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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-02-09

ENaLIsH papers complain of the de-
cay of the British Bar. The Law
Times remarks: "What was once an
honorable profession for gentlemen,
will become walk in life for the ignor-
ant and the vulgar, who will conde-
scend to steop to the level of the bust
ness. This applies more particularly to
criminal business. Apart from these
considerations, the economy of the
Treasury must be regarded as utterly
false, and it must impede the proper
and dignified administration OF justice.
The best men viii not accept the one
guinea fees, which are now to be Of
ered."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-02-09

Some fifteen years ago a steamboat
loaded with 500 barrels of whisky and
500 barrels of highwines was sunk in
the Mississippi river, near Parkville,
Mo. The wreck was recently found,
buried some fifteen feet in the sand,
and it is said that there is but little
doubt that the cargo can be got at.
Parties operating have secured the title
to the property, so that in the event Of
success they win realize handsome
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-02-09
Condition Of the Minnesota Indians.

Major Samuel N Clark, agent for
several of the Indian reservations of
Minnesota, in private letter to General
Eaton, Commissioner of Education,
gives the particulars of his trip to one
of the Chippewa reservations. He
says:
No agent has ever visited them be-
fore, and they were well-nigh discour-
aged. Their treaty was made five years
ago. Eight hundred dollars year has
been appropriated for farming. Not a
foot of land has been cleared, no seed
provided, no tools furnished. A farm
er once went up there, stayed day
or two on the reservation,
came part way back, and
hired to run a sawmilI. Another farm
er was employed for one or two years
who has never been within one hundred
and fifty miles of the reservation. In
relation to the educational facilities en-
joyed by these Indians, he says: GA
school house was erected about three
years ago, and since the treaty $500 o
year has been appropriated to sustain
the school. School was taught there
about ten days last summer. / found
the school house with every window
missing, part of the floor ripped up and
gone, the roof broken by falling tree !;
the benches, if there ever were any,
carrid away. Nothing left but bare
walls. A teacher, appointed last fall, /
found keeping q trading post forty
miles from the reservation. He had no
books, and can scarcely speak English. !"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-02-09
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.

The Essex Banner asserts that small
quantities of sunfower seed, mixed
with the food of horse, will impart a
fine gloss 10 his hair, while it is also q
cure for founder if given Immediately
after the ailment is discovered. In the
latter case about pint of the seed
should be mingled with the oats or
chopped feed, when q cure will be eff
fected.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-02-09

THERE is reason to believe that some
of the prevailing blonde chignons are
made Of light fantastic tow.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-02-09

A HOUSE and lot in Eufaula, Ala,
which was bought few months ago
for So, 900, has just been sold for $42.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-02-09
Summary OF Late News.

IT appears from official data, that
&3e, 100, 761 have been refunded to
difletent States for expenses incurred
in raisi'l.s, volunteers, from 1861 to 1871 !;
amount still due, $7,7S5,9 ,912.
The steamer Utility was burned and
then scuttled and sunk at her wharf in
Providence, r. l., on the 2Sth. Loss
$25, 900.
The Pittsburg Opera House, just
completed, at a cost of $165, 000, seating
twenty -one hundred persons, will be
opened Monday night by fletcher.
THr winter wheat in Central Illinois
is represented as being in excellent
condition. The great depth of snow
has served to protect the growth of the
warm fall.
REPORTS from Saskatchewan say that
the small pox is raging fearfully in that
region.
The British bark Kate Smith, Capt.
VIM. Hamilton, of Yarmouth, n H.,
from Lees, on the passage from Spain
for New York, went ashore Wednesday
night near Little Egg Harbor, N. j.,
seventy miles from New York, and
eight of those on board, including the
captain, five seamen, the steward and
wife, and Joseph Hussey, pilot of boat
No. Z, were lost. The mate,
Caleb Mcdonald, snd two seamen were
the only survivors of the wreck. Capt
Hamilton leaves q wife and three child
rem, and Pilot Hussey wife and four
children in Brooklyn. The Kate Smith
was of Ana TONS register and had n car
go of 500 tons of lead consigned to a
house in New York
The steamer W. r. Arthur exploded
her boiler fourteen miles above Mem
phis on Saturday morning, and then
teok fire, burned to the waters edge
and sunk Seventy or eighty lives were
lost.
FOREIGN.
BISMARCK denies that he has ever en-
gagged in any intrigues for the restora-
tion of the Bonapartes.
THE smallpox has become epidemic
in London. The rapid increase of NOR
tality causes alarm. The deaths from
the disease, which in the first week in
January were 79, in the third increased
to 1SS.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-02-09

