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Year: 1864

bO done by tho people and not by their
agents; and in Invoking the blessings Of
Almighty God upon this auspicious day
and occasion, I should ask Of Him in
the plsnituds Of His power and wisdom,
to do no more and to do no less than to
impress upon the people Of Louisiana a
fitting idea Of their responsibilities and
their duties. [ CONTINUED cheering


After more music by the orchestra,
firing Of saluteS, the singing Of "My
country It's of thee" by the 10000 per
sons present, the ceremonies concluded
with prayer by the Reverend Mr. Her.
ton.
Year: 1864

We seek 1t III our glowing youth


That wondrous garden far away:
We deem its golden fruit still waits


For us alone each passing day
We close our eyes to see them shine,


We wake to strain our utmost speed.
Forgetful of the dragon-guard,


The tempting branch our sorcst need
We cross the changing foam Of life,


Nor pause to measure depths below;
The sun-gods radiant cup upbears


Our hot hearts DER the waves dark flow
We scale the mountains, pass the waste
Yet linger mid the earnest quest,
BY murmering streams meath harvest-moons
OF siren nymphs the willing guest
We free the chain'd Promethean thought
From tyrant Customs gnawing bcal
Yet, strong III faith the heavens rest
Upon the dreams we never speak.
The years grow gray unwithered still
The golden apples sparkle there
We know some path must reach the gates,
Mount Atlas bounds our worst despair.
Alas alas for all our hopes


Our heart beats fainter throb at last
We drop our heads on Memory's breast,
Hesperides was in the past!
We think again of harvest-moons,


The dead we knew, the kisses sweet
The high endeayor leaves our soul
We only long the loved to meet


Once more the passionate old thrill
OF yealning to our lives is given;


God, Death and Truth alone reveal
The real Hesperides is heaven!
Year: 1864

WHOM TO MARRY.--When a young wo-
man behaves to her parents in manner
particularly afectionate and respectful,
from principle as we'll as nature, there is
nothing good and gentle that may not be
expected from her, in whatever condition
she may be placed. Were l to advise a
friend as to his choice would be, 'look out
fer pious girl, distinguished for her at
tention and love to her parents. The
fund Of worth and affection indicated by
such behavior, joined to the habits and
duty Of consideration thereby contracted
being transferred to the married state, will
not fail, as a rule, to render her a mild,
obliging, and invaluable companion for
life"
Year: 1864

4 QUAINT winter says Il have seen wo-
mon so delicate that they were afraid TO
ride for fear the horse might run away;
afraid to sail for fear the boat might cap
size; and afraid to walk for fear the dew
might fall; but Inever saw one afraid to
get married"
Year: 1864

ACCORDING to Haller, woman bear hunger
longer than men; according to Plutarch they
can resist the effects of wine better; accord
ing to Pliny they are seldom attacked by
lions; according to Unger they grow older
and are seldom bald
Year: 1864

LET there be plenty of sunlight in your
house. Don't be afraid of it. God floods the
world with light, and it costs you an effort
to keep it out You want it as much as
plants, which grow sickly without it 1t is
necessary to the health, spirits, good nature
and happy influence. Let the sunlight
stream freely in.
Year: 1864

LIES AUTUMN.-Like the leaf, life has its
fading We speak and think of it with
sadness, Just as we think of the autumn sea
sons. But there should be no sadness at
the fading Of a life that has done its work
well. If we rejoice at the advent of new
pilgrim to the uncertainties of this worlds
way, why should there be so much gloom
when all these uncertainties are past, and
life at its waning wears the glory of a com
pleted task ?


Beautiful as is childhood in its freshness
and innocence, its beauty is that of untried
life. 1t is the beauty of promise, of spring,
of the bud \ holier and rarer beauty is
the beauty which the waning life of faith
and duty wears


1t is the beauty of a thing completed :;
and, as men come together to congratulate
each other when some great work has been
achieved, and see in its concluding nothing
but gladness, so ought W. feel when the
setting sun filings back its beams upon a
life that has answered we'll life's purpose.
When the bud drops are blighted and the
mildew blasts the early grain, and there
goes all hope Of the harvest, one may well
be sad but when the ripened year sinks
amid garniture of autumn flowers and
leaves, why should we regret or murmur?
And so a life that is ready and waiting for
the 4" we'll done of God, whose latest vir-
tues and charities are its noblest, should be
given back to God in uncomplaining rever-
ence, we rejoice that earth is capable of so
much sadness, and is permitted such viz
tue
Year: 1864

