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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-05-17
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APRIL |, 1872.
TWO TRAINS DAILY, except Sundays, be-
tween Alexandria and Hamilton.
Leave Alexandria ut s. .45 a, m. and 10 p. m;
pass Leesburg ut ~ 35 Il. m. and $50 p m.i and
arrive at Hamilton at i II. NJ. and G.33 p. NJ
Leave Hamilton at $40 a. IN. and l2.o0 p m;
pass LeeSburg at 6 a. m. and LIZ p: M; and ar
rive at Alexandria ut s. Us n. IN. and 3Oo p. IN.
The s Is a. m. train from Alexandria and 100
D. m train from Hamilton connect at Hamilton
with kemps Daily Line If Coaches for Purcell
vile SnickerSvlle Berryvile and Winchester;
also with Rcamer Line of Coaches, which leave
Leesburg daily for Aldic and Mlddlcburg.
Communication tickets, cts. per mile
Annual tickets, $50.
r. II. HAVENER,
NH 2G-tf General Ticket Agent.
ORANGE, ALEX. s. MANASSAS r. r.
" Alexandria, Va, August II, 1871.
THROUGH TICKETS
For BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA and
NEW YORK, and all the GREAT WEST,
are on sale at the ticket office, corner Duke ana
Henry streets, for the regular through trains,
leaving mt G.45 Il. m. and G.45 p. m. If bought 81
the above named regular hours, these tickets
will also be recognized on trains leaving ut 44o
a. m. and 800 p. m.
Baggage checked through to North or West.
Take the 4.45 Il. n. train for earliest Western
connections.
aug 12-tf J. NJ. BROADUS, 6. T. A.
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w. B. WADDEY
RUfLUI.S-G n.1TE

]. w. MALLS. B. W. MALLS. BF pEAKE.
JAMES W. MALLS, son s. CO.,
y 1877 King ST., Alexa., Va:
Dealers in HARDWARE, CUTLERY
Carpenters Tools, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Door
and Window Frames, Brackets, Mouldings
Posts. a large stock of French and American
Glass, double and single thick, of all sizes
Pants Oils, Varnishes, Paint and White, Wash
Brushes, Lewis Pure White Lead, and other
brands of fine quality, Putty, Turpentine ,asd and
Machine Oil Also, Lime, Of superior quality,
Roofing, &C. A large stock of Pughs ceebra-
ted Car Augers, and other articles found in first
class Builders Furnishing establishments.
All orders for Lumber, Brick and all kinds
of Building Material, promptly attended to-
Terms cash. feb lit
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-05-17
CHIN ESE TEA COM Il A n i ,
NO,lIN NORTH ROYAL STREET.

~HINESE TEA COMPAN Y !,
NO. NORTH ROYAL STREET,
Have just received large and carefully Sc
lected stock of
TEAS, SEASON 1871.
(No old stock.)
Japans, pound half do. and quar- do packages
q fvn n chests. sunerior quality, 90
Oolong, extra fine quality, 70
g superior " :, I w w
Imperial extra fine " ! 50
superior do n
Young Hyson, extra fine, ! 50
I" superior, 10
Gunpowder extra fine, ! Is Is
" superior, 3o
We are confident that the quality of our Teas
cannot be surpassed, and are willing to have
them compared with any in the market
We have everything in the FINE GROCERY
SHELF GOODS of all kinds, fresh stock.
FRENCH CANDY, guaranteed to be pure.
The best brands of Domestic and Imported
CIGARS and TOBACCO.
We particularly request our customers to re-
turn any article purchased from us that does not
give satisfaction.
Any club order purchased from the Tea Com
panies in New York will be duplicated in price,
and s0Fp"S;fdI CHIN n EsE 2SEE''fiEE fEA COMPANY,
No II north Royal street,
ian 27-tf Alexandria, Virginia.
EORGE McBURNEY & son,
Dealers in
CHOICE FAMILY AND FANCY GROCE-
RIES, WINES AND LIQUORS,
ENGLISH and SCOTCH ALE and BROWN
STOUT; ALSO EASTERN and POTO-
MAC HERRING and MACKEREL.
NOS. 1G6 A n D ITO KING STR E ct,
Washington Hall Building,)
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
Orders promptly filled. jan l8-tf
~ WIN. RAMSAY,
".
WHOLESALE AND FAMILY GROCER,
TEA DEALER,
S. E. COR. KING AND ST ASAPH SITS,
nov 22-tf Alexandria, Va.
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DRY GOODS.
ERY ACTIV E.

