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Year: 1868

The MEN's FAULT.-The State Capital Reporter
says -" The fault of extravaganza and display
is with the young men rather than with the
young women. Nine times out of ten they are
more willing to bear the burden of poverty and
toll, in hope of bright future of prosperity and
happiness through the means of true and iov-
ing matrimonial life" Whereupon the Dramatic
Chronicle thus comments 20 That is true every
word of it. The very men that make fuss
when their wives want new dress, or a new
bonnet, or a trinket of one kind or another-the
very men who are SO amazingly and sternly eco
nomical, when the question is in regard to an
expense to be incurred for the comfort of their
wives or their households those very men spend
more money in cigars, drinks, oysters, etc., than
would be required to dress their wives like
duchesses and fill their homes with everything
that is necessary to made them comfortable and
elegant
Year: 1868

LovrLIsEss.-It is not your neat dress, your
expensive shawl, or your pretty fingers that at
tract the attention of men of sense. They look
beyond these. 1t is the true loveliness of your
nature that wins and continues to retain the af-
fections of the heart. Young ladies sadly miss
it who labor to improve their outward looks,
while they bestow not thought on their minds.
Fools may be won by gew-gaws and fashionable,
never caught by such traps. Let modesty be
your dress. Use pleasant and agreeable Ian
guage, though you may not be courted by fop
and sot, the good and truly great will love to
linger in your steps.
Year: 1868

My Boy DRUNK - Drunk my boy
drunk ~ and the tears started to the mother s
eyes, and she bent her head in unutterable sor-
row. In that moment the vision of useful,
honorable career was destroyed and one of
worthessness, if not absolute dishonor, pre-
sented itself. Well did she know that intem-
perance walks hand in hand with poverty, shame
and death and her mothery heart was pierced
as with sharp-pointed steel. Ah, young man,
II the holy feelings of love for her who bore
you Is not dead within you, shun that which
gives her pain adhere to that which gives her
Joy If she is with you on earth, she does not,
cannot desire to see her son drunkard if she
IS win her Father in heaven, she knows that
your conduct shuts heaven against Won. and bars
you from her society forever.
Year: 1868

LITTLE FRANK was taught that every one was
made out of dust. One day he was watching
the dust in the street as the wind whrled it in
eddies. "What are you thinking of?'' asked
his mother "Oh," said Frank with a serious
face, al thought that the dust looked as though
there was going to be another little boy"
Year: 1868

bank full, but stand when the
Commercial came out. The Arkan-
sas is falling slowly a Little Rock,
with eight feet in the channel from
there out.


ST. LOUIS. = The Democrat Of
Wednesday says:


Weather very variable. Heavy rain
until the afternoon aud through the
previous night, aud clear sky and
bright sunshine in the evening. The
rain was so heavy that for a time
business was entirely suspended at
the wharf 1t is in such weather that
the value Of the modern style wharf
boats is demonstrated, for whatever
freight may arrive is taken out of the
wet and safely housed close by the
steamer it is destined for.
Year: 1868

To the Editor Of the New Orleans Crescent:


The editorials in the Saturday and Monday
evenings Issue of the New Orleans Times rela.
tive to a sale Of State notes by me- for account of
the city, require an explanation.


When ! took charge Of the treasury department
in August LAST, there were about two hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars In State notes and
warrants in the vault; about the same amount
we're in possession of the First National Bank on
pledge. This | redeemed and brought TO the
office. About two hundred and twenty-five thou
sand dollars in State notes, and over one hundred
thousand in bstture notes, were pledged by the
late treasurer TO Messrs. Avegno WilOZ for a
large sum loar edithe city. The conditions of the
pledge were eight per cent per annum interest,
with half per cent. brokerage, with ten days no.
tice by either patty for payment. 1t will thus be
seen that four hundred and fifty thousand dollars
in State notes were under my control, and by
resolution of the Common Council sold by me at
the market rates. More than three-fOurths of the
notes in the treasury were disposed of for legal
tenders at rates less than thirtyone per cent dis
coCut, and the proceeds invested in large city
notes at from twelve to sixteen and quarter per
cent. discount, for the purpose of destroying to
keep straight the account of the small issue of
notes daily brought to the city.


