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Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-01-29
The Loss of the Yirginius.

All that remains of the steamer Vir-
ginius, of which so much has recently
been said and written, now rests quietly
at the bottom of the ocean. The ship
foundered in eight fathoms of water,
just off Cape Fear. Soon after the
Virginius was delivered to the United
States steamer Ossipee it was discovered
that she was in a leaky condition, and
Immediately after her head had been
turned northward the pumps were set
to work, but, Notwithstanding the best
efforts Of the seamen, who worked man.
fully night and day, the water gained
slowly in the hold. The ship was in
this condition when Lieut.. Commander
David @. Woodrow was ordered to take
command of her. Shortly after that
officer came on board he concluded that
it would be impossible for the ship to
reach New York. BE afterward COM
municated this conviction to his su-
perior officer on board the Ossipee, and
advised that the Virginius be run into
Charleston, which port he was sure
could be made. This advice was not
needed, and the two vessels proceeded
on their course to New York. On the
evening of the 25 ult. the Virginius be-
came unmanageable. The water was
up to within few inches of her boiler
fires, and gaining slowly. Her ex-
hausted crew then determined to aban-
don her. For three days previously
they had been working with the water
up to their knees, and many OF them
were so worn out as to be hardly able
to stand. Early on the morning OF the
26th a boats crew put off from the
Ossipee, and, at the risk of their lives,
gallantly rowed through the mountain
GUS waves to the rescue of their ship
mates. The boat first took off the
landsmen, then the sailors, and after
all the others were in safety the officers
left the Virginius. The last boat left
the sinking ship at $50 A. NJ. The Os.
sipee hove to after the entire crew OF
the yirginius was safely Oh board, and
remained in the neighborhood to see
what became of the vessel. at q little
after 4 o'clock P. NJ. she began to settle
down in the water. At first she went
down by the head, her forward COM
partments being stove and open. After
the water had reached to above the
paddle-boxes, it rushed backward into
the cabin, and, tearing out the COM
partment partitions, carried the ship
down on an almost even. keel. She
sunk in latitude 33 deg. A min. 10 sec.
north, and longitude II deg. so min.
west. The Smithville Light bore north
three-quarter west by the compass, with
the end of Nagg's Head north north
east. When the ship had disappeared,
the Ossipee steamed up, and after at
taching buoy to the tow-rope by which
the two vessels had been connected,
steamed for New York.
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-01-29
VOL. ". NO. II.
BeYOnd.

Autumn is dying, winter is come,
Dead leaves are flying, the rivers are dumb;
The winds like knife, ones fingers grow
numb;
There is snow on the mountains, ice in the
pond.
Winter is with us, but spring is beyond.
The old year is dying, it's glory is dead;
The days are all flying, their brightness has
fed;
The bushes grow bare as the berries grow red /;
There is snow on the mountains, ice in the
pond.
The old year is dying, the new is beyond.
We are all growing old, and life slips away;
There is bere time for work, and still less for
play,
Though we think we grow wiser the longer we
stay;
But there's life in us yet, no need to de-
spond.
This world wakes old, but there's heaven
beyond
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-01-29
Bright Side People.

