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HENRY T. HELMBOLD'S IMPROVED
ROSE WASH

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I9r diseases ~ the uinay organs nom habits al dis
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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14

\ travelling correspondent of
the Massachusetts PlOuShman
writes rs follows from The far
West:
On our return from Colorado
City, by tho route Of the Denver
and Rio Grande at the base of
the mountains. the invitation of
the railroad company was ac-
cepted for Il short trip by the
first train of the first narrow
gauge road in America. The
track was finished only a few
miles out, yet an opportunity
was afforded to learn the char
actcr and quality of the accom-
modation afforded by the equip
ment of this class Of roads. The
engines have thirty-siX inch
drivers, four wheels coupled, one
pair small leading wheels, cylin-
ders 9X16 inches, weight on
drivers ten tons, weight of en-
gines twelve and one-half tons.
The tender has four wheels and
weighs seven and onc-half tons.
The passenger cars have eight
twenty-four inch wheels, length
of thirty-tive feet, width inside
six and onc-half feet, height in
side seven and one-half feet,
height from rail to floor beams
twenty-scvcn inches. Seats arc
arranged two on one side and one
on the other. Another design
has revolving chairs for twenty
eight passengers. Smoking, mail
and baggage cars are convenient
ly fitted, the former with q
double sofa seat lengthwisc in
the middle OF the car. The
freight cars have four instead Of
eight wheels, and have 4 carry
ing capacity Of five tons with a
car weight Of two tons.
The weight of rail used is
thirty pounds per yard, and the
cost Of road and equipment is
stated at about S13,5 per mile.
The Kansas Pacific cost S23,5OO
per milo. 1t is assumed that the
cost Of construction, equipment,
or running, cannot exceed sixty
per cent of such cost in roads of
the usual gauge; and that it may
often be found practicable to
operate such roads over routes
that might fail to supply busi-
ness enough to support a road
that costs nearly double, both in
making and running.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14
Despotism in Taxation.

The st. Louis Republican. III
publishing the statement of the
aggregate debt binding on the
Southern States, amounting to
, $214, ,OOO, 900, makes the follow
ing remarks:
There is nothing substantial in
the shape of increased wealth to
show for all this. It has been
simply stolen. This sum gives
but poor idea of the actual bur
dens the impoverished South has
been compelled to bear. The
rate of county taxation is simply
incredible, and would not be be-
lieved, if we had not official data
to go upon. Take Mississippi,
for instance. The county taxa
ton assessed in 1860 was 1884,
9OS. In 1870, with an assessa-
ble list of only $177,278,S68.
against tho sum of $5O9, 9,472,912.
the rate was $2,17O,9S3. How
the people are able to bear this,
seems to us a mystery.
But tho case of Louisiana is
still worse, and the work of pill
age and rapine seems to have
been carried ON there without
conscience or stint.
In 1860 the valuation of prop
erty in Louisiana was $435, 7S7,-
2G5, and the county taxation was
$44O,13S. In 1870, while the
taxable property was reduced to
$245, 5,S7O,274, the parish taxation
was $4,1O9,999.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14
The Mormon Question.
Tl'ronl the st. Louis Times.

FROM the St. LOUIS llhlts.
Ii is evident enough to any
one acquainted at all with Amer
lean politics, that no territorial
laws recognizing Il social condi-
ton unknown to the constitution,
abhorrent to the common law,
and incoherent with the matri-
monial theories of an advanced
civilization, can long be sus-
tanned in Utah or i'll any other
part of the national domain.
There are several acts of the
Mormon Legislature so mani
festly in contradiction of various
acts of Congress, that the en-
forccmcnt Of either, is likely to
be attended with considerable
trouble and bad feeling; and
there is no immediate prospect of
getting quietly rid of Mr.. Brig
ham Young and his trusted apos-
ties.
The cNpurgation of the poly
gamous system has to be con-
summated by degrees, with dis
crction, by measures of policy
rather than those of force; but
that tho social and industrial sys-
tenn built up ut Salt Lake
through the ingenious abilities
Of President Young, must sooner
or later give place. to better and
wiser Institutions, there can be
no sort of question. The dis
pensation that prevailed with
Solomon is not the thing for this
age, however bad the people are
with or without it. Tho evils of
which we complain in Utah, are
not to be cured by giving them
freer license neither is the social
immortality of the day to be
remedied in any section of the
country by granting its indul-
gences.
The vice of licentiousness is to
be dealt with legally, as we deal
with any other vice. All encour-
agement to its practice-alltoler
alton of it's eNccsses-lnust be
suppressed, wherever they exist,
and it is quito evident that the
Mormon kingdom needs fully as
much discipline as any other sec
ton of the country.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14
Texas Pacific Railroad.