Ore firm in the city, from whom $40, 900 had
beens received on collateral security of SIPS 900
State notes, made the demand for settlement more
than two months ago. The city was not in g
condition TO pay, and the firm, under the pledge
given by Messrs. AvegnO x Willoz, advertised the
notes to be sold at auction by Placide j. Spear.
On the day Of sale proposition Was made to
purchase the notes advertised, and those remain
ing in the vault, amounting to s39,970, at AZ per
cent. discount, with per cent. brokerage. The
sale was made and the debt paid. The notes had
been quoted for a week previous at the rate sold
for and the city losing all control over the notes
by the pledge given, no other course could be
taken. The Times recommends an investigation
of how the State money went out of the treasury.
| fully agree with it, and recommend a further
inquiry Of how the State money ever got in.


S. HOWELL Treasurer.
Year: 1868

TEE PEERLESS COOKING SrovE.-ThOse who use
this extraordinary article Of domestic economy
ard comfort say that it is by far the best they
have ever tried. They claim perfection for it in
every particular. II is asserted that the Peerless
consumes less fuel and cooks more victuals than
spy invention in the stove line in the world. For
baking it is uDapproschable. In these days Of
competition among the innumerable stove inven
tors ii is hard TO arrive at the truth with regard
TO the defects or virtues of this or that patent; ;
but the voices CT those who use the Peerless
stove are, without exception, loud in its praise.


Messrs Pratt & Wentworth are the patentees
Of the Peerless, which is for sale by Campman
Co., sole agents 10 this city, az lis Poydras street.
near Camp. Everybody ought to visit that ex-
tensive establishment and examine the Peerless
stove.
Year: 1868

The Charleston Mercury says Of its
fellow Democrats at the South:
"Not one honest man, South of Ma
son aud Dixon's line, is ashamed of the
lhusket he bore or the sword he drew
in defense of the Confederate flag The
man who says he is ashamed of it, lies.
Let every honest man at the North be
sure of the fact, that the man who says
so wants to swindle money out of some-
body. He is a knave either in the first
or in the last step"


The Mobile Register improves the
above text as follows:


"a good many of our Southern peo-
pie are of the opinion that it is bad
policy for late Confederates, so pro.
nOunced and noted as Gems Wade
Hampton, Admiral Semmes and others,
to take prominent part in the present
campaign, for the reason that Radical
thieves will raise the mad-dog cry Of
'Rebel,' and so iDjure the cauSe of con-
stitutional freedom The time for that
style of caution has passed; and the
Rebel cry, like The entire Caitse of the
Radicals, is played out. With the
meeting and close Of the great National
Convention in Tammany Hall, July4,
we have entered upon new phase Of
our political career. On the alter of
the new Tammany, dedicated to con-
stitutiohal liberty, was laid, by the
unanimous consent of representatives.
from every State and Congressional
District in the United States, every
feeling and prejudice that grew out of
the late war, as a sacrifice to great
and common cause; and there the
lovers of liberty from both of the late
belligerent sides clasped hands and
recorded vows of fraternity and swore
to be comrades, shoulder to shoulder
in the second war for the independence
of the States and the freedom of the
people.


No men received more hospitable
and marked welcome in the Conven-
ton, in the city, and in the North, than
Gems. Hampton and Forrest; and this
not only from a genuine admiration of
the heroic characters of these great
cavalry officers, but in order to signal
ize and keep the trtce that had been
made between the friends of liberty in
the North and in the South. This act
broke the spell of a doubtful prudence
in policy. And now, so far from adj
yising these gentlemen, including Adj
niral Semmes, not to appear in public
as advocates Of seymour and Blair, if
We had our way, we would put them
in the field of campaign in the North,
and let them speak, and canvass, and
utter the boldest truths that they feel,
from every stump in the North and
West. The period for sparring has
gone past. We must gloves off now,
and with bare knuckles-ay, with mailed
hands-we must up and at the enemies
of our liberty"


