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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-02
COTTON STATEMENT

Stock OF hand September !, l6,e-pale. 2o66
Arrived since last statement....t.. f.J2i
Arrived previous y.............H-. ~ Is rs 1873
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-02
LOTTERIES.
DRAWING OF THE 1oUlslANA
srATE LOTTERY FOR NOVEMBER 1, 1870.
CLASS 259.

T OUISIANA STATE LOTTERY
COMPANY.
Incorporated August H. 1868.
CHARLES r. HOWARD. .............. PRESIDENT.
SINGLE NUMBER LOTTERY.
SPLENDID SCHEME-ONLY 10000 NUMBERS.
Capital Prize. $50, 600.
CLASS =,
TO BE DRAWN AT NEW ORLEANS ON
Saturday, November 10, 1870.
HOWARD, SIMMONS l. CO., Contractors.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
The Range OFthe Human Eye

The range of the human eye may
b" judged of from n consideration
which gives us at the same time n
good idea of the scope of animal
structure. Supposing that an indi-
vIdual of every known species were
to to take its stand between the two
species that respectively the
next larger and the next smaller
than itself. the smallest known AMI
NAL at one extremity of the line.
and the largest standing at the 9TH
or /; and then suppose we were to
Ask which creature occupied the
middle place, having as many dc
grees of size below it as above, and
as many above it as below, that
place would be founi to be occus
pied by the common house-hy.-
What a stupendous optical Instru-
ment must that be which, assisted
with q few brass tubes ard some
disks of glass, shall discern a crea-
turs as much smaller than a fly, as
a fly is smaller than an elephant -
little Things of Nature.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
VICTIM Of RELIGIOUS EN-
CITEM ENT.

We have the distressing intelli-
gence that Mrs. Hudson, wife of
Rev. Hudson of the NJ. E. Church,
who resided in this city last fall,
came to her death in Il very sudden
hammer on Saturday night last. 1t
seems that IN company with her
husband she had been attending the
religious revivals now so common
in many places. II had been motto
cd that for a few days she had act g.
ed very straDgely-the result Of the
mental excitement under which she
IabOred. On Sunday morning a
bout n O'Clock, she got up, partly
dressed herself and left the house.
Her husband was soon apprrsed of
her absence and Immediately went
in search, but as it was dark he
could not tell the direction she had
taken. She was not found until
nine o'clock on Sunday morning,
when her body was discovered in
Oneleg creek, some considerable
distance from New Cumberland,
where she resided. How she came
TO her death a only be inferred ;
but 1t seems probable that 1t was
her own act. She leaves, we are
sorry to say, a large family.-TNew
Philadelphia (O) Democrat.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
Driving Boys From Home.

Mothers who are disturbed by the
noise and untidiness of boys at home
must be careful, lest, by their reproa-
ches, they drive their children from
home, in search of pleasure elsewhere.
There are those balusters all finger
marks again" said Mrs. Cary, as she
made haste with a soft linen cloth to
polish down the shining oak again.
George" she said, with a flushed face,
as she gave the cloth adecided wrench
out of the basin of suds, 'if you go up
these stairs again before bedtime you
shall be punished r
81 should like to know where l am
to go p said George, angrily. 81 can't
stay in the kitchen, ! am so in the
way and L can't go in the parlor for
fear l shall muss that up, and now you
say | can't 60 up to my room. 1 know
a grand place where 1 can GO" he adj
ded to himself; ''boys are never told
they are in he way there, and we can
have lots of fun. I'll go down to Niles
corner. l can smoke a cigar now as
well as any boy, if it did make me aw
full sick the first time. They shall not
laugh at me again about it."
And % the careful ho~usekeeper vir-
tually drove her son from her door, TO
hang about the steps and sit under the
broad inviting portico of the village
grog-shop. -[T'ortland Transcript.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
A PrinceIy

