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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-07-14
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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-07-14

INTERESTING LETTER.-At the late
reunion of the Army of the Potomac,
held at Philadelphia, the Grafton was by
General John A. Dix, and furnished a
most valuable contribution to the history
of the war, and of the political strug-
giles relative to the extension of slavery
from the first efforts of Thomas Jefer-
son to circumscribe its limits to the final
emancipation by President Lincoln, to
whom the orator paid most glowing
tribute. In this connection he stated
that the proclamation, issued as a wal
measure, did not command the approba
ton of all Mr.. Lincoln's counsellors, and
also read the following letter not before
published
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-07-14

A CHILD OF SHADows.-Months ago
Detroiter was sent to the house of cor
rection for habitual drunkenness. The
wife, hard working woman and sorely
afflicted in health, managed to provide
food and fuel for herself and child until
the other day, when death came to end
the struggle. The little girl, hardly
eight years old, was all alone in the
house when the mother died. The event
occurred at dark, and at midnight the
child was heard singing in the darkness.
A pedestrian who halted heard her say
Mother, won't you wake up and light
the lamp If you will l will sing some
more"
Suspecting what had happened, he
reused some of the neighbors, and as
they went in the child sat in the dark.
ness, holding its mothers cold hand and
singing:
1.-THE Lord viii lead little child
And teach me how to pray
A dark room, death on the bed, pow
erty, hunger and cold to make her stu
alton more desolate, and yet the child o
shadows was not afraid. She said
81 kept still a long while to let moth
er sleep. Then | sang all my songs tc
keep me awake. Then | looked out o.
the window and didn't move, so that the
angels wouldn't be afraid to come ant
talk to her and make her smile
wish God had made more daylight fo
poor folks detroit Tree Press.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-07-14
Private and Confidential.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON,
January IA, 1868.

January "a, 1868.
MAJOR GENERAL DIx-My Dear Sir
The proclamation has been issued.
We were not succceding-at best were
progressing too slowly-without it. Now
that we have it, and bear all the disad.
vantage of it (as we do bear some in GER
tain quarters) we must also take some
benefit from it if practicable. l, there
fore, will thank you Cor your welI-con
sidered opinion whether Fortress Mon
roe and Yorktown, one or both, coult
not, in whole or in part, be garrisoneC
by colored troops, leaving the whit,
forces now necessary at these places t,
be employed elsewhere.
Yours very truly.
A. LINCOLN.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-07-14

CAKED BREASTS, Rheumatism, Sciat-
lea, swellings, Sprains, Stiff Joints.
Burns, Scalds, Poisonous Bites, and ali
flesh. bone and muscle ailments. can be
absolutely cured by the Cen.aur Lini-
ments. What the White Eminent i
for the human family, the Yellow Lini-
ment is for spawned, CALLED. and lame
horses and animals.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-07-14
Commissioners Notice.

ESTATE OF II6DALb I -
WE. the subscribers, being duly sppe e " :
w Hon. Pro bate Court for the Ols,li;Sse as
ster, Com missioners 10 receive -Arsor,s sssls
estate Of TISDALE PORTER, I21e 10 -
ham. in said district deceased. AM .hs-eto; :.
and demands exhibited in offset i inss is..-
months from the eighth day OF ys1s Ws ~
allowed by said Court for ne. - Vii atisas !.
business Of our aid appointment . ~ . 81
ing house of Tisdsle Porter d s SfY
ham, in said district, on the y n r.
OF AUGUST and the IMh ass o'clock p >
NOVEMBER NEAI, ir9m ~ "a I'D days.
four O'CLOCK A. VIVIAN, Conniaa
JOHN BAKER,
GEORGE PORTER, Executor
June 2lst. A. d. lsIs.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-07-14
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
Dies MONIES, Iowa, July

DE5 NIUINE45, IUWd, UuIy Z.
Later advices show that by Tuesday
nights storm rs persons we're killed in
Warren county alone, and six or eight
in Madison county, and that probably
$50 houses were destroyed and as many
more badly injured, and that the destruc-
ton of crops, fences and animals was
immense. Howe's circus was water
bound at Indianola, and the train on
the Des Moines and Indianola railroad
is water bound between the North and
Middle rivers.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-07-14
CHICAGO, July 7.

