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Voudou FestivaI'in New Orleans.
From the New York World.

From the New YORK World.
NEW ORLEANS, June 24.-Last
night the annual Voudou festival O.
the negroes was held along the Dor.
ders of the .eBayou;St. John and the
Old Lake. A more disgusting sight
it has never been my. lot to witness.
| An immense number of men and
women congregated in the evening at
particular places, and at given sig
nal they all divested themselves Of
their clothes to actual nakedness.
Bonfres were built all along the shores
of the lake, and the whole appear
ance was such as would almost strike
terror into astout heart. The horrid
orgies were inaugurated by one wild,
unearthly yell, in which all the as
sembled crew joined their voices, and
for a moment afterwards there was a
fearful silence. The worshippers of
the demon" then contemplated their
naked forms, upon. which the fire
shone with a CHASTITY effect, and with
a hideous yell they began to dance
!. around the fires, singing weird songs
land occasionally bursting forth into
a wild and piercing laugh. The.
songs that they sang could not be
identified with. any living Ian
guage, but seemed to be commu-
MON of languages, as, occasionally,
you would be able to distinguish gen
uine English words, German and
French. Around these bonfres they
Kept revolving with joined hands for
over an hour and half without
ceasing, uttering their horrid yells
and singing their wild unearthly
songs. On all occasions woman
presides over these orgies, under the
name. Of. .. Queen Of the Vqudou,..
and when they cease dancing round
the fires they go forward and make
their submission at Her Majesty's
feet, who is usually seated on an ele-
waited mound or large rock. This
Queen retains her r;title and dignity
during life, provided she conducts
things with a proper grace, and she
is usually chosen out Of the most So
cially elevated class Of negroes in the
locality. On this occasion the old
queen, Marie Lavody, did not attend
on account of illness, and her emblem
Of power, garland Of flowers round
the head, was worn by one Nanny
Caroline, who has already been named
and acknowledged as the successor
to the queenly dignity. After the
first part CT the performance was
over, Queen Caroline held her court
in an old house on the banks Of the
bayou, where she shone forth in all
the resplendence Of her nude beauty.
/ saw. with regret, that these degra-
ding orgies were participated in by a
young white girl, about eighteen
years of age, and possessed OF more
than ordinary beauty. This hideous
revel was prolonged, till late hour
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Brovilles ssi,u iv..:.:s.

@- A man of seventy-three and wo-
man of sixty-nine eloped from West
Amesbury, last week, because their
children objected to their marriage.
EY An Irish physician was called to
examine the corpse of another Irishman,
who had been assassinated by some Of
his countrymen. "This person." said
lie, after inspecting the body, "was so
i'll that if he had not been murdered, lie
would have died half an hour beiore.''
ls-Th Hcmboldt Journals poet
brings out the following'version,
Mary had little lamb,
Twas always Oh its muscle,
She pulled the wool out of its hack,
And stuffed it in her hustle.
,;-ts There is an Irishwoman Of gigan-
tic strength in St. Paul. One morning
she lifted Il barrel of sugar from the
ground into cart. The next evening
she presented her husband with twins
Two days after she did the washing for a
family Of ten persons.
ux a story-teller in one of the litera.
ry weeklies exclaims: "Ah, what is
there more uncomfortable than unrequited
loTcr Nothing, nothing He who loves,
and knowingly loves in vain, experiences
all tic unuttcrable agony the true Chris
tian feels on hearing of the painful ill
ness OF is.nlother-in-law.
::-.' The retiring editor OF Kansas
paper "valedictS" himself as follows :
'"If have. said anything through the
columns that am sorry Tor am glad
of it. To my friends. l thank you tor
your liberality, and to my enemies, you
can so to the devil
g,a5. josh Billings says: ~ have often
boon told that the bestway is to take a
bull by the horns but think, i'll many
instances, 1 Should preEur the tail hold"
@- A Methodist clergyman in this
conference was recently so deeply inn
pressed with the evil of chewing tobacco
that he gave up the habit, aud went to
smoking. -
~ senator Scott was talking to a
Pennsylvania Sunday school, Sunday
or two ago, and asked the scholars why
Simon was kept in prison. One OF the
teachers quietly prompted boy to say
that it was for hostage, and the youth,
not quite, catching. the words. piped out
" He was detained for postage"
ne. A New Hampshire farmer scouts
the idea of taking newspaper at two
whole dollars year, and posts a notice
on the scioolhouse that 80 hoggs hev
trade or bin stoolen" from him.
Gr An exchange says. The Turks
have little need of newspapers, When
anything happens it is told to the wo,
men, and circulates like air in gale OF
wind. The Turks are behind the Yves
tern nations in many things, but certain
ly they have the most beautiful circula'
ting medium in the world.
s- There was a desire on the part O
the teacher to make q scholar understand
what conscience is. She said: "Wha
makes you feel bad after you have done
wrong" '1"My pap" said the youth
feelingly.
Ma> A man named Tease went to see
lady named Cross and teased her unit
she consented: to be Cross no more. +.
w- A steamboat on the Mississippi
passed drowning man. The unfortu
nate man struggled. tloundered, ant
screamed for dear life in the water. 1h'
pilot OF. the steamboat yelled. to MIN t.
"stand up" He did so, and found tn
water scarcely knee deep.
IL ,noIIsD
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There is a woman in Washington
who has buried FIVE husbands. Re-
Gently she married sixth. Upon
the day of the wedding a man called
at the house of the groom, asked for
that gentleman, and proceeded to
measure his body with a tape line.
The infatuated groom entertained an
idea that this might, perhaps, be a
man sent round by his tailor. After
the ceremony in church, however, the
husband was surprised to observe the
same person standing in the vestibule
and wiinking furiously at the bride
as the party came out to the car
riages.. Just as they were starting
off the mysterious being put his head
into the carriage window, and whls-
pered to the bride:
q Got. a ready made one thatA just
suitthim Beautiful ft-beautiful /
When the happy man demanded
the name of the individual, the bride
flushed, and said she believed he
was some kind Of an undertaken
/ Then the man was not SO happy. III
was hardly happy at all, and q Ger
tain gloom seemed to overcast the
] honeymoon. Perhaps the undertake.
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In the meantime, am, sir, your
obedient servant,
2 r RurTr Tp