A CHLD's ExPEDIENT-A little girl about
four years old trotted down to Atlantic
Dock the other day, says a New York cor
respondent, to buy some corn for her moth


er's chickens She had pail in her hand
in which to put the corn, but before she
reached the spot where she was accustomed
to find it, she came to a cask Of honey
This was not to be passed by without an
effort to obtain some of it. The men at
work within the Dock, unobserved by the
child, watched her attempts to reach the
sweet temptation Her little arms were
too short for the enterprise, but, after
moments consideration, she took off her
shoe and stocking, rolled up her drawers,
and climbing up on something against
which the cask stood, let down her foot and
ankle into the honey then she drew it up,
and with her hand scraped off the honey
into her pail. This she repeated until the
pail was full when she went to the water
side and washed, and replacing her shoe
and stocking, started with her spoil for
home. \ man followed her and heard her
tell her mother that she had brought home
some honey but to all questioning as to
how she obtained it, she was mute In
short time she returned to the dock for her
chicken food, when, as | understand, there
was quite an excitement over her, and
collection taken up to reward her ingenuity
not It's hoped to encourage her honesty.
Year: 1864

IT is temper which makes the bliss ofhome
or disturbs its comfort The home is in the
forbearing Amper, in the yielding spirit, in
the calm pleasures of mild disposition,
anxious to give and receive happiness.
Year: 1864

FASHIONABLE CALL--Enter MissL Lucy near
ly out Of breath with the eXertion of walking
frnm her papa's carriage in the street to the
door of her friend


Lucy-"Oh, Marie how do you do !?
How delighted ! am to see you How have
you been since you were at the ball last
Thursday evening? Wasn't the appearance
of that tall girl in pink perfectly fright
full? Is this your shawl on the piano?
Beautiful shawl Father says he is going
to send to Paris to get me shawl in the
spring | can't bear homemade shawls
How do you like Monsieur osprey? Beau
tiful man, amt he? Now don't laugh,
Marie, for am sure don't care anything
about him Oh, my | must be going
It's beautiful day, isn't it T.? Marie, when
are You coming up to see me Oh, dear
what beautiful pin That pin was given
to you now | know it was, Marie don't
deny it, Harry is coming up to see me this
evening, but hate him-I do really but
he has beautiful moustache, hast he?
Marie ! Don't speak of Harry in connection
with my name to any one for ! am sure
it will never amount tie anything but
hate him awfully--Im sure | do Adieu."
Year: 1864

any fellowship with them. We shonld feel
more honored to be associated with gentle
manly pack Of professional gamblers, than
with q Conference of Methodist rebelpr
ere. And certainly 1t would be a. edifying
to listen to the harangucs Of noted liar, as
to SIT in church and listen to ono Of thesc
rnscalB attempt to preach!
Year: 1864

GARMENTS OF MOURNING. Putting on
black as sign of mourning was an essen
TALLY heather custom, indicating the horror
of death, and that all beyond the grave was a
blank. Mrs. Ware, in her very useful little
book, Death and Life" has some excellent
remarks upon this custom:


The early Christians recognized the new
aspect which the knowledge OF immortality
gave TO the death OF the body; and they soon
ceased to use the signs of mourning for The
dead that till then had been universal. They
felt that it was wrong to mourn for the dead !;
and their epilaphs in the Roman cataconlbs
still testify to the peaceful trust and the hope
full assurance that animated the minds of
those who there deposited the mortal remains,
often sealed with the blood of martyrdom, OF
those they held most dear Among the thou
sands of Inscriptions still to be read there,
there Is no allusion to be found to the griei OF
those who were left to perform the last offices
to their friends. No inconsolable relatives
immortalze their tears on those walls The
simplicity of a child-like faith that to die here
was to live in the mansions of the al-loving
Father, seems to have been the abounding
source whence flowed the countless phrases
that speak of death as always good, rather
than evil. The bad Latin in which many of
the Inscriptions are couched proves that
large proportion of the dead were of the
lower and little educated classes: but ali
ranks seem to have been animated by the
same spirit. Selfish grief finds no expression
there; and the historians tell us that all signs
of mourning in dress were deemed uniting
in those who believed in the Christian immor-
talty.
Year: 1864

Statutes


SECT. 80 When any disease dangerous TO the
public health exists in town. the municipal officers
shall use all possible care to prevent its spread and
to give public notice of infected places to travellers
by display ing red flags at proper distances and by
all Other means most enectuai, in their judgment,
for the comDon safety.