A Des Moines, Ia, special gives ad.
ditional particulars of the storm on
Tuesday. Many families are left with
out clothing and the scene is heart-rend.
ing. Reports from other parts of War
rem county show that the storm was gen.
sral and disastrous. About fifty houses
were blown away and their occupants
either killed or badly injured.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-30
Geese as Practical HumOrists.

A goose has, perhaps, the keenest apprecia
ton OF humor OF any animal unless it be bel
own arch enemy, the fox The writer once
saw in long grassy paddock, some eight OF
ten fat and healthy pigs and half a score O.
geese. From this paddock a narrow, open
gate gave entrance into the farm yard, and
as evening drew on, the geese ranged them.
selves in a row near this ThermopyIa. Oh.
viously, supper-time was approaching, and
the pigs wished to return home to theil
troughs. Equally clear the geese had given
each other the word not to let them pass
through the gate which they guarded without
paying toll.
First there came up jolly, good-humored
little pig, who trotted cheerfully along with a
confidence which ought to have dlsarmed
criticism, till ne came among the geese.
Then, with a clckle and q scream, every neck
was stretched to get bite at him, and,
squalling and yelling. the poor little porker
ran the gauntlet. The same fate befell six or
seven more of bis brethren in succession,
each be'rlying increasing trepidation as be
approached the fatal pass, and made bolt
through the corps de garde of geese, whose
chattering AMI screeches of delight we're
almost undis ,inguishatle FROM human laugh
ter. At last, the biggest pig of the party
brought up the rear. He was q pink
feshed, clean young fellow, with fat
limbs and sides, and his ears were
cooked, and his tail sharply twisted in
the intelligent, wide awake manner which so
completely distinguishes the intellectual pig
from the mere swine multitude. With D loud
grunt OF Defiance this brave beast charged
through the flock of geese, and had aciu lily
Almost gained the gaze, wien a large gray
goose made one gran at his fat ham, caught
up the skin in bunch, and gave it trench
dous pinch with her red beak. Needle to
Say the air was rent with the squeas of agony
of the injured pig and the ec-ta,ic raAns OF
the flock OF geese in chorus. From the order
in which the transaction took place We derive
the impression that similar game of prison.
els base formed the entertainment of the
geese every evenirg.-Ffdncis PO,cer CObbe.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-30
An IMPEOUNIOUS EX TAX COL
LkOcOR,

For cool impudence and unblushing ef-
ffontery commend US to ex-Tax Collector Ma
han. who flourished here under the regime
Of Gov. Warmoth, and whose marvellous ex-
ploits in office were once the general theme
Of conversation. Mahan has claim, pretty
large claim, it appears, against the State for
moneys expended by him while occupying
the unremunerative Office of tax collector,
and he comes now before the present Legis-
lature and asks to be reimbursed. This is
thought by some Of the members Of that con.
glomerste body to be a little piece Of pleasantly
On the part of the gentle Mahan, while others
regard it as q magnificent manifestation of
cheek. We are rather inclined to the belief
that 1t would be we'll for the Legislature to
hearken to the seductive voice of the willy
MAhan, and 80 far accede to his demand as to
appoint q committee to investigate him and
his accounts The committee should be en-
powered to send for persons and papers. to
which, of course, there could be no objection,
- MAhan, conscious of the accuracy Of his
accounts and the rectitude Of his actions,
would be only too glad 10 make an exhibit.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-30
Good Manners.

