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Year: 1861




this war is, whether the government OF the
people can be maintained against the military
dcspotism watch has been iuaugmatcd in
the Southern States. Bold, unscrupulous
and determined, the Cotton Kings have re-
solved to brcal; up this government to get
rid of the tariff and to establish grand
slave oliSarchy which they hope will give
them an empire, founded upon landed
aristocracy supported 10y negro scryitudc.
Under the Constitution OF the United States
these Cotton Kings were secured in the legal
possession of an enormous monobly OF ne
gro scryitudc. One man in South Carolina is
said to hold four thousand slaves in his own
right. The baronial privileges of these
knights of the South are far greater than
those of any RUSS AN prince, or nobleman, for
they hold the bodies and lives of these negro
scrIs under their absolute control. These
mighty barons have governed the republic
and have given laws to the nation for seventy
years. They have educated their sons AZ
public expense; they have filed most of the
Offices of profit; they have controlled the
min avenue TO honor in the nation, and the
North has mce}ly bowed its head to this
domiuOtion. No people of the earth have
enjoyed the same exclusive, exalted and
monopoljzing privilege that our Southern
brethren have for two generations. For the
first time in thirty six years the Southerl
oligarchy were defeated in Presidential
election, upon an issue made 10y themselves
in the repeal ofthe old Missouri compromise
The question was whether free labor had ;
right to occupy free territory north of the
line of the old compromise. Abraham Lin
coin we elected in 1860 to the same ollic,
that John Quincy Adams had been elected
to gill in 1924. All the Presidents preceding
Adams, but one, where Southern mcr
Virginia had furnished the navy with more
post-captains than common sailors. IN iiuo
the army, navy and civil list of the republi,
have been for more than two generations "a
the disposal and under the great slave oil
garchs. Bred in the lap Of luxury, f,ttcnine
upon the great salaries of Office and the Ia
Dor Of four millions of slaves, these barons 0
the sable cross could not brook that the free
white labor party should be represented il
thcrcpublic even four years in halfa century
Rather than suffer the indisnity that frc,
white labor should have voice in the ad
ministration of public affairs, the slave oil
garchs dccrccd the destruction of the re
public--thcir motto now is, as here toforc
I'VE rule or ruin" Let no man be deceived
by the syrcn songs of the cotton kings
This is war Of the slave oligarchs agains
constitutional representative government
having for its object the overthrow of the
best republic on Garth. The people mus
awake to this fact and buckle on their armor
for if the cotton kings triumph in this wa
against free labor and free government on
liberties are gone forever; and the nigh
of despotism will close upon us and on
country forever. May God forbid it
Year: 1861

Captain.-I shall now give you the un-
written parts of this work, and trust you
will be careful in its use, If general war
ensues we shall dispense with the first de-
gree and rely on this and the third.


Name l3, (rrue Faith) sign 20, fore fin
ger and thumb of tie right hand joined,
while with the rest of the hand open, the
right eye is touching with the middle finger
answer 26, (same with the left hand and lett
Year: 1861

TIE town of La Porte is rapidly building up
again. The destruction is not SO great as at first
thought, great deal of merchandise being stored
in fire proof cellars.


The fire originated in q gambling saloon, and
a correspondent of the Marysvile Express says
citizens had given the gamblers notice to vacate.
Year: 1861

THE DIFFERENCE.-A Mormon woman thus
writes to female friend "While you of the
North and South have gone to killing each other
] off, we of Salt Lake are populating the country


with extraordinary rapidity- to the
eoctrine of the Latter Day Saints One of our
elders recently had no less than nine children
born to him in one weekr,
Year: 1861

