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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05

dy we are serenading, has been sung,
and a few more daSazas have been
played, shutter of the grated window is
seen to open, white hand, with white
handkerchief, f1utters approvingly be-
tween the iron bars, and significant
| flower is offered for the acceptance of
him whom it may most concern.
Tunicu takes friendly interest in my
afaire glamour, and gives me the
| benefit of his experience in such mat
| ters.
| In the carnival season, and on certain
| feStGs, I visit my Carload, in company
with a dozen Polio friends, among
whom are Tunicu and Bimba. and we
bring with us full band of black
musicians, bearing ordinary stringed
instruments Ouryisit is paid in broad
daylight, but we are masked, and so
disguised that foGterJan1itia8 cannot re-
cognize his guests; he is, however, sat
isfied as regards our respectability, when
my good friend Tunicu privately reveals
his name. At the inspiring tones of La
Danza, some lady neighbors flock to the
scene, and follow Us and our swarthy
instrumentalists into our hosts recep-
tion-room, which is entered direct from
the street .by huge door. Then a
dance is extemporized. The fascinating
step of La Danza Criolla lends itself to
little secret love-making, and, with a
partner like the graceful Cachita Ito
whom alone disclose myself when my
turn comes to visit her house,, feel in
the seventh heaven But dancing at
twelve o'clock in the day, with tropi-
cal sun blazing in at the windows and
open doors, and a room full of excited
dancers, merits some more substantial
reward, and, in the pauses of the darsd,
our hospitable host invites us into his
spacious cOm1edO1, where refreshments
in the shape OF champagne, English
bOttled-ale, cafe 1aOir, and doIlces, are
lavishly dispensed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
Imaginary Paralysis.

Paralysis, according to an English
writer, is rare, much that passes for
paralysis being durable, especially
through the imagination. This opinion
is supported by the statements of one
of the best medical men in Paris, who,
in 1849, was a physiciBn in the great
hospital there, the Hotel Dieu. In that
year this hospital was particularly IA
nous for the cures effected in it, and
many were the hypochondriacs whose
Vaccinations sent them home well after
a short stay in their wards. One odd
case was that of young girl III the de-
partment of the Ain, whom a sudden
fright had rendered dumb and para
lived. Local physicians could do moth
ing for her, and at last asserted that
only the doctors of the Hotel Dieu
could cure her. Firmly believing this
herself, the girl was sent to Paris and
admitted to the hospital, where the
hurried physician merely examined her
as a matter of form, promising to re-
turn on the next day. When he came,
he heard, to his astonishment, that the
patient seemed inclined to speak. He
spoke to her, and she answered instant
" that she thought she could walk with
a little help, and she did walk twice
around the ward very easily. The next
week she returned to her native village
as we'll as ever. "I knew" she cried,
"that the Hotel Dieu would cure mel"
It would be hard to find more striking
instance of the mysterious power of the
IMAGINATION and of strong belief upon
the physical structure.
The re.introduction of ruffs, now so
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05

making tarts or wine. Ripe grapes are
universally esteemed. No one tires of
them. If any declined to eat their own
grapes, or grow more than were needed
for home consumption, there is a ready
market in most neighborhoods.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05

The proprietor of young ladies'
academy in Illinois has utterly ruined
his business by causing to be inserted
in large number of papers picture of
the building, with two girls standing on
the balcony with last years hats on
their heads.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05

The society that is free from man,
nerism is always agreeable to itself,
whether rough or refined, as nature
loves her own atmosphere be Sum
/ ner Ellis,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05

Jack, who is at boarding school in
the country, writes home "Please
send me good trap to catch a wood
chuck and a piece of carpet for me TO
say my prayers on"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
a ST. Louis Street Scene.

