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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-11-25

The Chicago Tribune explodes
the story that that city was built
of stone heavily charged with
petroleum. 1t says the only build
ing in the city of any size built
of the supposed oil stone was the
Second Presbyterian Church, and
the walls of that building were
not reduced to ashes, but stands
conspicuously erect among the
ruins of a numbered other build
ings utterly destroyed.
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During the past two years the
catch has been very large in
those regions.
The New Bedford Standard
does not take SO dismal a view
of the results of this disaster as
the New Bedford Mercury does.
1t says: ...
Serious as this disaster is, it
will not be crushing one. One
compensating effect will be to
increase considerably the value
of the stock of oil and bone and
the vessels in port. Our mer-
chants will display their usual
energy and enterprise, and, we
hope, will move actively towards
retrieving the loss they have met
with. There are over 80 vessels
lying at our wharves which can
be fitted out in time for another
season, if they are rapidly made
ready. Already we understand
that the owners of barks James
Allen. and Aurora, which were
laid up, have commenced to fit
them for voyages to the north.
The catch destroyed is 1865
barrels whale oil, 965 do. sperm,
and 100000 pounds bone. The
catch saved by the vessels which
arrived at Honolulu is 24S5 bar
rels whale and 14O sperm oil.
The price of sperm oil will he
affected by this sweeping disas-
ter, but not so much as that of
whale oil. On the 1st November
the entire stock of sperm Oil
held in this country was $4,000
barrels. and of whale 200 bar
rels.
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The large sums contributed in
England and Oh the Continent of
Europe for the sufferers at Chica-
go and by the Northwestern for
est fires show that the people Of
the Old World have a warm re-
gard for the United States.inA
nation may be feared or envied
by it's sister States, but no bene-
fit that it can receive from the
supposed superiority that pro-
duces these feelings will equal
the genuine advantage 1t treaps
when those sister States extend
across the ocean the loving, hand
Of sympathetic affection. Fear
and envy never prompt charity;
and if the Chicago fire has
plunged America in grief, it ut
least has produced one great
good in enabling the Old World
to show a genuine affection, for
the New one. The muniticent
contributors both at home and
abroad for the Chicago and North
western sufferers, amounting; to
many millions OF dollars in mon
ey and goods, have also shown a
humanity in our own and for
eign lands that is one of the
greatest blessings of the time.
The note of suffering went out
to willing ears and willing hands.
1t was no sooner heard than
needed, and by rail and steamer.
telegraph and mail, help Of al
kinds has been pouring in ipoI
the suffering people. 1s'l > /
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EEMALE INSTITUTE,
MONROE, LA,
Rcv. Chaclcs F. Evans, Principal.

The second term of this Institution will
commence on Monday, 4th of Septemb Der
next, in the Methodist Il. Church in Monroe.
employed Who, with myself, will give faith
full attention to the advancement of the
classes.
Tuition per tern, Of t,ccnty acccAS:
Primary classes $500; intermediate $50. 90;
academic $500; music, extra, 5000; modern
languages, extra each, $500; bookkeeping,
extra, $500; incidentals $1.00.
From the date of entry to the close of the
term no deductions will be made for alb
sence, except in cases Of protractod 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 the Male or Female
school to start promptly on the 4th of Sep
tember. For further Information apply to
G. +. EVANS, Principal.
Monroe. Aug. II. 1871. 47-tf
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Counting the ChisssA