" y y u
We would ask the particular attention of the
ladies to our very superior PARIS Hermann
just received, at 20 per cent cheaper than the
same goods sold at Wholesale in New York In
March. Also fine line of CENTS HALF
HOSE, in English extra and Balbriggan.
my is J. NJ. STEWART, King st.
DLACK Hermann, Or FRENCH GREN-
ID ADlNE.
These goods were bought of an importer at
an immense sacrifice. We are prepared to sell
them at a corresponding reduction. We are re-
ceiving large additions to our stock of NEW
GOODS, and are selling them atgreatly reduced
prices. my ltI fO6I. l.. WOoD.
HOl FOR WASHINGTON, d. G.
cheapest DRY GOODS HOUSE THIS
SIDE OF NEW YORK!
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-15
Habits.
BY HON. SCHUYLER COLFAX,
Vice President of the United States

Few of Us fully realize how con-
stantly and how potentially our
lives are Influenced and even domi-
mated by our daily habits. Shake
spear taughtus show use doth breed
a habit in man" for the frequent
repetition of acts causes a tendency,
almost resistless, toward their reg
ular recurrence, which has caused
habit to be called a kind of second
nature growing up within us. OBJ
servation, as well as personal expert
ence, teaches us that Paley was
right when he said: Mankind act
more from habit than reflection, for
man is but a bundle of habits" How
important, then-how vital indeed
that we should watch these habits
in those near to us, as well as in our
selves-knowing, as we do, that
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-15

Transient advertisements, 81 SO per
square first insertion; each subsequent
insertion, rs cents.
All business aotices of advertisements
TO be charged twenty cents per line each
insertion.
JOB PRINTING executed with neatness
and dispatch.
Wedding Cards executed in accordance
with prevailing fashions.
Funeral Notices printed Oh shortest no.
tlce and with quickest dispatch.
GS Circulars, Programmes, Genera
BUSINESS Cards, Posters, etc., etc., guar
anteed to give general satisfaction to all
who may wish to secure our services.
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-15
J. E. Wallace,
at Law.
SO CANAL STEET,
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
ja1S-1y.
DIR. w. bile.

OFFICE o9 CANAL ST., NEAR PosToFFIcE.
A graduate from the University of Coo
penhagen, Denmark, and honorary N. d.
from the University of Padova, Italy; for
several years assistant physician to the cele-
brated Prof Ricord, Paris. DIR. BILLIE
has acquired high reputation as SPE-
CIALIST for all kinds of Sexual diseases.
male and female. Private diseases cured
after new, sure and quick method.
Painful and Retained Menstruation
quickly relieved. Perfect cure always
warranted. Letters containing SIS and
stamps will receive prompt attention. All
consultations and communications strictly
conndential. janis 6m
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-15

before which l shall be arraignec
will render their judgment agains
me. Whether my character be in
famous, whether I am no longe
worthy of the confidence of the peo
pie, will be decided in 1872, and un
til that final decision is rendered
care not how much my character i
aspersed by demagogues, for
know that a just and enlightened
people will sustain me. So far al
my public duties are concerned
I propose to perform them IL
the future as I have in the past
1 do not intend to be frightened
into the support Of any measure;
do not propose to be brow-beaten
into anything; I do not intend to
be influenced by any motives save
those which should govern an hon.
est, true man. While I do not
claim to possess all the honesty in
the State, yet I venture to say that
my character would appear as the
driven snow in comparison with the
character of those gentlemen who
have seen fit to. traduce and defame
me in their testimony before the
committee. If any one think more
than another has caused these
gentlemen to oppose me it is the
fact that I have at all times endea.
vored to exclude from the floor of
the Senate those lobbyists who have
corrupted the Legislature, if it has
been corrupted. How often have I
rose in my seat and asked that the
rules be enforced prohibiting those
men from entering the Senate
Chamber? How often have I asked
the presiding officer to protect me
from the opportunities of men who
were annoying me nearly to death
to get me to support their pet meas
ures? And yet these men have the
audacity to 60 before the con-
gressional committee and asperse my
character. If I have trespassed
upon the rights and privileges of
others; if I have been guilty of any
misdemeanor or malfeasance on Of
flee, there is a way to punish me.
Let these parties institute an inves-
tigation, and if I am found guilty 1
will bear the penalty without MUIR
muir. But until I am adjudged gull
ty by a competent tribunal, 1 ask
that these malignant vilifers be 81
fenced by the indignant voice of pub
lie opinion. If these gentlemen
must vomit forth something in de-
traction of my character, let them
confne themselves to the truth, and
not attempt by groundless accusa-
tions, to cover up their own hideous
deformites. The time will come,
and that soon, when I will be heard
in self-defense by the people, and
when that time does arrive these gen.
tlemen will doubtless be missing. I
shall not fail then to tell the people
what I know about these men. II
shall not attempt to cover up any of
my political or personal actions; I !
have done nothing that will not bear
investigation-nothing that I desire
to deny. Therefore, I can well af-
ford to meet these honorable gentle
men before the people 1 am sorry
[ have been forced to occupy the
time of the Senate in max
ing this personal explanation; but 1
deemed it my duty in justice to my
self, to do SO, as I will not have an
opportunity Of being heard before
the congressional committee. |
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-15
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
2