Ex-senator Harris of this State.
in a recent speech in San Diego.
assured his hearers that there was
not, nor had not been any disa-
greement between the Directory
and President Roberts, that all
was working harmoniously, that
the purchase had been made of
the Southern Transcontinental
aud the Memphis and Ell Paso
Company" and nothing remain
cd to complete the arrangement
but Il few trivial details.
That operatiossswould be COM
menced as soon as the laws of
Texas requiring the broad guage
to all Railroads built in that
State was SO changed as to con-
form to the narrow guage deter
mined on by the Directors for
the Texas Pacific of which he
was well assured Tid0li0 Her.
O2H
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14
A Carrier Pigeon.

"A Now Jersey paper asserts
that the father OF u lad belong
ing to Whippany has received
the message given below, which
tho lad forwarded by carrier
pigeon from his vessel, the home
of the bird being at Montclair.
The Trenton Gazette says a cal
culation of the time showed that
the bird averaged over $50 miles
an hour:
"Dcar Eather-Sept. 10, 1871,
lat. 80 deg. 2 NJ, Ion. "a deg. II
w., 600 statute miles from Mont
clair, N. il will let the young
female bird Tempest go with this
note at exactly 10 o'clock, A. M,
New York time. She is good for
200 miles an hour. All well.
"HARRY @. BLEECKER.'
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14
4 First.Class Notice Of TiltOn's
Book.
[From tho Boston Traveller

tErom tho Boston Traveller.
Theodore Tilton has written n
life of Victoria G. Woodruff,
which, for blasphemy, indecency,
and lunacy combined, has proba-
bly, never been equalled. She is
gravely declared to be possessed
by the spirit of Demosthenes,
who, in bodily form, appears to
her, sits by her side, and dictates
those fearful and wonderful pro-
nnnciamentos which flow from her
unconscious lips, and. are taken
down by one of her husbands
and given to the world in print.
She is declared to have watched
increasingly for ton days and
nights, without rest or food, over
a sick woman, till the latter was
restored to health; she herself
growing all tho timc fair and
ETHEREAL, and her flesh wearing a
look OF transparency, thus lead
ing her to believe that at last in
this way will tho mortal body be
refined away, and tho soul only
remain. She is declared to have
held to her bosom in seven
hour trance the body of her dead
son, till perspiration broke from
his clammy skin, and the child
came back to life, and her vera
cious biographer adds that it is
"her belief that the spirit of
Jesus Christ brooded over the
lifeless form, and rewrought the
miracle of Lazarus for Il SORROW
ing woman's sake" Her omar
riage' to her second husband,
and her support under tho same
roof of her first, are treated as
exhibitions of moral courage "for
which she has received not so
much censure Oh earth as l think
she will receive reward in heaven"
And to crown the absurdity and
wickedness of this dreadful pro-
duction, the author says "Twice
(as she mistakenly believes) she
has seen q vision of Jesus Christ
thus doubly over st.
Paul, who saw his Master but
once, and then was overcome by
tho sight" Verify, since the
red handed atheists of the first
French revolution elevated and
worshipped a harlot in the place
of the God of heaven, there has
been no parallel to the deifica-
ton of Victoria 9. Woodruff by
Theodore Tilton.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14
Til" Republican Party in New York