We heartily second the proposition,
and propose that General Forrest and
Admiral Semmes should together stump
the North for their cause and candi-
date. Forrest might demonstrate the
Democratic love of the Blacks, when
they are in their proper place; and
Semmes, having already shed much
light on the decline of foreign COM
merce and navigation, might with con-
fdence be expected to shed still more
Bring them on!
Year: 1868

Gen. Negro Butcher Forrest has been
attending Peace Pow Wow ofrebel
officers at Memphis. He feels called
upon to make a speech in order that he
may tell the American people what he
will do. After deprecatiDg the passage
of the Militia law by the State leglSla-
ture, Forrest says:


"Troops would be called out. He
was confident, too, that they would be
backed by the Federal forces. Presi-
dent Johnson, Notwithstanding all he
and others had done to crafty his pride
in the National Convention, had gone
back on the Democracy. He did not
look for any help from him, but it mat
tered not how many were arrayed
against him and his old comrades. He
liked peace, but if any of them were
shot down, as he expected they would
be, he could toOt his horn. He knew that
his old troops would answer as they
had always done. He bade them arm
themselves and be ready. They were
already drilled and needed no drilling
If the fight opened, it would not be
troops in line Of battle confronting each
other, but citizen against citizen. He
should be in farOr Of giring no quarter"


Giving no quarter brings to mind
"reminiscences that it would be as well
as not to recall


We have always regarded it as a dis
grace to the United States Govern
ment that Forrest was not shot or hung.
If we had stated at the time Of the Fort
Pillow massacre that Forrest would in
four years be leading member of a
National Convention to nominate a
Democratic candidate for President OF
the United States, the statement would
have been denounced by that party as
an atrocious libel But such is fact and
the Democracy glory in the fact. He
it is now that now threatens to give
the liberty-loving, Union-loving pat
riots of Tennessee, 'no quarter" i
the Blair and Forrest Democracy are
triumphant, loyalists the land over vii
receive no quarter.
Year: 1868

Adown the SLOWLY creeping years.
Well laden with their hopes and fears,


gaze long and weary way,
And see myself approach the time
When like all things past their prime,


And slowly tending TO decay.
/ note how surely fades away
The beauty from this house of clny


mark full we'll the eyeoight dim,
The tUtterlng step, the withering cheek,
The falterng hands, now all too weak


To do their bit of work for Him.
/ see the soul shrunk, grown with years
Too weak for joy, too dull for tearsi


The butterfly, turned chrysalis,
In some small corner closely curled,
Forgetting there the noisy world


Hath scarcely less of life than this,
And then In that great strait, see
Gods messenger come down to me.


A child leaps lightly to my breast
little darling" fresh from bliss,
And on these lips, unused to kiss,


As once of old are kisses prest.
So close and warm that loving grasp,
so tight around my neck the clasp,


Once more with Joy the dull heart thrills
And to the lin and faded eyes
The sunny paths of youth arise,


A brimming tide the desert fills.
And at that touch the bonds give way,
The pent soul bursts its lettering clay


Upsprings from dust and darkness here,
It's uuickened powers with life expand,
And, fresh and young, they hand in hand


Mid boundlsss worlds their course may steer.
Year: 1868

To 1R1sHMEN The last number of
the New York Citizen e'Miles o.
Reiley's paper,) comes to us in deep
mourning for its lamented proprietor
and contains the following suggestive
paragraph;


PememJer-Irishman remember that
when the noblest representative of your
race lay dead in the house Of his strick-
en- family, Horace Greeley strOve to
secure the emoluments of the vacant
office which he held, to bis widow and
orphan children. Remember that
every Republican journal in this city
endorsed the proposal, and that the
only sheet which opposed it was the
World
Year: 1868

AT JACoB MooNEY's.-The sudden cold
weather has caused an unusual waking up in the
clothing trade and none of our dealers have been
more favored by it than our friend Jacob Moo
ney. Yet if people generally knew how very
superior his stock is, and how low he is selling
goods, we think Mr. Mooney would have not
only an equa' share, but quite the run of the
trade, About all his winter goods were bought
new within the last two months, aad are the
very tip of the fashion. Go to Moneys.
Year: 1868



