartlett vs.. Rebecca NJ. Edwards ct al the
undersigned, Commissioner appointed by
said decree will, on the
LIST day Of February, 1870,
In front of the Capitol, in the city of jackson.
Miss, sell at public auction, to the highest
bidder, for cash, the following property in
said city, viz:
LIST Those lots of land in West Jackson on
posite the front of the Edwards House. bound
ed on the North by Capitol street, on the East
by the New Orleans, jackson and Great Nor
thern Railroad, on the South by Pearl street
and on the West by Gallatin street, lying on
both sides of the Vicksburg and Meridian
Railroad and are described in detail by a deed
from s. b. Thomas, Sheriff, &C., to Monk, Ed
wards & Co., dated January 10th, 1866, and on
file in said suit.
2d Those lots of land in West Jackson. ON
which is situated the Edwards House" and
appurtenances, bounded ON the North by Cap
itOl street, on the South by Pearl street on
the West by the New Orleans, Jackson and
Great Northern Railroad, and on the East by
lands which belonged TO Mr.. Malay, on 18th
May. 1866, being the whole of the lands now
occupied by and appertaining tOsaid Edwards
House and lying on the East side of said last
named Railroad
The above two parcels of land will be sold
separately, and with each will be sold all the
buildings, improvements, tenements, heredit-
aments and appurtenanees thereto belonging
or appertaining.
The second named parcel is the Edwards
House premises very valuable and new hotel
at the railroad crossing and depots
The first parcel is opposite to the Hotel, fronts
on both Railroads, and has on il several frame
buildings. GEO. FEARN, Com,r.
Dec. %, 1S69wEtwtds
Louisville Courier-Journal; Avalanche
Memphis; Republican, sVicksburg; Times, N
Orleans, copy and send bill to Geo. Fearn,
Jackson, Miss.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-01-27

These pretty ornaments are not at all
difficult to make. The basket, or any
other ornament is first fashioned with
copper wire, as a skeleton of the pattern
desired. For blue crystals, take a satur-
ated solution of sulphate of copper in hot
water; place the pattern or skeleton in
this liquor, and set it in quiet place; as
the solution ceols, crystals of the sulphate
will be deposited ON the wire. The first
crystals viii be small, but to increase their
size, it is only necessary to place the orna-
ments in fresh and perfectly saturated
solution of the copper salt.
For yellow crystals, use the yellow
prussiate of potash.
For ruby, use the red prussiate of pot
ash.
For white, use alum or acetate of lead.
The salts of chromium and many others
are equally applicable for this purpose,
if greater variety of color is wanted.
To preserve these ornaments in all their
beauty, they should be kept under glass
shades.
All the salts named are more soluble in
hot than in cold water; hence, as the hot
solutions become cold, part of the mate
rial is deposited; in so doing, each metal
lie salt assumes a particular shape of crys-
tai, as though endowed with vitality.
These crystals vary in form according to
the metal, but are invariably the same,
for the same metal, and are as character
istic of their origin as a flower is of the
parent plant.-American Housewife.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-01-27

Silence in the court room, there,
Numbered police magistrate, the other
morning; the court has already COM
mitted four prisoners without being able
to hear q word Of the testimony"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-01-27
cnMMISsIONERs SALE.

nY VIRTUE or q decree Of the ChanceFJ
ID Court az the United States for the South,
ern District Of Mississippi, rendered On tns
18th day Of November, 1855. IN the case OF T.
b Potts. administrafrix Of Richard Potts, de
ceased. ~ Al. j. Herod and John Carraway,
tie undersigned, viii, as Commissioner, p
pointed BY said decree, on the
20th day Of January, 1870,
In front Of the City Han. in the city Of Jack
SON. Mississippi, sell, at public auction 10 the
hirbest bidder for cash in hand, the following
property. viz: The one undivided half interest
Of said defendant, A J. HeFod, IN the Livery
Stable, known as the stable of j. b. Aiassie
Jackson Mississippi. opposite the old ''Missis-
sippianH Office, for the purpose Of satisfying
aid decree GEO. FEARN,
dee28twAwIawtds Commissioner.
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VALUABLE PLACE ron slLI