He was the lifting-machine man, and
his instrument was near the corner of a
thrOnged, busy main thoroughfare. It
sat in the gutter with fare of lard
oil light beating full on its round face
in the eyes of all men, and yet they
needed it not. 1t was not much of a
night for lifting machines. The man
stood in a doorway, stamping his feet to
keep them warm, with his hands deep
down in his pockets, and keeping keen
watch and ward over the lifting-ma-
chine. He looked up the street and
down the street, and over the way at the
hack-stand, and up at the court house,
and then refreshed his soul by inspect
ing the assortment of fall and winter
hats in an adjoining window, and still
nobody came to test their muscular
powers on the lifting-machine The
more the machine man stamped his
feet and kept feeling nothing but de-
ferred hope at the bottom of his pock-
cts, and the more he tried to determine
what sort of hat he would buy if he
only had the necessary ducats, and the
more he looked up and down and all
around, the more nobody seemed to
come and test the hidden mysteries of
the lifting
At last brilliant thought appeared
to strike in upon the lifting-machine
man. He deliberately walked to the
corner and lavishly expended five cents
on a paper of peanuts. When he re-
turned to his stand in the doorway,
munching his purchase, there was
nibble at the lifting It was
only nibble; it wasn't bite. 1t was
a small boy of the boot-black persua-
sion, who had watched the machine
man go for his peanuts, and then walked
coolly and deliberately up and sneaked
a lift. "One touch of nature makes the
whole world kin" The lifting-machine
man took in the situation at glance,
and he let the small boy of the boot
black persuasion go on sneaking lift
until he grew purple in the face. One
creature in the world was happy for the
and that was the boot-black
boy. And while the lifting machine
man was indulging in the luxury of pea
nuts, why should he interfere with a
pleasure, snatched from a
world of great wants by poverty akin to
his own.-St. Louis Republican.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
CUBA,


1t is naught? 1t is naught?
That the south-wind brings her wall to the shore
That the spoilers compass our desolate sister?
II is naUght? Must say to her, ''Strive more
With the lips wherewith loved her and kissed
her?
With the mocking lips wherewith we said,
''ThOu art the dearest and fairest to us
Of all the daughters the sea hath bred,
Of all green-girdled isles that WOO us I?
Is it naught?
Must ye wait? ? Must ye wait
Tiii Ter heart is dust tin her strength is water
Must ye them trampe her, and be calm
As priests when virgin is led TO slaughter!
Shall they snnite the marvel Of all lands
The nations longing, the earth's completeness
On her red mouth dropping myrrh, her hands
Filled with fruitage and spice and sweetness?
Must ye vail?
In the day, in the night,
In the burning day, in the dolorous night
Her sun-brOwned cheeks are stained with weeping.
Her watch-fIes beacon the misty height;
Why are her friends and lovers sleeping?
''Ye, at whose ear the fatterer bends,
Who were my kindred before all Others,
Hath he set your hearts afar, my friends?
Hath he made ye alive, my brothers,
Day and night?"
Hear We not? Hear We not
From the hollow sea the sound of her voice?
The passionate, far-Off tone, which saith
"Alas, my brother! alas, what choice
The lust that shameth, the sword that slayeth?
They bind me! they rend my delicate locks
They shred the beautiful robes won me!
My round limbs bleed on the mountain rocks:
Save me ere they have quite undone me!
Hear ye not2
Speak at last ! Speak at last
In the might of your strength, in the strength of
your right,
Speak oHt at last to the treacherous spoiIer!
say: evil ye harry her in our sight?
Ye shall not trample her down. or soil herl
Loose her bonds let her rise in her lovelness-
Cur virginia. sister; or, if ye shame her,
Dark AmnOn shall rue for her sore distress
And her sure revenge shall be that of Tamar :"
Speak at last!
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
W. G. Sheppard,
SURGEON DENTIST,
COLUMBIA, TENN.

OFFIcE-FIeming's new block, Garden street,
nearly opposite the Presbyterian church. -,
! keep constantly on hand a full stock OF TOOTH,
tablets, soaps and lotions for the mouth and gums
all recommended by the United States dental asso-
cistiun- Call and see me-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
A Chapter from Sydney Smiths Life

Sydney Smith went to Edinburgh in
1897, and in 1900 he married there. His
wedding present to his wife consisted of
six small silver teaspoons, which from
age were attenuated almost into moth
ing, and as the threw them into her
lap he said that he gave her all his for
tune. His wife had some property, and
gift of some hundred pounds from
Mr. Leach, whose son was Mr.. Smith S
pupil, enabled them to set up house
keeping. A few years later and the
Review was started. Smith wrote seven
articles in the first number, and com
menced the long warfare against crime
and abuse which he waged for so many
years. He was the only man in Eng
land at that time who believed that
there was something more costly than
wisdom, and that was ignorance. He
demanded Justice for women, reform in
public schools, universities, poor laws,
church discipline, and reform in prisons.
Of course the whole country was star
tied. Not hang a woman for stealing
e5 Not cheat a poor woman when an
opportunity occurred Ameliorate the
condition of chimney-sweeps ! Mon
strous What was the world coming
to? they asked. He finally left Edin-
burgh and went to London, where he
was settled over the founding asylum,
at salary of ESQ a year. Then came
his first course of philosophical lectures,
which established his genius. They
we're continued three years, and the
largest halls that could be obtained
were each night filed to e1fiowing
with his audiences.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05
An English Captains Report of the
Virginius Affair.