The propensity to make the best OF
things is generally found in combina-
ton with those smaller virtues which
are more annoying to ones neighbors
than most vices. The man who rises at
five every morning, who always ties up
his letters with red tape, and who is
convinced of the great truth that it is
better to be half an hour too early than
half a minute too late, is frequently
given to making the best OF things.
The duty OF doing so is a moral maxim
Just big enough for him to understand.
he probably reflects upon it in the early
morning at the time when the cold bath
is bringing out that glow, physical and
moral, which makes him an offence to
all weaker vessels during the rest OF
the day.
The ruddy, iovial person who gets
himself up after the country-gentleman
type, or the more unctious variety OF
popular preacher, is apt to be perspiring
this doctrine at every pore. 1t is q
pleasure to him to meet somebody in
distress. upon whom he may discharge
boisterous comIort through his favorite
aphorism, as a fre-engine sends cold
water through a hose. If he acquires
some dim consciousness OF the fact that
his kind exhortations sound like bitter
mockery to his victims, it only increases
his sense of virtue. They cannot COM
fort themselves under the loss of wife
by the reflection that they still have
several first cousins and money enough
to pay for handsome monument. That
only proves that they have not studied
so we'll as he the great art OF properly
directing their sentiments. For OF
course he will deny in the most pathetic
manner that he would ever advise any
thing like self-deceit. He does not
avowedly ask sufferer to profess that q
toothache is rather pleasant distrac-
tion than otherwise he only recon-
mends him to fix his attention upon his
great toe or some other remote part of
his body which may appear to be enjoy
ing good health.
And, in fact, there are some people
so enviably constituted that small
pleasant object elevates them more than
great unpleasant object depresses
them. They are people, so to speak, OF
small specific gravity, who cannot be
submerged without heavy burden OF
melancholy. The person who makes
the best of things processes to be OF
this temperament. It is not, he would
have you believe, that he does not sym.
pathize with grief, but that his consti-
tutional buoyancy makes sympathy
with him compatible with exhilaration
he does not deny the existence of evils,
but the smallest grain Of good makes
him happy, just as half glass of vino
makes some men drunk. There are, we
say, such people as these-men, if we
may coin q word, easily intoxicable.
But we are inclined, as q rule, to ve-
hement suspicion in both cases. The
man who is upset by the first glass has
generally had number of glasses be-
fore, and the man who makes the best
of things is generally helped to be Sc
rene either by the absence of strong
feeling or by the want of courage to
look at the worst.
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-01-29
1890 PER ANNUM,
Single Copy 5 Cents.
Facts and Faneies.

Brahminism is professed by 10000
600 of human souls.
Hens won't work in Nevada without
sufficient inducement, and hence tray
elers have to pay dollar and half for
two eggs out there.
Mrs. Lucy Tenney was murdered in
her bed, in Grafton, Maine, by her hus-
band, Moses Tenney, a blind pauper.
eighty years Of age, who is now under
arrest.
There is young man in Saginaw,
Mich, who was stolen and taken among
the Indians when an infant, and lately
escaped after twenty-six years OF saw
ago life.
The Howard Association Of Memphis
has struck q balance sheet, and finds
itself the possessor of $35, 900, which it
has decided to hold in reserve for future
emergencies.
If you want to make good boy pap
or q bad boy worse, nag, snrp, ana
rough him. Don't speak gently TO the
erring child. if you would have him
keep on erring.
A British railway company has de-
cided to give its signal men 50 each for
every three months that they work
without having any charge Of negh-
gence proved against them.
A correspondent from Shelburne,
N. s., writes that Captain Clarence
Kelly, of that place, recently shot
large gray eagle that had steel traps at.
tached to each foot, one OF which had
three feet of chain attached.
California has about 5000, 900 head
of sheep. The wool crop in two shear
ings, at an average Of ten pounds per
head, would amount to 60,OOO,OOO
pounds, or Is, ,0Go, 900 more than the
total product of the United States In
1871.
~ would rather" said prominent
New York merchant in our hearing,
give q five-fgure credit to q young
house having fifty thousand dollars
worth of cash and fifty thousand dol
lars worth of brains, than to an old
established concern with o hundred
thousand cash and no brains for busl-
ness"
A lad in Worcester, Mass, has been
fined So and costs, amounting to $l4.6O,
for stealing copy of daily newspaper
from the door Of a subscriber. In
passing sentence, the Judge said it was
not the mere market value OF the goods
stolen that called for severe punish
ment, but the great annoyance attend
ing such petty pilfering.
Carbonite is new article OF fuel
found only in the James River, Va. 1t
| is q substitute for camel coal, and costs
two.thirde as much, burns freely, but
without smoke, sulphur or bituminous
odor, and 80 nearly consumes itself that
but q per cent. of ashes is left. Ii
burns longer than anthracite or camel,
and affords a beautiful and pure flame.
"I found it very inconvenient, and q
great loss of time" says Chateaubriand,
"to dine before seven o'clock. My
wife wanted to, dine at five o'clock, and
insisted upon that hour. After many
arguments and many heated discus
sions, we finally compromised upon SIX
o'clock-an hour very inconvenient to
us both. This is what they call DC
nestle concessions"
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-01-29
The Difference.

