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Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28

SENATOR VOORHEES, will remain in
this city during the recess, fer the pur.
pose Of preparing q speech, which he
Intends 10 deliver on Matthews silver
resolution on January 18th. In discuss.
ing the financial question he intends 10
give the fullest ventilation to Western
views on silver aud anti.resumption,
and will probably make use OF stronger
and holder language than is usually
heard In Senate debate. lie will take
for his text a quotation. from Edmund
Burke, which General Ewing inlroduc.
ed with effect in his speech, It is a.
follows: at IS 10 the property OF the
citIz MS, and not 10 the demand of the
creditor OF Tie State. that the original
faith OF society is pledged. The claim
OF the citizen IL prior IN time, par.
amount In title, aud supreme in equity
Following out this principle, Mr..
Voorhees, will elaborate the remarks of
Mr.. Ewing. He will apply the logic
OF his text Is favor OlINeS yer Bill aud
again. re.uWi to-, u, ~ teu,end.
that ~ mUhr izripn ~ The .,ver duinr
aud the proposition to redeem ,ccuii.
ties in gold have been, and still are. de.
pressing industries aud the value of
property, aud the highest duty Of the
country is TO keep faith with IL own
citizens.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28

SENATOR VOORHEES, is in Washing
ton preparing an elaborate speech In
favor of tho Silver Bill. AS soon ss
Congress meets the Senator will deliver
bis speech, and the friends of the bill
will force itS passage. Senator Jones
thinks there iS no doubt that 1t will
easily pass.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28

The Okolons Messenger Is so sur
prlsed ct the fact that sixty-one Of its
subscribers have paid their bills that It
publishes their names under the cap
ton "Our Roll of Honor"
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28

ENrERPRIsE.-The Vicksburg HER.
AID of Tuesday morning contained tho
Presidents Message In full. 1t was the
only paper in the Gulf States that laid II
before itSreaders at that time except the
New Orleans P~lcayune. The euter.
prise Of the HERALD is very commend.
able. Il WoOdVille Republican,
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28

A CHICAGO journal thinks II worthy
of announcement that Il has lately re-
ceived from the mothers Of young la
dies in good social position in that city,
who were about TO be married, that as
a special favor no public mention
should be made OF tho wedding.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28

SAN FRAECIsCo fishermen complain
that the sea lions, which are protected
by law, are increasing go rapidly, aud
are SC destructive OF fish, that they are
endacgering the needed supply for food
for the citizens.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28

The Petersburg Index informs its
readers that mr., Wiley Sykes, Of
Northampton county. n. C., raised this
year twenty.seven $50 pound bales of
cotton aud twenty ey.t barrels OF corn,
With one horse
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28

A FANCY of Worth's Is that OF finish.
ing the back Of basques with loops
made by turning up the end Of each
form separately. These loops are very
effective, are easily made, aud take the
place OF more expensive trimmings;
some basques have but two loops,
others have four.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28

TIE fret volume Of Col. ClaibOrne's
History of Mississippi iS written and
only needs trauscribisg TO be ready for
the printer.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28

THE Jackson Clarion will make its
appearance daily during the session OF
the Legislature.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28
Comparative Cotton S,a,ement.

Tue cotton week ending yesterday at
noon, resulted in the largest number OF
bales being received at the ports, ot any
year since the records nave been kept.
The following tab e gives the date OF the
largest receipts for each year since the
crop OF lsTD-'1l. Weeks ending
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28
THE New CALIFORNIA sESAron.-At

The New CALIFORNIA SENAToR.-At
III interview previous o bis election,
Hon. James I. Farley thus expressed
himself: "Of the Texas Pacific Rail-
road, have only TO say, and | say ii
frankly aud truthfully, that | am abso-
lutely opposed 10 the Governments
paying a subsidy 10 that or any other
railroad. am perfectly willing, and
am glad to see Tom Scott aud other
capitalists build railroads In any part
Of the United States, so long as they
build with their own money, but | am
not willing TO see the Government lend
them it's aid or credit. Ny ideas upon
the vCxed silver question would require
more time than | can give you and
more space than you would print, 80 |
will only say that | believe a silver dol.
lar should be q dollar in fact as we'll as
name, and that il elected, | shall
strive to bring about that result. The
financial question has racLed the brains
of our ablest statesmen, and | don't
claim to fully understand It, but after
carefully studying it | agree with the
ideas expressed by Mr. Tilden ia his
letter accepting the Presidential nomi.
nation, as | do also upon the question
of resumption. | do not think that the
present generation should he heavily
loaded with taxation to liquIdate a pub.
lie debt in the payment OF which our
successors ought certainly to be equally
interested with ourselves. | am Cd.
posed 10 any thing that approaches re-
pudiation,
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28