lis rule of manners to avoid exaggera-
| ton. lady loses as soon as she admlreS
| too easily and too much. In man or woman,
the face and the person lose power when they
| are on the strain to express admiration. A
! man makes his interiors his superiors by
heat. Why need you, who are not gossip,
talk as q gossip, and tell eagerly what the
neiRhbors or the journals say2 State your
opinion without apology. The attitude is the
main point, assuring your companion that,
come good news or come bad, you remain in
good heart and good mind, which is the best
news you Can possibly Gem nunicate. Self
control is the rule. You have in you there q
noisy, sensual savage, which you are to keep
down, and Turn all his strength to- beauty.
For example, what a seneschal and detec-
tive is laughter! II seems to require several
generations Of education to train squeaking
or shouting habit out of man. Sometimes,
when IN almost all expression the Choctaw
and the slave have been worked out to him, a
coarse nature still betrays itself in his con-
temptible squeals of JOY. The great gain is,
not to shine, not to conquer your companion
then you learn nothing but conceit-but to
find companion who knows what you do
not; to tilt wi b him and be overthrown,
horse and foot with utter destruction of all
your logic and learning. There is a defeat
that is useful. Then you can see the real and
'AO COuu'CIicli, dul Will never hCCGDV Inc
counterfeit again. You will adopt the art of
war that has defeated you. You will ride to
battle horsed on the very logic which you
found Irresistible. You will accept the fertile
truth instead OF the solemn customary lie.
When people come to see us, we foolishly
prattle, last We be iahospitable. But things
said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't
say things. What you are stands over you
the while, and thunders so that can not hear
what you say to the contrary. A lady of my
acquaintance said: 81 don't care so much for
what they say as do for what makes them say
it. The law of the table is beauty-a re-
spect to the common soul of all the guests.
Everything is unreasonable which il
private to two or three or any por-
ton of the company. Tact never vio-
lates for moment this law; never in
tIudes the orders of the house, the vices
OF the absent, or tariff of expenses, or pro-
fesslonal privacies; as We say, we never talk
shop" before company. Lovers abstain from
caresses, and hateis from insults, while thew
sit in one parlor with common friends.
Would we codify the laws that should reign
In households, and whose daily transgression
annoys aud mortiies US, aud degrades our
household life, we must learn to adorn every
day with sacrifices. Good manners are made
up OF petty sacriSces. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-30
One Hundred Years Ago.

One hundred years ago wedding tours wer'
not fashionable.
| One hundred years ago farmers did not Gu
their legs off with moving machines.
| One hundred years ago our mothers die
not worry over disordered sewing machines.
| Ono hundred years ago horses which could
trot mile in 2:l4 were somewhat scarce.
One hundred years ago it took several days
to procure divorce and find a congenia
spirit.
| One hundred years ago there were no dis
putes about the impolileness OF street Cal
| drivers.
One hundred years ago every young man
was not an apple mt for d position as clerk OF
book-keeper.
One hundred years ago kerosine lamps did
nat explode and assist women to shuttle oil
| their mortal coil.
One hundred years ago men did not com.
NIT suicide by going up in balloons aud com.
Ing down without them.
One hundred years ago there were no third.
term millionaire bishops to stir up the waters
| of partisan politics.
Oae hundred years ago there were no
Turkish harems at Salt Lake, and no Ann
Elias suing for the nineteenth part of di.
vorce.
One hundred years ago England was not
very far behind the United States in all that
goes to make Il natlou powerful aud progress
sive.
One hundred years ago the Dutch had
taken Holland. but they had not made France
leone down" with handsome pile of
"sn.art money"
One hundred years ago young woman did
not lose caste by wetting her hands in dish
water, or rubbing the skin of her knucsles on
a dashboard.
One hundred years ago physician who
could not draw every form of disease from
the system by tapping large vein in the
arm Was not much of doctor.
One hundred years ago men were not run
ming about over the country with millions of
fish eggs to be hatche to order Fish super
intended their own Matching in those days.
One hundred years ago the condition OF the
weather On the LIST of January was not tele-
graphed all over the continent on the evening
of December 81. Things have changed.
One hundred years ago people did not worry
about rapid transit and cheap transportation,
but threw their grain crops across the backs
of their hors,s and plainingly "went
to the mill"
One hundred years ago every man cut his
coat according to his cloth. every man was
estimated at his real value, shoddy was not
known, nobody had struck "ile," and true
merit and honest worth were the only grounds
for promotion.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-30

special committee appointed to examine the
regular session affairs
The special order of the day being called,
the oct in relation to judicial printing was
called up and finally passed.
The Senate bill authorizing the appoint.
ment Of short hand writer's tor the courts
was finally passed. .-. ........
Also bill for the relief of the LaBranche
heirs, of St. Charles parish.
An act for the relief of laborers, etc du,ing
the flood of 1874, in st. James, was post
poned.
The answer Of the Auditor as to why the
warrants of parish judges were not issued was
received and ordered printed in the journal.
The bill to regulate the fees of the country
sherffs was referred.
An act to make certain amendments to the
Constitution was referred to the Committee
on Constitution.
MIR. Lowell made allusion to an article in
the Eueniag Picayetne, in which two members
were charged WIN having drawn double pay
last year.
On this question the House adjourned.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-30
SENATOR WEST.