n ne endeavor to establish another
ItubGcan journal in New Orleans,
Be proprietors of the LoUIsIANIAN,
Iropo,e TO i'll a necessity which has
been long, and sometimes painfully
nflt 70 exist In the transition state
in their struggling efforts
} attain that position in the Body
Plihc, which we conceive to be their
b. It's regarded that much infor-
.lfol, guidance, encouragement,
.71'd and reproof have been lost, in
sequence of the lack of a medium,
rJlgh which these deficiencies might
tGpphed. We shall strive to make
I LOUIsLiNIAN a deSiderntum in these
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-15


snap stiffen upon older limbs hk'
gives of iron"; or, as Cowper SC
strongly expressed it:
"Habits are soon assumed but, when w
strive ...
To strip them, It's being fayed alive.
My attention was directed toward
this subject by the request of an
eminent divine that 1 would write
an article for the Independent on
the habit of using Tobacco to
which I replied that it was scarcely
fitting that SO new a convert should
assume the position of q lecturer
to others on habit abandoned
only last spring. But I may say
on this particular point, without
even apparent inconsistency, that
every years habit in that line makes
it more difficult to surrender it even
for health's sake. At first, as is
well known. the system rejects it,
as it rejects tartar emetic. Nature,
whoever, finally surrenders the con-
test, and yields to its sway. 1t be-
comes a companion and a solace !;
even more-a second nature, indeed.
When, at last, prudence, or duty,
or health, or example induce you to
discontinue it, there comes another
struggle, sharper than the first, and
perhaps more doubtful. 1t is the
contest between habit, on one side,
and will, on the other, with tempta-
ton and appetite giving constant
aid and comfort to the former,
while the latter must fight its battle
alone, without such powerful allies
on its side.
Bacon asserts that habits, wisely
formed, become truly a second
as the common saying is;"
and, believing that those unvisely
formed become the same, it may
not be Improbable to look at few
Of the common everyday habits of
mankind that are not wisely formed,
and which we should seek to eradi-
cate from our lives, as the farmer
seeks to eradicate the Canada thistle
from his field.
Drinking.-No man ever became
drunkard, lived o dIundard's life,
died drunkard's death, and filled |
\ drundard's grave as matter of
free choice. No one even became |
An excessive drinker who did not |
begin by the habit of being mod
'rate, a very moderate drinker. If
t were the habit of all not to take
he first step, and thus not become
moderate drinkers, the unutterable
horrors and woe, the destitution
md crime, which result from this
master evil of intemperance would
'ease. Wives and children, friends
md communities, would not mourn
'ver loved ones thus dishonered
nd lost. But it is the habit of
thinking becoming the law of their
'eing and of their daily life, the
ack Of resisting power resulting
rom this terrible thralldom, the
ever of habitual temptation and
ppetite, which causes that yearly
leath-march OF sixty thousand of
ur people to the saddest of all
leaths and the saddest Of all graves,
ollowed, as mourners, by half a
million of worse than widowed
wives and worse than orphaned
hildren.
Prgamty.-Perpaps no -ofense
'gainst the laws of God and the
avs of man is more directly trace
Ible to habit than the vile impreca-
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-15
CARPET WAREHOUSE.

l7..... CHARITIES STREET
A BROUSsEAU & CO., Importers and
Dealers at Wholesale and Retail, offer at
low prices
CARPETNG,
FLOOR OIL CLOTH.
MATING.
Curtain and Upholsterers' Materisll
WINDOW Shades, Table Covers, HaiS
Cloths. Lace Curtains. Cornices. etc,
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-15
TAXATION.
EDUCATION.