From the y. q. Bulletin.
The Republican papers of New
York continue their animadyer-
sions upon the Syracuse Conven-
tion. Tho Evening Post de-
nounccs it as $50 failure" and
uses this strong language about
it: ''Thc utter incompetency of
the Republican leaders of this
State to guide the reform move
mcnt or to reOrGaniZe the party
respectfully is confirmed by the
disgraccful proceedings of this
convention.'' The Sun says the
party is "split like Il watermelon"
charges the whole blame of the
performance directly upon Grant.
and calls for his withdrawal as n
candidate for tho Presidency.
The Tribune bows to the circum-
stances with evident disgust. In
its virtuous heat it applies to the
victorious clique of the Radical
party names which are generally
held in sacred reserve for tho
Democracy. 1t raves about the
'intrigucs'' "false office-holders,"
who 'revel in the spOils and par
Gel out the ofiices,'' and with
lofty disdain advises the "new-
made oracles" to enjoy their
tlccting triumph while they may.
Even the Times is far from hap
py. 1t whincs about future har-
mony and reconciliation, and the
unreasonable pride and pcrsis-
tence" of the boiling faction. 1t
also regrets with an exceeding
great regret that the convention
did not solve the Tammany prob
lem according to the vigorous
and crucial methods SO dear to
its own heart. And thus it ap-
pears that no one is satisfied
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14

The Dutch pride themselves as
most successful in agriculture. 1t
is true their land generally shows
IL good state of cultivation. The
larger portion of their land is nat
urally rich, still in sections it is
nothing but sand to begin with.
These waste places they redeem,
by sowing them first with heath
which will thrive in the most bar
rem soil. After this has spread
over the surface, they cut it off
and plant the ground with broom
letting this grow for some three
years. By this time, the ground
has undergone a chemical change
SO that it will produce buck
wheat.
After they have taken off a crop
Of this wheat, they SOW clover
seed, and after it has come up in
blossom, they plough it in. From
this time they enrich the soil with
manure and it will produce rye
and potatoes.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14
ENENIALE INSTITUTE,
MONROE, LA,

Rcv. Charles z. Evans, Friuaips;.
The second term of this institution will
commence on Monday, .ith of September
next, in the Methodist j.. Church i'll Monroe.
A thoroughly competent teacher has been
employed who, with myself, will give faith
ful attention to the advancenncnt Of the
classes.
Iuttto, per term OF t'ccHty sceeEs:
Primary classes $1,000; intermediate c $4,000;
academic $500; music, extra, So. 90; modern
languages, extra each, $500; book-k ecping,
extra, $500; incidentais Sl.0o.
From the date of entry to the close Of the
term no deductions will be made for alb
sence, except in cases OF protract cd sickness.
Reports of standing of pupils Will be made
monthly.
1t will be greatly to Tho interest of the
scholar and the school for those intending
to patroniZe either tie Male or Female
school to start promptly on the 18th of Sep
temtar. For fur;h information apply to
c. j.. EVANS. Principal.
Monroe, Aug. IL. ISL. .t1-tf
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14
A Bevy Of Beauties OH their Travels.

a man who lately met Mrs. Lu-
cinda II. Stone, who is travelling
in Europe with her school Of
twenty-siX young ladies, gives
quite q description of the ga
mcrican bcauties," as he calls
them. He thinks if Mrs. Stone
gets safely back with them all,
she will be u lucky woman, and
the men abroad have not the
taste he gives them credit for.
She is quick and vigilant, but, he
asks what can one poor woman
do with Il bcvy of young girls
who arc as playful as kittens, as
full of trolic, and as careless OF
consequences. Thcirmanners, and
the freedom with which they con-
Verse with AL classes when they
can, make them general faVorites,
and this comfy adds to the dan
ger of the experiment"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14
Great Fires in the West.

n press dispatch from Mil
waukee, dated "Wednesday, the
4th inst, furnishes the following
frightful intelligence:
n special to the News from
Green Bay, says tho fires in the
woods between there and Michi-
gan, have extended across Fox
river, and cover a strip of twenty
miles in Suwanee and Oconto
counties.
Tho large numbering towns of
Marquette and Pishtego are
threatened with destruction.
Fires are now raging over 800
square miles Of territory. About
100 families Hrc burned out of
house and home. Farm build
ings, bridges and fences have
been swept away, and thousands
OF square miles of valuable pine
forest destroyed.
The entire population is fight
ing the fire without success. All
supplies of food for man and
beast have been destroyed, and
starvation, during the coming
winter, stares them in the face,
Another dispatch, dated the
7th, from tho same place says:
The fires are raging worse than
ever. Thirty men were burned
near Pensouki, and the town was
also burned.
A Chicago dispatch of the
same date says:
Fires in tho woods and prairies
are prevailing in every direction,
including Michigan, Illinois, Wis
consin and Iowa. A heavy rain
alone can stop the conflagration.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14
A Terrible Balloon Accident.