Scot. ~. When householder or physician knows
that person under his care Is taken sick of any
such disease he imme diately give notice the
of to the municipal officers of the town where such
person is and il he neglects it be shall forfeit not
less than ten. nor more than thirty dollars.
The above law will be strictly enforced


JOHN s. HEALD,
febl2tmayl City Marshal and Health Officer.
Year: 1864

The only paper in all this country that
we have seen which iustifes the branding
of soldiers, is the Muscutine Journal
This is accounted for from the fact that
there are two Abolition preachers connec-
ted with that concern. We ask returned
soldiers and those who are in the army,
how they Ike the idea of being brandedt
Better reasons can be assigned for brand
ing the soldiers already in the service than
the new recruits What fine friend the
soldiers must find in the Journal. This
is what it says upon the subject:


"And now we ask the whole crew oi
peace sneaks who have endeavored to
create and stir up opposition to :he draft
Uy reiterating this branding story, what
is s,there wrong about it? For one, we
are ready to justify it,"
Year: 1864

"I only ask for four more years of wa,
to abolish slavery in every one of tn.
Southern States"


This remark was made by Abraham
Lincoln at the Philadelphia Fair.


If it will take him four years to cap
ture the unarmed blacks of the South
how long will it take him to put down the
armed rebellion 2


Should he be reelected he will spend
four years more to abolish slavery, anc
then as impudently ask four more years
to put down the rebellion Crisis.
Year: 1864

During the wars of Napoleon the at
tention of the French Academy of Sci
ence was called to the fact that a storm
of rain or snow invariably followed bat
tie, almost always in proportion to the
magnitude of the conflict, especially if
there was heavy cannonading This was
particularly the case in the Russian cam
paign, which was followed by such snow
storms as never before were witnessed in
the South of Europe Some of the sa-
vants declared that rapid discharges of
artillery and incessant volleys of musket-
ry produced concussion in the air, and
drove the clouds out of their course, while
others went so far as to adopt the theory
since advocated by Prof. Espy, that the
immense smoke of battle was in itself
sufficient to produce rain. There were
skeptics, however land when the war closed
il remained mooted point.


Those who remember the rains which
followed the seven days fight before
Rich mood ,as well as those which followed
all the other prominent battles on the
Potomac will at once acknowledge the
theory to be correct-that battles disturb
the elements in the most singular man
ner If any evidence we're wanting we
need only refer to the rains at intervals,
and the heavy clouds cremulous in one
direction and nimbus in another. floating
to all points of the compass as if goserned
BY anything else than regular current
of air.


Il is thus conclusive, with the evidence
so plainly before US, that wars bring rain
in summer, and snow storms in winter.
Rapid discharges of artillery and mus
kerry blend into one continuous roar, and
instances are upon record where they
were heard at distance of forty miles
If sound alone can travel SO far, one can
form some idea how far the force which
produces the conclusion in the air may
travel before it exhausts itself


1t is usual to have showers in the mid
die of May, but loug continued rains are
out of the ordinary course of events al
this season OF the year. The subject is
one worthy the attention of all who take
an interest in the phenomena of the
ueathar
Year: 1864

Sick aud disheartened, she turned back.
Seeing light at farm house, she sought
shelter An old man received her kindly,
showed her TO room, and said he would
wake her early in the morning and show
her the road to Franklin.


A loud knock awoke her in the morn
ing from her Lethean slumbers, and up.
on arousing she found her horse saddled
and the two guards from whom she had
escaped the previous afternoon. Sne was
taken to the headquarters of Forrest, and
he sent her, after critical examination,
to Gen. Bragg. Nothing could be found
against her until selfish woman stole
her CATERS, under the inner sole of which
were found important documents which
clearly proved her to be spy.


She was tried and condemned to be
executed as a spy, but being sick, her
execution was postponed. She finally,
after lying in prison three months, sent
for Gen. Bragg, and asked him if he had
no mercy. She received from him the
comforting assurance that he should make
an example of her, and that he should
hang her as soon as she got we'll enough
to be h1Rg deceutly.