The Appeal faEors tho establishment
off Medical College IN Memphis.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28

A BRIDAL COUPLE at Wheeling, Va.
came, like Nicodemus, at dead Of night
10 the house Of q venerable minister
and rang the door-bell with trench
dous violence. His wife went down
slAirs In a costume consisting princi'
pally of shawl, aud found q STRIPPING
Of twenty and a gaunt creature Of for
"; and on learning what was their er-
rand, brought her husband down stairs
Welt" be exclaimed rather droWsily,
The bridegroom could not speak, but
motionej to his bride. "Mr, Preach
err" she said, nothing 10th, "as I'm
the Oldest, l expect I'd better
do the talking. You see Charley, here,
has q stepmother, and she don't use
him right at all. Now, I'm 9 widow,
and l want 10 take Charley homo with
me tonight, and take care of him,
Not that | want q husband, because, II
| did, I'd get some n nearer my own
age; but | just thought l would try
and take care Of Charley. So we'd
ike to be married right away" There
was q hitch about the license, but in the
end she promised to be more than a
stepmolher to Charley, aud carried him
home in triumph.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28

Capture Of an Escaped Murderer.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 2I.--William Bassey,
c0l0red, an escaped murderer from Ply.
mouth, N. G., 10 held here for requisltion.
Istb, 1873,
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28
4ttaa

satuEaay M0Enlng. DeoenbeF as
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28

SANTA CLAUS 10 stocking u%p,-TPitts-
burg Commercial.
Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-12-28

Tug work Of organizing Vigilance
Committees in Amite county to keep
down the "BuH.dO.ers" goes bravely
on. The following sounds like
" business: !"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-05-18
A Russian Merchants House.

When a Russian merchant becomes
rich, he builds for himself fine house
or buys and thoroughly repairs the house
of some ruined noble, and spends money
freely on inlaid floors, gigantic mirrors
malachite tables, grand pianos by the
best makers, and other articles of furni-
ture made of the most costly material.
Occasionally-especially on the occasion
of marriage or death in the family
he will give magnificent banquets, and
expend enormous sums On gigantic ster-
lets, choice surgeons, foreign fruits,
costly delicacies. But all this lavish,
ostentatious expenditure does not affect
the ordinary current of his daily life.
AS you enter those gaudily- furnished
rooms you can perceive at a glance that
they are not for ordinary use. You no
tice rigid symmetry and an indescriba-
BILE baroness which inevitably suggests
that the original arrangements of the
upholsterer have never been modified or
supplemented. The truth is that by far
the greater part of the house is used only
on state occasions. The host and his
family live down stairs in small. dirty
reoHss, furnished in a very different, and
for them more comfortable style. At
ordinary times the fine rooms are closed,
and the fine furniture carefully covered.
If you make giSite de pOLitesSe after an
entertainment at which you have been
present, you will probably have some
difficulty in gaining admission by the
front door. When you have knocked or
rung several times, some one will preba-
bly, come round from the back regions
and ask you what you want. Then fol-
lows another long pause, and at last foot
steps are heard approaching from within.
The bolts are drawn, the door is opened,
and you are led up to spacious drawing
room. AT the wall opposite the win
dOws there is sure to be sofa, and before
it an oval table. At each end of the
table, and at right angles to the sofa,
there will be a row of three arm-chairs.
The other chairs will be symmetrically
arranged round the room. In a few
minutes the host will appear, in his long
double-breasted black coat and well pol
ished long boots. His hair is parted in
the middle, and his beard shows no trace
of scissors or razor. After the customary
greetings have been exchanged, glasses
of tea, with slices of lemon and preserves,
or perhaps a bottle of champagne, are
brought in by way of refreshment. The
female members of the family you must
not expect to see, unless you are an in
innate friend; for the merchants still
retain something of that female seclusion
which was in vogue among the upper
classes before the time OF Peter the
Great. The host himself will probably
be an intelligent but totally uneducated
and decidedly taciturn man. About the
weather and the crops he may talk
huently enough, but he will not show
much inclination to go beyond these
topics.-From Russia, By D. Mackenzie
Wdldce.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-05-18
FORTY TEARS BEFORE THE PUBLIC.
DR.. G.. McLANE'S
RATED
LIVER PILLS,
FOR THE CURE OF
Hepatitis, or Liver Complaint,
DYSPEPSIA AND SICK HEADACHE.
Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.

