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Year: 1869

A MERRY CHRIsrNAs.-This being Christmas Christmas, and hopes that they may enjoy them selves hugely, but with moderation The MrNEH means to have good time, and will, undoubt ediy, 1T it can manage to take part in all the promising "iay-outsr that will be temptingy spread before it during the next week. Should the Hay outs" fail to Hay 1t outr it will be or hand next New Years morning. juicy with fa turkey, and noisy from indulgence in red-legged chickens, of the male persuasion. Once more we wish our readers a merry Christmas. and recommend them to do just as the poet Tenny son advises, in the following choice little poem Ring out. wild bells. to the wild sky,

 The flying cloud the frosty light;

 The year is dying in the night Ring out wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old. ring in the new

 Ring, happy bells. across the snow;

 The year is going. let him go-- King out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind.

 For those that here we see no more;

 Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause,

 And ancient forms of party strife;

 Ring in the nobler modes of life. With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out the want the care. the sin.

 The faithless coldness of the times:

 Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in.

 Ring out false pride in place and blood,

 The civic islander and the spite

 Ring in the love of truth and right. Ring in the common love of God. Ring out old shapes and foul disease.

 Ring ou. the narrowing lust of gold;

 Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free.

 The larger heart the kindlier hand

 Ring out the darkness of the land Ring in the Chris. tha. is to be.
Year: 1869

I desire respectfully to call the attention of Congress to the inadequate salaries os a number Df the most important officers of the Government In this message l will not enumerate, but will specify only the Justices of the Supreme Court. NO ensnge has been made in their salaries for hf
Year: 1869

have noticed that in German families, family
government is very strict compared with the
theory and practice in America on this subject,
may say extremely rigid. The rules and regu-
lations are but few, but they are enforced on all
occasions and under all circumstances. Un-
questioned submission to paternal authority lies
at the foundation of this government. Children
are taught to entertain the highest respect for
superiors and for age. 1t is beautiful to see the
respectful manner with which they deport them
selves in the presence of their superors and older
persons. They also invariably polite to
strangers. few weeks ago friend and myself
made an excursion on foot into the country, and
surprised at the genuine politeness of the
poor peasant and their children every peasant
and child we met saluteG us in the kindest man
ner possible and readily and pleasantly answered
all other questions. Children are early taught
to be industrious and sef-reliant. They are not
allowed to call servants to do for them things
which they can easily do for themselves. Every
boy is trained for some business or profession,
and the girls are trained to make good house
keepers and good wives. In the best families,
servants very seldom wait on the table-not
when guests are invited. took tea, not long
since, at the house of baroness, with a large
party, and not a servant was to be seen. The
baroness made tea after we were seated at the
table with convenient ard elegant apparatus
prepared for the purpose, and two beautiful





passed around the table and served the guests.
On certain occasion, called on wealthy
family, and was received by the lady of the
house, who told me that her two daughters were
in the kitchen cooking. They were to be mar
red soon, and professional cook had been
employed to come three times week, and give
them lessons in the art of cooking, and to initi-
ate them fully into its mysteries. In five
minutes one of the young ladies came into the
parlor to see me, neatly dressed, and she con-
versed with me in beautiful English thorough
acquantahce with domestic economy is con-
sidered indispensable qualification to young
lady for the married life. In addition to all this
mothers teach their daughters that one of the
chief duties after marriage is to strive to keep
their husbands comfortable and happy. When a
German husband comes to his house, at the
close of the day of toll and anxiety, his wife
ceves him with a smile, arranges his chair,
brings him his sturdy gown and slippers, places
before him refreshments, gives him cigar, and
while he eats and smokes, converses with him in
the most entertaining manner about the events
of the day. What will your lady friends say
about this picture of domestic life in Germany.
Year: 1869

this subject says:


The mining counties do not ask the State to
assume their entire liabilities. What they desire
is that reliet should be afforded them sufficient
to prevent them becoming totally bankrupt.
Even if the State is not legally responsible,
justice to the counties and their creditors, and a
proper regard for the interests OF the community
in general, both promp the extension of aid.
Let the State guarantee the payment of the bonds
issued by q number of the counties to build
roads across the mountains, and nothing further
will he required. Those thoroughfares are of
practical benefit to the entire State-in fact
public necessities. Why should the counties in
which they terminate be forced to pay the entire
costs of their construction? Give the people of
the mining counties " a chance" They pay An
enormous rate of taxation, upon more than the
real valuation of their prosperity, without a
murmur. They are willing, anxious to pay every
farthing they owe, and are striving gallantly to
accomplish that purpose but when, despite ell
their sacrifices they preceive that bankruptcy
is inevitable, they are reluctantly compelled to
apply for relief. Will it be afforded?
Year: 1869

NOTICE TO DELINQUENT TAX-PAY-
~ ERS is hereby given that u list Of all taxes
now in arrears to The Corporation of Alexandria
for the years from 1856 to 1868 inclusive is now
in the Auditors office for examination by the
parties concerned, and for the payment of the
respective amounts due. and will remain there
until the 1st day of March next. All cases IN
which payment shall not bo made on or before
that day will at once be put in the hands of the
Attorney of the Corporation for suit or warrant


r. A. STOUTENBUR RG,


inn 07-et Auditor
Year: 1869

reflect that soundmind and body are The IAost
necessary REQUISITES to promote connubial hap
pness Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage; the
prospc ct hourly dar>ens to the view, the mind
becomes shsdowed with despair and filed with
the melancholy reflection thai the happiness o.
another becomes blighted with your own
Year: 1869

Fort Street opposite Odd Fellows Hall.


Is prepared to execute with promptness all Eork in
his line q business such Watch and Clock repair
ing Manufacturing Jswelry and Engraving. Ism
Year: 1869

Mr. President, in concluding these re-
marks, desire to say that am no volunteer


For several years have carefully avoided
saying anything on this most irritating ques-
ton, being anxious that negotiations should
be LEFT nndisturbed 10 secure settlement,
which could be accepted By deeply injured
nation The submission Of the pending
treaty TO the Judgment Of the seusfe left me
no alternative, Il became my duty to con-
Year: 1869

THOSE WHO DESIRE brilliancy of complexion must purify and enrich the blood, which Helmbold' s Concentrated Extract of Sarsaparilla invariably does. Ask for Helmboids. Take no other.
Year: 1869

WIcKLIFFE, THE AUDIToR-This is from the Nov
Orleans Times of the Goth:


Two pretty heavy blows were inflicted upon Wick
life Yesterday. First, Judge Collins, of the 7th Dis
trict Court decided against the right of Wicklife to
quo 'ea'ranto, and that such WRIT under the act Of
1868, can only be brought by the Attorney General


Secondly the Supreme Court refused the prohibition
applied for by Wickle arrest the Injunction issued
by beaumont.


Judge Taliaferro, who rendered the decision whilst
deciding that no case under the law for prohibition
had been shown, took occasion express the opinion
OF the Supreme Court that the tangled litigation and
unseemy conflicts which had arisen in the progress of
this litigation were very dscredtabe and calculated to
bring the administration of the Law into contempt.


The Court did not undertake to determine, as was
desired and expected, which of the parties or two
courts responsible for this dscreditabe state of
affairs If the Supreme Court do not decide this uues-
ton, how is this confusion to be prevented and these
evils abated
Year: 1869

lNr. Editor-I see in your valuable paper extracts
from circulars of merchants in Liverpool giving their
views of the cotton crop in this country and India
and fearing their mills will not have supply to run
full time If they easily alarmed what will be-
come of them i'll few years when every pound OF
cotton grown in the United States will be manufac
tured at home, which l am satisfied is certain, from
the fact that our labor is rapidly growing worse and will
continue to do So sit did in the West India Islands
We had as well learn from zfe diasuiy is not in
.RhS Cotton, it is save it. Many planters did not
the little they made last year. Scarceya planter
working all of his improved land this year for the
want of labor, which cannot be had at any price Our
planters being mostly out of debt, will seek the most
profitable and safest investment for the proceeds of
their crops Cotton and woolen mills, machine shops,
oundries and railroads will be their fayores We have
all the materials i'll great abundance to insure success
All want is capital. With cotton crop worth two
hundred million Of dollars in gold annually, we can
certainly make in few years crop worth five hun
dred million by manufacturing it, and supplying our
customers with goods instead of the raw material.
Year: 1869