Grace Greenwood, in her notes a.
bout Washington, naIrates the follow
ing, in which some of our readers may
find something funny
IAN amusing anecdote of a chance
encounter with royalty, is going about
just now. While the Prince and party
were en- route from New York, a IVES
tern man got on the train at Baltimore
on the Junction, and by mistake made
his way into the special car, where he
quietly took a seat. Presently, seeing
q nice young man reading a paper, he
stepped up to the stranger, then lack
ing old Jacks loyal instinct, thus &C.
costed the true Prince: "Have you
done with this paper, Sir p A stare of
establishment was the only reply. A
gain he asks, raising his voice, "Have
you done with this paper, Sir ?" A
gain the same mute, amazed Teply-a
steady of Guelphic stare. 1t is highly
probably his highness had never be-
fore been addressed after the plain
Republican style. At this point the
indignant traveller broke forth, "Why
in and - words which / really can
not bring myself to write, though l re-
member to have encountered them in
various religious publications. cant
you say yes, or nor "Well, yes, them
said the Prince, which was good natu-
red, and sensible, but dreadfully I'M
Princely.'
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
z
AND
AND
RenOVating Machine.
PATENTED JUNE IIth, 1867.

The most successful Feather Dresser ever
offered to the public, and we venture the
prediction that ;t never will be excelled, for
il proves To be exactly what all conditions
and qualities of Feathers need to render
them light, clean and healthy. The clean
sing is done entirely by steam. No fire
comes near the feathers, consequently no
possibility of burning, seoTching, or other
wise ~injuring them, which is an objection
able feature in hot air and fire dressing ms
chimes. BY this process all moths are des-
troyed and removed. the Feathers cleans
ed, the fbres relieved from their matted
positions, giving to a bed an astonishing
increase in bulk, often more than one half ;
also removing all Gisagreeable scent, which
is so very common to new as well as old
feathers-ln fact giving, the appearance
and essential qualities Of new Feathers, and
relieving them from all liability to moths,
bv the removal Of the gummy or lutinous
matter from the quill. an all places where
this machine has been introduced, I have
been presented with testimonials Of the
most approved character, from ladies and
gentlemen of the first responsibility, ex-
pressrve OF their entire confidence in his
method Of renOvating Feathers, not only on
account of the present beauty and ~increas.
ed comfort they afford, but also on account
Of the confident belief they entertain of the
durability OF the work. MaDyOf these per-
sons speak from positive knowledge, hav-
ing had beds dressed BY steam more than
twenty years ago, and they consider the ex-
pense trih ing compared withthe benefits de-
rived. Ticks of beds dressed, will be wash
ed if desired, for so cents. One bed only
dressed at a time, consequently there will
be 10 mixing Of Feathers. E9- Give me
your best or poorest, old or now, provided
they are Geese or Duck Feathers, and ItoiII
~lrGTTaAt satisfaction or no cAGrqe!
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
LOngeVity-The Oldest Man in
Ohio.
Cor. Wooster Republican.

Mr.. EDIroR: You were under a
slight mistake in your last issue in an
nounring the death of Mr. Sweick of
Ashland county. You say he was aged
9S years, and was the oldest man in
Ohio. That l might know how much
you were mistaken, | visited Mr.. John
Folgate, of Jefferson, Wayne county,
since l saw your notice. He informed
me that he had lost his family record,
but that he was born in March, l765,
and would be los years old in next
March. That would make him about
seven years older than Mr.. Sweick
was Mr.. Fo'gate said he was too old
to be in the army of 1912 that he VO-
ted for General Washington at his first
and second elections as President, and
has voted at every Presidential cleo
ton since, voting successfully the cd
Wing and Republican tickets.
found him making a whipstock.-
He had a number of others finished
and a lot of ax-handles standing in his
room, which he lately made. lie makes
a good ak handle yet, and up to the
last FIVE or six years he was in the ha-
bit of making weekly trips on foot to
Wooster with q load of ax-handles or
hay forks, and would return home be-
fore some of his neighbors were out Of
bed, having walked about nine miles.
He says he was always an early riser,
and when a young man followed wag-
ons, and would be off for Baltimore
with his team before other teamsters
we're up lie was then in the habit of
taking a morning dram, hut for many
years has used no intoxicating drink,
nor tobacco in any form, l have known
him about forty years and never heard
of a fault laid to his charge. He has
for many years been q faithful, exem>
plary Christian, and a member of the
Evangelical Church. His mind shows
but little of the pressure of years. His
sight is a little dim and his ear some
what dull of hearing but he is very
cheerful and converses freely and is
willing 10 live on, but is waiting pa
tiently the will of the Divine Master to
take a transfer to the Church trium-
plant.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
WOman's Sense and WOman's
Voting.