Capt. Macarthur, of the British
schooner Brilliant, reports that Just be
fore the Yirginius was captured VarOna
advised the firing of the powder maga.
zine and consequent blowing up of the
vessel, rather than that they should fall
into the hands of the Spaniards, but
the captain persuaded and convinced
Gen. Varona that being under the Amer
lean flag and in neutral waters, they
would not dare touch any man on board.
! Varona and his followers thereupOn be-
came satisfied and shortly after an off
Ger from the Tornado boarded the Vir-
ginius and demanded her papers. The
officer, after inspection, stated they
were correct but made all on board pri-
soners. Varona replied that he was a
prisoner because there was not an
| English or American man-Of-war near to
witness this scandal on the laws of ma
tions. He added that he could have
blown up the vessel, with all on board,
but he had not done so since her papers
were correct, and had not been seized
! in Cuban waters. The American flag
was, he considered, their protection,
and he surrendered, he said, under the
protection of that flag, but believed he
would be victimized, since the Spanish
government all along hated him.
Capt. Macarthur witnessed the execu-
tion Of Ryan, Varona, Jesus del Sol and
Pedro Cespedes, and gives the following
account: The Spaniards forced Ces-
pedes and Jesus del Sol to kneel, in
which position they were shot in the
back. The soldiers next directed Ryan
an Varona to kneel in the same way, but
they refused and were seized and thrown
down, handcuffed all the time. The two
victims begged their tormentors to
allow them to die standing, and having
offered further resistance they were shot
standing.
Fifteen officers of the Spanish army,
who had been made prisoners on the
battlefield, by Varona, were present
when he landed and went to the gov
ernor of the city and begged that his
life should be spared, since he had given
them theirs. The acting American
consul, on hearing that Ryan was to be
shot, waited on the governor and de-
manded his restoration as an American
citizen, but the governor refused to
listen, on the ground that the consul
was not we'll informed in regard to the
matter. The Spaniards informed the
cOnsuls that they were acting on their
own responsibility, and did not even in
tend communicating with Madrid.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05

The re.introduction of ruffs, now so
popular in this country, and especially
in Boston, is due, it Is said, to wen on
the neck of an English lady Of quality.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05

Love AND Passion. II think the aver
age novel is making sad mischief in the
average mind in its pictures Of true
love. It makes the tender glow and
glamour which related natures feel when
they meet, true love. It is no such
thing it is true passion, that is all a
blessed power purely and rightly used,
but no more true love than those little
hooks and tendrils we see in June, on n
shooting vine, are the ripe clusters Of
October. For true love grows out Of
reverence and defcrence, loyalty and
courtesy, good service given and taken,
dark days and bright days, sorrow and
Joy. IL is the fine essence OF all we are
together. and all we do, True passion
comes first, true love last. at is sown
bodv I" and 80 IL il written: "The first
man is of the earth, earthly, but the sec
ond man is of the Lord from heaven,
Robert Cokyer.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-12-05

1t is naught? 1t is naught?
That the south-wind brings her wall to the shore
That the spoilers compass our desolate sister?
II is naUght? Must say to her, ''Strive more
With the lips wherewith we loved her and kissed
harO
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-02-01
OFFICIAL JOURNAL
OF THE
House OF REPRESENTATIVES,
REGULAR SESSION
OF THE
THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE
STATE OF LOTTfGR4N


