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Some Noted Ladies in the Government Ser
vice,

"Fay" writes from Washington to the
Louisville ColTieT-JoWnGl:
There are constant accessions to the
list of distinguished ladies who are per-
forming clerical duty in this city. One
of the most accomplished among them
is the daughter of Major Andrew Jack
son Donaldson. This lady was born in
the White House, receiving a most ac-
eomplished education, and married a
gentleman every way her equal. Her
husband was at one time n United States
Senator, and she queen in society. She
has with her in Washington a young
daughter, 10 years of age, who promises
to be a great beauty. Her mother is
striving to give her every advantage in
her education. Another charming lady
is the wife of General Stevens, formerly
on Beauregard's staff. She is now in
the Patent Office, engaged upon draw
ings. Her life has been full of adven-
lures as well as trials. She travelled
with her husband through Europe and
South America. Her husband and two
children died at Galveston with yellow
fever. Out of six children she has but
two living; daughter, who is married
aud lives in Baltimore, and boy ten
years old, who is at school in Virginia.
She is struggling bravely, and retains
her commanding appearance and fine
conversational qualities, as well as con-
siderable enthusiasm and vivacity of
manner. She is welcome guest at all
the best houses in this city, and does
much to oyerturn the Northern idea that
Southern women won't work and are
deficient in pluck aud goaheadativeness.
The ladies are at last admitted to the
sacred precincts of the State Department
and the Attorney Generals Office. AS
vet there are but five in the latter office,
two of whom are from Louisiana, and
scarcely reconstructed.
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THE LAW OF LoNGEvITY.-A writer
recently attempted to give the reason
why some men live longer than others
the law of longevity, in fact Hegoes
into an elaborate argument aud expla-
nation. He treats of inheritance and
harmony of Neutrality-suspicious., diges-
tion, circulation, assimilation and secre-
tion-mental hygienes, and temperance
and regularity. 1t almost appears, be-
fore we are through, that no man should
die at all who starts with good constl-
tuition and takes care Of himself. Ihe-
orists may speculate as much as they
choose, but they have most eonnletlng
data to reconcile. 1t seems as If people
live to old age just for the child's rea-
son, iibecause they do" Some are tenn
perate, and some use liquor freely; many
lead an opeu-air life, and others pass
most of their time in store, or house, or
office. Vigorous exercises or confirmed
Incidence; Graham bread and fruit, or
pork and beans and cabbage; tobacco, or
The abhOrrenee of pipe; mental labor,
or mental vaeuity-all have their CEN
tenarians-
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One,p was the sad and yet dignifed re.