| SYMPTOMS of a Diseased Liver.
pAIN in the right side, under the edge
of the ribs, increases on pressure !;
sometimes the pain is in the left side ;
the patient ntisrarely abletolie onthe left
side sometimes the pain is felt under
the shoulder blade, and it frequently
extends to the top of the shoulder, and
is sometimes mistaken for rheuma-
tism in the arm. The stomach is affect
ed with loss of appetite and sickness;
the bowels in general are costive,
sometimes alternative with lax; the
head with pain, ,accompan-
led with dull, heavy sensation i'll the
back part. There is generally con-
siderable loss of memory, accompan-
led with painful sensation of having
left undone something which ought to
have been done. A slight, dry cough
is sometimes an attendant. AThe pa
tient complains of WEAKNESS and de-
bility ; he is easily startled, his feet are
cold or burning, and he complains ola
prickly sensation ofthe skin; his spir-
its are low: and although he is salts
fed that exercise would be beneficial
to him, yet he can scarcely summon
up fortitude enough to try it. In fact
he distrusts every remedy. Several oi
the above vesymptomsatten disease,
but cases have occurred where few of
them existed, yet examination of the
body, after death, has shown the LIVER
to have been extensively deranged.
'AGUE AND WERE
DIR. C. MCLANE's LIVER PILLS, IN
CASES OF AGUE AND FEVER, when
taken with Quinine, are productive of
the most happy results. No better
cathartic can be used, preparatory to,
or after taking Quinine. We would
advise all who are afflicted with this
disease to give them A FAIR TRIAL.
For all bilious arrangements and as
asimple purgative they are unequaled.
BEWARE OF LIMITATIONS. q
The genuine DIR. G. MCLANE's
LIVER PILLS are never sugar coated
Every box has a red wax seal on
the lid, with the impression DIR.
MCLANE's LIVER PILLS.
The genuine Nc FLAME s LIVER PILLS
bear the signatures of c. McLANE.
and FLEMING Bros. on the wrappers.
EInsist on your druggist or store
keeper giving you the genuine DR.. c.
MCLANE's LIVER PILLS, prepared
by Fleming Bros, Pittsburgh, Pa. . |
ASold by all respectable druggists
and country storekeepers generally.
Tothose wishing to give DIR C. .McI.ANE's LIVER /
PILLs trial, will mail post paid to dny part Of |
the United States. box of Pills for twenty five
cents FLEMING BROS. Pittsbarg, Pa.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-05-18

tages, too. Society claims a great deal
of you; but it never claims anything of
me. / am independent"
Oh, wise philosopher Is there any
philosophy like that of a calm content?
"And enjoy life; because, don't you
see, sir, / have nothing to do but to study
how to enjoy it."
Do you go to churchT' l asked.
Well, sir, am a member of the Bap-
tist church, but since | have moved
away from the old church and gone among
strangers, dent go to church, for it
might create a sensation, don't you seeT"
Well. yes! Ibid see. Imagined this
creature shuffiing up the broad aisle of a
fashionable church, or even of an un-
fashionable chapel, and thought he
showed consideration for the worshipers
and the preacher.
"There is only one thing 1 want" he
added. 81 would like to get into IL
brary."
"A libraryp' said I. "what could
you do in library?'
"Oh, as a member, / mean, sir" said
he, al would like to get books out to
read"
took down his address, and with all
the inimitable dignity of gentleman, he
invited me to call. Then, with an apollo
gy for having taken so much of my time,
and an inqufry-for we had exchanged
names-whether I was the Historian"
Abbot" he shuffled out of my door.
had hardly got to my seat and my pen in
hand, before l heard him shuff1ing back
again. He peered round the corner of
the doorway, and with that curious jack
in-the-bQ motion of his, held up three
fingers. Third bell," he said, :" ring
the third bell" and he was off again.
And / sat down and thought; thought
of the poor woman who began two years
ago by selling her thousand dollar piano,
and last week was found with her clothes
and furniture all pawned and her only
flannel garment, the remnant of an old
blanket, wrapped around her; thought
of that merchant who eighteen months
ago was contributing to the support of
one of our great charities and is now de-
pendent on it for bread for his family;
and here is this cripple, without the right
use of legs, or arms, or hands, or voice,
supporting himself and his wife, happy
as king" and asking charity of no one;
and said, will leave the thread un-
spun on the editorial distaff until have |
written down this lesson for hard times.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-05-18
The Turks at Home.

