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ngure, one dark night. "It's 1, patrol; don't be
AFRAID, kindly responded an old celored woman.
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HARPER's PERIODICALS.
HARPER,S MAGAZINE.

No more delightful travels are printed IN
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lar understanding, and designed as much TO
diffuse correct information concerning eur
rent scientific discovery as it could be II 1t
was the organ of the Society for the Ditfu-
sion of Useful knowledge"
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rect information and rational amusement to
the great masses of people. There are few
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and highly welcome guest.
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lonalosonbille Gblef,
Political Register.


The following is list of the most
prominent and important political
events announced to transpire be-
tween now and the Goth of June:
April 3O-Louisiana Republican
State Convention in New Orleans
called by Committee of which Mar
shall Packard is Chairman:
May NATIONAL LIBERAL RERUB-
L1cAN CONVENTION IN CINCINNATI.
May North Carolina Democratic
State Convention in Greensboro.
May Tennessee Liberal Repubh-
can Convention in Nashville.
Nav Vermont Republican State
Convention in Bellows Falls.
May1-M Mississippi Republican State
Convention in Jackson.
May l-Conneeticut Legislature
meets in New Haven.
Nav 7-Pennsylvania Labor Re-
form Convention in Williamsport.
May 9-Minnesota Republican State
Convention in Minneapolis.
May Georgia Republican State
Convention in Macon.
May 9-Delaware Republican State
Convention in Dover.
MAY 9-Tennessee Democratic State
Convention in Nashville.
May 14-Texas Republican State
Convention in Houston.
MAY 15-Tennessee Republican
State Convention in Nashville.
May 15-Eebraslla Republican State
Convention in Lincoln.
May 16-Michigan Republican State
Convention in Jackson.
May 22-IlliDois Republican State
Convention in Springfield.
Nav 23-West Virginia Republican
State Convention in Grafton.
MAY 23-New Jersey Republican
State Convention in Trenton.
May 23-Election in Virginia.
Nav 25-Louisiana Republican State
Convention in New Orleans-called
by the Committee of which Lieuten-
ant Governor Pinehback is Chairman.
May 3O-Pennsylyania Democratic
State Convention in Reading.
June 3-New Hampshire Legisia-
ture meets in Concord.
June 3-Democratic-S State Convcn-
ton in New Orleans.
June 4-Louisiana Reform State
Convention in New Orleans.
June 5-NATIoNAL UNION REPUB-
LIcAN CONVENTION IN PHiLADEL-
PHIA.
June l2-Indiana Democratic State
Convention in Indianapolis.
June 10 Michigan Prohibitory
State Convention in Lansing.
June 17-Texas Democratic State
Convention in Corsicana.
June 18-Arkansas Liberal Repub-
licau State Convention in Little Rock
June 19-Arkansas Democratic State
Convention in Little Rock.
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the presidency of the board, and of
the other six members.
So the president controls the paper,
and his six friends sustain him.
In q little over one month from the
first issue of the peoples paper" the
"honest merchants paper" the paper
which was to denounce rings, dema-
gogues, and moral and political i'm
purities generally, the editor and his
leading editorial writer were suddenly
dismissed, the paper was ordered by
the president of the company "to
hush up" on Warmoth, and it did
:. hush up for six weeks; it was or
dered not to resist or attack the New
Orleans Times, and it obeyed; it was
ordered to suppress the grand jury
report against the pestiferous robber
of the poor, and corrupter of the
youth of New Orleans, the Howard
lottery, and it obeyed; it was chained,
Gagged, and put on a low diet, and
made just such paper as Governor
Warmoth wishes it to be, and just
such as the merchants, bankers and
SPECTATORS who are secretly in league
with Governor Warmoth wish it to
be.
The president of the company, by
his personal influence and energy, de-
feated two late calls for meetings OF
the stockholders to inquire into these
strange proceedings; and yet the
president, who was one of the chief
engineers in getting up this peoples
paper" and was chiefly instrumental
in breaking it down, is continued in
office, and the stockholders have not
had the enterprise to meet and cal
the president and managers to an ac-
count for their strange proceedings.
This looks as though the people
have ceased to resist, and have given
up everything to rings and dema-
gogues. And while the flies feebly
struggle in the meshes of the web, the
spiders redouble their energies to Sc.
cure their prey.
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P. E. Bechtel and son of B. F.
Joubert, of New Orleans, INDUCED in
the harmless amusement of crossing
small swords on the Metairie Ridge,
on the second instant. Bechtel re-
ceiEed slight scratch. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that the belligerent politicians
of the Crescent City do not resort to
double-barreled shot guns at six
PAGES when their honor is so deeply
wounded that nothing but blood-let-
ting can repair the damage.-Iberrille
Nelrs.
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The Ace Of the World.
Correspondence Boston Advertiser