While in this state of suspense; the
grand Amy of Rosencrans commenced
its forward movement, and one fine day
the Rebel town where she was impris.
oned was surprised and captured, and
The heroine of this tale was, TO her great
ioy released She is now in this city
visiting friends, having arrived at the
Bidde House one day last veek.-De,
troit Tribune, May oath.
Year: 1864

A bank note reporter would not natu-
rally be looked to for words of prover5ial
wisdom. but Thonpson's Reporter is re-
sponsible for the following, which will do
well to ponder on during hot dull day {:


Don't have too much commiseration
for the accomplished, amiable, and charm
iug wife of defaulter, until you know
that she has not, by extravaganza aud
pride, induced him to use money not his
own, or to speculate with view to graf
ify her wishes.


Don't think you are making Bargain
when you cheat customer; for in the
long run all such operations will turn out
quadruple losses.


Don't lend money at too great shave !;
for the borrower must succeed, or he'll
never be able to pay.


Don't neglect your regular business
thinking to do better at some outside en-
terprse the chances are ten to enc you
will not succeed.


Don't go TO law in a hurry; frst ex-
hsust the legal remedies


Don't Get excited about politics unless
you are quite sure that the election of
your candidate will be better for your
business, and the country, than the other
man


Don't be too severe On others for not
thinking as you think, that they may ex-
cuse you for not thinking as they DO.


Don't be too smart; it Is the instinct
of man to give the extreme smart ones;
of both genders, wide berth.


Don't be as the dog in the uanger !;
for some bull may give yon a toss.


Don't judge until you have heard both
sides of the case.


Don't get on stills IN prosperity nor on
your knees in adversely for what goes
up must come down, but what goes down
don't always come up
Year: 1864

1t is important to know, so far as pos.
sible, the future policy of the financial
minister of the Government; and espec-
tally at this time, when, to make gam
bling speculrtions profitable, an uncom-
mon food of false assertions and theories
damaging to the public credit, are boldly
circulated.


The excitements got up in Wall street
by gamblers iu Stocks and Gold, are tel
egraphed everywhere-exaggerated-an
the outside public naturally feel that there
is some great wrong somewhere, when, in
fact, there is nothing wrong. There is
only hullaballoo among bulls and bears.


Mr.. Chase viii press right on with the
National Ten Forty Loan, just as he has
begun. There will be no change in the
rate of interest. He will make no tenn
porary loans of the Banks but he will take
money from the people or the Banks at
FIVE per cent. interest, payable on ten
days notice, as heretofore and he will
run the usual line of one-year Certificates.
He will sell the surplus gold from Gus
toms, after setting aside an amount suf,
fcient for six months interest, and use
the proceeds, as the spirit aud letter of
the law demands, partly as a sinking
fund, and partly for the current expenses
Of the Government.


he appeals atresh to the people in this
the most trying military and financial
period of the Rebellion, to come forward
with heart and money. He is reducing
the volume of currency gradually, and
will coutinue to do so. If the stock and
gold gamblers shall again attempt the
game they played last week, he will bring
the whole power of the Government, and
its whole means, Both here and abroad
to checkmate them,


the Secretary Of the Treasury relies
upoa the People for the a0oys and means
upon the Army for victories, and upon
Congress for adequate taxation.


The people will come to his help with
every dollar that can be Appropriated
This is their true interest it is their true
safety The armies now will do their
part-there is no alternative but victory
Congress will do its duty-it dare not
fal.er


To those capitalists who complain that
Mr., Chase ought to pay higher rate OF
interest, we say, pointedly, that FIVE
per cent obligation against the Ameri-
caa people is better than bond at any
higher rate of interest For why? Your
money righteously invested, free from
extortion. generously invested for your
country's cause. is, and will be through
all time, VALID.
Year: 1864

@ the weary, solemn silence
of house without the children,
o the strange oppressive stiffness


Where the children come no more
All the longing of the sleepless
For the soft arms of the children,
All the longing for the faces


Peeping through the opening door


Faces gone for evermore
Strange it is to wake at midnight
And not hear the children breathing,
Nothing but the old clock ticking,


Ticking, ticking by the door.
Strange to see the little dresses
Hanging up there all the morning.
And the gaiters-ah their patter,


