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Anecdote of Rosa Bonheur.

She was making her first journey in
the Highlands. As they drove across
from Loeb Lomond to Loeb Katarine
by Inversnaid, on a day gray with
Scotch mist, suddenly an advance
picket of rough little Highland cattle
red, black and dun, with shaggy
names hanging low over their fiery
eyes, between their wide-spreading
horns-emerged from the mist, and
blowing the breath from their nostrils,
took deliberate survey of the travel
ers from rocky eminence overhang-
ing the road. Rosa Bonheur sprang
up delighted, took in the group with
an intense and incisiye look, as if she
had been photographing in her mind,
and saying, as if half to herself, "Pll
paint that sat down again. Well,
the party completed that Highland
tour. Rosa Bonhueur saw much,
sketched much, enjoyed much. She
bought quite little stock of High
land sheep and cattle, an ! then when
she got home she set to work tostudy
these-to draw and paint them in all
attitudes, under all effects of light
to master and make her Highland
kyloes her own in another and better
sense than by buying, and after some
eighteen months of such constant and
exhaustive study, she sat down, and
in some two months, perhaps, painted
that very picture Of which she had
taken q negative on her sentisef
mental plate two years before o
Highland cattle looking out of ths
mist. You must, many of ron, hayt
seen it in tho shop windows. That il
the way in which the best pieture'
! are painted.
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Nomination of Horace Greeley.

From the Baton Rouge, Gazette d Comet.
This announcement was quite un-
expected to our citizens, as they had
settled into a sort of belief that the
contest would end in the nomination
of either Davis, Trumbull or Adams.
It was hardly thought the old printer
had such strength with the people as
was manifested in the unanimity with
which the Cincinnati delegates ''wont
for him." The bare announcement of,
the fact drew smile across the coun-.
tenance of every one, and it would
not astonish a casual observer of.
events, but that this same old typo,
will take a tramp to Washington,
about the 18th of March next, put the.
Grant establishment out of sorts and
knock military Republicanism into pi.
1t remains now to be seen what the
Democrats intend to do when they
assemble in Convention at st. Louis.
II they conclude to support the Gin
cinnati. nominee, his electiop is GER
tain, and If not, tbe ehapces are then
IN favor of Grant. witi, his military
supremacy for four years, aud very
likely for life. We sgree perfectly
with the Missouri Caueasian on the
score that either Greeley or the devil
would be preferable to Grant
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NUMBER IS.
Helmbold Sold Out.
fFrom the New York Express, April

from the New York Express, April &C.
The sale of the stock and fixtures
of the drug store of the celebrated
DIR. Helmbold, at No. 594 Broadway,
attracted n very large attendance; in
fact the place was inconveniently
crowded as people were constantly
dropping in from Broadway from Nero
curiosity. The purchasers were COM
paratively few in number. The drugs,
chemicals, patent medicines, etc.,
were purchased by druggists at low
prices, but perfumery, toilet articles,
ETC., were sold, it would appear, to
outsiders, and realized generally more
than regular retail prices.
The store is fitted up in quite an
original style. There is a toilette
room for ladies, an editorial depart
ment" in the rear, and also the g Com
modore's sanctum," which was to-day
invaded. by motley and curious
crowd. A large quantity of the sheet
music of Helmbold Galop" was
scattered about the store, and occa-
stoned many witty remarks as to the
rapidity with which Helmbold had
galloped into the sheriff's clutches. A
great number of shelves were filed
with newspapers containing notices
of the famous druggist.
Mr. Benjamin P. Fairchild was the
auetioneer, and sold apparently. with
out regard to the cost or actual value
of the articles.
The contents of the prescription
room, containing probably sufficient
to stock a small drug store, were pur-
erased by Mr.. Schwartz for $215; q
marble soda fountain and counter
sold for $4l0, which probably cost
$1,000 or $500; a mineral water
fountain brought SIS; and two large
bronze window trees, each with seven
teen branches bearing large bottle,
sold for S25 each /; five large cut glass
druggists window bottles, brought
81 so each; silverplated cases,
from SAY to $50 each; black walnut
chairs with and without arms, and
with morocco or leather seats, $40 so
each; msrble-top counters sold for
SIS so each; the shelving and drawers
brought 1910, and the large Matthews
soda fountain and counter which orig
inally cost $4,000, was knocked down
for $500, and the purchaser was dis
covered to be Mr.. Matthews, the man
ufacturer of it.
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The OBLIGATIONS Of Parents.