Near Paoli, Ind, on the 3Oth
ult., terrible balloon accident
occurred. Professor Wilbur made
arrangements for an ascent, and
was accompanied by George III.
Knapp, editor of the Orange
county Union. Just as they
were rising, the cords gave away.
Mr.. Knapp sprang to the ground
and, falling Il distance of thirty
feet, received no serious injuries.
Professor WILDER was carried up
at least q mile, when he fell,
whirlinG through the air to the
earth, crushed into Il horribly
undistinguishable mass hi s
blood being scattered around
over the assembled crowd. His
remains were religiously gather
cd mp for interncnt.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14
The Ruby Wine Of Colorado.

a Colorado saloon-keeper said
of Il rough crowd: 81 couldn't
get their whisky strong enough
for them, SO, after trying every
way, at last made a mixture of
poison oak and butternut. That
fetched them. L called it the
sheep-herder's delight, and it was
a popular drink. The first Pike
I tried it Oh yelled with delight !;
the next one took two drinks,
and turned a double somersault
in the road before the house. \
peddler came along, and after he
took several drinks of my sheep
herder's delight he went off and
stole his own pack and hid it in
the woods
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14
The law Of Cotton Bales.

An act of February 2S, 1871,
passed by Congress, prcscribes
"that no loose hay, loose cotton,
or loose hemp shall be carried as
freight on any steamer carrying
passengers nor shall balcd cot
ton or hemp be carried in snch
steamers unless the bales are
compactly pressed. and thorough
ly covered with bagging or SINH
lar fabric, aud secured with good
rope or iron bands and every
bale of cotton or hemp that shall
be shipped or carried on any
passenger steamer without con-
forming to the provisions of this
section shall be subject to a pen
atty Of five dollars which bale
shall be liable to seizure and sale
to secure the payment of such
penalty"
This, the Journal of Commerce
thinks, ought to be u sufficient
inducement to planters to cover
their cotton as well as to pack it
properly. This act is now in
force, and as the penalty is easily
collected, and half, rs the Jour
nal inters, goes to the informcr,
our Southern friends will do well
to stir up all their packers on
this subject. Every bale Of cot
ton packed this fall and winter
ought to be carefully covered in
conformity with the provisions of
this law.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14

d. NJ. Nelson, the slayer of
General Clanton, has, or had, a
younger brother, who, also, kill
ed his man, or rather boy. He
was tried and acquitted, one of
the witnesses leaning strongly in
his favor in his evidence. He re-
marked once to a gentleman now
in this city, when they were TAX
ing a glass together-"I was tried
and cleared but my conscience
has never cleared me. I can sec
that murdered boy always before
me in the day, and he haunts me
in my dreams in the night He
very soon disappeared, and none
knew how nor when, and to this
day no tidinGs of him have ever
cnmc.--Ncrididn Mercury.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14
MONROE MALE ACADEMY.
CHAS. T.. EVANS, PHIScIrAL,

Tho second term of this institution will
commence on Monday, attn of September
next, 1 have engaged the services of Prof.
=. c. McCoRMIcK, B. S. of the Louisiana
State University, and an efficient assistant
for the primary department.
Regular classes, adapted for preparing g
students either for college or practical busi-
ness life, will be organized. Strict discipline
will be maint aimed, and close attention Civ
en- to the inst tr.lction and advancement of
pupils.
TUITION:
Primary classes, per month, S%.0D; inter-
mediate $500 academic $500; modern
languages, each extra per month, $500; book
keeping, extra per month, a4.00; incidentals,
per term, Sl.OO.
Boarding can be had in private families
at $500 per month. The scholastic year
will consist Of forty weeks-tcn months
divided into two terms of twenty weeks
each. Except for protracted illness, there
will be no deduction for absence in tuition
from date of entrance till close Of the term.
Monroe. Aug. II, 1871, 47-tf
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14
Frank Moore.