DONE" was the SAD anu yet ulgnined re-
ply.
'I.et the little gals wash the dishes.
John can milk" said the father with a
touch of kindliness in his manner, for
which Matte was wholly unprepared.
''The little gals fail to appreciate the
situation," retorted Margaret, girl Of
twelve, who answered usually to the
cognomen of "Peg."
A look from the father silenced further
audible objections, and John took down
the pals, banging them together furi-
ously as he strode through the lawn,
and administering kicks at random upon
dogs and children alike.
"T Tpity the cows tonight" /" said Matte,
mentally, as she sought her room to ar
ray herself for the walk. e--
The room in question was, like all the
rest of the house, large, bare and COM
fortress. A homemade bedstead with q
scanty patchwork guilt; little mirror
that gave your features an oblong twist;
row of nails along the wall upon
which were arrayed a number Of cheap
but rather pretty dresses a broken chair
and a wooden chest comprised the furni-
ture.
Matte Armstrong bathed her face and
hands to reduce their ruddy hue, and
taking down her long luxuriant hair,
allowed it to float over her shoulders in
graceful abandon that was bewitch-
ingly becoming. She next arrayed her
self in a dress of light blue delaine, very
cheap, but very pretty in its trimmings
Of black velvet, and which fitted closely
around her shapely throat, where a
simple linen collar was fastened by jet
pin of primitive pattern and nominal
cost.
Black kid gloves, sailor hat and
ieecy shawl, striped in blue and black,
completed costume of which many
well-bred city belle might be justly
proud. u
"Tam ready" she said, ,accosting Amos
Harding, as he stood in the doorway
looking out upon the moon.
"Excuse me-" and he bowed and
smiled. 81 was just thinking-well, nc
matter what 1 thought. II was mol
about my own business" and the gentle.
man stepped with her upon the bare
hard ground.
'T am very curious to know of what
you were thinking, sir. Perhaps, if il
was not yoUr business it was mine
Will you not crafty me ?" and the gir
looked up into his eyes with an earnest
inquiring glance that was perfectly be
witehing to the senses of an imaginativ,
man.
81 was thinking, them" drawing he
gloved hand within his arm with {
slightly nervous pressure, "that in
place where nature has done so mucI
and art so little, there is fair oppor
unity for the exersise OF somebody
skill in making the surroundings beauti
full"
"pm truly glad TO find somebody tina
comedies In my opinion" and Matti
unconsciously gave utterance to drear,
sigh. My poor mother died for th
want of beautiful surroundings-actuall.
starved to death for the need of then
and the rest ofus are all following in he
footsteps"
Amos Harding fancied that the bloom
J ing blonde at his side was in far too goo
! condition to be starving seriously, bu
! he bit his lips and held his peace.
ITO be eontinued.l
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THE AUSTRIAN POLAR EXPEDITION.
According to accounts in the late Lon
don Journals, the Austrian North Pole
expedition was frozen in at the north
point of Nova Zembla, in August, 1872,
and was driven in anorthwesterly direc-
tion with the ice. The crew worked five
months in vain, during the summer of
1873, to free the ship. In the autumn of
that year, north OF the S0th degree of
latitude, unknown land was discovered,
whose boundary line north and west
was not to be seen. A thin line was ex-
plored, in sledges, from the 9th of March
to the 4th of May, 1874, up to the SD
degree. In honor Of the Emperor of
Austria, this was named Franz Joseph
Land. There were no signs of animal
life. On the 18th of May, 1874, the crew
left the ship Tegethof, in four sledges,
and after travelling ninety-six days,
reached Nova Zembla, where they met
with some Russian seamen ana Were
taken to Wardoe, in Norway, aIteI un 5
dergoing indescribable suffering al"
privatiOns.
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NUMBER 18.
Then and Now.