STRANGE INsINUATIoN. - The San Francisco


Mercantile Gazette says eve hear of rather


more demand for money in some quarters" So


does everybody, but the supply is not equal to
the demand
Year: 1861

SAD CASE OF SUICIDE.-Last Wednesday, saws the
Cincinnati Enquirer of Thursday, previous to the
mail-bOat leaving Louisville, gentleman and lad
went aboard, and the former engaged a state-room
to Cincinnati, as for himself and wife. The female
Is described as young, good-looking and of lady.
like appearance, while her male companion bore
the outward semblance OF gentleman The boat
arrived here early the next morning, and it seems
that soon after the gentleman went ashore nor did
he return. The passengers, one after the other
left the boat until no remained but the. young
woman, who, in the meantime, made frequent and
anxious inquiries for her late companion Time
wore on, but he came not, and as busy prepara alton
was made tor the return trip of the boat to Louis
vile the solitary female became an object of curios.
lty. At length, she too disappeared, and as she
was last seen lingering upon the outer guard of the
ladies' cabin, it was fearfullv suggested bv some
that she had perhaps thrown herself overheard
and it was even said that splash and death
struggle had been heard in the water. The sequel
to the sad tale so far the unfortunate woman is
concerned, was developed yesterday morning.
Her body was found floating in the river near the
foot OF Sycamore street, and recognized as the pas
senger upon the Louisville packet. An inquest
was held, and verdict that she came to her death
as above, recorded From the circumstances sur
rounding the case it is inferred that she was the
victim of heartess scoundrel who, after he had
lured her from her home, baseIy deserted her.
That she was not yet hardened to guilty course
the despair which caused her to stiae remorse in
death, is proof.
Year: 1861

THE UNDERSIGNED BEGS To INFORM THE PUBLIC


that the terms which these Lots be purchased
leased have been far modified that under
and regulations description Of Building be erected
thereon. 1t being the desire and object of His Majesys Gov
have the said Lots occupied quickly possible
every facility will be granted intending occupiers and
consulting with the undersigned they will find that their views
will be met in far consistent with ha public
interests.


Ten Of said Lots having been engaged only few Of the
choice situations remain be disposed that early
plicaton will be necessary To secure them.


W. L. GREEN, Agent for the sale


l9n and lease of the Waikahalnu Lots.
Year: 1861

The R~}etgl .StalsIard calls US an ultra disunion
paper, and if it with truth verify that charge
take upon ourselves to prove, by stating our
position that Il IS ultra Lincoln paper. We take it
upon ourselves to say however that the charges
false, bstI to oursclf and the Standard


IS u our position We take that Of the Tammeny
Hall Democracy Of New York to wit:


That if the Republican party shall decide not to-
take suc. action alone induce peaceful settle
men: of the present difficulties demand and in
sist that the nation shall not be plunged into the
horrors of civil war, but that measures be taken to
bring about amicable separation of the two sections
trusting to the future to reconcile feelings not I'm b.
Uttered by bloodshed and remove obstacles to re-
union not rendered insurmountable by fratricid1l





If that be ultra disunion what are you?


End. 1fjustice shall be done by the North to the
South, If her equality nothing less nothing more.
shall be acknowledge and secured by the North
to an extent which will bring back the States tha
nave gone "ut-then we for the Union. If not
We sle for united South If that be disunion Q.
treason make the most Of it.
Year: 1861

Every hive should now be examined 10
see il there is enough honey 10 last until
the apple trees blossom. This can be
easily done by merely netting the hive
The light ones should be fed either with
honey or candy made from clarified brown
sugar with little -four. Feed always
from tn upper part Of the hive, so that
bees from other hives cannot reach it with
out entering the hive through the en-
trance. If there is deficiency Of bee
breaa, give unbolled rye flour. This may
be paced in the open air, in shallow trays.
where The bees can reach it. Keep it
from getting wet.


Clean dead bees away from the bottom
Of the hives. A strong swarm will 90
this themselves but they are none the
worse for little help. If there are any
moths and webs, remove them the frs
good day. This may be well done by
taking the hive into room. keeping the
doors and windows closed. If the hive
contains movable frames, shift them into
new and clean hive, examining each
comb separately for worms and webs.-
Let tie bees become perfectly still! again
before you place them out.


A litlle care nov will save many a weak
swarm, and enable 1t 10 start well in the
spring, for swarms deficient in honey and
bee bread cannot raise young till late in
the season, and the entire swarm may even
be entirely destroy ed.-- Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1861