Ia q word to stern fathers" one of
our anonymous exchange papers gives
utterance to the following just and
feeling sentiments: It canneyer be
too strongly impressed upon the mind
that nothing releases parent from
his duties taward child. No way
wardness, no disobedience, no rebel
lion, no profigacy can ever justify u
father in casting a son or a daughter
adrift. We hear of sons being cut
off without a shilling, or of daughters
being forbidden their fathers house,
and without exception such cases are
proof that of whatever sins their chill
dren may have been guilty, the father
il even more guilty. No person can
commit against society SO great u
crime as father commits who Is thus
false to the trust which he himself i'm
posed--who thus thrusts off from him
self the soul which he called into be-
ing.
A father should be governed by no
motive but his chiid's best interests,
and child's best interests can never
be served by any thing but his fathers
constant and loving care. If child
is 80 bad that his influence is feared
on the other children, separate them.
If it is feared that money bestowed on
him will be for his injury, provision
may be made against that. But when
a father in fit of anger disinherits or
refuses to- see his child, he commits q
crime which the laws indeed do not
recognize, but whose guilt it would
take many legal crime to outweigh.
There should be absolutely no limit
to parental forgiveness and forbear-
ance. Seven times and seventy times
seven should the father receive the
prodigal son who seeks his face; and
If he never seeks it, if he goes, stub
born aud rebellious, not one atom of
fatherly care and interest should he
relax; for the child is his offspring,
born of his will, and 10 vice or vio-
lence eau release the man from his
solemn obligation to guard and guide,
as far as possible, the life which he
dared to give.
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Feline Munchausenisln.
a BROOKLYN Cat Story.
From the N. Y. Commercial Advert

1 IOA1 khc Ats II SOIulueECldl [AuVGT1lS6E.i
A gentleman living in Brooklyn,
who takes great delight in is his flow
er garden, was for a long time much
annoyed by the depredations of his
neighbours cats. 1t appeared as
though his particular garden was Sc
lected for the scene of the nightly rev.
els of all the cats in the city. Inde-
pendent of the desolation they brought
upon his rose, tulip, geranium and
other flowers, they kept the whole
household awake every night by their
incessant and noisy SCREENINGS.
Driven at last to desperation, the an
noyed citizen laid in ambush one
night lately, with well loaded shot
gun, and when the congress was in
full session, blazed away. In couple
of nights eight felines fell victims to
his unerring aim. AS animal matter
is good for vegetation, he determined
to bury the slaughtered grimalkins at
the roots of his grapevines. Being q
quaint kind of a a-genius, it struck him
that as the game had done so much
when alive to disorganize his attempts
at adornment, it would be only fair
that they should make as much repara-
ton as possible after death. He ac-
cordingly buried the eight innocents
in a straight line, equidistant, heads
downward, but left their tails (which
in dead cats are always as stiff as q
poker) sticking out of the ground. To
assimilate them somewhat to the
brilliancy of the flowers around, he
adorned each tail with colored
streamers. In doing this he simply
had an eye to the beautiful, but the
effect upon the friends and relatives
of the buried pussies was as singular
as satisfactory. On the first evening
after the burial, our friend heard
most unnatural and terrible howl of
anguish in his garden. Rushing to
the window, by the light of the moon,
he deserted three or four large cats
opposite their inverted brethren
and showing every symptom of the
acutcst terror. Their eyes looked
like burning Goals of fire, and appeared
to be starting out of their heads as
they winklessly glared at these ter
rible caudal extremities. Their hair
stood on end, their tails were swelled
to double their natural proportions,
and each cat was standing stiff upon
it's toe-nails, apparently spellbound.
For minute they thus stood, horri-
bly, bowling, and then, with a stimuli
taneous shrek, they all dashed mad
ly over the fence, and fled in terror
away. Since then our friend has been
enabled on nights to sleep the sleep
of the yirtuous, and his fower-beds
are left intact. The discoveries of
this catastrophe are supposed to have
disseminated the news of the terrible
scene among the other felines, for
although occasionally cat is observed
glaring for an instant over the fence
at the row of tails, as though seeking
confirmation of the shocking news,
and then mournfully, but precipitate-
ly retiring, not one has since that
night set its foot in our friends gar
den.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-11

