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Year: 1859

1t is at times necessary to censure and
punish. But very much may be done by
encouraging children when they do we'll
Be. therefore more careful to express your
of good conduct than your
disapprobation Of bad. Nothing can be
more dlscouraging to child than spirit
of lncessant fault finding on the part OF
its parent; and hardly anything can exert
more Influence upon the dispositions of
both parent and child. There are two
great motives influencing human actions
hope and fear. Both of these are at
times necessary. But who would not
prefer to have her child Influenced to good
conduct by desire of pleasing, rather
than by the fear of offending? If mother
never expresses her qualification when
her children do well, and is always cen.
suring them when she sees anything amiss
they are discouraged and unhappy Theil
dispositions become hardened and soured
by this, ceaseless fretting; and at las


fading that whether they do well or i'll
they are equally found fault with, they re


linquish all efforts to please, and become
needless of reproaches. -e',.
Year: 1859

Jones last night made her second seasons first ap
pearance before the New Orleans public. As she |
trpped forth upon the STAGE in her pretty character
of Blanche, the joyous village maiden, deeked off for
Queen of May the audience for time appeared to |
forget both the play and the character she was in
and to recognize only Avona Jones, the growing in
carnation of beauty and dramatic genius. For some
time the enthusiasm of the audience kept her bowling
and gathering up flowers, before permitting her to
relapse into Blanche


She appeared to have increased in both beauty and
stamina since her last years visit; and the only
thing that marred her performance in the least was
cold which gave her melodious womanly voice lit
tie too much hoarseness and then. In her action
she was vigorous, spirited and effective, and led cap
tive the feelings of her audience from first last. We
might criticise the performance, Qor we noted it
closely) as well the unqualified praise bestowed by
the audience but we will not take the trouble We
might show with the hypercritics, that Miss Jones
could never act Meg Me,yites or Lady Macbeth with
Miss Cushman, to her life thus proving that it
is her youth and beauty, and not her acting, which
captiyates her audiences We might even agree with
the hypocritics that because she has not been star
for the last fifteen or twenty years. she is hardly yet
worth looking at. We have yet in our efforts
to be critical overshot the mark far as to be by.
percritica or hypocritca have any fear Of ever
so doing.


Our reason for declining to point out what we
might consider amenable to criticism in Avonia
Jones' acting, is just this She is young and she is
pretty; we are human, and not ashamed of paying
to beauty the homage which it has ever commanded,
aud ever will command, in all parts of the world, and


in all situations in life. An actress, we hold, has as
good right to be young and pretty as any other
woman and il pretty woman, choosing to be an
actress should discover any degree Of acting talent
must she be eproached because her personal charms
helps her along Miss Jones has been but short time
upon the stage. In that short time she has ascende6
the scale Of dramatic excellence with more rapii
What she lacks now she will achieve in good time


She has improved SO rapidly that she rather deserve


praise for what she is than censure or criticism 70


what she is not. Therefore, we will not amaze ou


readers with DER many "words of learned length AM


laundering sonnd," to prove how much more W


know about acting than those who follow acting TO


living, Or attempt to quench in inky mist singh


ray Of any star in its rise to the dramatic zenith


At the close of the play last night, Miss Jones wa
complimented as at the beginning. Mr.. Pope1
armand was given with that gentlemans usual abil
ity, and to the satisfaction of the audience. Hind


Hamblin, and Miss Denham likewise succeeded salts
factorily in their respective parts. -.--


Tonight Miss Jones appears as Lucy Ashton il
. I" The Bride of Lammermoor character in whill
she was very effective last year. Mr.. Pope is to
8 the Rarens,cood
Year: 1859

n 4 Z d.
Eds. Crescent.-Gents In your article this morn
ing headed Wreck of the Susan Return of the Fbuers
Nobie you forget mention in your the
duct the American Captain miserable wretch said bear
Of Goodspeed tha said Goodpeed though Ame
by BIRTH commands British vessel sailing under British
coors This may for his enmy wrecked busters
His Government, whichever may be, may reward such
tion.
The vessel is the 'Kate trading between this port and
Honduras. refer you to the Price Current. Yours,