PLACE a bone in the earth near the
root of the grape, and the vine will send
out leading root tn the bone. In its
passage 10 will throw out no fibres-but
when it reaches the bone, the root will
entirely cover it with the most delicate
fibres, like lace, each one seeking
pore of the bone On this bone the
vine will continue to feed as long as
nutrlment remains to be extracted.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-02-09

CHAPFED HANDS, face, rough skin
pimples, ringworm, salt-rheum, and
other cutazeous affections, cured, and
the skin made soft and smooth, by using
the JUxPER Tar Soar, made By Cas-
WE'LL, HAzARD 4 Co., New York. Il is
more convenient and easily applied than
other remedies, avoiding the trouble of
the greasy compounds now In use.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-02-09

EXETER CATHEDRAL-The long-talk-
ed-of restoration of Exeter Cathedral is
at last about to be begun. At a meet
ing of the subscribers to the Restora-
tion Fund, held lately, the dean in the
chair, Mr.. Scott, representing Mr.. Gil
bert Scott, who has not yet recovered
from his late illness, explained the plan
of restoration, and the dean showed
that the sum required for the restora-
tion was f15,0O0. Towards this one
member of the chapter alone had given
&c, 900, and yet, the dean remarked,
e3, $50 was all that the nobility and
qDntry of Devon and Cornwall were
pleased to give them, and of that sum
e, 900 was subscribed by four individ-
uals. 210,680 had been provided by
the chapter. Mr.. Scott stated that
throughout the preparation of the de-
sign the architects' (Mr. Gilbert and his
son) great principle and standing point
had been one and the same, namely,
that no ancient festure should be oblt-
Grated or interfered with, all endeavors
being directed towards their careful
preservation and better display.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-02-09

SHORT HORN cattle are valuable for
their remarkable aptitude TO fatten,
the perfection of their form and the
emallness of their bony structure Civ
ing them advantages over all others as
beef cattle. No animal of any other
breed can so rapidly transform the
stock of any section around him as
these of the improved short horn spe,
cies. One of the characteristics of this
breed is also their remarkable docility,
and their indisposition to break through
confinement.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-02-09
A Big Tree.

A section of the "Original Big Tree +"
of Calaveras county, California, recent
ly arrived in Boston The tree from
which this section is taken was cut in
1853; five men worked twenty-five days
in telling it. The stump smoothed off
now easily accommodates thirty-two
dancers. This tree, when standing,
was three hundred and two feet high
(nearly hundred feet higher rthan Bun
ker Hill monument). From section
forty feet long a hotel was con-
structed. A saloon and double bowl
ing alley, more than eighty feet long,
are built upon portion of the PROSTATE
trunk The bark was from fifteen
inches to two feet in thickness, and a
section was brought to New York for
the Crystal Palace. Aportion was also
sent to the Crystal Palace, England, at
the time of the worlds exhibition. The
estimated age of the tree was about
twenty-five hundred years. The weight
of this section, at thirty feet from the
ground, is eight thousand pounds, its
diameter nearly sixteen feet, and cir
conference forty-six feet. 1t is the
only section of the solid wood of the
tree ever brought from California.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-21
New ORLEANS, June 90. 1871.