In the meantime, am, sir, your
obedient servant,
R. B. RHETE, JR. {.
The public will perceive from the
above correspondence that l made a
fair, honest and manly offer to COL
Rhett, viz: to publicly acknowledge
| was wrong if he could show from
his own files that from the 9th of
December, 1872, until the 25l Of
February, 1878, the Picay,ene had
used toward any member Of the
Lynch returning Board, except Judge
Hawkins, the terms per6dy, perjury
and bribery provided that he agreed
to admit that he had spoken incor
rectly in the article Of yesterday
morning, If lie could not prove a0hat I
denied. The valiant and truthful
Colonel lodges the issue in his letter
to me and very complacently refers
me to the files of his paper from De
ce,nber 18th, 1872, to February 23d,
1878. l had already examined these
files, and knew that Colonel Rhett
could not prove by them that I had
misstated the Ptcayasne and presume
that Col. Rbett employed the twenty
four hours Of delay lie claimed, and
was allowed to answer nv note to
him, in examining those files himself;
and after satisfying himself therefrom
that he was fairly caught, lie refused
the proposition I made to him. Col.
Rhe.t having written in the Plcayune
chat r.ade assertions to the jury
which were malicious and wilfully
false, and having subsequently re-
fused my fair, honest and honorable
offer to decide which of us is correct,
1 publish him to the people Of New
Orleans as an unmitigated calumnia-
tor, deliberate and wilful falsi6er,
an artful dodger, and, withal, a
thoroughbred braggart.
". H. COOLEY.
New Orleans, June 26, 1878.
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The Rhett-Cooley Duel.