Jennie June, writing to the New
York World in relation to the Cook
Johnson scandal, says:
There is a silly recklessness about
the conduct of many young girls with
regard to married men, due partly to
their ignorance and partly to their va
nifty, which mothers are principally re-
sponsible for.
Let young girls be taught the truth
and loyalty 10 every woman as part of
their creed.
Let them understand that words and
attentions that can have no honorable
meaning are an insult, not a compli
ment; and that the man who persists
in them takes it for granted that the
girl he addresses is vile as well as fool
ish.
If a girl Of eighteen is perfectly ire
sponsible, and don't know what men
mean when they make love to her and
ask her to run away with them, how
old ought she to be before she has 4
vote, and is admitted to work with
men in machine shops and governments
offices ?
s. B. A, stand up and answer
The truth is, if women are to be
good for any thing, they must be
taught that they are responsible for
themselves as soon rs they have the
power to distinguish good from evil.
Men are not, and never can be, the
guardians of their purity they must
be their own.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
The Legal Tender Act.

The Gin. Enquirer says "Chief
Justice Chase and a majority Of the
Supreme Court of the United States
have decided that the Logan Tend
er Act, 50 far as it dates backward
and applies 20 contracts before It's
passage, Is unconstitutional. Of
this we never had a doubt. This
objection was urged against the
law at the time with much force by
Mr.. George II. Pendleton and other
Democratic Congressman. But it
has wiped out most of the Indebt-
edness existing previous TO that
time. What can be done about II Z
Have the parties interested u right
to sue and recover the balance due
them in gold
by a parity of reasoning, it fol-
lows that if a contract DO made pay
able in gold before the wal if cans
not he paid in legal tenders alter
the passage of that act ; that a con-
tract made in legal tenders San not
be enforced in gold. The Cohstitu-
tion says that no law shall be pass
ed impairiDg the obligations of a
contract. Therefore the contract
made 10 legal tenders for the bonds
should be paid in legal tenders at
the value the latter possessed whom
the contract was made"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
Stlett Mlisttuanp.
MRS. DIR Mary walker and a
Suspicious Old LADY.

Mrs. DR.. Walker, having occasion re-
Gently to pass up the Missouri river,
was interviewed at New Madrid by the
editor of the Record, and in the course
of the conversation Mary related the
following amusing incident of her war
experience in Georgia:
/ frequently rode outside our lines
and visited the farm houses, where l
found much restitution among the wo-
men. The men were generally absent
in the Confederate army, or had fed at
our approach. 1 administered to a
great many sick among those destitute
Georgians. On one occasion l called
at the house of an old lady, who was
sick, and had quite a pretty young
daughter living with her. l prescrib-
ed for the old lady and furnished her
with medicine and some needed deli
cacies, and gave her great and speedy
relief. At her request remained all
night, and there being no vacant bed
in the house, slept with the daughter.
Soon after l was called upon to visit a
very sick young man in the same
neighborhood. By proper medical
treatment and attention he was soon
eonvalescent, and l suddenly became
very famous in that neighborhood.-
Exaggera'ed accounts of my skill and
learning were noised abroad, and
reached the ears of the old lady Just
mentioned. Not long after / was ov-
ertaken by night outside of the lines,
and called upoL. the old lady for mo-
iher nights entertainment. To my
surprise, she seemed reluctant and
h~esitating, and then said
Look here, I'm afeared of you I'm
afeared to let you sleep here with my
daughter again, for I'm afeared you
amt a woman /; 1 don't believe airy
woman could know as much about doc
toring folks as you do"
1 tried to disabuse her mind of such
an impression, but she only shook her
head and said, "Im afeared-Td rath-
er not"
At length unfastened my hair and
shaking it out upon my shoulders,
said
Look here, did you ever see a man
have such hair as that d? Is not that a
woman's hair 2"
'Oh, ] don't know" said the old wo-
man, folks has got a curious way of
fastening hair on their heads in these
days, and maybe its just fastened on
there. I'd rather not let you sleep
with my daughter any more. You
know too much for a woman"
l tried other means with better sue
cess, and greatly relieved, the old lady
again put mt in her daughters bed.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
'"WASHINGTON SOCIETY,"