NLh OhLEANS, June L.
To Hon. Benz. F. Flanders Mayor Of the city of
New Orleans:
The undersigned respectfully begs leave
TO otter some remarks on the very impor-
tant subject of protection from overfows
and the drainage of this city, which is now
strongly agtated by the people and has
been under consideration of the honorable
Council over which you preside
l approach the subject with much diff
dence and hesitation, and should not OBJ
trude my views at this time, were it not
That l candidly believe that the plan and
system proposed for the protection from
overfows and drainage of the city involve
vast interests, and will seriously affect the
interests and future welfare of the people.
VIII SIMPLY state that the few remarks l
Will offer are the result of much reflection
on observations made during a quarter of
century In regard to the matter under con-
sideration.
with respect to the proposed levee along the
lake shore, as well as the two levees from the
ridge to the lake, think that the present
tune, to say the least, is very inopportune to
commence so costly an undertaking, for it ap-
pears to me that it is all-important that the
lands lying between the ridge and the built
up part of the city should be reclaimed,
redeemed and made suitable for human
haoltatlon before the funds of the city and
the energy of the people are directed to-
ward the retaining of the swamp lande.
These lands will be of little if any real value
TO the city for many years to come: in fact,
they will not probably pay the annual ex-
pense for the draining long time TO come
yet, and they will be burden rpon the
city; and this appears to be reasonable
conclusion, considering the immense GUAM
tity of vacant land lying between the back
part of the city and the Metairie and Gen
lilly ridges. There are several hundred
squares of ground without building of any
kind, the ground not even cultivated. much
OF 1t only having a nominal value at pres
emit
But let us consider for a moment the
CONDITION OF that part of the back OF the
city from Galvez street to the ridge and
between the two navigable canals. We find
mere but few buildings, and those of an in
Terror class; probably seven-eighths of the
ground is still unoccupied by buildings of
any description. These lands are con-
Vement to the business portion of the city;
tins section is certainly the most important
OF all the back part of the city, and the
lands, II any in that part, ought to be valu-
able and command a high price; but such
Is not the case. Drainage has been applied
TO this section for more than quarter of
century, still the lands have advanced very
slowly indeed. and their low price can to
only small extent be attributed to the
o over from the lake, because prior to
1000 there had been no overflow from the
lake 1or many years.
In view of these facts, the lands lying
between the ridges and the lake viii not be
occupied and built upon for a very long
'nne, ana OF course be of little value to the
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-21
The Lake Front Protection Levee.

The Lake Front Protection Levee.
Mr. Shaw called up the following resolu
ton, laid over from last week, and moved
| its adoption:
| Resolred, That the Mexican Gulf and
Lake Borgne Canal Company be and they
are hereby authorized to commence work
Immediately on the lake shore protection
levee, under the. direction of the Admins
traitor of improvements and City Surveyor,
according to plans and specifications ON file
in the office of the City Surveyor.
The Mayor wish to ask if the Admins
traitor understands this completes the con.
tract and binds the city to the company for
this job?
Mr.. Cockrem Act No. 80 of the Legisla.
ture gives the company this work to per
form.
Mr.. Shaw: We have already passed a
general ordinance as to the contract, and
l look upon this as direct action putting
them to work on this thing.
The Mayor: l make the inquiry whether
this resolution binds the Council and the
company to complete this job .. p
Mr.. Shaw You are opening an old ques-
ton which debated for the space of over
one hour You commended it did ; / con-
tended it did not. The resolution commits
us to work-to have thai levee built from
beginning to end, but it does not affect our
relations with the Mexican Gulf Ship Canal
Company at all. This was the subject of a
very lengthy debate, and don't propose to
go over it again. 1tt. ...
Mr.. Bonzano asked what the specifica-
tons were in the Surveyors ofice-were
they iron or wood ..
Mr.. Cockrem answered iron or wood,
whichever was thought best
Mr.. Bonzano; The question is not before
us whether the levee should be in the
water or not.
Mr.. Cockrem Not at the present time
that may be settled in committee.
Mr.. Bonzano understood that all these
details, where the company was to COM
menee, and how, etc., had been left to a
committee of three by the previous ordi-
nance-the Mayor, the Administrator of
Finance and the Administrator of Improve
ments.
Mr.. COckrem said he regarded the whole
Council, in connection with the committee
OF three, as the committee.
Mr.. Shaw said the question was to direct
this company to go to work. 1t was not
decided whether the levee was to be one
yard outside or one yard inside, but the OBJ
ject was to go to work at once. He looked
upon a protection levee as protection
levee. 1t would do at the waters edge, in
the water, or some distance inside. He
had no doubt of the effectiveness of a pro-
lection levee at each of these three places
The Council had no right to stand debating
till the time came when they would regret
not entering on this work long before.
Mr.. Walton said he did not understand
that the committee of three appointed by
the previous ordinance was to entirely con-
troll the management of the work, but he
did distinctly understand they were to no.
tify the company where to begin The com
mittee had notified them, and the company
we're already ut work. He now understood
the present resolution to commit the Coun-
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-21