John B. Cough, in o recent lecture,
said: "Fifty years ago we burned the
same materials for light as they did ), ZOO
years ago. The lamps and torches that
Illuminated BelshaZzar's feast were as
brilliant and were probably of the same
materials as those of the earlier reeep-
tiOns of Washington. The same might
be said of locOmOtion. Nimrod and
Noah Travelled at about the same rate of
speed as our fathers. He remembered
travelling from Albany to Utica, and
making three miles an hour clear
through. Now in q hours we could
pass through the States of Maine, New
Hampshire, Connecticut, New York,
Delaware, Maryland, District Of Column
bia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and 100
miles into Virginia.
ain olden times they lived for love and
for a plain, simple home, with all its
happiness and comforts. In the then
marriage relation, with its hallOwed in
fiuenee, was the offspring Of love; in the
now it was made q matter of barter and
sale, and the family was metamorphosed
into q wretched struggle for fashionable
display. One man married to increase
his respectability, one to please his
friends, another brought home 1wife to
spite his relatives, and another married
to procure service without being obliged
to pay for it. One girl married because
she did not like to work, and wanted to
be supported in doing nothing but fancy
work, with ample time TO go out. He
sometimes saw these butterflies in the
street, with abundance of finery, cheap
jewelry, head gear; and speaking of fe-
male head gear, he might say that no
L a M n M fl-
ment in worshiping it, because it was
unlike anything in the heavens above
or the earth beneath.
"He knew il was the fashion to make
old maids and old bachelors subjects of
ridicule, but wouldn't it be better to be
laughed at because you are not married,
than never to laugh at all, because you
are married? II a girl was meek in her
manner; if she was modest in the pres
enee of gentlemen, or if she was kind to
animals, she was cut out for an old
maid. Neatuess, modesty, thrift, order,
and humanity seem to be the never-fail-
I ing characteristics of that terrible crea-
ture, the old maid. But, be it asked
were not some of the women whose eX-
istence was a blessing 10 the world, d
| this class? Take, for instance, Florence
! Nightingale, Miss Carpenter, Clara Bar
ton, Miss Dix, and hosts of others. W.
were Christians, and yet we wOrshipe'
the meanest of all Gods-we bowed tn
knee TO mammon. The purse-bearini
scoundrel was often honored, but tn
moneyless scoundrel was always de
spised. In some of our cities it wa
scarcely possible to convict man c
crime. He did not believe in hanging
men, but asked did they ever hear of
poor man having three trials for muT
der? (Applause). The question wa
one Of right or wrong, of guilt or innO
cence hut not one of wealth or poverty.
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THE WONDERS OF \ FLEA.-When a
flea is made to appear as large as an ele-
phant, we can see all the wonderful
parts of its formation, and are astonished
to find that it has n coat of armor
much more complete than warrior ever
wore, and composed of strong, polished
plates, fitted over each other, each plate
covered with tortoise shell, and where
they meet hundreds of strong quills pro-
ject, like those on the back of the porcu-
pine and hedgehog. There is the arehed
neck, the bright eye, the transparent
cases, the piercers, to punctnre the skin,
sucker to draw away the blood, six
long -jointed legs, four of which are
folded on the breast, all ready at any
moment to be thrown out with tremend-
Gus force for that jump which bothers
one when they want to catch him, and
at the end of each leg hooked claws, to
enabled him to cling to whatever he
alights upon. A flea can jump hund-
dred times its own length, which is the
same as If a man jumped six hundred
feet, and he can draw load two hund-
red times his own weight.
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There is much good sense and truth in
the remark of q modern author, that no
man ever prospered in the world with
out the cooperation Of his WIFE II she
unites in mutual endeavors, or rewards
his labor with an endearing smile,
with what confidence will he resort to
his merchandise, or his farm ny over
lands, sail over seas, meet dlthculty, or
encounter danger, If he only knows that
he is not spending his strength In vain,
but that his labor will be rewarded by
the sweets of home Solitude and disap-
poiptment enter the history of every
mans life; and he is half provided
for his voyage who finds but an associate
for his happy hours.
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STRONG MEN.-Strength of character
consists of two things; power of will
and power of self-Testraint. 1t requires
two things, therefore, for its existence
strong feelings and a strong command
over them. Now, we all very often
mistake strong feelings for strong char
acter A man who bears all before him,
before whose wild burst of fury the
children Of the household quake, because
he has his own way in all things, we
call him strong man. The truth is,
he is a weak man; it is his passions that
are strong; he, mastered by them, is
weak.
You must measure the strength Of a
man by the power of the feelings he sub
dues, not by the power of those that sub
due him. And hence, cOmposure IS Of
ten the highest result of strength. Did
we ever see a man receive a fiagrant in
Jury, aud then reply calmly? That
man is morally strong. Or did we ever
see a man in anguish stand as if carved
out of solid rock, mastering himself?
Or one bearing a hopeless daily trial re-
main silent, aud never tell the world
what cankered his home peace? That
is strength. He who, with indignation
within him, can be provoked and yet
restrain himself and forgive, those are
strong men, the moral heroes.
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PHYSICAL DEGENERACY OF WOMAN.
On this subject, Mrs. Burleigh very per-
tinently remarks: 'To that class of per-
sons who are fond of drawing cOmpari-
sons between women of the present and
those of the past, would suggest the
habitual overwork of our mothers and
grandmothers, as one capital cause of
the difference. Endowed with robust
constitutions, trained in the school of
hard work, they seemed to have fancied
their strength inexhaustible, and in the
manifold labors imposed by the house
keeping of fifty years ago, to have
thought little of the physical endow-
ment of their children. How they
toiIed, early and late, those strong
armed women, spinning, weaving, cook
ing, washing, making butter and cheese,
filling the house, from cellar to attic,
with the evidences of their handiwork.
Neither of my daughters can do one
third the work that could do at their
ages said an elderly woman to me this
summer. She finished the sentence
with q severe fit of coughing, and sank
back exhausted in the invalid chair to
which she has been confined for fifteen
years. Had you done less they prob
ably would have been able TO do more,
was my mental comment. From an
overworked mother they inherited inn
poverished physical conditions, and the
mother, never suspecting the cause
wonders at the degeneracy of her daugh-
ters -
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There is an elasticity in the human
mind capable of bearing much, but
which will not show itself until GER
tain weight be put upon it; its powers
may be compared TO vehicles whose
springs are so contrived that they get on
smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt
when they have nothing TO bear.
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Scientific men dispute as to the species
of grasshopper prevalent this year.
Some maintain that it is the red-Iegged
variety; others take the yellow-legged
side Of the controversy. The color of
the hopper's leg does not seem to have
any appreciable effect on his appetite.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-11-20