A Whaling vessel which sailed, from
London in the year lS4O found in tho PO-
lar sea u ship embede in tho ice. with sails
frrled, and no signs OF life on board. The
captain and some of the crew, descending
into the cabin, found coiled upon the floor
large Newfoundland dog, apparently asleep,
but when they touched it they found the
animal was dead and frozen as bard Us stone.
10 the cabin was young lady seated at the
table, her Dyes open as II gazing on the in
truders in that desolate place. She was q
corpse and had been frozen in an apparent
ly resigned and religious attitude. Beside
her was young man, who, il appeared,
was the commander of the brig. and brother
to tho lady. He was sitting at the table,
dead, and before him was sbeet Of paper,
On which was written, "Our cook has en-
deavored to strike light since yesterday
morning, but in vain all 10 now over. In
another par: of the cabin stood the cook,
with tho flini and tinder in hand, in the vain
endcavor TO strike the fire that could alone
savo them. The terrors of the seamen LED
the captain from the spot, who took with
him the log book as the sole lnemento OF
the ill-fated ship. 1t appeared that she was
also from London, and had been frozen in
that place over fourteen years.
Year: 1861

MIR Seward and tho President have con
suited frequently with the foreign diplomats
here concerning the present condition OF
our national affairs aud the course of their
respective Governments. On the part OF
the representatives of England and France,
1t is VOL understood that thero is no sym
pathy whatever for tho South. Lord Lyons
says that he sees no benefit to be derived
by the English Government, or any foreign
power, from the supremacy of its people /;
that there is, of course no prospect of for
eign supremacy on this continent in any
event; while England and the United
States havo become so strongly united in
mutual interests, that misfortune to one is
disaster to the other in all points Of material
interests. Tho Southern Commissioners
had reason to discover these facts while in
Washington, and have probably given Davis
and his compstriots some new ideas not at
all flattering to their vanity and visions Of
ultimate success.
Year: 1861

The following incident comes to us thor.
oughly authenticated, although We arc not
at liberty to publish any names: short
time since two individuals in this city were
lying in one room very sick, one with brain
fever, and tho other with an aggravated case
of mumps. They were so low that Watchers
wore needed evory night, mud it was thought
doubtful if the one sick OF fever recovered.
A gentleman was engaged to watch one
night, his duty being TO wake the nurse
Whenever it became necessary to tako the
medicine. In the course Of the night both
watcher and nurse fell asleep. The man
with the mumps lay watching the clock, and
saw that it was time to give the fever pa
tient his medicine. He was unable TO speak
aloud or to move any portion of his body
except his arms, but seizing pillow, he
managed to strike the watcher in tho face
with it. Thus suddenly awakened, the
watcher sprang from his seat falling TO the
floor and awakening both the nurse and
fever patient. The incident struck both
tho sick men as very ludicrous, and thcy
laughed most heartily at it for fifteen or
twenty minutes. When the doctor came in
the morning, no found his patients vastly
improved-said no had never known so sud.
den change for tho better--and they arc
now both out and wOll. Who says laugh
ter is not the best of medicines !-!NeD
HGuen Palladium.
Year: 1861

There are several methods OF Fastening
the maturity Of potatoes. A favorite
method with the German market gar.
deners is, TO bring the SEED potatoes in
barrels into q warm room about the FIRST
Of March. The eyes start rapidly, and
in about two or three weeks they are
ready 10 plant. Another method which
we have practiced, for some years, is to
start the potatoes in gentle hot bed,
about the middle Of March. The iubers
are cut in halves, and laid fiat side down
upon the bed as thick as they can be
placed. They are then covered with
about two inches garden mould, and the
ashes are put over them. AS soon as
they are up two or :bree inches they are
ready to transplant. They should be re-
moved carefully, separating the roots with
as little breaking IS possible, and put in
drills where they are 10 grow. As they
do not yield full crop under this treat
ment, they can be planted closer than in
common field culture, say in drills thirty
inches apart, putting the hills twelve
inches apart in the drill.


A warm. sandy loan, sloping 10 the
south or southeast, should be selected for
this crop. 1t should be well manured
with horse dung, about half of it applied
in the drills. Some manure their ground
for early potatoes in the fall, and this is
we think, good plan for that par, Of the
manure which is applied broadcast
Fresh horse dung in the drills raises the
temperature of The soil and hastens their
growth. We will add that we have sue
ceeded well on a small scale thus: Two
or three weeks before the time when il
will probably do to plant out, rake pieces
of turf or sod, say four or five inches
square, and put piece Of potatoe in each
These are set closely together where they
can be watered at need, and can be ex-
posed to sunshine. Whenever there is a
cold night, or "cold snap" straw is put
on 10 keep them from freezing. They
sproui and fll the turf with with roots.-
At the proper time the pieces are set in
the open ground one piece in bill, and
the growth is hardly checked. The turf
itself also acts as manure TO aid the
growth. In this way two or three weeks
may be gained.-A9rieGiturist.
Year: 1861