There is no Turkish home-life. BY
home-life, / understand the frequent
gathering together-under the same roof,
and in the same room, of the members
of family, and all the influences and
attendant circumstances which such fire.
quent gatherings imply. The Turkish
house consists of two parts, one for men
called the selamlik, and the other for
women called the haremlik These are
usually the two wings of the house, and
are commonly altogether separated from
each other by a central hall. Thus the
men have their part of the house and the
woman theirs. Neither is allowed, with
out permission to enter the territory of
the other. In Turkish house, the men
and women do not take their meals to-
gether do not sit around a table, and
can hardly be said to feed decently. 1t
is quite possible for men and women
who do not know the use of fork TO be
very clean about their food, but the use
of fork is a great step toward cleanli-
ness in eating. A Turk holding con-
siderable position in the state will take
handful of boiled rice from the common
dish, and after having squeezed all the
water out by working it well in his hand,
will put the lump into the mouth of a
RuesJ as mdIk Vi peCulldI ldNOI. lueIo
is a slovenliness about Turks at their
meals which is probably due to the fact
that men and womenI do not take their
meals together. The object of the meal
is solely to eat. Small tables, usually
without cloths, the dishes ready for
every ones fingers, and the absence of
score of small conveniences which
every European tables furnishes, could
only be tolerated by people who get
their meals anyhow. What is said of
breakfast applies equally to the other
meals during the day. The civilizing
effect upon household of requiring all
the members to meet together, the atten-
ton which has to be given to dress, and
to certain proprieties of life, the conver-
sation which takes place, are all so
many influences which the Turkish house
is entirely without. The truth is that
the separation of the women from tho
men absolutely destroys every thing
worth speaking Of as home life, and
causes the life Of Turk in his own
house to be utterly wearisOme and stupid.
Cor. London Times
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-05-18
IMPORTANT CAUTION.

None are genuine unless the signature OF
J. HAYDOCK, as agent for the United States,
surrounds each box of Pills, and Ointment.
A handsome reward will be given to any one
rendering such information as may lead to
the detection of any party or parties coun-
HesSold at the mandatory of Professor
HOLLOWAY & Co., New York, and by all
respectable druggists and dealers in medi
cines throughout the civilized world, in boxe
at % cents, 81 cents and 81 each.
ES-There is considerable saving by ia kin
the largest sizes.
n. B.-Directions for the guidance of pa
tients in every disorder are affixed to each
box.
Onicp ia Liberty Sfreef NeH Orh
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-05-18
GOLDEN DAYS.