PARRISH SURVEYOR, for Oui,cl,ita, and
General Land Agent for North Louisi-
ana, will attend to amy business in this or
adjoining Parishes. Parties wishing to sell
or purchase real estate in this section will
find it to their interest to address him. He
has for sale several line bodies OF land in
Ouachita, Eic,land, Morehouse, Franklin
and Caldwell Parishes. Persons wishing to
sell will send locrs, description as to i'm
prOvementS, and terms. Having formed
connections in both Washington and New
Orleans, he is prepared to represent litigan:s
in cont est ed land cases, obtain patents, &c.
Office rear room of Richardson IL McEneryS
Law Office. For particulars address him,
care OF Richardson IL Mc!;nery, Monroe. La.
August u, 1870.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14

There is Il little railroad at
Bayou Sara, that runs to Wood
Vile on very uncertain schedule.
y stranger came in the other day
and inquired how often the steam
ears made trips to the country.
The party interrogated said :
'Irl-wcelSly." "What do you
mean by tri-wcekly?'' The an
s"er was, ''It goes up one week
ana tries to come down the next. -
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14
4 Lively Journal.

syASSN AAuSASL
young friend of ours, named
Gumbs, undertook to start II pa
per out in Cambria county, Penn
sylvania, a short time ago. He
called it the Cambria Milky Way.
Hc said in his. s.prospectus that he
intended to make tho Milky Way
lively, spicy, vigorous, fearless
and entertaining; and he did.
In the first number he called the
editor of the rival paper "a dia-
bolical liar, and unmitigated
scoundrel. and u remorseless as
sassin." He alluded to the May
or in a cheerful paragraph as ga
corrupt magistrate, whose tor
ments from the rcmorse which
festered in his soul were only
surpassed by the physical agony
which is always the punishment
of tho depraved-and ..riotous de-
bauches."
He soothed the feelings of tho
postmaster with the remark that
1.-The peculations Of this official
Dick Turpin can be- compared to
nothing but the terrific robberies
committed in the past by those
dastardly Spanish buccaneers,
whom he so closely resembles in
gcneral.scharacter." He announce
ed, under tho head of 'Social
Gossip" that certain young
man had been rejected the even
ing before by the lady of his
love, and volunteered the intor-
nation that it was "thc wisest
thing she could have done under
the peculiar circumstances" and
he related how, upon the preced-
ing day, he heard another youth,
named Alexander Jones, remark
to friend that, eff anything
will make q man feel juicy about
the heart, it is to talk velvet to q
pair of sky-colored eyes, by
moonlight. in clovertield."
The next edition of the paper
was not issued at the regular
time.
Finally some copies were sent
out over the town in balloons,
and they contained these edito-
rial remarks "The editor has
found it impossible to get out to-
day to hunt for news items, be-
cause the Mayor and the editor
of the Times, and tho Postmas-
ter, and Alexander Jones, and a
number of other individuals
whose names VIC have not been
able to learn have been sitting on
the curbstone and roosting around
OH the back fence all the morn
ing with shot-guns and other
mllrCterous weapons, and looking
as if they were in earnest. We
give notice here that we have
moved the fire proof safe against
the door of our sanctum, and
have lined the front stairs with
springs guns and insane bull
terriers who have not been fed
for week. The privileges Of a
free press shall not be interfered
with while we WELD a pen or pos
sess a bulldog" The Milky Way,
however, died next day, Mr..
Gumbs having slid down the
water spout and taken the early
train for Kansas. These out
RACES against editors will have to
be stopped, or William Penn will
have died for his country in vain.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14

The United States Supreme
Cotton meets in two weeks, and
it is understood that among the
first cases to be decided is that
involving the constitutionality of
the cotton tax. An adverse de-
cision will necessitatc the return
of several millions from the
treasury. The case was argued
at the last term.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-10-14

y neat combination ofreligious
and economical praise is that in
which Connecticut paper speaks
OF a new religious daily as ga
daily worker for Jesus, and costs
only S3 q year."