The work Of sorting odt -
ranging whatevef f2 0S6I
good enough to l1Ae Nnzn
ry value in Chicago ~ On
at the United 6tatee ,xnoeon9y In
Washington, NumbeHa Of Young
ladies are employed IL c66Hting
change packages 0f CURRENCY,
which seem ready to crvitib1e at
the touch. Bank, n0te8; tseaDnry
bonds, gold, silver gnickels al are
SO SCARED and blackene& - to
demand the most careful over
hauling. In some case8 three or
four hundred banknotes Afe found
melted togethen oilihe opostage
stamps on Q hot dAys aod,s the
greater care is necessary, ,to, avoid
destroying the faces as they are
separated. Every note y which is
deCipherable, whose value can be
determined, isiretleenaod. Mag
;nifying glasses, acids andu yecep-
tacles are used. and whenever q
note falls. to pieces. the shreds are
carefully pasted on prepared pa
per. The extent OF the itASk may
beNimagined by remembering the
fact that each Nationat hank note
must be put into condition. il pos
sible, to return it to the bank
which issues It, for redemption.
The postage !" stamps, railroad
bonds, Government: bondshnnd
Government bauk notes assj joonn-
ted four. times in as, many differ
ent departments, before they are
delivered. Large quantities. of
notes are dHily bttrhed
with much ceremony. . ,The' rep
reseutatives Of ,thsS offices. where
the counting, has been going on,
and the agents Of the banks whose
notes are to he burned hre always
required to I've present. The doors
of the furnace are coromOla6onsly
unlocked. The notes arc thucfwn
in, in presence Of thes Mitnesses,
ttl' then tho doors ere reloGak!I kIssdtfte
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This institution, so long and worthily
known to the citizens of Louisiana, will re-
open on September 4th, 1871. 1t offers its
students every facility for obtaining Il thor
ough CLASSICAL IND COMMERCIAL l.
Ed UC4 1ION. Terms: For board, tuition,
washing, &c, (per session of ten monthS)
$500. For details, sec Catalogue to be had
of Rev. l.. Gcrgaud NJ. II. Breard, Mon
roc, La. +. X. .STUNTEBECE, =. j.
Aug. 10, 1871. 47-tf
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The Weather Signal Bureau.

have two strikingS and brilliant
triumphs ofGscionce. The fear
full cyclone which developed it
self fully near Savannah on the
evening of the Goth inst. was de-
tected and pre-announced at
thirty-five minutes past o'clock
on the morning of the 18th as
then existing "between the Ba-
hamas and Georgia" This an
nouncement from the office of
the Chief Signal Officer took
place nearly three entire days be-
fore the tropic born monster fell
upon the Georgia coast in all its
fury. On the morning of the
'the cyclone in Florida" was ''to
the northwestward into Georgia,
with easterly winds and rain, )"
and later in the day this telegram
was reafiirmed by the Signal Of
ficer. On the 10Th it was added at
an early hour by telegraph, 'The
center of the cyclone will proba-
bly, keep a short distance east of
the immediate coast line, and be
off Cape Hatteras tomorrow
morning. These storm warn
ings issued to all the harbors in
terested between forty-eight
hours and seventy-two hours in
advance of the threatened hur-
ricane, it seems by our latest
reports, were verified with fatal
punciuality. The Herald has al
ready given in full the statement
of the Savannah Republican,
that on the Goth the weather re-
port of the Signal Bureau had
been singularly correct, and that
in this instance "the correct pre-
dictions of the Bureau has saved
a great many lives and an i'm
mense amount of property" The
damage by the storm in Savan-
nah was estimated at not much
less than one hundred thousand
dollar. The steamship Ladona,
of New York, we already know,
was the victim of its violence,
and our telegraph columns re-
port many vessels disabled.
On the morning of the Oath a
second cyclone, which had just
died away, was discovered and
reported, which in forty-eight
hours verified the probabilities
of the Signal Office in a fierce
visitation of the South Atlantic
Coast. AS predicted, it's track
lay ssmore to the west than that
Of the cyclone of the 18th inst"
The kilograms from Georgia and
Tennessee show that it has been
a serious and severe storm. Thus
in the space of few days, we
have had the strongest evidence
of the wisdom and ability of our
national storm signal system.
The wires bring us information
that the West India and Panama
telegraph cable has just been
successfully laid to the islands of
st. Lucia and Barbados. More
latter are in the very centre of
that region where the cyclone
and hurricane generated, and by
weather kilograms from these is
lands daily (Which the energetic
Chief of the Signal Corps will
soon obtain,) we shall
be advised of the approaching
tempest before it has fairly start
ed on it's destructive course.
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Twenty sufferers from the
Chicago fire, we are told, left the
city this morning for Texas. The
Mayor has provided Il habitation
for q number Of the women OF
that doomed city, who have
reached the city within the past
few days.-N. o. Bulletin.
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If your child loves flowers do
not hesitate to cultivate and en-
courage the love. Flowers are
eminently refining, and the child
will grow thoughtful, docile and
beautiful under their influence.
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awooslen INsalssi .