GENUINE SoRRow.-During the
Clay and Polk campaign, the admira
ton of the Hon. Walter Brooke, of
Mississippi, for the great Kentuckian
led him to bet pair of matched
horses, all the stock he had, on the
result; and this though strict men,
Der of the Presbyterian church. Of
course he lost, and of course he was
"churched for gaming, "All we ask
of you Mr.. Brooke" said the minister
during the srial, dis to acknowledge
that you are sorry, and promise to sin
no more" "Sorrys' asked Mr..
Brooke, rising from his seat with an
air of injured innocence; sorryf My
dear brother, when think of those
beautiful bays, gone from my gaze
forever, can truly say, with my
hand upsn my heart, that no transac-
tion of my life gives me more genuine
sorrow than this
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-11

The Arabians have a pretty story
concerning Nimrod, the founder of tho
city of Babylon, which is worth relat-
ing for its beauty. 1t is as follows: ::
On ono occasion Nimrod called his
three sons together for the purpose of
conveying some practical lesson, III
the manner which marks Oriental in
teroourse with its symbolism and ex-
pressive imagery. To each he gave
a vase. One was of gold, another of
amber and the third was earthen. On
the golden vase was inscribed " En-
pire.' On the vase of amber, '9glory"
was engraved. But on the third, or
earthen vase, there was no inscription.
When the son who held the golden
vase looked into it, he found it filled
with blood. He of the amber vase
songht for the contents of bis, and
saw in 1t nothing but the dust of the
mighty aud 10 ! the vase upon which
there was no inscription was empty
but looking further the gazer saw at
the bottom the name of God. Lo,
Said Nimrod, the thirst for empire
perisheth; SO glory wasteth; so hu-
anility exalteth.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-11

Mr.. Boutwell, reports the National
Debt reduced by $l2, ,088 within
the month of April, which we heartily
rejoice at. The total reduction since
March /, 1869, is S327, ,719,8l9, leaving
the present aggregate 50, 1877 ,743, ,440.
If the People all felt as we. do, this
rate of reduction would be maintained
till the last dollar was paid. Mr..
Boutwell, reports Sl05, ,953, ,735 in coin
aud Sl4,375, LAG in currency in the
Treasury, while all his outstanding
Coin Certificates and called Bonds
amount to q little over S46, 600, 900.
If he could be persuaded to call 100,-
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-11

Some wags were walking around an
agricultural implement store, and they
Glanced to see in the rear a dressed
hog hanging by a hook to the wall.
"Ha! hal" cried they to the young
man in attendance, "what sort of an
agricultural implement do you call
thati" That he said, T" is a pat
ent combined root-grubber, corn
sheller, apple grinder, gate-lifter,
doubles action, back-spring, sod-plow;
but guess you won't want one, for it
takes mighty smart man to manage
'em.p
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100000 more of Bonds, and thus stop
Sc, 6,00O, 900 of interest per annum, the
people would forget his past waywar d.
ness and bless his present wisdom.
He points with pride to the fact that
the annual interest ON the Debt is now
$2l ,472 ,089 less than it was when he
became Secretary. Good for you, Mr..
Secretary; but why notreduce it &c.
100000 more by just calling $780,
100000 of Skies now subject to re-
demption IN. 7. Ilibnnc.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-11