'Indian Jim has been sck,n saws the Humboldt
(Nevada) Register, and imagined his wife was the
cause thereof So jim wished for dissolution Of the
marriage bonds, and applied to Justice Jack to sever
the ties that bound him and his wife together Jack
responded and accomplished the deed most effectuallv
and without much ceremony, by taking the squaw out
some little distance and shooting her and then bnrned
the body The Indians say it is an old established
custom among them, and not disposed to have the
whites interfere" ~ "
Year: 1869

GEN. FORREST ON THE Notwithstanding to let
ter written from Nashville, Tennessee, to the Louis
vile Courier Journal General Forrest declares tha
the negroes behaved during the war in such manner
that he shall always respect them for it, his own ser
wants with him yet and will never leave him ne
groes the best aborers for the South and he pro-
poses repopulate the South with negroes from Africa
According to the correspondent Gen. Forrest con
tnued:


They'd improve after getting here; are the most
initiative creatures in the world and if you put them
i'll squads of ten with experienced leader in each
squad they will soon revive country. I want
Northern men to come in here, and would protect any
man who comes to build up the country with my life
but they won't come; Europeans won't come; then |
say, let's get Africans BY pursuing liberal policy
to them we can benefit them and they US. The pris-
oners taken in there all be turned over
to US and emf CRATE and be freedmen here. had an
interest, continued be, in the Wanderer, and we
brought over four hundred only six per cent. died
They were very fond of grasshoppers and bugs but
tau ;ht them to eat cooked meat, and they were as
good niggers as any I ever had. When prejudice gets
over government will foster this scheme there is
no need of war of races. I want to see the whole
country prosper. It's my country aud don't intend
to give it up long can do anything to build it up
am an American, and from the day I surrendered
have been for the United States.'
Year: 1869

MORE OF THE GIFT ENrERPRIsE-FSshy-The New
Orleans Times says, Gas might have been expected


the% Gift Enterprise Cabinet does not promise to be
very durable. Grant is already dissatisfied with Fishs
Fabian style of transactng business and is carpng
it. No doubt the snapper policy is most in accordance
with the tastes of the American people, and they will


not be sorry when Fish's ministry comes to finish.
Year: 1869

SESs1BLE.-The most sensible thing We have heare
of lady saying lately said by young lady to he
lover, who tight and unusually afectonate: "a
do not object to your being aectionate but please dc
not be afectonate and smell of whisky at the SAME
tme for prize your affection too highly to allow yot
to disgust me with it,
Year: 1869

GAS CoMPANIEs.-The Supreme Court of Ohio has
lately decided that the Gaslight Company of Cinein-
natl has not an exclusive right to the streets for
gas pipes, and that the City Council has right, within
reason to regulate the price of gas This is the first
really practical step taken in this country to remedy
evil common to every city in the Union where gas
iS
Year: 1869

And here we have another one Of them. AS Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho Gen. Grant has
appointed one David Noggle. Does anybody care to
know more with regard to man who can bear such d
name and still lives New Orleans Times
Year: 1869

SHREVEPORT UNIVERSITY Loving the old land as
do and rejoicing we do over every exhibition Of
the life still in it, we, Of course take great pleasure in
any chronicle of Improvement that we think we can
share with readers. At the time that it was pro-
posed to establish college city, had felt
strongly tue want of educational facilities we cordially
gave all the aid and comfort in power. 1t is not
often the case that an enterprise is crowned
with its proper fruits We understand the prepara-
tory department, under charge of Prof. Thatcher
accomplished educator of large experience, has nearly
forty pupils. we are pleased also to learn that the
board are in correspondence with President Burleson
of the Waco University. This gentleman is well known
in Texas, and would be decided acquisition here We
can say with confidence to the people of section
who have sons to educate, proper place is now pro
Yded here, and take the liberty of advising parents
to keep them and their money, at home.
Year: 1869