Life Is an esctasy-nights early seeming
When days glad moments hover DER the brow
When all that cares fades in misty dreaming
Transformed to gladness for the happy now;
When pants the soul tIanslating words to mold
Needless. anon, as fresher visions futter-
Life is an ecstasy night-dreams unfold.
Life is an ecstasy; as when a-weary
The Arab bids his dromedary kneel
Here shall we rest, cries he, in accent CHEEKY,
Forgetting morrow in our present veal;
Then the long cleaning spear eagerly teizcs.
Thrusts 1t, or enjoyed, does in the graciou:
sands
With its gay pendants play the evening breezes-
Ecstasy breathes, and lifts the bronzsd hands
Life is an ecstacy Persa's dark maiden
Resting with hand to cheek chalky cliff,
Round Osmans peak, whose treasure-deTths
shall laden,
Fades one with love to guide his dancing skih,
How well she knows, with evening shadows growing
Homeward twill turn upon the silent swels;
Yelling again the cheek of richest glowing.
Whispers, D. ecstasy to the haIk ming shells.
Life is ecstasy as, when a-thirsting,
Dear melodies are stranded on the ear;
When some loved note, upon the stiffness bursting
Tells how the absent fain would loite near;
And in strain that yet hath need of naming,
Urges the spirit 10 a raDtuous fight,
Annuls the pasta life divine proclain,ing,
lis ecstasy, it's music's heavenly right.
If lie be sleep, o, let sleep be unbroKenI
Ii life be waking, who would care to sleep
OF what is not dost know sone certain token
That If change do not change to weep?
viii nor sleep n~r wake-in bliss r, posing;
Days. hours and minutes keep your aimless mae,
L tremb'e ere | ask, Com'th there a closing
To shut without my happy. golden days7
-NelC York EreHing Pest.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-05-18
THE RESCUE
Victim of the Custer Massacre.

A touching incident has just occurred
in connection with the death of Lieuten-
ant William Van w. Reilly, who fell
with Custer in that terrible fight on the
Little Big Horn last year. At the time
of the battle he wore seal ring with his
crest cut upon it, and this, together with
his clothing, his sword, his pistols, and all
his belongings, was torn from his dead
body and carried away by some one OF
the foe who had helped kill him. His
mother, unable to secure his remains,
and longing for something that had been
with him to the last, tried in every way
to recover it; she offered immense re-
wards; she had fac-similes of the die
made and sent to the different agencies
along he..frontier, and she wrote to all
the commanding officers in the Sioux
country, describing il, and few days
since she received official notice from the
war department that the ring had been
found. 1t was taken from the finger OF
one of the fifteen hundred Cheyennes
who came in the other day for their an
nual supply of forgiveness and ammu'
nition.- Cincinnati Commercial.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-05-18
Relief at Fires.

The Burlington Hawkeye, speaking of
the scheme of shooting ramrods with
string attachments into the windows of
burning hotels, observes: "This is in
deed a grand idea. The only drawback
to its practical operation is that a terri
fed guest standing at a window shrieking
and bowling for help, would have been
very much surprised, and not greatly
tranquilled or reassured on finding him
self suddenly transfixed with three-foot
ramrod and a coil of string. And unless
the fire department is vastly better on
the shoot than the police, the probability
is that not window in the hotel would
have been broken, while the Btreete of st.
Louis would have been full Of bowling
firemen and weeping citizens, pulling
iron ramrods out Of each other"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-05-18
For Stomaohs Out of Order,

No medicines will so eifectually improve
the tones of the stomach as these Pills; they
remove all acidity occasioned either by in.
temperance or improper diet. They reach
the liver and reduce it to a healthy action
they are wonderfully etficacious in cases OF
all disorders of the Liver and stomach.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS are the best known
in the world for the following diseases
Ague, Asthma, Bilious Complaints, Blotches
on the Skin, Consumption of the
Bowels, Consumption, Debility, Drop
sy, Dysentery, Erysipelas, Female Ir-
regularities, Fevers of a1l kinds, Fits, Gout,
Headache, Indigestion, Inflammation, Jaun-
dice, Liver Complaints, Lumbago, Piles,
Rheumatism, Retention of urine, Scrofula or
Kings Evil, Sore Throats, Stone and Gravel,
Tie-Doulourex, Tumors, Ulcers, Worms of
all kinds Weakness from any cause, etc.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-05-18
A ROYAL Visit to the United States.

It is pretty well settled that the Prince
and Princess of Wales leave england for
Australia in the winter OF 1I IoloLs, They
will return through the United States;
The royaI couple will thus be able to af-
fect % a little economy, which their strait
ened resources very much need. The
prince, without being extravagant, has
now spent every farthing of the money
nority of the duchy of Cornwall rents,
and he is now running into debt. If the
queen does not assist him, he must soon
apply to parliament but the Australian
visit is meant to stave off the evil day
The Arcddidn.