 BEGINNING THE WoRLD.--Many an unwise parent labors hard and lives sparingly for lilo, for the purpose of leaving enough 10 give start in the world, as it is called Setting a young man afioat with money left him by his relatives, is like tying bladders under the arms of one that cannot swim ten chances to one hc will lose his bladders and go to the bottom. Teach him to swim and he will never need the blad- ders. Give your child sound educa- ton, and you have done enough for him. See to it that his morals are pure and his mind cultivated, and his whole nature made subserviont to the laws which govern men, and you have given him what will be of more value than the wealth of the Indies. To Do thrown upon one's resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune, for our faculties then undergo develops ment, and display an energy of which they are previously unperceptible.--- Dr. Arnold.
Year: 1868

II may now be regarded as certain that the
Eastern complication will, for the present, not
lead to war. The Gar Of Russia, supported by
the King of Prussia, has proposed to the other
Great Powers the holding of a European Con-
ference for n pacific solution of the intricate
question: and the proposition is said 10 have
been received with general favor, and to be
sure Of execution. The frequent meeting of
European Conferences for settling difficult inter-
national questions Of this kind is one of the
most hopeful features OF tho recent
history of Europe. They have more
tnan once ayerted bloody wars, and are
creating general disposition, before rushing
to war, to make the utmost efforts for peace
full compromise. With regard to the Turkish
question European Conference is likely to
recommend to the Turks new concessions in
favor of the Christians. A redress of all, or
even of the principal grievances of the Chris
tan subjects of the Porte, is out of the ques
ton, as it would involve n dissolution of the
Turkish Empire, to which for the present
France and Austria would refuse to give their
consent. The Conference, therefore, while it is
likely to effect pOstpOnement of hOstilities,
cannot be expected to find an efficient remedy
for the decline Of the Turkish rule.
Year: 1868

The Directors Of the New-York Central Rail
road Company recently made scrip dividend
Of eighfy per cent out Of the alleged earnings
or profits of the last few years. Plesuming
this fair aud legitimate, we respectfully ask II
there be not a considerable Income Tax due
thereon to the Federal Treasury If the
earnings or profits Of tho Road had all been
divided annually, and new stock (or scrip
issued to represent the increased value OF the
property, something handsome must have ac-
crued thercfrom to the Treasury. VIII the
Supervisor of Internal Revenue for this dis
trict be good enough to inquire into tie mat
tcr2 We want nothing but what is just and
right
Year: 1868




If the meeting Of the American Geographical
and Statistical Society, last night, to consider
the Indian troubles, had gone beyond an ar
Taignment of the army and the Government
for getting us into the war. and had shown us
how to get out, without entering again the old
vicious circle of treaties, annuites, pres
ents. and promises, it would have accom-
plshed more valuable service. The
present Indian question seems to be simple
one. Shall we compel peace, as we have never
done before, or shall We buy peace as We have
been doing hitherto, with Indifferent results ?
Col. WynkOop told rs the whites were TO
blame for the late outbreaks, and in the
main we believe him. Bishop Whipplc
wrote that the vengeance of the
army has lately fallen on peaceful heads, and
we are afraid that his statement is partially
true. Gen. CullOm and Mr.. Cooper gave i'll
stances Of previous injustice to the Indians
which cannot be denied, and must always be
deplOrcd. But they offer no remedy, save one
that we have been trying to little purpose
Cor fifty years. Is it not better now, that
having allowed the army to begin an effort to
manage the matter, VIC should ut least give it
chance to show what it can do, before con-
demning it out of hand
Year: 1868