-1u sustain the carrying out of
''iohS OF the act establishing
-'0n school system, and urge
!. ~"nonnt duty the education of
\ ''o'A' as vitality connected with
|. enlightenment, and the secu
b., stability of a Republican
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-15

R'tS AO ~OhOhoO
against the laws of God and the
laws of man is more directly trace
able to habit than the vile impreca-
tions which SO often, on the high
way, shock and sadden the passer-
by. The brutal language addressed
to brutes and beasts of burden, the
attempted intensifcation of private
conversation, even the profane Ian
guage so often used in schoolboy
quarrels or the heated controversies
OF partisans, seems prompted more
by unwise and unrestrained habit
than by actual wickedness of heart.
Year by year the habit grows, how
ever, into a second nature; until at
last its victim finds it impossible to
cast it of, and it becomes the fruit
full parent of other evil habits.
1--WE are not worst at once,
The course Of evil begins 80 slowly,
And from such slight source, an infants
hand
Could stem its course with clay.
But Let the stream grow deeper,
And philosophy, aye, and religion, too.
May strive in vain to stem the headlong
torrent"
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-15
CIGAR MANUFACT0RY.

The undersigned notifies the Public
OF the establishment of a
CIGAR MANUFACTORY,
at No. 129 Polymnia Street, near Dry
AIDES Street, where orders will be
thankfully received and promptly at
tended to. o. B. ROUDEZ,
3m New Orleans, Dec. 13, 1871.
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-15
FINAL.

~ ''uefOus' manly, Independent,
'Ous conduct, We shall strive
b 0u' paper, from an ephem-
EsSr, temporary existence, and
h.. upon a basis, that if we
Nm, =, uinand," We shall at all
daserve" success.
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-15

A. P. FIELDS & ROBERT DOLTOy,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSEIIORS AT
LAW,
No. 9 Commercial Place, End Floor,
New Orleans.
Strict Attention to all Civil and
Criminal business in the State and United
States Court.
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-15

AABERT ENRICH,
er and StatiOner
CANAL STREET.
'sV Orleans, Louisisna.
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-15
POLICY.

Is our motto indicates, the LoUI-
AN shall be "Republicdn at all
eui mder all circumstances We
-yocate the security and enjoy
z'i broad civil liberty, the abso-
equality Of all men before the law,
] an impartial distribution of hon
and patronage to all who merit
-n.
Oesirous of allaying animosities, of
-tgrating the memory of the bitter
|S-i promoting harmony and union
Elg all classes and between all in
lss, We shall advocate the removal
-Yitical disabilities foster kind
sniiorbearance, where malgnity
ti@cntment reigned, and seek for
'-rN and justice where wrong and
!l'Sslon prevailed. Thus united in
ans and objects, we shall conserve
Test interests, elevate our noble
., to an enviable position among
sister States, by the development
-allimitable resources, and secure
Al benefits of the mighty changes
q, history and condition of the
7Ia and the Country.
"-'ung that there can be no true
F without the supremacy of law,
urge a strict aud undiscrimi-
--~-' 1ainistration of justice.
TAXATION.
Wy >-~ support the doctrine of an
~-'T DIVISION of taxation among
-NcA' faithful collection of the |
'''' economy in the expendi-
coAformably with the exigen-
''le State or Country aud the
Se oi every legitimate obliga-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-27
THE BANK OF ENGLAND

THE BANK OF ENGLAND
The. Bank of England covers
Eve acres Of ground and en-
ploys nine hundred clerks. and
should clerk be too old for
service, he is discharged on
half-pay for life. There are no
windows on the street; light is
admitted through open courts
no mob could take the bank
therefore, without cannon to
batter the immense walls. The
clock in the centerof the bank
has fifty dials attached to it.
Large cisterns are sunk in the
court, and engines in perfect
order always in readiness in
case Of fire. This bank was
incorporated in 1894. Capital
e1S,00O,OOO, or S9O,O0O.OOO.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-27

A highly sensitive soul in
Wheeling, w. Va, hung him
self the other day because din
ner was not ready when he
came home. He was a dray-
man by occupation, and left a
family to take care of them
selves. Those are unfortunate
beings who are so constituted
that they cannot bear the ills
of life. Like fragile butter
flies, they are crushed by the
slightest burden, such, for in
stance, as the necessity o1
waiting half an hour for din.
ner. Poor devil of a drayman
He was too sensitive a spirit
fdf this cruel world.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-27