Senator Pomeruy is actively get
ting up q committee for the abolir
ton Of abuses about the Capital. If
it carries GU. its work it will abol-
ish Pomeroy himself. A temper
ance society for the women of the
Capital would not be the least ap-
proprIate measure this season: A
scene at a late reception, at the
house of an ultra fast political peo-
pie either, was as follows, or sufi-
GENTLY near it: Wife ofa money!
ed committeeman, in a biissiul state,
enters the pEneh-room on her hus-
bands arm. A Radical politician
passing, she greets him Say,
Charley, won't you drink some
champagne in my shoe ?" Radical
politician bushes dangerously
Husband, appealingly "My dear,
I think the carriage must be ready
by this time" Such things happen
ia New York at the Bal d. Artisles ;
here they are incidents OF Wash
ington Society ."ICorrespOndenee
New York World.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
Fruit as AntI-DyspeptIcs.

1t is often remarked that apples eat
en- raw are the best anti-dyspeptics to
be found. Then is it not an astonish-
ing thing that wi h all the apples and
other fruit with which America now a.
rounds, we are almost a nation ofdys-
peptics. Butt if we consider how nine
tenths of The apples are eaten we will
cease to be astonished.
Who ever thinks of putting a dish of
apples on the table as a part of the
meal, though the cellar may be full of
rich mellow fruit2 Sometimes they
may be brought on with the dessert,
but eve that is seldom. They are
sometimes eaten directly afterward,
while the stomach is already b%urdened,
or between meals, when it needs time
to clear itself and have rest, then fruit
is oftcner q curse than a blessing
The health of the nation will never be
improved by the use of fruits till we
learn to eat them as a part Of our every
day meas.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
Popular Errors.

To think the more o man eats the
fatter and stronger he will become
To believe that the more hours child
rem study the faster they learn. To
conclude that, if exercise is good, the
more violent it is the more good is
done. 10 imagine that every hour ia
ken from sleep is m hour gained. To
act on the presumption that the small
est room in the house is large enough
to sleep in To argue that whatever
remedy causes one to feel Immediate
ly better is good for the system, with
out regard to more Interior effects. To
without an appetite or to contir-
ue to eat after it has been satisfied,
merely to crafty the taste. To eat a
hearty supper for the pleasure exper-
fenced during the brief time it is pass
ing down the throat, at the expense of
a whole night of disturbed sleep and
a weary waking in the morning.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
MODES OF

Observing persons move slow;
their heads move alternately from
side 20 side, while they occasionally
stop and turn around.
Careful persons lift their feet high
and place them down quietly by
the side of the way.
Calculating persons generally
walk with their hands in their
pockets and their heads slightly
inclined.
Modest persons generally step
softly, tor fear of being observed.
Timid persons often step off from
sidewalk on meeting another,
and always go around instead of
stepping over it.
WIde-awake persons "toe ont"
and have a long swing to their
arms. while their hands move about
miscellaneously.
Careless persons are forever Stub
bIng their toes.
Lazy persons scrape about loose~
ly wish their heels, and are first on
one side of the walk, theL on the
other.
Very strong minded persons have
their toes directly IN front Of them,
and have a kinb of stamp move
ment.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
9uIitiraI.
Another Nomination TO Fill
the United States Supreme
Bench Vacancy.

Under date of February 10th,
"Mack" writes from Washington, as
follows:
"The White House Gift Enter
prise would be much less objection
able to the people, much less harms
fEl TO the country, if its eontribu~
tions werc paid more promptly-if
the drawings took place more FREE
quently, and the prizes were awar-
ied with greater p~unctuality. But
this thing of letting it drag Its slow
course along through the space of a
year or more, and allowing long,
dreary months to intervene between
the donation and the Office, Is an in
tolerable bore-not alone to the un-
fortunate contributor, whom 1t
keeps in the straight jacket of anx-
ious expectancy, but to the country
generally, whose people are inter-
ested moro or less in the patronage
of the Administration, to the extent
eff seeing IT ftly bestowed Who
would have thought that Grants
magnificent villa at Bong Branch
would come into consideration at
this late day to decide the claims OF
rival candidates for the vacant seat
on the Supreme Benchf YetIt has
done so. The decision has been
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18