The charges against Senator West are as
stunning q consistency and shape that vii
force them upon the attention of the body 0
which he has for three yeors been q member
The Senate can not we'll ignore the allega
ton that the only Senator from Louisiana
procured his election by wholesale bribery O
. Legislature, especially when the names o.
by each are published to the world. Senator
West himself can no longer afford to pooh
pooh the matter, but will be compelled 70
meet his accusers face to face, and refute the
injurious charges or step down and out OF a
body in which he has maintained seat while
better men and repre- entaive citizens have
been kept out Of seats to which they were
legally and fairly entitled.
If the charges brought with snch terrible
minuteness of detail be true, if Senator West
can be proved to have suborned almost an en-
tire Legislature in order to gain an entrance
into the Senate of the United States, and we
learn there are parties cognizant Of all the
facts rea ~ and willing to testify before an au-
thorized committee, then are there several
members Of the present House OF Represen-
tatives of this S ate who can no longer be per-
mitted to occupy their Seats We learn the
proper House Committee having the matter
in charge intend to move seriously and sud-
denly against West and every member Of the
House accused of having been purchased by
him.
That money was used layishly to purchase
tho Legislature that elected West there has
never been any reasonable doubt; the only
trouble, heretofore has been to connect the
payment Of the amounts used directly with
West. If the missing links SO long sought
for have at last been found, then Vests
Senatorial days are numbered and louisiana,
defrauded shsmefuly and purposely Of the
representation to which she is entitled in the
National Senate, will soon lose even the unre-
preventative Radical Senator that she has.
Can't the Senate get rid Of this troublesome
member of the Union by wipiDg her from the
hist Of States with sponge? Can't somebody
got the spook of murdered louisiana to lie
quiet while her Radical assassins hold high
revel on her grave?
W. can not help believing that before the
election is over the political doctors of
the Radical party will unanimously declare
that Louisiana is the iveliest corpse they
have ever encountered
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-30
RITUALISM AND ROME.

LONDON, JAM "a, 1S7G.-The Morning Post
of Saturday, 22d inst, startled rellglous peo-
pie here by the publication Of an lntlna' ion
| that part OF the extreme section OF the
English Church is engaged in direct Intrigue
| with r rme, with view OF secession from the
| home establishment.
| A RITUALIsTIC MEMORIAL TO TIE HOLY SEE.
| 1t is claimed by he writer in the Post that
information has been gained that 100 II ual-
| istic clergympn of the establishment, with q,
congregational. constituency, numbering To-
600 men and 10000 women, have signed
memorial to the Pope, containing the follow
ing propositions and petition:
THE PROPOSITIONS.
"That our own bishops committed eccie-'
siastical suicide in selecting the complete
a.cendancy Of the State over the Church
"That our consciences do not permit US TO-
| remain subject to these false bishops.
"Th~t We recognize the Pope rs the hea0
of Gods Church OH earth.
"That we accept all that he teaches, In
Guiding the Vatican decree.
That many OF us ciergymen being mar
ried. can not become Catholic priests, and
that many of the fold would not follow imme-
diatey.
THE PETITIrN.
"Iherefore will HIS Holiness consent to
the forming of q united Anglican Church,
like that OF the Armenian ana IaFohIto Ilto.-
in communion with Rome, but with ma
;ional independence
THE REoRDINATIoN OF CLERGYMEN.
"In case Of Rome not admitting the VALID
ity of our order will the Church OF the Vati-
can consent to reordinations condltlonalIy,
the Pope granting dispensa,ion, permitting
those who are married to continue TO serve aa
priests, while those who are single shall re-
main single-celibacy hereafter to be the
rule
THE vERNACULAR IN WORSHIP.
"The petitioners desire to preserve the
vernacular IN worship, except that the mass
may be read in L,tin.
THE POPE AS HEAD OF THE CHURCH
elf these concessions are granted, the petit
TONERS will secede from the Established
Church of England and for a United Angli-
can Church, recognizing the Roman Pontif
as the supreme he'd"
LITTLE PROSPECT OF SUCCESS.
have authority for stating that there is
little possibility Of the Popes conserving; nor
does the movement get the support Of the
English Catholic bishops.-Neao York. Herald,
Jan. rs.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-30