George Eliot, the lady novelist, one
of the keenest observers of men and
things, makes note of one essential diff
ference between men who take pride
in their trade and those who are indif.
ferent, and expresses her thoughts
through one of the characters in Adam
Bede "I can't abide to see men throw
away their tools i that way the minute
the clock begins to strike, as If they
took no pleasure j. their work, and was
afraid O. doin' stroke too much. l
hate to see mans arms drop down as
if he was shot before the clock 8 fairly
struck, as if he'd never a bit o pride
and delight in g work. The very grind.
stone II go on turning q bit after you
loose it,"
Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, 1874-01-29
Shoe Your Horses.

At this season of the year every horse
should be shod. A great many horses
are ruined every winter by the careless. @
ness of owners. Slipping around on
the ice will soon render horse totally
worthless. It is the meanest kind OF
cruelty as well as q criminal extraya-
oance to work smooth horse in win
ter. There is no excuse for this neglect,
and q man who win not see that his
horse is properly shod ought to be
compelled to 60 with bare feet In mid
winter. The horse, OF all animals, de-
serves the kindest treatment at the
hands of man, and there is something
radically wrong about the head orheart
of O man who neglects or abuses his
horse. The practice Of letting . horse
stand in snow-storm, without o
blanket, is cruel in the extreme.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-08
Personal.

We received call last evening from Hon.
E. D. Estilette, member of the LIE egislature
whose sessions have just ended, from the
parish of St. Landry. Mr.. Estilette now
returns, as Mr.. Young was fond Of saying,
to render al account of his stewardship,
and he has made a record which he can
point to with pride. The measures he has
introduced have the merit of being all for
the public benefit, of having been carefully
considered and earnestly advocated. Mr..
Estilette's course in the House on other
matters won the respect of his fellow mem
bers, and whenever be gained the floor they
sought to hear him with the certainty that
his excellent legal abilities would enable
him to communicate something of value.
The General Assembly needs more men of
his character and talent, no matter what
their politics may be, and we hope his con-
stituents will take this into consideration.
Colonel Town, of the Madison Journal,
also favored us with a call.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-08
Odd Fellowship.

We have received, with the compliments
of F. w. Delesdernier, right worthy grand
secretary, the proceedings of the Right
Worthy Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of
the State of Louisiana at its sessions held
in this city in January last. From its pages
we gather the following interesting statis-
tics: Number of lodges, 80; total member
ship, 1907; initiated, ll6 deaths, so; paid
for relief, $lO,437 Is; funds in treasury,
$3592 Sc; funds invested, $5l,s9l 90; in
widows and orphans fund, $l3,9l5 IL.
These statistics go to show that this most
benevolent order is placed on substan tial
basis in our State, and it's affairs are in a
fourishing condition.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-08
HIGH AND Low WATER.
Every Man his own Calculator.

As the food season is approaching and
all the signs and prophets proclaim high
water this year, we give our readers an in
dex by which each may judge Of the time
and height of the river at each point within
the borders of our State.
The signal service bureau of the United
States army publishes each day the height
of the rivers above low water mark at all
of the important points in the valley of the
Mississippi Except at New Orleans. which
is published as below high water mark)
Now, to make this ineligible to the mass
of the people, it is necessary that it should
be known what is the difference betw cen
high and low water at the point named,
else the information published will produce
erroneous impressions. To make this plain
we will give list of these differences be-
tween high and low water, and then draw
inferences and show conclusions:
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-08
NEW YORK.
Cuban SymDathizf'ra.

~0A ~ oJ"sV0soAAsADs
New YORK, March when the steam
ship City of New York, which arrived
here on Thursday, from Havana, was .
dozen miles north of the latter place, three
men were discovered hid in lifeboat.
They said they were sym mpathizers with the
Cuban cause, did not want to be drafted in
Havana and would pay their passage
money. Upon the arrival of the vessel
here, nevertheless, the captain turned back
to Havana, and handed the men over to tho
authorities.
Arrived from Abroad.
General Sohenck, United States minister
to England, and ex-senator Cattell, repre-
senting the Treasury Department, arrived
here to-day.
Como ut Last.
Caleb Gushing sailed for Spain.
Bank settlement.
Loans decreased $4,5OO, 900; specie in
creased 81 500, 900; legal tenders decreased
$25O,O0O; deposits increased "a ,65, 600.
Receipts and Disbursements.
The sub treasurer paid 81. .S96, 400 gold for
interest, and 3493, 900 for called bonds for
the week ending to-day. The custom re-
ceipts for the week we're $2,433, 300. Tho
specie shipments for the week amounted to
Robbery.
On the night OF January ., AdOlph Hank
called at the seventeenth precinct police
stationhouse, and informed the officers that
his jewelry store had just been robbed. af-
ter he himself had been Knocked down and
gagged. The officers doubted the story,
but being informed of the number of q
hack seen in the neigh bOrhood on the night
of the robbery, secured the driver and he in
turn gave the names Of five of the thieve
three Of whom have been arrested. None
of the property has been recovered.
Over Duo.
The steamer Wisconsin is now several
days over due. owing entirely, the man
ayers of the line believe, to the terrible
weather.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-08