In these days of iimilli0fss Of
iron, copper and zinc nails, ltaC1ks,
and brads, of lightning, self ffeed-
ing, and almost automatic nail
wooden nails coming Into use.
Wooden pegs made by the isatne
machines as shoe. pegs, iarez now
largely used for fastening boxes,
and manufacturers receive large
orders from the West, for inch
pegs for this purpose. III China,
Japan, and HindostAn, opegs iof
bamboo have been ialwayE nGed
in fastening tea chests. and wood
ever, @ it looks iIke Tetroereession
to use wood for purposes for
which iron seems SO ijtfcll Dstter
adapted. LAS one of the curious
freaks of the habit taherepts. in
human nature, to 9eturn to, for
mer customs under tho impress
sion that they are novelties, The
above is noteworthy but we do
not anticipate d fall in cut mails
from this cause. The idea y,of
using wooden nails seems to us q
good one. The tree nails used in
ship building are an example. of
the value of such wooden nails.
The rusting Of nails exerts'a very
action on timber, and
this will be avoided by the ,useDf
pins. Moreover, it is al
most certain that before many
years pass away wood will Decofne
SO valuable that It will iioS''pay
to use the materiahiof packing
boxes for frewood, as is at pres
ent done. Now, SO, long as iron
nails are used, it becomes a diff
cult matter, and one involving
the rapid destruction of, tools,. to
use old lumber. The, use of wood
en- nails will obviate this difficult
ty.-iScicnti1ic 'Americ0n.
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CuriOsities OF Memory.

Curiosities OF Memory.
John Kemble used to say that
he could learn q whole number
of tho Morning Post in four days;
and General Christie made a
similar assertion but it is not
known how far either of them
verified this statement. Robert
Dillon could repeat in the morn
ing six columns of q newspaper
he had read over night. During
the Repeal debates in the House
of Commons thirty-seven years
ago, one of the members wrote
out his speech, sent it to the
newspapers, and repeated it to
the House in the evening. 1t
was found to be the same cerba-
tins as that which he had written
out. John Fuller, land agent
in Norfolk, could remember every
word of q sermon, and write it
out correctly after going home.-
This was tested by comparing
his written account with the
clergyman's manuscript. Scali-
ger could repeat a hundred verses
or more after having read them a
single time. Seneca could re-
peat two thousand words on
hearing them once. Magliabecchi,
who had prodigious memory,
was once put to q severe test. A
gentleman lent him u manuscript,
which. !, was read and returned.
The owner, some time afterward,
pretending he had lost it, begged
Magliabecchi to write out as
much as he could remember;
whereupon the latter, appealing
to his memory, wrote out the
whole essay: Cyrus, if some of
the old historians are to be-cred-
tied, could remember the name
of every soldier in his immense
army. There was q Corsican boy
who could rehearse forty thous-
and words, whether sense or nom
sense, as they were dictated, and
then repeat them on the reversed
order, without making single
mistake. A physician of Massa-
chusetts, about half century
ago, could repeat the whole of
paradise LOST without mistake,
although he had not read it for
twenty years. Euler, the great
when he became
blind, could repeat the whole of
Virgil's "Rneid," and could re-
member the first line and the
last line ON every page of the
particular addition which he had
been, accustomed to read before
he became blind.
One kind of retentive memory
may be considered as the result
of sheer hard work, determine
ton toward one particulars achieve
ment, without reference either to
or to memory on
other subjects. This is frequent
ly shown by persons in humble
life in regard to the Bible. An
old beggarman at Stirling, known
some forty years ago as Blind
afforded an Instance of
this. He knew the whole of the
Bible by heart; insomuch that,
if sentence were read to him,
he could name book, chapter,
and verse or, if the book, chap
ter and verse were named, he
could give the exact words. A
to test him, repeated
a verse, purposely making one
verbal inaccuracy Aleck hesi-
tated, named the place where the
passage is to be found, but at
the same time pointed out the
verbal error. The same gentle
man asked him to repeat the
ninetieth verse of the seventh
chapter of the book of Numbers.
almost instantly replied,
'sThere is no such verse; that
chapter has only eighty-nine
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From the washington Patriot