SUPPOSE HE DID ?-Much
ado is made by the Grant or
gans of the fact that in 1923
Mr.. Greeley proposed that the
rebels should be offered S400,-
000,000 to emancipate their
slaves and return to the Union.
Well, where was the treason in
the proposition! 1t proposed
union and emancipation, which
was all we aimed ct in the war.
We afterward obtained them
by war, atacost ten times what
Mr. Greeley proposed. But that
does not prove that his propo-
sitiou. If accepted, would have
been either diShonorable or I'M
profitable. 1t would have saw
ed halfa million of lives and
four or five thousand millions
Of dollars. Where was the
harm in proposing to do that =?
[Chicago Tribune.
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SOUTHERN SENsE.-A Vir

sOUTHERN SENSE.-A Nir-
ginia delegate stopped in front
of a newspaper stand this
morning and saw spread out
there a cartoon" of Horace
Greeley enjoying the specta-
Gle of Southern homesteads in
ruins, and women and orphans
weeping, the whole grim sketch
underlined with an extract from
the Tribune of 1862. The paper
in question was a Grant organ.
The delegate looked some
time, and said:
"That would be discourag-
ing, if our people down South
had not too much sense to mind
it. While we old rebels are
trying TO make our people for
get the war and their resent
ment toward the North, and
accept the whole situation for
the good of our children, these
organs are trying to keep alive
the embers Of hate and recrim-
ination for party uses. We
have been upbraided for years
because we were unrepentant
and sullen; and as soon as we
seek to reform that spirit all the
intellectual efforts ofthe North
ern party are exerted TO drive
us back to barbarism. We all
know, however, that everybody
in the North fought us, and if
we are going to take any North
ern man he will be found to
have some record against US
Pictures can't annoy us."-[N.
I. Herald's Baltimore Letter.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-27
A POINTED SALUTAToRY..

A POINTED SALUTATORY.-
A new weekly paper has been
started in Bath county, Ken.
lucky. The editor says by way
Of salutatory: "We would as
soon expect to win a fortune
by betting against a pat hand
as to suppose that we shall
please everybody. No doubt in
the course of human events we
shall realize those pleasant lit
tie editorial episodes in which
indignant readers find no other.
soothing syrup for their
wounded feelings than by at
tempting to put a head on the
editor paint a mournful iex-
preston over bis eye; or, with
out consulting him as to wheth-
er be wants to be al angel and
with the angels Stand, endeav-
or to send him to that bourne
ION a dead head ticket from
whence no editor returns. We
stand six feet in our stockings
in the winter time-five feet
eleven inches and a half, with
out socks, in the summer sea-
son. Our principal amusement,
when boy, was TO throw one
hundred pound anvils over our
head, hold barrel of -four at
arm'slength, and practice other
muscular developments. Aid
ed by our early education in the
manly art, we shall endeavor
to hoe our own row, paddle our
own canoe, and hold a fun
hand in the editorial game Of
bluff"
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-27
Answer to a Challenge.
The eccentric 81. 81. Breckir

The eccentric 81. FL. Breckin-
ridge, one of the Judges of the
Supreme Court of Penrsylvan-
ia, when q young man, was
challenged to fight a duel by
an English officer, whom he
answers as follows:
81 have two objections to this
duel matter-the one lest 7
should hurt one, and the other
lest you should me. 1 do not
see what good it would be to
put Il ball through your body
! can make no use of You when
yon are dead for any ordinary
purpose, as 1 would a rabbit or
turkey. / am no cannibal to
eat the flesh OF men. Why,
tLeD, shoot down human
creature, of whom I could
make no use? 4 buffalo would
make better meat; for, though
your flesh might be young aud
tender, yet it wants the firm-
ness which will take and re-
tain salt. At any rate it would
not do for a long sea voyage.
you might make a good
barbecue, it is true, being of
the nature of a raccoon or
opoSSum; but people are not in
the habit of barbecuing any
thing that is human now. As
to your hide, it is not worth
taking off, being a little better
than a two-year old calf.
$50 much for you. As for
myself, | do not like to stand
in the way of anythig hurtfuI.
| am under the impression
that you might hurt me. This
being the case, | think it the
most advisable to stay at dis
tance. If you meant to try
your pistols, take a tree or a
barn about my dimensions. II
you hit that, send me word,
and | will acknowledge that if
| had been in the same place,
you might have hit me-"