D"S FfoCttuIngSs
HoysR or REPRAsExr,-Irps
HaW Orleans, January 81, 1873.
4h@ lonse met pursuant to adjournment
Speaker Charles w. Lowell in TIE chair.
On call of the roll the following members
answered to their names:
Hpt akeF e. w. Lowell and Messrs. Al
lam, Antoine, Bowman, BRYANT. Baker
hoyd, behham, Blackstone, Boatner, Bar
low, EaiTy' Connaughton, Cousin Dcmas,
H. h. Davis, Decker Devezin. Drioie. On,
mont, Dayrles, Devices, Fontelien' Greene
Galr' Can't, Hrffner EIubean. Hill, Heath
rILle1Sepath, NJ. Jones, Judice, Heating.
hlrkman, Kenyon, Kern, Lewis. Landry,
Murrel tLatourchrl, MurrrU Madison
Mahnney, hayo, Martinez, Marie. Mathews,
Montald", Peyton, Ruhy, Rochon, RoGri,
cues Soner, Sawyer, Stewart, Sartain.
S Tti51e' sutton, SewelI, Thomas, Tureaud,
", WN,llilam1, Worthy, Washington, Wiggin.
ward, Wands, Young-G7.
Quorum present.
Prayer by the Chaplain
On motion of Mr. Snaer. of Iberia the
reading of the journal was dispensed with
On motion the journal Was approved.
Tho Speaker announced a communication
trom MIR. Southland, of Ouachita. asking
leave Of absence on account Of sickness
Srautud
REPORTS or COMMITTEES.
MIR. Tureaud, of St james, chairman Of
the Committee on Elections aud QcAliEca.
tons, presented the following reports.
The majority report is a. follows:
COsN,TrEs ON ELECTION ASp Or ,LIy1c,rroSs
January p. 1873. :
To tho Honorable speaker ana h.u,har. =, >, ,
House Of Representatives.; - 'Ao
Your Committee On Elections and Quail
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ferred to the Committee on Agriculture and
ordered printed.
BILLS TAKEN Up.
Senate bill No 5, reported on favorably
by the COMMITTEES on Claims. entitled an
act for the relief of FRANCOIS Noel.
On motion of Mr.. Ingraham it was referred
10 the Committee on Metropolitan Police.
Senate bill No. 70, entitled an act for the
relief of John Purden.
On motion of AR. Ingraham the bill vas
referred to the Committee on Metropolitan
Police
Senate bill No. "a, bill to be entitled Sn
act to amend the homestead law, and the
better to protect $he tillefs of the SOL and
others in the fruit> of their laboE.
Mr.. Brewster offered the following
amendment: insert two horses" OF 'two
mules" in lieu Of "ones' sheGeveS 81 s
same occurs in the bill.
Adopted.
On motion of Mfr. blackburn :i.e bill Was
considered en- crossed and ordered 80 % fhiG0
reading.
Dir. Wharton moved to reconsider the
vote just taken on motion for cngEossmens.
Mr.. Harris moved 20 lay the motion to
reconsider on che table. upon which the
yeas and nays were ordered, with The FOL
lowing result:
feas-Alexandtr. Anderson, Barber
Blackburn, Blunt, Brewster, Butler, Bulch.
Harris, Harper, Pollard, Stamps, " eher-i3
Eays-Greene p. +. Herwig, +. 2. Her
wig, IngrahaIn, kelso, Sypher, !"iteh.n.
WhartOn-S.
, Motion 30 reconsider was ordered TO lie
on the table.
The bill was read the third time and on
motion of Mr. Harris reeommitted 20 the
Committee on judiciary.
Senate bill No. 81, bill entitled an aet
for the relief OF Osbora Harris, reported
without action by the Committee on Clsi MS,
recommending recommitment to the Com
mittee On Judiciary, was 80 referred.
On motion of Mr. Harris. the Senate
voted 80 adjourn Un:L 20 morrow 1t the
usual hour.
The President then announced that f!.e
Senate stood adjourned until Friday, ja1-
uary ~, 1873, At twelve o'clock NJ.
Z. +. BECHTEf..
Secretary of the Senate
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-02-01
Eighth Days Session.