M =. "
On t1e !Ith day OF August
1865 Mr.: Aloxander Ma&fuaer
Onlted STATES Marsnai Oi tnt
Northern Dlstract OF f!orlda' Dc
ing anxious to do Q little cleo
tloneerin&, or to try has hand al
reconstrncs ~. appiied 70 the AT
torney General foe Instructions,
saying: Under some circom-
stances. l should oe giad TO nave
the aid OF the military, and, 1t
PractlcaDie, wouid De pleased 20
nave lnstructions given to the
Miiltary TO ald me when necessa-
ry: Il
TO TINS Mr.. Evarts reptaets0n
ene SOth OF the same montHsaf af.a
careIui!y prepared opinlsIs Fan
whlcn ne instructed Mr.i MA4rn-
DER that the power OF United
states Marshal Is e4uiya!slls 70
Cnat OF a SherlH' ana tuSG MA9er
tnis power 70 command all neoee-
sary assistance to enable him TO
execute throughout the district
ail lawiul precepts directed TO
MN. ana lssaied under Inc ali..
cnofity OF the Onite9 States,
the military within the distlact'
were not exempt IN common
with al the cltlzens. . .it
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Longevity is an inherited quail
ity, as much as the make of the
body, or the size of the brain.
Sir William Herschel, the great
est astronomer of his age, lived
eighty-four years his son, Sir
John, died at seventy-nine; his
aunt Carolina, nine-eighty many
similar cases can be given where
persons of the connection lived
to a great old age. But descend
ents of long-lived persons should
only calculate OH living as long
themselves by living pretty much
in the same manner; regularly,
temperately, equally cultivating
especially, serenity of mind, de-
liberation Of thought and action !;
avoiding as much as possible men,
tai shocks and bodily exposure
to hardships and to all extremes.
The tortoise overlook the hare
long before the close Of the day /;
prudent, thoughtful, careful pes
pie, who hold OH the equable te-
nor of their way, far outlivc the
quick, the thoughtless, the ner-
vous and unsteady. But longev-
ity may be cultivated by q life
of steady industry, of habitua'
temperance and regularity, com
bined with the conscientious per.
Torrance of all the duties Of life
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Ku Klux in South Carolina.

the report of the Grand Jury, to
the Circuit Court for Chester
county, South CarOlinas recently
in session
In consequences, of our having
seen in the public press o prOcla-
nation of the President of the
United States stating, in sub
stance, and among other things,
that public justice could not be
administered by either the State
or Federal judiciary or the officers
thereof, aud the rights of citizens
could not be protected by the or
dinary means heretofore provided
for such purposes, and not being
cognizant ola single case in which
an executive officer of the State
or Federal has been resisted by
either an individual or combina-
ton of intlivuals in this county,
we thought proper to inquire of
the commandant of this post for
any facts that he might have as
certained which would tend to
verify the allegations contained
in the said proclamation. The
only facts that tho said cOmman-
dant communicated to us was
notices to two freedmen, one of
Which is dated August 22d, sign
ed tx. K. K.," commanding the
freedman to leave the State in
two days from the date thereof;
the other, without date, signed
by "K. X. K.," saying that he
was a traitor and that he would
receive a traitors doom in two
days, with the picture of a coffin
drawn thereon. These two freed
men were brought before us and
examined by us, and their testi-
mony is submitted with this re-
port, from which it will appear
that no violence has been done
to either of them, who still reside
at their former places of abode.
- 4
Since the last sitting of the
court, we have only heard of two
murders committed in the coun-
ty by white persons one was
committed in personal quarrel
about some property. aud the
murderer Immediately fed and has
not vet been arrested true bill
has been found against him ut
this term for the offense. The
other was committed by four
white persons, in the night time,
undistinguished; the two colored
persons who saw them did not
know any of them, and it is not
known for what he was murdered.
We, the jurors, upon our oaths,
are compelled to say, from the
testimony which we have taken
and from our knowledge of the
different parts of the county, that
the allegations contained in the
of the President of
tho United States arc without
and must be the result
of falsehood communicated to
him by persons equally regardless
of good order aud the peace of
society, and whsscs6lly aim is
their own elevation NQ public
place as a reward for theira excess
sive partisan zeal.
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"A man in New Hampshire de-
clincd to subscribe for Il paper
because it helped to build up the
business of the place, and the
weaIthicr the town was, the
higher his taxes would be.
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Let the Reign OF Small Men Come t0
an End.