SAY.MoRE.
Perhaps we shall have considerable to say on this
subject before we exhaust it. We don't often let go
before we get through The information commune
Gated may prove valuable hereafter. We wished the
Susan and her crew "goodspeed" on their voyage
We have such wishes to utter in behalf of Captain
Goodspeed We trust he may yet receive his de
serts, and have no doubt he will in due and proper
season.
Year: 1859

RgY~ A female correspondent of the Louis
vile Democrat narrates the following adj
venture of a medical friend of hers:


He was called upon to visit patient, in
part Of the country where the log hnts Of
the settlers were many weary miles apart,
and rumor said it was infested with band
of outlaws. Having administered the last
sad offices to his patient, he was compelled
to return to Others, although the hour was
g o nights black arch the keystone" and
wind blew as % twad blown its last" The
rattling showers rose on the blast, the speedy
CLEANS the darkness swallowed, loud, deep
and long the thunder beloved Although
a very intripid man, his mind would revert
to the awful deeds that had been committed,
when his horse reared and plunged, and he
felt some one tiercely seize his bride. How
quickly his mind flew to the loved ones at
home their grief and CONSERVATION at find
ing his mangled corpse; or thessequally hor-
ribie one to him of giving up his horse to
outlaws, and having to trudge through the
mre. He thrust his hand in his pocket
with the intention Of making compromise
TO give up all, save himself and horse
when there arose to his astonished ears a
request-not for his purse or his life--but d
"chew oftobacco = The request came from
an idiot boy who had such an inordinate
appetite for it that it injured his.health, and
his friends had deprived him of it; but such
was his longing, that he had escaped their
vigilance and wandered in search of it,
Never was there tobacco SO cheerfully
given" quoth my friend "aud tried the
! mettle of my horse from thence home" He
vouches for the truth of this, and gives it as
an excuse for his great use of the weed, that
it treminds him of his escape from the rob-
bers.
Year: 1859

Tell them that when every remedy has failed when
they have been doctored to death with Mercurv
Sarsaparhla and other popular dclusious when from
whatever cause, they become lank lanrud and aHino
to try most blessed Herbal Connection, try
Year: 1859

Is Chicago, few days ago, man named
Sehiiferman, an employee in a brewery, was
sent down into vat TO clear it out. which
he had nearly done, when another workman.
who had received an order to draw some hot
beer that was in process of cooling, into one
of the watts, by mistake turned the scalding
torrent in upon his conrade, burning him in
such manner that he died few hours after
wards.
Year: 1859

CARD.-It is a well known fact among medl-
cal men, that there has long been wanted good and
reliable preparation Of sARSAPARILLA, as nearly
all that are manufactured in the East CONTAIN SPIRITS
and some Of them MERCURY, although protesting
not to do soconsequenty, for all cutaneous Diseases
etc. they are injurious instead of beneficial. Now in
the preparation offer to the public willing
To show the receipt to any matter whO--DoC-
TOR OR NO DooroR-as every has right to know
what he is taking:
Year: 1859

~" viii the Cabinet break up? 1t is no
secret now that the President desires to in
terpolate his advocacy of specific duties into
the Treasury Report; that Cobb absolutely
refused to permit anything ofthe kind, and
that Buchanan swore the big oath that it
should be done or that Cobb should 90 out.
The result is that the President and his Sec
retary stand looking each other in the eyes
like a couple of game cocks who have pecked
away at one another until both are out of
wind and are waiting to see which Of them
is to make the next Exchange


EY" A celebrated wit was asked why did
he not marry certain young lady to whom
he was much attached "a know no reason"
replied he, "except the regard We have for
one another"
Year: 1859

interest in New Orleans Her charities are broad,
her public buildings are large and mposing--and
her warehouses are immense! Upon the same
scale must anything be projected to be successful
Our ideas are Of the largest kind, and ability
commensurate with them, if we only knew it.