The st. Louis Times says the ''social evil'
ordinance of that city has been in force ten
months, and that it has done more toward
the suppression of prostitution and the
amelioration of the condition of the unfor-
tunate women than all the sermons that
have ever been preached or all the philip
pics ever written against them. 1t has
thousand dollars, and a revised ordinance
is now before the City Council providing
for the erection of hospital and reforma-
tory institution.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-21

Burlington, Vermont, can boast of the
largest planning mill in the world. The lumber
Yards. docks, sheds, mills, etc, of the firm
cover an area of nearly fifty acres, aud in
this area there are about seven miles of
plank road.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-21
Hon. B. F. Flanders, Mayor of New Orleans

Orleans
In reply to your letter of inquiry as to nv
views with regard to the subject of a nro.
Irection levee for the city of New Orleans
would respectfully suggest what consider
simple, economical, but nevertheless an
eInclent plan for levee, which will answer
al practical purposes, endure for ali time
anu thoroughly accomplish the object
sought to be attained.
Az a suitable distance from the lake sbore
anu beyond the reach of the violent acr;on
Vi tne waves In the event of storm. escavata
.rehcn seven feet in width by four feet in
u1eptn, ana throw the earth inwardlv mon
e1e Dank. Along the trench so excavsted
pace vertically sheet piling or planks of tbe
dimensions OF twelve feet in lenoht for,
nlches IN thickness, and of any width which
Snose pianks may happen to be sawed A
hhoIizontal grit or ribbon to be placed alone
n poeh at the top and at the bottom of each
tow Oh pianks, and each plank to he bolted
s t ru,s riooon; The inside row of planks to
IaIa peIpendicular, while those facing the
Ia Gre 70 incline therefrom two feet at ton
t tnas forming an interior intermediate sec,
~ o,o n area OF four feet at top and six Ieet
a. az POTION, and making said sectional area
S ny cuolc feet to one foot lineal. The
h wv row OF planking above described IN
f &C. eieo together at intervals of every five
AoT ~, w suitable cross planking.
ho e enc intermediate space thus formed m
ner ni ie, with concrete composed of one
p paa' lake sand, one part lake shells. and
shsu earrei OF lime to one cubic ward of
,;a,, s anu SAND combined This compost
u non, ven mixed with water, viii, in short
f''''u OF space OF time, become SO hard
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-21

Resolutions.
By Mr.. COckrem:
Resolred, That the Administrator of I'm
provements be and he is hereby authorized
and directed to advertise for proposals for
fifty thousand barrels bank shells, payment
Tor same to be made in improvement bonds
Adopted.
By Mr.. kemick:
Ifesotred, That the Administrator of Com
merce be and he is hereby authorized to ad
vertlse the sale of the revenue of the public
markets at public auction. or on sealed pro-
posals, as he may elect at least five DAYS
before the end of each and every month
Adopted.
Petitions, etc.
Communications from j. Livingston. At
toraey for Carondelet Canal COMPANY.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-21

IlOn OF IL III the euSe OF the lake itself.
While City Surveyor of New Orleans, in
the edge of the lake, from the New canal to
the POntchartrain railroad. see no good
reason to doubt the practicability of con-
structing and maintaining such levee as
Mr.. Bell proposes, and | agree with him
that the best location for it would be in the
edge of the lake, instead of upon the beach.
OF course it would be, necessary to protect
the levee with revetment of timber and
plankng, or of iron, supported and stayed
by timber piling.. Iron piles and plates, if
made of hard, fine grained grey or white
cast iron, will not be injured, appreciably,
by the water of the lake, whether fresh.
brackish or salt. Docs ...' 20
Several years will, probably, be required
to complete the protection levee around the
city, and the locks, at the lake ends of the
old and new navigation canals In the
meantime. as matter of course, the CITY
should be protected against q repetition of
the late disastrous overflow or inundation.
To effect this, it is undoubtedly necessary
to have the levees on the margins of the
New canal and Bayou st. John canal raised
and strengthened, as provided for in the re-
solution introduced by Administrator Cock.
rem, and adopted for by the Council.
II the Metarie ridge was not overfiowed
to any dangerous extent during the late
storm, 1t Is not probable that it will be ;
therefore levee on the ridge may OF may
not be deemed essential
The location of draining machines along
the lake shore will not enable us to dis
pense with the present draining machines
10 the contrary, additional machines will
be needed, and are now needed, between
the foot of the slope from the river and the
Metairie ridge, as well as upon the ridge,
Water will not flow without a head. 1t. of
course, must rise at the foot of the first
slope until the head is sufficient to
give current sufficient to carry off
tne water as last as it comes down the
slope from the river. This rise dur;no
heavy rains, without draining machines at
and on the river side of the ridge, would
cause the overflow of the city from Clai-
horne or Galvez streets to the ridge, if we
had, no matter how many, draining ma.
chine on the lake shore. Draining MACHINES
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-04-08
Bear i'm Mind.