Now, from the foregoing table it is seen
that the Missouri and the Mississippi, abov
their junction, have but the small oscila-
tions OF twenty-five feet at Leavenworth,
and sixteen and seven-tenths feet at Rock
Island, while the Ohio, at Louisvi lie, has
thirty-nine and two thirds above the falls.
The Arkansas has thirty-one feet at Little
Rock, and Red river thirty nine feet at Al
exandria.
To properly appreciate the effect of flood
IN either of the great tributaries upon the
lower country, the cross section and slope
of each must be known. But this informa-
tion can not, in this article be conv eyed; !;
but the foregoing shows that four feet
rise at st. Louis or Louisville means five
feet at Cairo; that five feet rise at Cairo
means but three feet six inches rise at
Memphis. 1t will be seen that Cairo, Vicks-
burg and Natchez agree.
1t will be seen, also, that three feet below
high water in New Orleans means nj ne feet
at Red River Landing, and that the gauge
readings, as now published each day, show
the effect of the cut-offs and outlets between
the mouths of the Arkansas and Red rivers,
for yesterdays list shows that at Cairo the
river was nine feet below high water mark,
at Memphis two feet four inches below high
water and at Vicksburg thirteen feet below
high water mark, and in New Orleans
three feet and one inch below high water,
and consequently at Red river nine feet
below high water. The known high water
discharge of the Missouri, Upper Missis-
sippi, Ohio, Arkansas and Red river, if con-
centrated, would nearly treble tho ordinary
floods of the lower Mississippi, and newt
ably overflow our country; bat, as our
valley runs from the south to the north, the
seasons unlock the floods in proper success
sion, and the SHOWS in the mountains only
send their waters after the lower floods
have passed to the Gulf, and we may ex-
pect the present food from the Ohio to be
gone before the people of the great North
west SOW their spring wheat.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-08
JottinEs In the Grant PA rish Triafs

Last weeks proceedings went along
rather quietly. Judge Woods pushed the
trial as fast as circumstances would permit.
The court, District Attorney Beckwith,
counsel for defense, clerks, deputy mar
shals, jurors, witnesses, prisoners and re-
porters all wore a weary look yesterday,
but frightened up little last evening
would not hold q night session.
In the early part of the week District
Attorney Beckwith closed his case. al
though he had many more witnesses, some
what to the surprise Of every one. 1t is
probable that he holds = reserva tos re.
buttal.
In the beginning. friends Of the defense
sneeringly declared that they would not
believe colored witnesses on oath. That
being the case they must change front, for
their side yesterday brought forward sew
eral colored witnesses to help out old alibi
Aibi, that thin old rascal, has been evoked
to save five of the accused, nam ely: Denis
and Prudhomme Lemone, Oscar Givens
(properly Austin Gibbons), Clement Penn,
and A. C. Lewis. The reader can act as his
own Judge in the matter by reading the tes-
timony published in the REPUBLICAN,.
Friday night, when the name of Jacques
Lecour was called as a witness for the de-
fense, Deputy Marshal Hallender made the
return that the man had just been arrested
on the supposition that he was one of the
indicted. The indictment names one j. La
cour, and it was suspected that this was
the person. Jacques was released on his
own recognizance and yesterday appeared,
when Mr.. Beckwith stated that he had
been unable to identify him, thereupon or
dered release. Lecour said he could not
read or write, but before he left the stand
said that his name was spelled Lecour; the
other man used an a. Had there been some
drilling that he should so suddenly under
stand photography
Quite number of witnesses for defense
who live 10 the Red river country left for
home last evening.
MIR. Castellanos, who appear ed as coun-
sci for defense two or three day in the be-
ginning of the trial, did not put in an ap-
pearance last week.
District Attorney Beckwith has had no
legal assistance from the first, and does not
take notes.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-08
Naval.