The people arc deeply impress
sed with the necessity for u high
er grade of intellect and moral
qualities In those who occupy the
chief seats in the executive and
Legislative departments of the
government. both national and
state. Many of the evils which,
long since begun, President Grant
has carried to perfection un-
known before, until, under his in
fluence, incapacity, .imbecility,
recklessness, corruption, disre-
gard of loyal and constitutional
obligations, contempt for the pro-
prieties pertaining to high posi-
.tions, and open defiance of a cor
rupt public opinion, rule the
country to a deplorable and alar.
ming extent. This must be speed
lily reformed, or our republican
Institutions, blightedsat tho root,
will finally 'wither and die. 49,
The attention of the people of
New York is now earnestly turn
ed to this subject, and most in
tensely do they feel the need of a
radical change in the qualitica-
ton of the members of our State
Legislature. The present is a
favorable opportunity for institu-
ting this reform, for we are now
about to elect both Senate and
the Assembly, and the cry is al
ready heard from this city and
from the interior counties, "Let
the reirn Of small men be brOu wht
to an end.'-N. Y. San.
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SOUTHERN CARRIAGE FACTORY.

The undersigned takes pleasure in making
known that he is now well prepared as
before the war, if not better, to do all kinds
of work. either in
Manufacturing o, Repairing
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, HACKS, ETC
Ready made work kept on hand spcci-
mems of which may be seen by calling mt the
Factory. lie will also carry general
Blacksmith shop, arranged to do ali kinds OF
blacksmit ling. Terms reasonable.
April 26 1866. n30-s FIR. EN- DOM.
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10000 sheep perished by recent
sand storms in Los Angeles col1n-
ty, Califo rnia.
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The Great Disaster to the Whaling
Fleet.

Arctic seas, whereby so many
vessels and their cargOes had to
he abandoned in the ice, and the
Officers and crews brought to
American ports.
The New Bedford Mercury
The news from the Arctic fleet
orle4c most disastrous ever re-
;.oogElkAed by our ship-ownefs worse
Than the tidings Of the depreda-
tions by the, Shenandoah. The
loss lis at least a million of dol
lars; for though most of the
vessels were we'll insured, the
insurance is nearly all in our own
mutual offices. 1t is a blow too,
to the whaling business here,
from which it cannot expect to
recover. Four only Of the ships
in the Arctic belonging here are
saved, and those lost comprised
the best of the fleet. OF course,
in addition to the immediate loss,
is that which must follow the
prostratien of the main business
Of our port. This will not be
abandoned, it is true; but we
have no expectation of ever see
ing the places of the lost ships
supplied. The Union Mutual
Marine Insurance Office has upon
the ships about S5OO,OOO; the
Ocean Office about 415O,OOO.
The amount in the Commercial
we did not learn, but it is proba-
bly, little more than that of the
Ocean.
The Boston Journal says: y
The disaster to the Arctic fleet
is owing to the fact that the
vessels have remained later in
the season in those high latitudes
than prudence would warrant,
and this season they probably
had worked far up the north.
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The cotton crop of 1871, it is
thought, VIII not exceed 3,OM,OO
bales
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*. RICHARDSON. JAS. !heMENEEY.
,,,aEaSxs a1snars-sn on 4 ~ WeE the 1a.,
n practice in all the Pariser Is rlserth
Louisiana, in the Supreme Cs Ne,
tho Federal Courts, and inT %
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too. Why has not something been
done to amcliorate the poor creatures
condition and to free other people OF
her loathsomc presence? If the Asylum
cannot receive her, in the name of COM
mon dccency and humanity, let five
hundred dollars, or more, be approprl-
ated to provide her an asylum some
where else. Her case demands instant
q elton. The peODle in the vicinity
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q. w. McCraMie,

4 TTORNEY AT LAW, MONROE, La,
n will practice in Ouachita and adjacent
parishes and in the Supreme Court at Mon
roe. June II, 1871.
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already, and we advifsorImed ISse!
thing is not done titigants
apply to the cos;dfeEE1s, cosfeEne,rX's ys:
nuisance abatedsidrcss him,
Monroe, La.
McsSrS. AM
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JOHN M'ENERY.
j. q SD.

Join N'hSEIk Is. ther way provideH',ad We
,.roRNnys Arlof ranting, and her OBJ had
A practice in thand filthy expressions reach aio
GIrts ihd of u1daa1itn accustomed of gentlemen
in the Supreme g and the pupils of two female
to- business, in.soos. And her prison companions,
OF tho Geneit is q wonder they are not all manacs