When disease has undermined the health
and the physical system has become prostra.
ted, a stimulant that will not only strengthen
but remove the cause, should be immediately
resorted to. Mental distress is also a fruitful
source of the breaking down of the c~onstitu
ton, and the ravages, of this enemy to healtl
are truely alarming. For all such maladies
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters have been foune
unsurpassed. By acting directly upon the
digestive organs, they remove the heavy, dis
agreeable feeling after eating. so often com
planned of by persons of a delicate tempera
ment. As soon as digestion is restored, the
patient finds his strength increasing, and his
general health improved. s2 s.
Thousands of persons certify that it may be
relied on in all cases of weakness or nervous de.
bility attendant upon sedentary habits. The
generality of Bitters are SO disagreeable to
the taste that they are Objectionable to
weak stomach. This is not the case with
H0stetters's Bitters, which will be found
mild and extremely pleasant Bslsamic
plants, barks and roots contribute their res.
torative juices to render it soothing land
Strengthening It's basis is the only pure
stimulant which has ever, been produced,
containing no FusiL OIL, or any other delete.
rious element. The most careful and sklllfuI
chemists have analysed the Bitters, and pro.
nouuce them harmless. This is scientific
testimony /; but the testimony of the hun.
dreds of thousands who have experienced the
preventive and curative effects Of the GREAT
VEGETABLE TOME and aLTERATIvE Of
modern times is still more conclusive. In
Fever and Agae. Dyspepsia. Biliensness,
Nervous Complaints and general debility it is
as nearly fnfallible as anything in this faIlible
world can be. = - j
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1871-04-08
SAFE

Nolle Pitre, Admr. vs.. Thomas J. Lacey ct
ais. District Court, 81. Landry-No. i205i .
DY virtue of a writ of feri facias. issued
~ ont OF the Hon. Eighth District Court
of the State of Louisiana, in and for the Par
ish of st. Landry. in the above entitled suit,
and to me directed, l will proceed 10 Sell, at
public auction, to the highest bidder, at the
Court House of this Parish, in the town of
Oprlousas, on SATURDAY, the sixth day of
MAY, 1871, at il o'clock A.. NJ the following
described property, seized to satisfy said wit,
to- wit:
|. Lot No. , of plat of land purchased at a
sale made on the LIST of March, 1853, of the
effects of Onezime P. Pltrc. deceased, By Ma
thaniel Ofutt, il, and Thomss J. Lacey, con-
tanning Fifty acres, with the buildings and i'm
provements thereon, bounded north by a lot
of land sold to Francois l.. Pitre, west by
hands of Mrs. ZGphirin Lambert, east by lands
of widow Edmund johnson, and south by
land next herein described.
2. Lot No. 3 of said plat of land. containing
fifty acres, with the improvements thereon,
bounded north by land just above described
west by lands of Mrs. Zephirm Lambert, east
by lands of widow Edmund johnson, and
south by land next herein described.
3. Lot No. - of said plat OF land, contain.
ing fifty acres. with the fencing thereon,
bounded north by land Just above described
west by lands of Mrs Ze phirin Lambert, east
by lands Of widow Edmund Johnson, and
south by the public road from Opelousas tc
Flat Town
Terms-Cash.
Z. o. HAYES, Sheriff.