The mails having, for week failed
to come to time in an Arkansas town,
the local paper says it has been forced
to draw heavily on the almanacs for
copy, and if communication with the
outer world should be still longer cut
off, ' we will be obliged next week to
make extracts from the Bible; thus
supplying some of our readers, at
least, with matter entirely new to
them.n
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-11

4 good story is told of late college
president near Boston. On one occa-
sion the students substituted large
dictionary in place of the Bible at the
morning devotions. On opening the
book he at once saw the situation, but
said nothing, and proceeded to the
prayer, which he prolonged for an
hour. The students got out of all
patience; but they appreciated the
remarks of the venerable president on
his retiring, that he " found all the
words that he needed in the volume
they had placed on his desk"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-11

An Arkansas landlord thus pro-
fanely advertises his hotel in the local
papers: "And Joseph wept aloud,
and he said unto his brethren, | am
Joseph; doth my father yet live y
And his brethren answered him, you
bet; the old man is doing bully, for
he boards. at the Cosmopolitan.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-11

OF the gloomiest of practical jokes,
the worst one was that of sending all
the undertakers of New York to a
house in the Bowery on the lst of
April, on a false order. 1t was far
more mournful for the hearse drivers
than any funeral.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-11

A distinguished writer says: "There
is passage in the Bible where the
girls are commended to kiss the men,
and that is the golden rule. What
ever We would that men should do un-
to you, do ye even Sc to them.'"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-11

The Albany Epeaing Journal states
that the fortune which the Hon. Eras-
tus Corning leaves his son and only
child is estimated at not less than
S6,000,000.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-11

The Goodyear Manufacturing Com
pany are getting out their spring
styles. Among these is porous
gutta- percha hotel beefsteak, q
sponge buckwheat warranted, with
care, to last for years.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-11

Christians on the tongue and devils
in the heart, give rise to large share
Of the suffering poor humanity en-
dures.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-05-11

OF the 357 electoral votes to be cast
in the coming Presidential election,
New England and the Middle States
will have 100; the Western States lO2;
the Pacific States IL; and the South
ern States I34.
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Communications may be addressed simply
mCHrEF, Donaldsonville, La" or to the cdi-
tor sad proprietor personally.
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| mo. 8 mos. mos. / yr.

Transient advertisements. 81 per square first
insertion; rs cts. each subsequent insertion.
All official advertisements 81 per square each
insertion.
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-05-16

A>AESUIiNE MANSION.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 9, 1872.
GENTLEMEN: am in receipt Of your inyi-
tation extended to me to attend mass meet
ing, to be held for the purpose of aiding in
securing civil rights for the colored citizens
of our country. regret that previous en-
gagement will detain me at the Executive
be able to participate with you in person in
your efforts to further the cause in which you
are laboring. beg to assure you, however,
that sympathize most cordially in any effort
to secure for all our people, ofwhatever race,
nativity, or color, the exercise of those rights
to which every citizen should be entitled.
am, very respectfully,
u. S. GRANT.
LETTER FROM VICE PRESIDENT COLFAX.
VICE PRESIDENTS CHAMBER,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 7, 1872.
DEAR SIR: Having voted recently in the
Senate upon the question Of civil rights to
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-05-16

MFR. Conway thinks the English do not
and cannot appreciate India in a moral or
intellectual sense. They appreciate India
commercially and value its imports. 1t is,
like the savage chief, who, when asked
whether he knew anything of an English Off
Ger who was missing, replied: II ate piece
of him." Such gastronomic knowledge OF
India England has. But for anything Ike a
realization of the tremendous Importance OF
how the two hundred million of their fellow
subjects in the East shall be dealt with one
utterly looks in vain.
The Chicago Tribune says: 'Cundurango
has finally received its death-blow at the hands
of the London Clinical Society, who after a
nrotracted trial of it in the cancer wards of
the Middlesex Hospital, have declared that
the drug has no effect whatever on cancer.
The gentlemen who made trials state that not
one single indication Of Improvement has been
observed in any of the cases. In fact, the
disease either ran its course or the patients
showed arrangements of the system clearly
attributable to the use of the drug.
Josh Billing says: 81 am rather favora-
bly, impressed with gin and milk az an extrakt,
and think a minister ov the gospel mite con-
tend with some ov it, on the sli, successful
but when he Gums to recommend it to his
people, have mi doubts about it, unless he
knows his people better than do"
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-05-16
Mrs. A. N. Pollard.