Thus we claim that the Southern Pacific Railroad
is such an enterprise is calculated to enlist the
interest and support of the citizens of New Or
leans, if they will but reflect upon its magnitude
and its Importance to our city. Its direct connec-
ton with New Orleans can be seen in the naviga-
ton of Red River and the extension of the Ope-
lousas Railroad. 1t will become in time but
another Mississippi river, as it were flowing down
from the Rocky Mountains, swollen in its course by
numerous tributaries bearing upon its current of
trains the treasures of empires, to be poured into
the lap of New Orleans and New Orleans will
truly be the giant city of commerce when she shall
reach North and Northwest with her great river and
great Northern Railroad, and South and Southwest
with her Tehuantepec route and her great Southern
Pacific Railroad. These mighty arms of hers,
when they shall have grown to their destined pro-
portions, will bear to her bosom the wealth of dis
tant and near climes, and make her the grandest
and most commanding social, political and CONNER.
cial center of the world.
Year: 1859

Those who regard the superiority of Iron
over Rope fastening for Cotton in of fire. are requested
examine bale that passed through the fire on the LeSee Oct
90 and lay FORTY HOURS in the soudering remains Of 10
bales of Cotton nearly all of which consumed
There only bales in Iron both of them saved with
loss Of LESS THAN TEN PER CENT.


The bale is to be at No. % COMMERCIAL PLACE
where orders will be promptly filled for any number of the
= F. BELCHER,


MS 2pf Agent Of "FASSMAN'S IRON TIE"
Year: 1859

To a young man from home, friendless
and forlorn, in great city, the hours of
peril are those between sunset and bedtime
for the moon and stars see more evil in a
single hour than the sun in his whole day s
circuit. The poets visions of evening are
all compact of tender and soothing images.
1t brings the wanderer to his home, the
child to its mothers arms, the OK to his
stall, and the weary laborer to his rest. But
to the gentle hearted youth, who is thrown
upon the rocks of a pitiless city, and stands
homeless amid thousand homes," the
approach of evening brings with it an ach-
ing sense of loneliness and desolation, which
comes down on the spirit like darkness upon
the earth. In this mood his best impulses
become snare to him, and he is led astray,
because he is social, affectionate, sympathet-
ic, and warm hearted. II there be young
man, thus circumstanced, within the sound
of my voice, let me say to him that books
are the friends of the friendess, and that a
library is the home of the homeless. A taste
for reading will always carry you to converse
with men who will instruct you by their
wisdom, and charm you by their wit, who
will soothe you when fretted, refresh you
when weary, counsel you when perplexed,
and sympathize with you at all times. Evil
spirits in the middle ages were exercised
and driven away by bell, book and candle /;
you want but two of these agents, the book
and the candle.-G. S. Billiard.
Year: 1859

Mother watch the little feet


Climbing on the garden wall
Bounding through the busy street,
Ranging cellar, shed and hall.
Never count the moments lost,


Never mind the time it costs
Little feet will go astray,


Guide them, mother, while you may.
Mother! watch the little hand


Picking berries by the way.
Making houses in the sand,


Tossing up the fragrant hay.
Never dare the question ask,


Why to me this weary task
These same little hands may prove
Messengers of light and love.
Mother watch the little tongue,


Prattling eloquent and wild
What is said. and what is sung,


BY the happy. joyous child.
Catch the word, while yet unsp0ken,
Stop the VOW before it's. broken:
This same tongue may yet proclaim
Blessings in Saviour's name.
Mother watch the little heart


Beating soft and warm for you;
Wholesome lessons now impart,
Keep, oh keep, that young heart true.
Extrlcating every weed,


Sowing good and precious seed.
Harvest rich you then may see,
Rlpening for eternity.
Year: 1859

A correspondent of contemporary thus
writes:


Some months ago l was seeking a second
class carriage at the Shoreditch terminus.
A pretty young lady attracted my notice by
politely informing me that there was room
in her compartment, politely pushing open
the door at the time. AS soon as 1 was
seated opposite to her, she pulled too the
door, as much as to say there were enough.
We started, I very ungallantly becoming
engrossed in my newspaper, she silent having
no one in the carriage but myself to speak
to. felt the carriage very narrow, and
feared I was crowding her, and 1 moved
back as far as 1 could. In few moments 1
still felt her dress against me, and soon was
really crowded, being pressed by her. Now,
confess with shame that, being young
man, felt little vanity at her attentions,
and l yielded to temptation so far as not
again to move from her. In half an hour a
gentleman got in, which from the lady s
face, was not an agreeable thing; she looked
vexed. However, our silly conduct proceed.
ed, she throughout taking the lead. At
length the gentleman observed us, and my
companion, blushing crimson at being
discovered, very wickedly drew herself away
from me, and flying to the opposite side said
[ had insulted her. When she found, more
over, that she was known to the third corner,
she became very indignant and screamed for
the train to stop-that she had been most
grievously assaulted, sc. I cannot tell you
sir, my confusion, l durst not charge her
with being the first to commence
cowardly it would have looked land upon
reaching the terminus, her brother was
informed-not by the lady, but by the gen.
tleman-how UNANIMOUSLY had insulted her.
He flew at me like a tiger, thinking that l
had really ruined his sister he smashed my
new hat over my eyes, and being much bigger
than myself, and assisted by the other pas
senger, gave me such an awful punishment
that shall never forget it. They were then
going to give me into custody; but upon
my appealing to her, she said that she would
have gladly given me into the charge of the
police, but was too bashful to appear in a
court OF justice to prosecute; and got off.
London Times.
Year: 1859