A swell, wishing to make himself in
teresting, asked, "Maris, what do you
suppose was hundred years ago ?"
AUST what you are now, nothing at
al, }" was the prompt reply.
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IL has been discovered that the Jointeo
fishing-rod was invented becauSSs bie
can't hide long cane pole uuuei us
coat Sundays.
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lEntered, according TO Act Of Congress, in the
year 1874; by Mrs. A J. Duniway, in the ofhce OF
the Librarian Of Congress at Washington CITY I
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Gbe fie,u iiertbwest.

A Journal for the People.
Devoted to the Interests of Humanity.
independent in Politics ana Religion
Alive TO all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs
of the Masses.
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Correspondents writing over assumed sigma
lures must make known their names to the
Editor, or no attention will be given to their
communications.
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't THE HAPPY HOME;
OR
The Husbands Triumph
By NfRs. A.LDrNTWAY

AUTHOR OF JUDITH REID" "ELLEN DowD,u
"AStIE And HENRY LEE,p ETC, ETC.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-26
The City Of New Orleans 70. Nils, "A.
Meynardier.

SEES oc,,, % Sheriff o, the Parish Of orisan..
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-26
SHERIFF'S SALES.
Thomas Kelly vs.. Mrs. p. Carraher ant
owen Carraher.

Thomas Kelly VS.. Mrs. p. Carraher and
Owen Csrraher.
ElfTH district COURT FOR TIE PARISH OF
r Orleans. No. 4-3s-Bv virtue Of a writ OF
iieri facias to me directed by the honorable the
Fifth District Court for the parish OF Orleans, in
public auction, a. the Merchants and Auctioneers'
Exchange. Royal street, between Cana! and Gus.
city, cytya. "n sA sTfGs1s; u se eps a1eSa g. g !s... 81 t ti'te
oc.ock ~. the following described property. to
TIN CERTAIN LOTS or GROUND. with the
buildings and improvements thereon:
l. " Lot OF GROUND. numbers six aad
seven. in square number one hundred and forty.
seven. bounded by Jersey. Laurel. Berlin and Milan
streets, one hundred and twenty-five tee: IN depth.
between parallel lines: lot number six beginning
lin aud Jersey streets. Said lots are contiguous to
each other. and each fronting thirty feet On Jersey
2. TWO LOTS OF GROUND. numbers nine AMI
Ten. in square bounded BIZ Levee, Jersey. Bsrltl
and Milan streets; ln- number nine forming the
dred and sixteen feet four inches three lines deep
on Berlin street. and one hundred and sixteen fes.
two inches six lines OF said 90 number ten; lot
number ten, one hundred and sixteen fee: two
inches six lines deep on said 10: humber nine, and
one hundred and sixteen feet one :ach two lines on
opposite . de. each fronting thirty teet GA Jersey
3. -Four Lots OF GROryD. numbers twenty.
one. TWENTY-FIVE. twenty-:hree and twenty four.
IN square bounded Dv Levee, water. Berlin and
Milan streets; lot number twenty.tour forming the
cerner OF Levee and Berlin streets. Said lots are
contiguous, and each one hundred aad twenty fee:
deep. and each fronting twenty-five fee: on Levee
street.
4. TWO LOTS OF GROUND. Numbers ons aud
two. in square bounded bv Water. Levee, Berlin
and Milan streets; 10: number Oae forming the
corner Of Water and Berlin streets, and one nun.
dred and twenty eight feet deep On Berlin stree.
and ole hundred and 1wenty-se zen fee: four
inches deep on line OF 10. aum Der two. 10. number
two, one hundred and tweDty-se zen feet four
inches on line o: 20. number one. and Ons Auu.
dred and twenty six fee. tr rec inches i've lines on
line of lot number three: said lots eacL 3r0o:.ng
twenty-five feet on Water street.
Seized in the above SUIT.
=. p. HARPER.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-26