se- Dom PIatt (RadicaD, writ
ing of the $4,000 Appropriation by
Congress ostensibly 10 feed the poor
of Washington city this winter, but
really as a corruption fund to carry
the next municipal election there
for the present Radical Office hold
ers by negro votes, says:
sit would be far better If they
would try and pay some of our just
debts. l am told that there is law
upon the statute book prohibiting
any citizen of State, lately in re-
volt, from being paid for property
taken by our soldiers during the
laIe war.
That's Reputation for you, and
I have not heard one shrek from
my honorable friend Horace Gree
ley. know of a loyal woman, for
merly Of Cincinnati, and lately Of
Virginia, who had her possessions
swept clean by u soldiers, the Of
fcers assuring her that they would
see to the repayment"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
From the GAINESVILLE Signal.
Clover And Lower, As We
Go On.''

1t is a conventIonaIity with GER
tain of our Radical cotemporarIes
and fellow-citlzens to refer to eve-
rything Democratic as "low," "vul-
gar" &c. A great many weakwill-
ed people r the slaves Of this false
sentiment, being afraid to think
and vote independent of those who
assume to control their political ac-
ton by means OF social or other IN
1uences. This insolent Assumption
of superiority or caste on the part
of these people has very poor IN
stances of degelopment in the pvlit
ical world. Its latest browning
piece, President Grant, is thus ALA
ded 10 by the Washington corre
pendent of a leading Radical journ-
al, with reference to Grants life at
Long Branch. last summer, and the
late ~imbroglio of a portion of his
family in the gold market:
Fast men, fast women and fast
horses make u horrible nightmare
one regrets To see revived. l don't
place much show by official dignity,
but we do want q little sense Of
propriety in the agents we have
honored with the highest Offices IN
the gift of the people. And in this
respect the Executive Mansion now
seems to be fatcd. 1t seems to sink
lower and lower as we go en-. We
breathed easier when the inebrIat>
ed Andrew could no longer cling to
the iron railing IN front and address
the rabble BY torch light, while the
American people blushed in shame
at the exhibition. We turned TO
the silent. quiet soldier for relief,
and now find the Fisk Gould-Cor-
bin crowd. But l do rot care to
dwell upon the subject"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
. Railroad Haunted by the
Spirit of a Victim.

The Boston papers publish the fol-
lowing strange but not we'll authentic
ated story:
"The engineer ola fraight train on
the Boston and Lowell railroad, which
leaves Boston about three O'Clock in
the morning, has on several occasions
discovered a red light swinging at a
furious rate at the Woburn Station,
where the train stops for water. The
light would sometimes be in front and
sometimes in the rear of the train.
When the engineer would stop his
trains send some one to learn why the
signal to stop was made, the messeng-
er would be greatly surprised to see
the light vanish. Investigation has
proved that no person was there with
a lantern, and the braEemen and con-
ductor concur also in having beheld
the phenomenon which so far as now
known, is without visible cause
Some laborers living on the line Ct the
above station say that a few mornings
since they were coming down the road
IN a hand car, when they suddenly
heard the approach Of an engine and
train, and showing that no train was
due at that vicinity at that hour, they
became greatly frightened, and jump
ing out of the car, threw it off the
track to await the train which they
thought was coming at a rapid pace
upon them, but which, it is needless to
say, did not ome The superstitious
regard the affair as a forewarning of
some disaster, while the >piritualists
have the ready theory hat it is the
spirit of a man who was killed there's A.
bout two years since"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18

The Hamilton Butler Co..
Democrat says A farmer living a
short distance from that city made
4 visit to his father-inNlaw, VaIen-
tine Weber. who resided there
The farmer had left his team hlteh
ed to a post on theside of the street
and some time after dark he started
for home and found his horses
lame. Upon examination he found
that their limbs had been cut in
various places by a sharp lnstru-
ment. The incarnato devil who
could iufiIct such injury upon a
dumb brute is beneath the beast in
every sense, and is fit only to asso-
ciato with bowling devils, chained
in eternal FIRE IN the hottest part OF
the eternal regions,