There is no doubt that if every member Of
SAe House and Senate were to devote his time
to the preparation and introduction of bills
having for their object the reform of abuses
peculiar to the districts or parishes repre-
sented by each one Of our legislators, there
would in time result complete and thorough
reformation in the working of every branch
of the State and parish government but this
method would consume an immense amount
Of valuable tine, and the heightened process
would effectually prevent that speedy improve
ment in our political affairs that we all are
anxious to secure. The time for the adjourn
ment of the Legislature would be reached in
al probability before sufficient number OF
these reformatory measures had been acted
upon to effect any great good to the people
of the entire State.
1t is too early for the Democratic members
to commence the labor of arresting dangers
which can only affect small portions Of the
State; they must, just at the present moment,
lend all their enc rgies to the task of securing
such legislation as will remove those evils
which annoy and trouble the entire State.
Remove the burdens which rest upon all OF
our people in common, then there will be
time to remove the troubles which rest upon
the people of particular sections Of the State
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-30
The Veal h Of the Prince Of Wales.

tFrom the Resident Correspondent Of the World. !
LONDON. Dec. ~, 1875 In the last num-
Der OF the National Aaric,dtural Laborers"
chronicle and Industrial Pioneer is an article
enumerating and describing the landed pos
sessions OF the Prince Of Wales The Prince.
it seems, is one of the largest landowners in
England. The laborers on his estate. we ara
told, are "confned to miserable wages"-
thirteen shillipgs a week. The National Aors.
cultural Laborers' and Industrial Pioneer thinks
1t lnexpedient chat the land revenues of the
Prince should just now be examined into" II
gives little history of what it calls sfhe
origin of the Prince of Wales" and then IL
gives an enumeration of the landed posses
sions of the Prince of Wales in Cornwall in
Devonshire, in Oxford, HEREFORD, Buckinp-
ham, Northampton, Surrey, Wiltshire YORK,
Middlese1, Norfolk and Chester. The list ia
very formidable one, and at the close comes
the following somewhat heated paragraph:
1.-The long list of m,nors. parks. castles.
rents, privileges, diguities, honors 1 have
enumerated, are surely enough for one man !:
ay, ten All things are by comparison. II
not 80 much land as one manor can be
afforded in thi' England of ours to the whole
OF our peasantry, VINO raise all the food that
ID raised In all England and who have hither-
10 fought the battles OF England, carried her
nag OF supremacy over Europe aud Asia and
IN every SEA and ocean, then q hundred
manors are ten times too many for any prince
A prince whose achievements ars killing wild
cattle from cart, or in India sticking one
pig or toriuring few elephants, is surely en-
dosed enough out of the soil of England,
without raid on the tax chest, to paw him
for items not convenient to collect in his
Duchy OF Corn vail, for military duties never
performed, or for augmentation of income,
much less for the income of 500 peasants for
whole year to be spent in four months
pleasure trip"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-30

first book. published in England in q separate
part at five shillipgs. will be given. Among
the other features will be the first of the two
centennial articles on American literature,
occupying 20 pages; an illustrated paper on
vassar College, by Miss Anna c. Bracket;
further original investigation as to insectivor-
Gus plants, by Mrs. Mary Treat, in which she
takes issue with Mr.. Darwin; sketch Of
Alex. H. Stephens, with illustrations; some
humorous "Confessions of Candidate" by
Porte Crayon, and some quatrains, by I. b.
Aldrich
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-30

1t is just such stores as Eyrichs stat onery bo-
nanza, No. 1870 Canal street, that improve and
elev ate the wholesale and retail business OF q
city. , he best goods in the market. sold at
reasonable rates By polite and courteous en-
plpyees, must bring increased patronage TO any
busin ss house.