should have no healthy adults. WitlOut these
there could be no production. Without pro
duetion there could be no political economist
so that when he argues against the toy-shops
he is simply arguing himself out Of existence.
And If this be not reduction to absuTdty,
we should like to be informed what would be.
We might add something about the great
number of people who i've by making and
selling hobby-horscs and dolls, but we do not
thuk it would be necessary. This VIII be
dismal world indeed when all the useless things
have lost their use. Christmas would be lar
from merry, and not very far from mourniul,
if in the bestOwal of gifts we should
leave altogether ont Of account the
young taste and the budding fancy. For Santa
Claus to come all the way from the Lord
knows where merely to bring to Master Tom
the English Grammar of Lindley Murray or to
Miss Alice copy of Watts on the Mind,
would be loves labor lost with n vengeance
These stern necessities of pupilage will be
furnished as a matter OF course by parents or
guardians. Let the boy have his bat and ball.
and the girl her baby-house Let childhood
80 mcirily masking and dancing to the blithe
music of its own yoicc-it is only for little
whilc!-and q shadow cast over its harmless
carnival is no better than the embezzlements
and defalcatons with which children of larger
growth divert the tedium of existence
Year: 1868

We are not now prepared to say that the
defense OF the Postnaster-G General to the charge
OF unnecessary expense in the transportation of
mails between the temini of the Pacific Rail-
ROAD Is an entire vindieatiOn. But we hold it
ciear that the initial trouble lay in the action
Oh Congress, in yielding to tho importunate
demands VI Territorial delegates that tlle mail
Year: 1868

bags should he open for all manner OF bulky
packaecs We have had an unwisc habit OIL
according these delegates whatever they asked (;
that must be corrected before any rigid system
of economy can be enforced.
Year: 1868

During this time be fell in love with
niece Of Senator Morgan, of New York
but did not marry her, for reasons not
pertinent to this article. But about the
end Of the year he did marry a young
lady of Broadhead, Wisconsin, a Miss
Gerta Everett, who was a music pupil Of
his when he was a Miss Ellen Burnham,
over three years previous to the marri-
age. This second marriage was two
years ago. Soon after this marriage
Edgar Burnham and wife removed to
Waterloo, Iowa, where they now reside,
or did not long since.


The former girl IN now a man, the
former wife is now husband the for
mer mother is now father, the former
young lady teacher of young lady is
now that young lady's husband Truth
is, indeed, stranger than fiction, and the
above simple statement of facts borders
90 upon the marvellous we could not be-
lieve il did We not personally know
nearly all the parties.


Any one can be convinced, by writing
to the parties in either Of the places we
have named, of the full and entire truth
of this most wonderful transformation
which puzzles not only the medical but
the entire scientific world, and which
fact appears now for the first time in
print, though the particulars have long
been known to US and to many other
Newspaper men and prominent citizens
of this State, as to nearly all the citizens
of Broadhead, where the parties so long
Crosse Dem.
Year: 1868

We would say to our Democratic
friends; close up your ranks for the com.
! ing campaign. Let there be thorough


organization effected in every school dis


trict. See that no stragglers are left


behind. Do not allow the enemy to ad-


vance, but compel them to continue


their retrograde movement begun at the


last elections. To do this, see that everv


man who Is halting between two opi6-


ions is supplied with the proper ammu-


nitlOn-that is a good Democratic news
paper. If you cannot get him to paw
for journal. ask him to read one. which
you must furnish gratuitouslY. A few
dollars spent that way in each school dis
triet by the Democracy will produce a
bOuntiiul result. The people of this
county and district must be kept arous-
ed to a sense of the condition of the
country. The truth must be spread be-
fore the masses Of the people, and in no
other way can it be done but by freside
reading. The political reaction that has
taken place must be kept up by expos
ing the corruption of the present Radi-
cal party leaders, who love darkness
rather than light. The skies Of the DO
itieal horizon, although bright, are very
dark, and 1t behOOves every lover Of right
to be a sentinel on watchtoWer Of iber.
ty. The enemies of constitutional gov
srnment are using every means, no mat
ter how arbitrary, to hold the reins of
government, for the purpose of establish
ing an aristOcratio or military power
But with a thorough organization of the
Democracy, and by keeping the camp
hres burning, the enemy will be routed
in November, 1868. Then let US throw
our banners to the breeze, and insoribe
thereon: "This is a white mans gov
ernment, made by white men and their
POsterity. No special privileges for any,
equal taxation for all.