The item that appeared in the Republican
OF last Saturday concerning Mrs. A. N. Pol
LARD, was not founded on fact. This lady
had no pistol in her hand and made no threats
against any one when passing the st. Cloud
Hotel, on Friday evening. She informs us
that the most formidable weapon in her hand
was "rat," an article used in dressing the
hair, and that malice and imagination are the
foundation for the charge that she was seek
ing the life of any one.
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WARRINGTON, May IL, 1872.
To William II. HallOceU.

The season of ice cream being close upon
us, it may be proper to call attention to the
fact that a number of German newspapers are
discussing various cases of poisoning by va
nilla ice cream which have occurred of late in
different European cities. There are many
opinions as to the source of the poison, but all
agree that the cool delicacy is sometimes poi
sonous.
Suppose somebody had told Horace Gree
ley nine years ago-say about the time of the
New York riots-that he would by this time
be a candidate for the Presidency, subject
to the decision ofthe National Democratic Con-
vention, i" what would he have said. He would
have called the individual liar and horse
thief at least.
"A contemporary says that putting the
names of the streets on street lamps is good
thing. On moonlight nights when the lamps
are not lighted, by getting out of the street car
climbing the lamp post, and striking match
you may read the name of the street distinctly
if the wind does not blow out your match
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Senator HENRY WILSON, who always
speaks to the purpose, and who is one of the
most ubiquitous men we ever knew, for he
Is everywhere almost at the same time, made
cheering speech at the Congregational
Church on the occasion of the Equal Rights
meeting. He could not stay till the meeting
was ended, for, after his eight hours that day
in the Senate, and perhaps bill to prepare,
or chapter of his history Of the g Rise and
Fall of the Slave Power to write, before he
slept, he could not spare the time. His
presence and words even for the brief space
both occupied, were warmly appreciated by
the very large audience which greeted him.
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3 Twelve thousand dollars were recently
buried by citizen of Augusta, Ca, while two
other persons, alarmed by the disturbed con-
dition of affairs in their own counties, brought
to that city one 5000 and the other 81 900 in
geld, and sold it for currency. The Augusta
Constit,hionalist says this shows, despite all
that has been said and written about the
poverty of the South, that there is still money
enough left to lie idle, and that it is fact to
be deplored that it should be kept out of cir
culation instead of being added to the active
capital of the country.
"A Chinese newspaper enters ON the two
thOusandth volume with cheerful indications
that the experiment of its publication will
prove a success.
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GILBERT HOUSE,
Saratoga Springs, N. Y, 1872,

This House is favorably known, and located
within two minutes walk of the Depot, and Eve
minutes walk of all the principal Mineral
Springs, situated on Washington street, nearly
opposite the Baptist Charch, one Of the most
beautiful streets in Saratoga.
THE ROOMS ARE LARGE AND AIRY,
we'll ventilated, and neatly furnished; will be
kept open during the Season as
FIRST Class Pirate Boarding House.
The Table will be supplied with the best the
market affords.
RErERExcEs-Frederic Douglass, Bishop j.
W. Loguen, Z. j. Bowers, Philadelphia; Rev.
n. Freeman, Brooklyn; Peter F. Baltimore,
Troy; William Rich, Troy; Adam Blake, Al
bany VIM. H. Montague, Springfield, Mass.
Col. K. Harlan, Cincinnati, Ohio; George F.
L. Cook, D. c.. j. G. Green, Columbia, s. c.
my 164m o. C. GILBERT, Proprietor.