OFFER my place, ono mile sau.hH"
Jackson, containing sd acres U IauI
dwelling house and nll necps-HrF lI...
two good cisterns, and fine young HTala.
the most select fruit, choice grippe t.ae. .
berry and raspberry plantation. h.. 81.
moi sold by Feb. lst I'd viii bc rnuHI
ensuing year.
Owing TO removal j willsell chrr q.
titles, large sized Fruit ANA OruamOHH. H
shrubs, roses, &c. A rare chance is bowl
cd. a. J.. HAI.N
Jackson, Dec. 18th, rsG0twiw uaN.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-01-27
COMMISSIONERS SALE.
STATE OF MISSISSIPPLl
KINDS COUNTY.
County Court, Fir.


County Court, First District.
Thosmas f. Helm,
No. 3. VS.. In Chaneery
William Smiddey, and
Mrs. Is. Smiddey, his wife
DY VIRTUE Of a decree in favor Of plain
ID tiff in the above entitled cause, rendered
on the llth day Of February, A. ID. loo9' the
undersigned, Sheriff OF sail county ana COM
missioner, will on
Monday the 7h day Of February, A.D. 1870
Before the Courthouse door in front Of the
City Hall, in tie city Of Jackson, Miss, With
in the hours prescribed by law, expose for sale
to Ahe highest bidder, for cash, a certain tract
Of land situate in said county Of Kinds, State
Of Mississippi, bounded and described AZ fol-
lows Beginning at point where the Southern
boundary line Of the northwest quarter Of
section three, in township five, range one east,
intersects the eastern boundary line Of the
New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern
Railroad, that part formerly known as the
Canton and Jackson Railroad running thence
north eighty-nine degrees and thirty minutes,
east fourteen chains and fifteen links 20 a
stake; thence north ten degrees, east ten
chains and seventy-two links 20 n stake in the
southern boundary line Of thirty foot street
laid out from the western side of the public
cemetery of said city of Jackson 20 said Rail-
road, thence south eighty-nine degrees and
thirty minutes, west, along said Southern
boundary line Of said street sixteen chains
and twenty-ei ght links 10 a stake in said east
ern line Of said Railroad, thence South four
degrees east along said eastern line OF said
road ten chains and lightweight links 10 the
place of beginning, containing sixteen and
35-lO0 acres more or less, the same being the
western part OF the lot number eleven, section
three, township five, range one, west and
known as part Of the Cohea tract, and being
the same described in the Promissory note Of
the defendant Mrs. Is. Smiddey, alias Smithey
sued on In this case.
J. L. LAKE, JR.
Jan. 6, s70w3w Sheriff and Commissioner.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-01-27
$%>f$

Mrs. Irwin, a sister of Mrs. Stonewall
jackson, has secured patent for an inn
provement in the construction of houses,
which it Is claimed, will create a new era
in architecture. Mrs. Irwin proposes six
walled or hexagonal apartments, which
are not only much handsomer, but really
cheaper than the quadrangular form. A
wall of eighty feet built in the hexagonal
form incloses a third more space than the
same length Of wall built in the square
form, and as these hexagonal rooms fit
into each other without loss Of space, the
gain in the whole building is very great
The patentee also claims that this mode
of building gives greater degree of
strength than any other, and that this
mode of building, in the hands of good
architect, is capable of assuming greater
artistic beauty than the square of quad
rangular form. The octagonal building
attracted good deal of attention some
years ago, but the hexagonal is claimed
to be something entirely new.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-01-27

The Engine be used either Portable Stationary The
of when mOved rfuHI
liken o. A. Ie
ed 70 n
Of
other Wood Working Machinery
Send 70 Crculnr. 0gwGm
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DO YOUR OWN PRINTING
WITH
NOVELTY JOB PRINTING PRESS

MORTGAGE BLANKS, to secure advances
w % planters, for sale At this othce. Orders
allied By mail or Express.
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VICTOR CANE MILLS.