CitizeuS' 1Sank Of Louisiana ". John
Armstrong.
GC?ERlO2 DISTRICT COURtFoR THE PARISH
~ OF Orleans. No. ati.-By virtue OF q writ of
seizure and sale to me directed bv the honorable
the Superior Distric: Cour: TO, the parish of Or.
leans. III the above entitled cause. . VIII proceed
70 se!. At puhilc auction. At the Merchants aud
Auctioneers' Exchange. Roya! street between
Cana. and CustomhOusa streets, IN The Second
District Of this city. on WEDNESDAY,. October ii.
i81a 1t twelve o clock NJ. the folio wing de scr.bed
%ACERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND. situated il
the suburb Delord. in this city. and bounded by
Front. SUzette and New Lsvee streets, aud q cer.
tain alley. twenty feet wide. running parallel
with said SUzet,e street, denominated Withers
alley. sad portion OF ground measuring eighty-slx
fee: sS ;ncles front on said Front street, three
hundred ard seven feet front on said Suzette
street, e;ghty.siS feet SIX inches fro,t on said New
Leyee street. and three hundred and seven fee:
from: on said Withers alley (Amer!can measured,
together with the buildings and improvements
thereon, and al! the rights TO all excess CT ground
CT battlre that may be found in front OF the pOr.
ton OF ground above described; together with the
two hundred and eigh:y.nve shares Of mortgage
stock thereto attached.
SEIZED IN the above suie.
Terms and condit:ons-The purchase: to fur.
nish: !. A stock no,e fox the sum OF three thou
first dav Ot February. 1875. and rene wab!e accord.
ing to the provisions OF the charter of the Citizens
Bank OF louisiana. the purchaser to assume ali
the obligations and responsibilities Of . stock.
holder Of the Citizens Bank.
2. A note for the sum Of tvs thousand seven hun.
dred dollars, payable on the first day of February,
Ao.5. and renewable agreeablv to the laws govern.
ing stock loans. on paying a. each renewal . cur.
tailment Of two hundred and twenty-five dollars
on the principal and interest on the balance. in
advance, At the Kate OF sig aud . half peg cent per
alnuni.
Both OF said note. to he identified with ths acts
OF mort gage securing :he same, and ths sheg.1s
deed OF sale IA tbs Case and IT, pal AsSp sa,h.
e,.oy;ocsJs S:-,Po.ey, a p,-st, ~. Dri.,..
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-26
NEW ORLEANS CLEARING HOUSE.

Cod opened at 1924 0lO9ss. against 1oess at
New York, and aft OF q moderate business closed at
1924 0I09b, against losa in that MAJ ket. The
sales summed mp $3S0 900, embracing Sl5,Wo at
IOg3., 5000 a: 1884,. and 5s0co!and.5 II ,o0 at 1895.
No sales of silver were reported. American half
dollars at 50 gold.
Foreign exchange WAS v.:hOU: 9~lotaois vas.a.
tiOn.
The safes OF sterling were confined to k:ioo. en-.
bracins Sl2W bill of lAd'ng At 81 3lli, &4JW do at
s. -; xiDN bank q. 81 q. and k..o bank tos
gold at - 34A..
Nothing TRANSFERRED il francs
At the close sterlin, bills were GiOeed a. p =
"a ~ for bill Of ladlng and Al clear and -1S %
for bank. and francs nominal At a3I 0A.sH for
private, and - for bank.
The offerings OF domestic exchange we're OF
fair extent, and with q moderate demand rates
were i.i6U.. p cent higher. TIE sales Of New
York sight covered $l53. 90, embracing Dlo,DD,
So. Do. and $3o, 90 commercial AZ y p cent dis
s 10 900 aud $50. 90. bank at =. and $4,000 bank
at !. We noticed sales of s2o,091 commercial on
Providence and Boston at. Y cent discount. and
$40. 900 IN gold checks on New York at =.
. The banks checked on New York at pa:. but
commerc!a. sigh: was quoted at :ia1t 2 cent dis.
count.
In stocks we noticed a sale 81 s"' shares of
Louisiana Levee. preferred. at s.. 81
The sales or bonds included $3O~ city gold
besrlng seven Der cents al So. and $3.50 at 33,a;
they Closed at y. ~ 9! p Cen: higher than yesteS.
day.
City Appropriation certificates, Metropolitan Pc.
lice warrants and time certificates Vt 1917 axe nom.
ina, at ~; no saies were reported.
Nothing TRANSFERRED il State warrants. Oh are
nomina. a. 2o125. and new 1T so sJ.
NORA! classes of securities continue unset
ffai And uI,OfatiOnS ara mammal