We learn, through Mr.. John r. Carmody,
paymaster, United States navy, that Com
modore c. r. P. Rodgers, chief Of bureau
of yards and docks, is expected shortly.
He comes for the purpose of making an in
spection of the location where public build
ings are to be erected, with view of
making New Orleans permanent naval
station. The plans of the buildings have
been prepared, and the buildings are to be
erected below the town Of Algiers, directly
opposite where the ironclads are anchored.
Surgeon B. F. Gibbs, of the United States
navy, has teea ordered to this nav al sta
ton, in place of Passed Assistant Surgeon
Stewart, detached and ordered to San Fran
cisco.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-08
BALLS.
CPECIAA NOTICE.

CPECIAA NOTICE.
-
Parties desirous Of procuring ladies' invitations
for the
GRAND FANCY DRESS AND MASK
BALL
To be given by the
aBSTLEMENs HEBREW BENEVOLENT AS
SOCI4TIOS. AT
EXPOSITION BUILDING,
On Saturday Evening. March =, 1874,
VIII please make application to any Of the under
signed committee:
SJMOk COHN No. 1872 Poydras street.
JOSEPH MAGEER, No. l58 COnmon street.
HkNRY MhYERS, No. "a Chartres street.
J. SANDAK, No ~ Chartres street.
SELlM BARNETT, No. 86 Canal street
N. J. SHWARfZ, corner OF Ursuline and Decatur
streets.
A. BLOOM. corner Of Magazine and EatcheA
alley.
JOE SIMON, No. Magazine street.
LEON MEYERS, NJ. 63 Common street
MAX BRAUN No. Gil Magazine street
LEON LEVY, No. l05 Canal street
No lady will be admitted TO the ball without an
invitation fe25 mhl 81
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-08
MARSHAL'S MONITIONS.

United states VS.. Schooner Lily of the
IN THE UNITED STATES district COURT. DIS
Il trict of Louisiana, No. 10 373.-In obedience to
an admiralty warrant, to me directed IN thC above
entitled suit, l have seized and taken into my
possession
fbeled by the United states, tor the causes set
forth In the libel pending in the District
Court of the United States.
And do hereby cite aud admonish the owner
owners thereof. and all and every person per
sons having pretending to have any right title,
interest in or to the same, to be and appear at q
District Court of the United States, for the district
aforesaid TO be hoiien the city Of New On leans.
the first Monday of April, to show cause, If
any they have can, why the said schooner
Lily of The Valley should not be condemned and
sold agreeably to the PRAYER of llbelaut.
United = ates Marshaps Office, New Orleans.
March .. 1874 \. B, PACKARD.
mh3 81 % ap4 United States Marshal.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-08

VALUABLE IMPROVED REAL ESTATE AT
AUCTION BY THE SHERIFF-Particular at
tention is called to the sales at auction to
be made tomorrow at noon, at the Mer-
chants and Auctioneers' Exchange, Royal
street. by the sheriff of the parish of Or
leans, of lot of ground, with the buildings
and improvements thereon, situated in the
First District Of this city, No. 1873 Common
street, between Baronne street and the al
ley known as the Varieties Theatre alley.
For full particulars and terms see adver-
tisement.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-08
Services at Ames Church.

Rev. James Morrow will preach this
morning at the above named church as
usual.
In the evening Rev. J. C. Hartzell, of
this city, will lecture there, upon the sub
iect of "Woman's Crusade Against
Whisky" Mr.. Hartzell has just returned
from Central Ohio, where he visited several
cities now agitated by the remarkable
crusade against intemperance, and will
speak practically and intelligibly upon this
great question.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-08
The Fry Fund.

The St. Louis Globe of the fifth says that
the balance of tho fund contribu ted in that
city for the relief of the widow Of Captain
Joseph Fry is still In that office, ready for
transmission. 1t would have been sent
when the contribution ceased-more than .
month sgo-says the Globe, but for the fact
that information was had that Mrs. Fry
was temporarily absent from New Orleans
The first installment of $500 was sent
through Governor Kellogg, and the remain
der will be sen. through the came channel.