A PARAGRAPH FOR BACHELORS AND OLD
MAIDS One of the greatest OWLS with
which society is inflicted and one OF the
greatest obstacles to tho prosperity and
permanency of any nation, is that of living
a single life The older and wealther u
nation becomes, the greater is tho proper
ton of people who never marry. The Prin..
cpal reason, probablyis is in the Increased
extravagances in living A young man
shrinks from asking glrl who lives sur
rounded with ivory luxury TO share his
humble home. Whilst We commend his
prudence, we depIore the Cause But &C.
lib .cy is an evil still greater than that OF ex'
travaganco. A lite of coIibacy is itself an
evil for it is against nature. Nature in.
tended that the sexes should marry. As a
general rule, the married live longer and
happier than tho single. Celibacy is a
crime against society. But ono othor greater
evil can befall nation, and that is getting
unmarried. For it strikes at the root OF
domestic life. It's tendency is to annihilste
tho family He who lives life OF celibacy
fails in his duty to himself, to his country
and to his God, Whatever else no may do
for society, by neglecting to marry, no fails
to do that by which there is any society.
Year: 1861

An ANEcDorE OF TITIAN.-The anocdote of
tho great Emperor Charles having twice
picked up this great artists pencil and
presented it to him, saying, "To wait on
Titan was service for an emperor" is we'll,
known, but We do not remember TO have
met with tho following: Titan bad painted
the portrait of Charles several times. but
now bcing called to tho court of that prince,
he for the last time painted his portrait just
as il then appeared in the latter part OF his
life; and this picture also much pleased
the renowned Emperor. Certain it is that
the very first portrait Titan drew of him
so struck him with admiration that he would
never after cit to any other, and for every
portrait Titan took of him he gave him a
thousand crowns of gold. Titan in all
painted threo portrait of the Emperor; aud
when he last sat TO him, at the conclusion
Of tho picture, Charles said with emphasis,
"This is the third time l have triumphed
over death"
Year: 1861

Mr. deceased uncle was the most polite
gentleman in the world. He was making
voyage on the Danube; and the boat sunk
all the passengers went to the bottom. My
uncle was just at the point of drowning.
He got his head above water for once. took
off his hat aud said "Ladies and gentlemen
you will please to excuse me ! and down
he went
Year: 1861

THE Garth turns on its axis one degree in
four minutes, carrying everything around
toward the cast thirteen miles a minute.
This being about the velocity of an ordinary
cannon ball, II follows that II q cannon Is
fred, pointing west toward a fort, the ball
simply stopped in its eastward motion, while
the cannon runs away fromjt. and the fort
comes up against the ball with crash.
Year: 1861

A secular contemporary, in an article on
"Preaching and Hearing" has this para
graph: "A lady recently, in giving her views
Of the preaching of minister to whom she
had listened several times, said: i thought
it was the business of the minister to feed
the sheep. This man does not feed us. He
throws only clubs and stones at us and
sends US bleating and hungry home.' Many
one might gather useful hint from this
az to the proper mode Of dealing with his
flock. Harshness, severity, and fault finding
accomplish but little good in the family, in
the Church, or the world"
Year: 1861

M. Taloureau, of Paris, has discovered a
method of hardening paper under the inhu-
ence of hydraulic pressure, by means Of an ad-
mixture Of btumen, so that it may actually
be substituted for iron pipes. Experiments
to test the strength of these pipes have been
conducted under the great clock tower at
the House Of Parliament in London. Two
of the pipes of five inch bore and Il half an


inch thick, were subjected to hydraulic power,
and they are said to have sustained without
breaking or bursting, pressure of22O pounds
to the square inch, which is equivalent to
4O6 feet head of water. The cost of the
pipe is said to be one half that of Iron. The
committee reported that 1.-THE material. while


it possessed all the tenacitv Of iron, with one
half of its specific gravity, had doubled the
strength of stoneware tubes, without, more
over, being liable to breakage as in the case
of other material, which often causes loss
to the contractor of some 20 to 25 per cent
on the supply" Besides the ncalcu'able
utility of this discovery, it surpasses the re-
Gently invented paper bricks, or the paper
cannon lined with copper which the Chinese
are said to have employed for years.
Year: 1861