New ORLEANS, July IA private
dispach from Bay st. Aonis states
that duel was foughtgnear Mont
gomery station, this @orning, be-
tween ex-Judge VIM. 81. Cooley and
R. B. Rhett, il, editor-in- chief of
the Picayuaae, in which Cooley was
killed at the second shot. The diff
Guilty grew out Of an article publish
ed in the Picayuae, .anGa reply from
Judge Cooley, publishedsin the Times,
of the 9th. Col. Rhett was not
touched. 1t is understood that Rhett
was the challenged party.
New ORLEANS, July.-A special
dispatch to the Times dated Mont
gomery Station, Mississippi Ola Bay
St. Louis, July l, saysS..in the Rhett
and Cooley duel Judge Cooley was
killed at the second frs The parties
arrived at this place@on the same
train at 10 o'clock thismorning. Mr..
Rhett was accolnmpanied by Messrs.
Chas. Roman ahd Dr. Burns and
Judge Cooley was attended by Col.
Geo. W. Carter and@Maj. McRae.
The weapons were double barrel shot
guns-one barrel was loaded with
single ball. Distance forty yards.
The ground was lproAptly selected,
the distance measurI and parties
placed in position. AT the fret fire
Rhett's shot ranged high and Cooley''s
to the right. Cooley delivered his
fire first. At the second fire both
fired simultaneously sand Cooley fell,
mortally wounded by a shot enter
ing his left side andgpassing appa-
rently through his heart. He ex-
pired in six minutes without apparent
suffering, only speaking the words to
DR.. Holiday, :" an shot through
the breast The gentlemen engaged
in the affair exchanged the usual
civilities after the Second fire and
separated withsthe expression of mu-
tual respect and consideration.
New ORLEANS, July 1.-The Eoc-
ming Herald has the following par
ticulars of the duel For several days,
past this comnlunitN has been much
excited by an apprshended duel be-
tween Col. R. 3. Rhett, Jr., editor Of
the Picayuss, and Judge VIM. H.
Cooley, leading counsel in the case OF
Hawkins vs the Peayune. Friday
Col. Rhett sent a. peremtory chal-
lenge to Judge Cooley, which was ac-
cepted-the meeting, however, to be
postponed until Tuesday, on account
of Judge Cooley's engagement to ar
que a rule for agnew trial before
Judge Hawkins, which came up yes.
terday. During the course OF the
argument Juclge Cody, in opposing a
y
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-07-10

cy-for Cos 80 .oe
grasp oil q, :, powerful
and vindlctive party but that time
has passed for the South We have
eaten humble pie too long. Grant
and the Radical party have done
their worst. What is it that they
have not done within the past eight
years? Every species of insult, of
oppression, of spoliation, of robbery
have been perpetrated. Our people
have been dis,ranchised, and their
property has hcen stolen and appro-
priated by the Government, our laws
and our institutions have been SUBJ
verted, and our State governments
have been overthrown and committed
to the ignorant, and vicious, the
licentious and corrupt.
+ Gen. Grants conduct during the
war we do not discuss here. We are
dealing with him since the war-du-
ring his administration as President.
And the outrages to which we have
referred we've perpetrated upon the
South during his administration. We
cannob therefore, see with what self
respect any Southern man can sup
port President.Grant, or seek to palli.
ate or justify his administration. His
whole conduct, so far as the South is
concerned, has been as bitter and un-
relenting as if Ben Wade or Morton
were in the chair. He has done all
that he could do to insult our people
and injure the South. Col. Mosby
and other men who seek to create a
public opinion in the South favora-
bic to Grant aveundertaken a hope
less and humiliating task. Grant will
have to do something besides giving
few Offices to the friends of Col.
Mosby and others like him, who have
friends to reward. before the Southern
people will forgive him. He must
make reparation for the wrongs done
in our days of sore distress and for
the deep humiliation heaped upon a
conquered country which he had the
power.an opportunity to prevent.
There must be reparation, and there
must be contrition, tro, ON the part
Of President Grant before there can
be any lasting reconciliation between
himself and the Southern people.
Col. Mosby represents himself in his
estimate of the President, but we
think we are warranted in hazarding
the assertion that public opinion
South is against him. We know Of
only three men in the South who
seek to justify President Grant, while
there are some five or six MILLIONS of
people WHO are CONVINCED that his
administration has been curse to
the South. 1t may be, however, that
the three apologists Of Grant are the
only wise men in the South, and that
the five or six millions who think
differently are fools. But we do not
see it in this ht.-Chronicle & Sen
tinel.
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WHAT COOP ROADS Do.-An ex-
change truly says: Good roads bene-
fit every one residing along their
course. Good roads save horse flesh; /;
they facilitate the transr 'rtation Of
produce to market; they save your
temper; they increase the value of
your land; they lend attractiveness
to the eye Of d stranger; they in
crease the traffic and business Of q
town by its vitality in all the various
branches of trade. Show US town
which receives a large country trade
by means Of the aas roads leading
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A LoAFER's SoL1LooUY.-I wish
I knew where to get cent, ! do.