Correspondence Boston Adyertlser.J
"Soldiers, recollect that from the
heights of these pyramids forty cen
turies look down upon you," said Ma
poleon to the army which he led into
Egypt. Was the great Captain his
torically correct? Did he use par
donable exaggeration, or did his fig
ures fall short of the truth? He had
certainly wandered little even from
the chronology of Rollin. That writer,
whose authority was accepted till q
late epoch, placed the historical date
2l35 years, and the construction of
the pyraminds 1000 years before the
Christian year. This would give
them little less than thirty centu-
ries. But later researches in the twin
sciences of archaeology and Egyptol-
ogy have pretty nearly overthrow
Rollins crude calculations, and most
modern authorities are disposed to as
sign a much greater age to the world.
On that subject M. Jules Oppert is
about to publish u work which must
attract attention. NJ. Oppert recalls
that there were among the Egyptians
measures of time, or cycles of AGO
years each, of which the last ended in
1s9 A. D. Tracing these periods back
in will be found that one began in the
year 1852 B. C. Among the As
syrians likewise our author claims to
have discovered analogous cycles of
1905 years, the last of which termin-
ated 712 B. c. Counting these per-
| iods back in the same manner it will
be found that one of them also begins
at the date IL ,532 B. C. From this
co incidence, NJ. 0. infers that the
year II ,532 marks the beginning OF
reckoning time among the two Oldest
peoples, and consequently the begin
ming of the historical era. He also
finds this conjecture supported by some
considerations based on the Chaldaic
chronology, which placed 10000 years
between the historical period and tho
Deluge. If equal eredence be given
to the entire system of the Chaldeans
which do not understand NJ. Oppert
TO affirm, there must be added the tri.
fling period of 1872 900 years between
the origin of the human species and
the Deluge, making a total of 482, 64s
years for the age of the globe and it:
inhabitants.
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Who Can Drink Moderately?

A moderate drinker always tells
me, " can give it up when | please"
So you can. But when you say so,
you don't "please," and you never
intend to "please." 1t depends more
on the strength of mind whether if a
man drinks he becomes drunkard.
You take a cold, phlegmatic man, and
he is not likely to become drunkard.
He may be good man, a good faith
full father, q good husband, a good
Christian, for all / know; but he is
not warm hearted, impulsive, quick
and generous. His hands fall on
yours cold and clammy. Give him
drink and he feels " very eomfur-
able" Give him little more and he
feels Every comfurrurable." Give him
another and he will go to bed "con-
fur-rur-rurable,n and he will get up
next morning feeling Every eomfur-
rur-rurable." You can't get him be-
yond the point of feeling livery COM
fur-rur-able.n 1t may affect his vital
organs in the end, but there is no evil
dence of his intemperance. Take the
other extreme, for | am dealing in ex-
IRENE cases. Takea young man, ner-
yous, full of fire, full of poetry, and
full of music; a young man who car
sing a song or tell a story; noble
hearted and always ripe for some
mischief. Give that man q glass o.
drink and what is its effect2 He feels
it in every fibre of his system. L
weakens the power of his will--slight
y. 1t warps his judgment-slightly
That man is changed man-slightly
AS he keeps on drinking, and mingle'
in the outer circles of the world, ever,
circle becomes narrower, narrower
He says he will give it up when it i
injuling him. 1t is false! false! Whel
you find it is injuring you, then is tn
time you do not give it up; you ar
like the soldier who called out to hi
comrades within the ramparts, Nv,
got prisoner" g Bring him in" salt
they. "He won't come" said he
t.sThen come in without him." sail
they. "He won't let me,n said he
You think you know and can guar'
against all danger. You are like tn
pilot who said he knew every rock il
the channel. He steered clear of then
for while, but finally the ship struck
THAT'S one of 'em, Captain" said he
Cough.
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HARPER'S WEEKLY.

The best publication gifts class in America,
and so far ahead of all other weekly journals
as not to permit of any comparison between
it and any of their number.
Its columns contain the finest collections OF
reading matter that are printed.
Its illustrations are numerous and beauti-
full. being furnished by the best artists in the
eountry-BOSt0a Traveller.
Harper's Weekly deserves its primacy in
this class of publication, alike for the value
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tons. The spirited and telling pictorial sat,
Tres of Mast are power in society, and are
dictated in aid of a sound public opinion, and
torials on public affairs are models of discus
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principles in an elevated tone and chasten
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HARPER'S Bazaar.

Free from all political and sectarian discus
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struction, it is just the agreeable, compan-
ionable, and interesting paper which every
mother and wife and sweetheart will require
every son, husband, and lover to bring home
with them every Saturday eyening.-Phiia-
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This paper at the outset occupied place
not filled by any American periodical, and
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While fully maintaining its position as a mir
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can possibly be made.-BoSton Saturday Ere
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Curious aud Significant.

This is what the Planters Banner
says under It's new management, Mr..
Daniel bennett being the editor:
Last fall and winter 230 merchants
and business men in New Orleans
Taised 300, 900, and bought the Piea-
yuns, intending to make a true peo-
pies paper, to speak for the people,
defend the people aud attack political
sillainy and corruption in its strong
holds. The people We're delighted and
encouraged. Hope dawned once more
on the city of New Orleans, and on
the State.
Twelve business managers, cum
ningly elected and placed by one or
two designing men, aud not voted for
by one of the present stockholders in
fve, get possession of the paper. and
seven of the twelve get possession OF
the board of managers, aud a young
Erv gso3s merchant gets possession of
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Since Senator Sumner has chosen to
oppose certain measures of the admin
istration, few short-sighted politi-
clans have seen fit to belittle the life
long and incalculable services of the
great statesman in the cause of human
rights and universal freedom. Charles
Sumner might exclaim, in the pathetic
words of Rip Van Wrinkle when here
turned to the village of Fallingwater,
/" And are we so soon forgot Z" But
that were impossible, for in the hearts
of our colored citizens, at least, the
great pioneer in the cause of freedom
and progress holds aplace only second
to that of the immortal Lincoln.-Ib-
Grille Ne,cS.
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