A JAPANESE SoENE.-Under a porch, and
in an angle by the side of their house, a
man and his wife are enjoying tub of
warm water in the open air. lie is seated
on the rim Of the tub, with his legs in the
water; his wife, a fine buxom young woman,
is busy with bundle Of flax, instead Of a
sponge, rubbing down his back; both are just
as they came into the world, and evidently
as Indifferent to their neighbors as they are
TO them. Nobody looks at them, yet it is
contrary to our idea of propriety, and we do
not like seeing children in the neighborhood,
but so it is. Once u Week.
Year: 1861

CLEANING Gun BARRKLs.-Wa see in the
Scientific American and other papers re-
cipes for cleaning gun barrels. They are
all open 70 the objection, that they involve
the use Of water, thus requiring tina. to
dry the barrels and incnFring the danger
of rust. We give method used By saien-
sifc sportsmen in England with success,
get quantity Of quicksilver which can
Be kept in strong pill box, and when the
barrel is foul place the thumb on the nip
pie, pour the quicksilver in at the mouth,
and then run ii up and down for few
minutes. Turn it back into the box and
the barrel will be perfectly clean. The
mercury forms an amalgam with the lead
and removes it. The lead can be taken
from she mercury by straining.
Year: 1861

Stevens replied that the senale would
not consent to that, and rather than lose
the bill the committee had agreed to abah-
don that clause.


The report was adopted by So against
50 votes,
Year: 1861

NJ" AUAAi mug i
Prince Napoleon BOnaparte and a pOr-
tion Of his suite left fer Washington by the
evening train yesterday, leaving the Prin-
cess and other ladies Of his party at the
New York Hotel.


The Prince will take tour through the
West and return in few weeks.
Year: 1861

6~5~A strong minded woman says that the
members Of their late convention at Worcester
showed little spirit, and sat in their seat like
SO many "dried oranges" Perhaps they had
all been squeezed
Year: 1861

As it would be altogether wrong on
our part to find fault with the mail ar
ran@rlneut4, in this, our first number,
we have concluded to lay this griev-
ance on the table for future considera-
ton, md will therefore not say any
thing about it however, if we could
persuade the Post Muster General to
make this he distributing post office,
North Louisiana would no longer have
any cause Of complaint. Let onr citi-
zens get up petition to this effect and
they will succeed in having things ali
right abont the post office. and do a
good act for the people in this section
OF Louisiana.
Year: 1861

No place on the whole continent,
offers ii better opening to enterprise,
than the city of Shreveport; here,
we could establish a tannerv, which
would then, naturally V he followed by
a shoe factory. \ soap factory, We
Judge, would be Il paying institution.
in our midst. \ candle factory
would prove remunerative to any in
dustrious individual. who would
make business OF it. In fact we
could en,merate hundred items OF
manufacture, which the consumption
and trade of our young city, could
just as well Justify the manufacture OF
ut home, as to send elsewhere to OBJ
tain them. We are positive that
there would be no difficulty found in
disposing of such requisites, and fur
ther, what an immense sight of benc-
fit it wonld be toward the prosperity
of Shreveport.


One of our citizens, we are told, is
SO strongly in favor of Il step of this
sort, that he offers several acres of
ground, gratis, to the individual who
will embark in such an enterprise.
We have 4 good foundry, and if we
mistake not, the proprietor. has had
no occasion to regret the effort made
by him. Let this be an e.rampie.
Year: 1861

A member of the Rifle Company
in our city, was severely injured on
Saturday evening, while engaged in
loading a cannon which was being
fred on the levee. There were 50
many contradictory reports, that ii
was impossible TO ascertain the par
ticuIars. So far as we have heard
the unfortunate man had several fin
gers blown off and one or both of his
arms badly broken by the premature
discharge of the cannon. OF late
such accidents are of common occur.
reu0e, and should be guarded against
Letthis be warning to our inexpe
rienced artillerymen.
Year: 1861

HHILDREN Of any age can now have their pictures
" taken perfect, We have built q Room expressly
for their Groups Of Children also taken in frac
ton Of second, clear weather. Mothers need not
now have the trouble to take them TO Gallery dozsn
times, and at last put up with q caricature, they
will but 60 at once TO


feb1s-U HUGHES, PREMIUM GALLERY