l knew where TO get cent, 90.
Blest if 1 don't emigrate to KANT
scbatka to to dig gold: Moneys
scarcer than wit cant live by nei-
ther-at least 1 can't. Sold the last
cid shirt, pawned my boots for three
cents, and went home nc. as a lord.
4 told my landlady had a hun.
dred thousand dollars, and wanted
the best room IN the house. Insulted
me by saying the attic was too good
for ne.
L am an injured individual. So
ciety persecutes me. | don't 90 So
ciety any harm, as | knows of. ]
don't 'trob widder houses. I don't know
no widders. I don't put the bottle
to my neighbor's lips. I amt got
no neighbors, and the fact is 1 don't
own any bottles. Couldn't fill 'em
| if I did.
I'm an innocent man. Nobody
can look me in the face and say ]
ever hurt 'em-nobody J; and yet
havn't got a roof to lay my head be.
meath. My old landlady rated me
why ? 1 Icouldn't pay, and left. Cause
why! amt it better to dwell in the
corner of the house-top than with 4
brawling woman in wide house
top; but if had corner it wouldn't
be safe, would it? I'm desperasi
man, I'd go to work, if it wasn't fol
my excessive benevolence. I'm afear
of taking the bread out of somebody
mouth.
Besides, wisdom's the principa
thing; don't the good book say g
What's money, to wisdom2 Amt
studying character2
If a man kicks me because Lear
pay for my Ticker, amt I getting u]
derstanding? Amt it alesson IN h1
man nature? -
| I'm told the world owes me q !
Ling. ..,;.s. te5s4
TIM triad yaitintr f,Ssl,,.;s'I -
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A MAN WHo NEVER OWED MoRl

A MAN WHO NEVER OWED MORE
THAN FIVE CENTs.-A correspondent
Of the Fredericksburg Ledger, wr-
ting from Essex county, mentions II the
death of a remarkable and worthy
old gentleman of Richmond county,
Mr.. John B. Sisson, in the elghtleth.
year of his age. He was an indus
trious man, and had accumulated
some property, which he left TO his
only daughter. He was soldier in
the war OF 1912. He often remarked
that he never owed any one but five
cents during the eighty years of his
life, and that was. a balance on bill
Of goods purchased of old Mr.. 'Hutt.
He said he could not sleep that night
because OF his owing five cents, and
he got up very early the next morn
ing, : went to see Mr.. Hutt, and paid
the FIVE cents. Never before or af-
forwards did he owe any person one
cent.
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month or January. DID the FScG
yatne in the month of January say
one word about it? Not syllable
Another month is about to expire
On the twenty-third of February
two months and a half since the ac.
ton was committed, then it is that
the virtuous Indignation of that very
.virtuous sheet is aroused, and it pub.
lished this article.
Why is it that they single out
Judge Hawkins from the returning
board ? It was. not Hawkins solely
and singly who had perpetrated this
immense injury of which you had
complained. If anybody. did it, it
was the Board; that Board was COM
posed of five individuals. [ ask you,
Lit you put yourselves forward as
champions of puoLc liberty and pub
lie interest, and on that account
claimed exemption of damages for a
libellous article which you have
written, 1 ask you if you did that in
the interest Of the public, why didn't
you pitch into Longstreet, Lynch,
Bovee and Herrons I might sug-
gest reason. I will let you guess
at it. Some people, you know, it
don't do to trihe with.
In answer to this you pretend that
the Picayu,:e, had repeatedly de-
nounced the returning Board previous
to your article against Judge Haw-
kins, of the 23d Of February, 1873.
No, sir, was defending Judge Haw-
kins against a charge of per6dy,"
perjury" and bribery" in con-
nection with his labors as a member
of the returning Board, and took
occasion to tellthe jury the Plea suae
had made no such charges against
any other member of that Board. l
now reiterate my language, and make
this proposition If you can find and
show me, in any number of the Pea
yu' e, the words "perfdy," perjury"
and bribery" applied to any other
member of that Board, I shall pub
licly acknowledge I was wrong if
you cannot, you will make the ac-
knowledgment of cOntradicting your
record.
Your obedient servant,
W. H. COOLEY.
New ORLEAN, June 26, 1878.
". II. Cooley, Esq;
SIR-Your communication Of yes
terday was received.
The editorial remarks in the Pea
ya1a,e to which you refer were reply
to portion of your speech therein
quoted. You asserted that neither
during the month of December nor
January had the Picaytsne noticed
the canvass of the Lynck Returning
Board ard the result proclaimed, and
that had omitted noticing all the
other members Of the Board but
Judge Hawkins. I controverted
these assertions, ard appealed to the
files of the Picayn1e to disprove
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to it, and we win show you place
that is lively, progressivesand thrifty,
with money circulating plenty, and
men in all branches Of industry busy
as beavers. q
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walk into a grocery store anu order :. a
barrel Of sugar or a sack OF coffee
or into a law Office and demand lie
gal op mon from its occupant, or into
an undertaker's and request coffin
without expecting to pay for their
respective wares or services, as into
a newspaper office and demand the
use of its brains aud muscle and
type, without. a thought Of recon-
pense. 3. That hereafter all person
al or political matter, having Tor its
obiect the promotion of individual
fortune or ambition, shall be treated
exactly as other business matter, and
charged, at the. option of publishers;
as editorial advertising. 4. That dead
beating-political, personal and com
mercial ON the Missouri press. is
:. played out. 5. That q any editor
or !! publisher who fails to carry out
these resolutions in the letter and
spirit, shall cease to be regarded as
a member of this association.
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There's your postofice, and now