Thou SHALT NEvERDIE. Neither can
you reader. You may indulge in skepti-
cism, as to the Divine authority of the
Christian Scriptures, and reject that eter-
nal salvation which they bring to light,
but you cannot thus get rid of the idea OF
your immortality. 1t is planted deep in
Your moral nature There it is written
on your living heart The words hame
out, when you look within, | CAN NEVER
DIE. Whence came it, if there be no
reality answering oft? Is the strongest
wish Of our nature based upon nothing
End the child, or the savage, who ever
thought Of there being any termination to
his existence. Is our Creator, in implant-
ing an aspiration which gives its highest
nobility to our nature, mocking us with u
chimera? o, no.


"'Tis Immortality deciphers man,


And opens all the mysteries ofhis make,


Without it half his instincts are riddle;


Without it all his virtues are dream


What an elaborate arrangement for q
most Insignificant end we should have, if
we could beieve that God made the world,
and all things in it, for man, and then
made man for nothing Are all the
analogieS of nature violated in his case ?
Shall all other living organisms, vegetable
and animal, develope all the powers, and
fill up all the capacities, of which they
are capable, before they pass out of being,
aud he be the only exception, by being
prematurely arrested, or cut off in an un-
finished state If we had tree or q
bush IN our garden, covered with buds
that never opened, or with blossoms that
were never succeeded by seed or fruit, we
should pronounce it worthless and remove
1t or If we permitted it to cumber the
ground, it would be merely as a curious
specimen of freak of nature. If death
be the end of man, then freak becomes
the law in his case, the fixed law Of his
entire race. Such, in brief, are the nature
and amount of the argument, from the
light of reason, for immortality.-N T.
OJScrrcr.
Year: 1859

A bachelor editor out West, who had
received from the fair hand of bride, a
piece Of elegant wedding cake to dream
on, thus gives the result of his experience


=" We put it under the head of our pill
low, and shut our eyes sweetly as an in
tant blessed with an easy conscience, and
soon snored prodigiously. The god Of
dreams gently touched US, and presently,
in fancy, We were married. Never was a
little editor 50 happy. 1t was my love,
: dearest, sweetest ringing in our ears
every moment. Oh, that the dream had
broken off here But no some evil gen
ius put it in the head Of our ducky to
have pudding for dinner, just to please
her lord


In hungry dream we sat down to din
ner Well, the pudding moment arrived,
and huge slice obscured from sight the
plate before Us.
Year: 1859

A DRUNKEN. man came near perishipg
between this city and Hickory Grove, last
Friday night. He had fallen down in the road
and would have been run over by team which
was passing, had not the horses got Frightened
and shed out Of the road He was insensi.
bic from the cold, but by careful nursing will
probably rcover
Year: 1859

! THE LATE ELECTIONs.-Th tele-
graph which always seems to be in the hands
or under the control Of the Opposition, fur
nishes US with such meager returns from New
York, that, as yet, the result in that state 10
not certainly known. But enough las been
received TO show that If the Democratic state
ticket has no. been elected, the Republicans
have suffered most wofully in the fight. and had
| their former tremendous majorities there cut
down to . mere nc thing. Fremont carried the
state three years ago by 10000 Republican
majority, and Gov. Morgan was elected by
nearly the came majority year or % ago over
| Amasa j. Parker. And now if their Gazing
candidate Lea orth. the Republican nom-
inee for Secretary Of State elected at all, hs is
barely elected BY from t.co 10 three hundred.-
This s considerable of drop. No wonder the
Republican organs keep rather shady about
the New York election. They are remarkably
silent about the great falling off at the late
election in their rnajorities


As for this state, which they claim as being
so strong Republican state. each succeeding
year their inajorities become simmer and slim
mer. Since 1884 the Democracy have fought
them gallant fight in Iowa.