VICTOR CANE MILLS.
Cook s Evaporators: for either Southern Cane
or Sorgnmi Church, School and Plan
tation Bells, of fine tone and at small cost
Fan Mills, Corn Crushers, &c.
Our foods are selected with full knowledge
OF the kind of work needed in the Southwest
and we guarantee every machine we furnish to
be effective Of the object for which it was de-
signed.
Fertllizers-zelt's Phosphate, Pure Peruvian
Guano, Raw Bone Dust and Plaster. Dis
counts made to Wholesale dealers and agents.
Call on or address,
THoS. B. BODLEY & CO..
mylow4t"u No. 9, Perdido ST., N. o.
The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1870-09-07
REFORM IN THIS DISTRICT

We are rejoiccd to state that our pco-
pie are oil becoming interested in the
great work ofReform. Several large and
influential meetings have been recently
held in various parts Of the district, at
which much enthusiasm prevailed; and
especially are NO plcased'.o learn that
these meetings are we'll attended by the
negroes, many of whom openly declare
in favor of Reform. From what We can
learn on this subject since our return
home, We arc satisfied that change is
taking placc'in the minds orthe negroes,
and that they will not be such unit for
Governor Scott as Judge Orr predicts.
These meetings were addressed by white
and black speakers, with the mcst en-
couraging results. They should be con.
tinued to be held in every nook and
corner of the district, and tho people
instructed on the subject of Reform.
The opposition to the present rulers
and the reasons therefor should bo ex
planned to the people. There are men.
in every ncighborhood who can do this
if they will. Tho times and circum-
stances require no Dcmosthcncan effort
at rhetoric and defamation. Plain ami
stubborn lacts, clucidatcd in tho sim
plest and most comprehensive style is
the most effective weapon Of oratory in
this canvass. Let every community
assemble and use its influence to further
the cause Of Reform. a vast deal o;
good can be accomplished in this way.
Lct the people aros*e themselves to
the emergency and work until virtue,
intelligence and worth triumph over ig.
norancr, dishonesty and incomrctcnoy.
=. Einystrse ,Stur, A"yua 81.
The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1870-09-07
NORTH CAROLINA.

RALElGI, September Stu the cnsc
of TuYpcr as. Holden, aud others,
Judge Dick gave, as his opinion, that o
warrant could not be issued against the
Governor for any excess Of authority in
the discharge Of the functions OF his
Executive office. Thc Court holds that
a bench warrant cannot run to the
Counties Of Alamance and Caswell,
while in IL State Of insurrectiun, against
military officers acting under orders of
the Governor; but warrants will be-
Issued for the arrest Of Colonel Kirk
Bergen and Alexander Rnllin, to be
executed anywhere in the State, except
in tho Counties Of Alamancc nhd Cas-
we'll. Tho Court holds that court OF
impeachment is the proper form for
abuse of Executive authority, and that
subordinate agents OF Tho Governor are
not free from arrest for any abuse Of
authority, when outside of any insur
rcoirnary districts. Warrants accord
inSly were issued TO the Shcrifo Wake
County, commanding him to take Kirk
and Bergen, now in Jail. and Alexander
Ruilin, wherever 70 be I"nnd, except in
Alamsnoc md Caswcll, aud tho warrant
was made returnable at Grccnsboro.- -
Kirk is now in Alannnce. aud since
this discussion. ii IL likely he will re
main. Judge Bond, ofthc Unilel States
Circnit Court. sent for by Holden, ar
rived IN the city this evening. 1t is
not known, yet, tho object OF his mis-
sion.