The agent says: Knowing the
customs of the country, I lost no time
in following this advice, and got.
That Office was discontinued.
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MILLER, BISELL & BURUM
WHOLESALE eRocERs
Commission Merch'ts
l75 and III Broad Street,

receipt of our Fall Stock Of GROCERIES, consist
ing ,aan IN SIDES Bacon SHOULDERS Dry Salt SIDES,
SUGARS of all grades
sYRUPs-New Orleans and New York & &DrEs
MOI ASSES Rio Laguyra and Java COFFEE
TOBACCO, SALT, PEPPER SPICE
Crackers Pickles Cove Oysters, - o.
CANNED GOODS consistgof Peaches Backberes Tomatoes &C.
MAcKEREI in Barrels half and quarter hbls and Kits.
Sod WHEAT sead Rye, Seed OATS, Seed BARLEY
Csc LIQUORS Of BRANDY WHISKEY GIN, n.,n1
We are also Offering complete and largest stock BAh M
LIQUORS House the City and selling at prices that Will noue
lss toour:;lase nearer home than Eastern Rarkets
~ the Planters Merchants Edgea would take this occasion
20 our thanks their past liberal patronage taa respectfully e
onost aeon lance Of the same "A
ou Goods cAs prepared sell as low and oft
times lower Than any other House in the City, =. 40
Augusta, oct9
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But. why extend the lis, Each
individual reads for himself, and if
each does not find a column or more
to his particular taste, the paper Is
insipid, the editor lazy and deserving
of censrre.
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Curiosities of journalism.
How THEY READ NEWSPAPERS,

UNCLE NED first hunts up funny
thing, then laughs with will.
Aunt Sue first reads the stories,
then turns to the marriages, births
and deaths.
The laborer looks only to the
"wants," hoping to find q better
opening in his business.
Miss Flora seeks out the new ad-
vertisements, to ascertain the newest
import.tions in bonnets and kids.
Mr.. Pleasure Seeker turns to the
amusement column, and decides which
entertainment Will afford him the
greatest enjoyment.
Miss Prim drops tear-frst over
the marriages, then over the deaths,
for, says she, lone is as bad as the
other
Mr.. Politician commences with the
editorial, then scans the telegraph,
ending his perusal with the speeches
quoted.
'F p~,e5ssor slowly examines the
aae rhctori syr( x and
le A,ar -l>.3es - eo-respon-
s.ee. MI. rcurrs . bis lin,
a.ea - ne has
rea.
a5r. g..e. 5,oz; fof taa acci-
|-ts.I N
The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-05-12

It's gratifying to us to inform the public that Dr..
L. q c. Wishart's Pine Tree Tar Cordial, for Throat
and Lung Diseases has gained enviable reputa-
tiou from the Atlantic TO the Pacific coast, and
from thence to some OF the first families Europe.
not through the press alone but by persons through
ont the States actually benefited and cured at this
Office, While he publishes less, say our report
crs he is unable to supply the demand. 1t gains
and holds its reputation
First Not BY stopping cough, but by loosening
and assisting nature % throw of the unhealthy
matter collected about the throat and bronchial
tubes which causes irritation.
Second. 1t removes the causes OF irritation
(which produces cough) Of the mucous membrane
and bronchial tubes, assists the lungs to act and
throw of the unhealthy secretions, and purhes the
blood.
Third. 1t IL free from squills lobelia, ipicac and
opium, of which most throat and lung remedies
are composed, which allaY cough only, and disor
ganize the stomach 1t has a soothing effect on the
liver and kidneys, and every part Of the system ant
In its inyigorating and purifying effects it hai
gained reputation which ii must hold above al
Others in the market.
The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-05-12

Cramps in the stomach and bowels,
cholic pains with children or older people,
is at once relieved by using Renne's Mag
ic Oil with molasses and water. This
Pain Killing Magic Oil is frst-rate doc
tor in the family, and is sold by your mer-
chant and druggist.