MoNDAy, January y, 1873
Precisely at ono o'clock the Chief Justice
cool The chair and called the Senate to or
der "a ""urt OF Impeachment, and ordered
tine Secretary to call the g0ll;
The following Senators answered TO their
aames:
Messrs Alexander. Anderson, Barber,
Blackburn, Blunt. Brew -ter, Butler, Burrh,
Greene, Harper, p. f. Hrrwig, E. +. Her
wig, Ingrahim, kelSo, Masi3ot, Pollard,
Sypher Twitchell, Wharton-I9.
The Chief Justice announced a quorum
present, and ordered the Sergeant-at Arms
20 open the court by proclamation.
The Sergeant-at Arms made the following
proclamation:
Hear We, hear We hear ye All persons
are commanded TO keep silence on pain of
imprisonment while the Senate Of the State
Of Louisiana is sitting for the Trial of the
articles of impeachment of Henry Clay
Warmotl, Governor OF Louisiana.
The Chief Justice thea ordered The Sec
Cetary of the Senate to inform the mana gers
on' ha part of he House of Representatives,
THAI the Senate sitting az 4 court of i'm
parchment, is Row ready TO proceed with
tne trial ~ the impeachment of ~. G.. Way
moth
;h" Secretary reported :" sbe CHIEF yus
!ce thar he had notified Che House 0f Reg
rc-eHtatives thai I'll" Senate, sitting as
court "f impeachment, was r"ady 20
J receive Che managers oa the part % the
House.
The managers Oh she pars oe the House,
with the exception of Nix. Hahn, appeaved
and took their seats at the bar.
Hr. Durch-Mr Chief Justice, Q am in
formed that the chairman of the board of
managers, on the part OF the House OF Rep
resentatives, refuses to obey the summons of
the Senate.
Mr.. Manager Murrelf-Mr Chief Justice,
1 don't know that the chairman refuses to
obey the summons: he is also chairman of
the House Committee ON judiciary ard has
some Important business on his hands and
ne stated that he could not come at present..
The Chief Justice-The Chief Justice is
not aware that tho Senate has any control
over Hhe chairman of the board of man
ayers; that 10 % matter for tho House to
regulate.
Mr.. 3ugraham-EY Chief Justice, | en-
informed that the chairman will be down
Immediately.
Tho Chief Justice-Mr. Secretary. read
the minutes Of the last days session of the
court.
while che minutes were being read Mr..
Hahn, chairman Of the board of managers.
entered the Senate Chamber and took bis
seat at the bar
thero being no corrections to make in the
minutes they were approved and adopted.
The MISUNDERSTANDING In obedience
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T.. BUTLER. Chairman;
J. A, MASCOT.

Mr. Burch, chairman OF the Committee
on Enrolment and EugrossmeHt. submit
ted the following report:
COMMITTEE o. ENKrsLsa"@.
January 70, 1875.
To the Honorable President and Members OF the
SeGate:
Your Committee on Enrollmen: beg leave
to report as having been duly engrOssed she
following bills:
Senate i'int resolution No. 7, requesting
the President and Congress OF tho tn!ted
States to restores the use ana property OF
the Branch Mint To- the city of New or-
leans, to he used as State HOuse and for
city purposes.
Senate Joint resolution So. . authorizing
the Governor to contract witis the city ~:
New Orleans or other authority tor the
use as a State House Of the Branch Mint
! in the city of New Orleans, OF part thereof.
Senate bill No. 80, an aet for the relief
of the Semi Weekly L0uisjdnaIi, news
paper published in the city OF New Or
leans Louisiana.
And act No. 80. at act so provide FOR
the appropriation audi means of acquiring
lands by the United States for the erection
of lighthouses, light keepers house, signal
station, range lights, warehouse anu TeFs-
nue. stations.
Respec fully.
J. HENRI BCRCH Chairman.
NOTICES or BILLS.
BY Mr. Butler:
A bill to be entitled an ace to repeal and
modify an act to protect the health OF the
city of New Orleans, to locate the stock
landing and slaughterhouses. and TO incor-
porate the Crescent City Live Stock Land
ing and SlaughteIhouse Company, approved
March 8, 1869.
INTRoDCCTIO& OF @I'ss.
By Mr.. Spyher
A bill to he entitled an acs for the relief
of Charles II. Walker, of st. Mary author
ling and directing the State Auditor to
issue bond for $1,000 in lieu Of one lost by
fire.
Bill was read the first time, constitutional
rule was suspended by a fouc-ttths vote,
bill read second time and referred 80 Com
mittee on Judiciary.
BY Mr.. Ingraham;
4 bill to be entitled !n act 70 restrict aud
limit the jurisdiction of the State courts in
matters of contest for once.
Bill read frs t time. constitutional rule
suspended by tour-tifth- vote, bill read
second time and ry!errod 10 Committee on
judiciary.
By Mr.. Herwig:
a bill TO be entitled an act 20 create
board of tobacco inspectors. u dtfiue the
duties of said board, az, to provide for the
appointment Of the members thereof, aud
20 punish ofsuEes Committed against ills
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