ToBAcCo REGULATIONS. Washington dispatch
says Commissioner Deano has decided that any dealer
who converts plug tobacco into smoking tobacco
either by cutting or rolling or in any other manner
keeping the same for sale, is thereby constituted
manufacturer under the law, and must pay tax anu
give bonds as tobacco manufacturer
Year: 1869

Orleans Republican:


The amended Judiciary bill provides for nine new
Circuit Judges for the judicial districts at salary of
five thousand dollars year, to be appointed by the
President and confirmed by the Senate. These judges
are to hold the term of court held by the Asso-
cate Justices of the Supreme Court The bill further
provides for additional Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Bench and that any judge of any court of the
United States, who, having held his commission as
such at least ten years. SHALL after having attained the
age of seventy years resign his Office shall thereafter
during the residue OF his natural e receive the same
salary which was by law payable to him.
Year: 1869

"NEw LoUIsIANA."-We are in receipt of a new
monthly bearing the above title, published in New Or
leans, in the interest of immigration. We see moth
ing in it. with the exception of the names of some
men who have lately settled in this State Louisiana
may be new 10 tlem but it is not to us
Year: 1869

IiGH PRTcEs.-White perch sell in our market for
fifty cents apiece. half hungry man could cat half
dozen Of them if he had half money enough to buy
them. Spring chickens, about the size Of humming
Bird sell for sixty cents apiece, feathers thrown ill.,
poor stands poor chance eat either chicken or
fish here
Year: 1869

Nor Sorry TO HEAR 1.-THE editor of the New
York Sun RADICAL admits that any prudent life in
suranee company would have to regard the risk on
the Republican party extra hazardous at the present
time
Year: 1869

STEAMBOAT CoTToN FIELD.-The special
Memphis correspondent of the New Orleans Times,
under date of the 20h says the steamer Marble City,
en- route for Vicksburg, out of the river chan
mel Sunday night into cotton field, near Ashtons
Landing, and is now lying three hundred feet from
the river bank hard aground in two feet water. All
efforts to pull her off have been rutless. The Camp
bell, with barges and necessary rigging, went to her
assistance last night, and will take off her cargo and
try to pull her back into the river As the river is
falling, fears entertained that she may have to be
launched into the river.
Year: 1869

The New PARISH OF GRANr.-Some days since we
published an extract from the New Orleans Republi
can somewhat derogatory to the conduct Of the Cit.
zens Of Grant parish. The following from the New
Orleans Times of the Goth shows the ether side Of the
matter:


letter from the parish of Grant gives very
different version OF occurrence which took place IN
that parish than that which appeared in the Republican


few days ago The writer describes that account as a
sensational aud disreputable fiction" He further
alleges that the difficulty entirely personal and not
political in its character and reflects the Sheriff for
not aiding the agent of the underwriters in the matter
of the losses by the sinking of the steamer Monsoon
Year: 1869

Two hundred Polish refugees in Switzerland recent,
received box filled with earth from the sacred sol
of Poland Two hundred small silken bags were 6ec
with the earth and each of the enthusiastic Poles pu
one of these bags on his heart, pledgng himself to
wear it there until his to his native country
Year: 1869

shortly after twelve O'Clock this morning Michael
Mcclure OF No. lO6 Mott street. had an alteration
with some unknown parties at the above number
and received three severe scalp wounds
Year: 1869

ification and test oath clause. The
voter is to vote a ballot designated,
for the Constitution er against the
Constitution, and is allowed to cast
seperate ballot for or against either
or both of the provisions.
Year: 1869

T..