We will hear it never more


On the mirth-forsakea floor
What is home without the children7
'Tis the earth without its verdure,
And the sky without the sunshine;


Life is withered to the core
So we'll leave this dreary desert,
And we'll follow the Good Shepherd
To the greeuer pastures Ver1al,


Where the lambs have "gone Before"


With the Shepherd evermore
o the weary, solemn silence
OF house without the children,
0 the strange oppressive stiffness


Where the children come no more
All the longing of the sleepless
For the soft arms of the children;
All the longing for the faces


Peeping through the opening door


Faces gone for erermore!
Year: 1864

s@A doctor and military oficer be
came enamored of the ssme LADY A
friend inquired Of her. which of the two
suitors she intended TO favor. Her reply
was, that it way difficult for her to de.
termine, they we're both such killing
creatures.
Year: 1864

The following account Of recent crueifx-
ton in China, interesting, because to those
mentioned in Scripture, is by Mr.. James
Jones, of Annoy, who witnessed the execution
on the 18th of October


The victim was a we'll known thief, whose
principal offence was that of stealing young
girls and selling them for prostitutes. On his
trial before his judge, he refused to crimi-
mate himself although repeatedly scourged
until his back was raw. Ifa female witness
fails in giving satisfactory evidence in a
court of justice, she is beaten with leather
strap across the mouth. His wife desirous
of sparing her husband refused to give evil
dence, but after two or three applications of
strap, her courage gave way. She confessed
his guilt, at the same time admitting that two
hundred dollars of the money so derived was
hidden in the sea near the beach. Officers
were sent to search, and finding the dollars
in the place indicated the prisoner was SEN
fenced to aptaition-deemed by the Chi
nese the most severe observation-disclosures
they imagine that if a man leaves this world
minus any of his members, he appears in the
same condition in the next, the culprit there
fore prayed to be crucifed instead of being
beheaded.


The cross was of the Latin form, the foot
being inserted in a stout plank, and.the GRIM
inal, standing on board, had nails driven
through his feet, his hands stretched and
nailed to the crossbeam. His legs were fast
ened to the cross with an iron chain, and his
arms bound with cords, and on the cord
round his waist was inserted piece of wood
on which was written his name and offcnse
a similar piece on his right arm contained
his sentenee-namely to remain on the cross
day and night until he died another on his
left arm had the name of the judge with his
titles and offices. The criminal was nailed to
the cross inside the Yamun in the presence
of the magistrate, and then carried by four
coolies to one of the principal thoroug ughfares
leading from the city, where he was left du-
ring the day, but removed at night inside
the prison for fear of his friends attempting
to rescue him, and again carried forth at day
light in charge of two soldiers. He was cru
cited at noon on Wednesday, and Mr..
Jones conversed with him at five in the
evening. He complained of pain in the chest,
and thirst. On Thursday he slept for some
hours when the cross was laid down within
the goal compound No one was allowed to
supply him with food or drink and during
the day there was quite fair in front of the
cross, people being attracted from distance
and the sweetmeat vendors driving large
trade. On Saturday he was still alive, when
the TaOtai was appealed to by foreigner to
put an end to the wretch's suferings, and he
Immediately gave orders that vinegar should
be administered, which he expected would
produce immediate death, but the result was
otherwise, and at sunset when the cross was
taken within the goal, two sold ers with stout
bamboos broke both his legs, and then stra1-
gled him.
Year: 1864

PRIDE.-There is no virtue in the pride
which fills even the pious and the good
with bitter contempt for the guilty, espe-
cially those in misfortune, and, perhaps, pay
ing the penalty of their crimes. | have al
ways recollected an observation met with
in the Confessions of an Opium Eater, -
expressive of my meaning.


"At no time of life" says the writer of
that admirable treatise, "have been per-
son to hold myself polluted by the touch or
approach of any creature that wore human
shape; on the contrary, from my earliest
youth, it has been my pride to converse fa-
miliarly, with all human beings-man, wo-
man and child, that chance might fling in
my way, practice which is friendly to the
knowledge of human nature, to good feel
ings, and to that frankness of address which
becomes man who would be thought phi
losopher"
Year: 1864

A good story is told of an Irishman who
went to see the gorilla in cabinet of Am
herst College. Not knowing the difference
between that animal and the guerilla he re-
marked on seeing it, "Saint Patrick if
they have got such soldiers as that off
South, l amt going to war"