Under q series of defeats for the last five
wears the Democracy of Iowa have kept their
party together, have rallied around them lead
ers, and each successive election have poiled an
increased vote. The party have no cause for
dependency nor despair. In the recent cleo
tion, they did nobly. We have completely
revolutonzsd the northern part Of the State,
and changed Clayton, Delaware, Winneshiek
and Bremen counties We have gained largely
in the Legislature and in the county officers all
over the State. Fremont carried Iowa three
years ago by from 5000 to 10000 majority.
Now the Republican State ticket has not more
than $500, and has fallen IF nearly 500 from the
majority it had in the State election one year
ago. This certainly does not look as if the
Republican party was making very large and
rapid gains.


The Democracy have no cause to despair
On the contrary, we have every reason to hope
for success We are united; we are organized;
we have kept our party not only together. but
have gained on the enemy each succeeding
year f,r the last four or five. 1t only requires
3 change Of 800 voters to give Us the State
Twenty eight hundred majority in vote OF an
hundred thous nd in II strong Republican State
is rather slim.
Year: 1859

has won for itself such a renown for the cure of
every variety Of Throat and Lung Complaint. that
Il 10 entirely unnecessary for us to recount the
evidence Of its virtues. wherever it has been eln-
ployed. As ii has long been in constant use
throughout this section, we need not do more than
the people its quality IN kept up to the best
It ever has been, and that it may be relied on to
do for their relief all it has ever been found 10 do
Year: 1859

Tell them that when every remedy has failed when
lhey nave been doctored near to death with Mercury
Sarsaparila and other popular delusions when from
whatever cause, they become lank langud and ailing
to try most blessed Herbal Concoction, try
Year: 1859

the South canaot come ~ q common ground OF
the slavery qu. s'icn, the soone. We know it .ih0
better. The Democracy of the Moth bold. e
ieast, that the people Of territory have the
same right to legislate in respect to slavery, as
to all other property and that, practically, is
results iu this If they want slavery, they vii.
have it; and if they do not want il, it shall no.
be forced upon them by an act Of Congress-
Tie Senator from Mississippi says that tha.
doctrine is right, Unless We pass an act of
Congress compelling the people 0fa territory
to have slavery whether they want il or not
The point he wishes 10 arrive at, is whether We
are for or against Congressional Intervention.
II you repudiate tie doctrine of noninterven-
ton, and form slave code BY act Of Congress
when the people of a territory refuse il, yUu
must step off the Democratic platform. We
viii let you depart in peace, as you no longer
belong to rs /; you are no longer of us wlieu
you adopt the principle Of Congre-sioal inter.
v,ntion in violation Of the Democratic creed.
stand here defending the great principle Of
nonintery By Congress, and selfgcrern-
is the Democratic creed. The Northern Dem.
ocracy have tn understand it. No Democratic
State in the North ever would have voted for
Mr. Buchanan but for that fact that he was un


derstood 10 occupy that position. / tell you,
gent lemen OF the South, in all candor, / do not


believe a Democratic candidate can carry any
ono Democratic State of the North on the plat


form that it is the duty of federal governments


t" force the people of a territory to have slave


ry when they do not want it. But, if the true
principles of State rights and popular sove,


reigny be maintained and carried out in goes.
faith; az set forth in the Nebraska bill, AM!


understood by the people in 1856, a glorious
future awaits the Democracy.


Ii We cannot stand together upon that prin .
! cipie there 10 no nse Of any angry excitement


10 Use ofany violent controversy no necessity
| for elimination or reerimination. The Senator


from Mississippi has stated his position CLEARLY


and in spris of kindness. trust have met
! him with equal Kindness and frankness. / am


sorry to have been under the necessity Of occu.
pying the time of the Senate in the discussion


of this question ut this late period of the ses-
sion but am sure the Senate will do me the
justice to say that could not have been silent
after the speech of my friend from Mississippi


without defending the position which WAS 80


severely and so ably assailed by him. trust
| that shall no; be under tie necessity of tres


passing longer upon the time Of the Senate upon
! these collateral questions.