The deplorable condition Of the postal
of this section OF the State
is Justly subject of complaint in every
quarter. There arc not only not mail
routes and post Offices enough by half,
but the management Of thoseuin opera
ton. is sneh as to make them little better
than pest or nuisance The mail car
riers have ga way" of passing around
offices, without delivering the mail, and
the postmasters are careless III tistrlbut-
ing and sending forward the mail matter
by the proper routes If anything ever
did need recoastructiOn and overhauliag,
it is the management of the mail system
in South Arkansas, perhaps in, the entire
State. ul lJoY 800 Zail s.li a1ig 9D


We ask the mail agent of the State to
do the people good service by giving at
tenton to this matter at once. "afF Ha


q We would have been rejoiced, few
DAYS since at the rumor of a change OF
mail agents for this State, if it had not
been that the change would have beer
only from the present to an old incum
bent of the Office from the frying par
to the fire" We hope President Gran
will give us a change soon--proyided NJ
does not give us back Harrison. The
present officer is utterly worthless ga
zette,
Year: 1869

A MOTHER on the green hills of Yer
mont was holding by the right hand son,
sixteen years old, mad with the love of the
sea. And as he stood by the garden gate
one morning she said: Edward, they
tell me-for never saw the ocean-that
the great temptation of a seaman's life is
drink. Promise me, before you quit your
mothers hand, that you will never drink"
"And," said he, (for he told me the story)
"I gave the promise, and / went the globe
over, Calcutta and the Mediterranean, San
Francisco, and the Cape of Good Hope,
the north pole and the south: saw them
all in forty years, and never saw glass
filed with sparkling liquor that my moth
er s form by the cate did not rise up be-
fore me, and to-day am innocent OF the
taste of liquor"


Was not that sweet evidence of the
power of a single word? Yet that is not
half "For," said he, yesterday there
came into my counting room man OF
forty years"


"'Do you know mes"


"No."


"Well,' said he, Il was once brought
drunk in your presence on shipboard;
you were a passenger; they kicked me
aside; you took me to your berth and
kept me there till had slept off the in
toxication; you then asked if had a
mother. / said had never known word
from her lips. You told me of yours and
the garden gate, and to-day am master
of one of the packets in New York, ard
came to ask you to come and see me. ;"


How far that little candle throws its
beamsi That mothers word in the green
hills of Vermont God be thanked for
the mighty power of single word !-Ez-
Year: 1869

crown. the crown was liable for that
twelve months: and again, the safe could
not be legally sold without authority from
the crown; and his client could not be the
legal buyer, nor, consequently, have any
right, title, or liability in the shares afore-
said. ~


In addition to all this But noi / will
spare the reader the future particulars OF
this involved case Suffice It to say that
it was decided in my favor; but it was
carried to higher court, where l was re-
euired to show cause why the verdict was
not set aside and entered for the plaintiff,
on the ground of the decision being con-
trary to evidence. There it was all gone
over again, with the addition that the
original thieves were produced, one of
them no other than my burglars friend
Toney (and was threatened with an ac-
ton by the maker of the safe for stating
that Toney broke open the "Unimpeacha-
BILE" in five minutes in my Outhousel. Here
the decision went against me. Finally,
the case came before the bench OF Judges,
where majority of one reversed the rul-
ing of the lower court.


Twas therefore at last so far successful
in the issue as to find myself in the Bank
ruptcy Court, on account of the legal ex-
penses my precious trial had accumulated.
The one satisfaction attending this result
was, that must inevitably have gone
there had lost.


The very sight of sale-catalogue is
now sufficient to produce from Mrs. I. a
sniff off about the capacity of three-vol.
ume enoyel.-Chdnabers' Journal
Year: 1869

The range of the human eye may be
Judged of from consideration which gives
us at the same time a good idea OF the
scope of animal structure. Supposing
that an individual of every known species
were TO take its stand between the two
species that were respectively the next
larger and the next smaller than itself, the
smallest known animal at one extremity
of the line, and the largest standing at the
other; and then suppose we were to ask
which creature occupied the middle place,
having as many degrees of size below il as
above, and as many above it as below, that
place would be found to be occupied by
the common house-fy. What o stupen-
dous optical instrument must that be
which, assisted with few brass tubes and
some disks of glass, shall discern a creature
ms much smaller than fy, as q fly is
smaller than an elephant l-LittIs Things
Of Nature