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Year: 1866

New ORLEANS, July 18th, 1866


The absorbing topic of conversation
in this city now, IS the proclamation
recently made by Judge Howell, Presi-
dent pro TEN, Of the Convention of
1861, ordering the re-assembling of
! that body, and requesting Governor
| Wells to order an election to fill such
vacancies as may be in it. This is
one Of the boldest and most outra-
| geous attempts to override the rights
of the people that has been made yet.
Originally acting without legal author
ty, this Convention after adopting a
| constitution which was satisfactory to
the military authority, which called it
together, adjourned and became ex-
tinct of course The constitution al
though never accepted by quarter of
the citizens of the State, has since
been regarded as the supreme law, and
it is under its provisions that the whole
machinery of our State Government
now works. A part of the men who
formed this constitution becoming dis
satisfied at the present state of affairs,
all having been beaten for office at the
last elections, now set to work up the
State Government and organize over
again on a basis which will preclude
their ever again being left out i'll the
cold. They propose to disfranchise
all who sided with the Confederacy
during the war, and to enfrachise ne
groes to approve of the amendment
to the Constitution lately passed by
Congress, and to do hundred other
things which their malice may prompt
They desire Gov Wells to order an
election but will take care that no
one will be admitted in the Convention
but men of their own stripe-for as
every body has the right to decide up
pom the qualifications of its own mem
bers they will exclude all but such as
have agreed before hand to their plat
form. Rumor says that the Gov
ernor is with them and will order the
election. Ifhe does, they will have to
get President J Johnson with them too,
for no one will obey their ordinances





the President backs them in this move,
the white people of Louisiana are "up
a spout and no mistake


City railroad schemes are being got
ten up with a rapidity that threatens a
speedy abolition of pedestrianism in
all the principle thoroughfares Last
night the Board of Assistant Aldermen
adopted an ordinance for selling the
right of way for railroads on about
forty streets and petition was pre-
sented asking the privilege to build
railroad over six or eight more
lord sakes, as an old friend of mine |
used to say, who would not be an al |
derman these days? Next to owning |
all the property in the city, we know |
of no more comfortable position


The city continues to be remarkably
healthy, there being only 81 deaths
during the week ending last Sunday.
Business of all kinds is very dull =
Messrs r. Blekely d Co, wholesale
groeers, corner of Tchoupitoulas and
Poydras streets, who have one of the
largest and best selected stocks of
goods in their line, to be found in the
Southwest, inform me that they have
never known it to be so dull The
heat which has been intense during
the last ten days may perhaps account
for this stagnation of trade, as people
do not like to exert themselves much
in hot weather.
Year: 1866

We learn from the Kosciusko Chron-
icle that a horrible tragedy occurred
last week in Choctaw county, seven
miles east of Greensboro. Wiley
Eudy Of that county murdered has
motberi There had been a quarrel be
tween old man Eudy and his wife
about a bible which the old miscreant
had ordered his son, boy of sixteen,
to burn. Mrs. Eudy told her son she
would whip him if he destroyed the
bible, but he did so, and she stepped
out to get a switch, and while gone
her husband told the boy to look be
hind the door and get an axe-handle,
and to knock his mother in the head
when she attempted to whip him, The
son, shameful to say, obeyed his father,
struck Mrs Eudy on the head with the
handle, frcturing her skull, from
the effects of which she died


The wretches deserve the severest
penalty that can be inflicted for this
brutal and most unnatural crime.
Year: 1866

PERsoSAL.-We had the pleasure Of
q call yesterday from our friend Mr.
S. f. Wilson, Editor Of the Kosciusko
Chronicle He is in attendance at the
meeting Of the Grand Lodge of the
/ .. O. T. now in session at this city
Year: 1866

@ Change of climate always in
wolves danger unless precautions are taken
TO prevent it Fortify with the Red Jacket
Bitters, and bid defiance to vicissitudes of
temperature and exhalations. generated by
excessive heat acting on a swampy soil
Year: 1866




Our readers should bear in mind
that on tomorrow and the day after a
grand tournament for the purpose of
erecting a monument to the memory
Of the noble Confederate dead is to
come off at Holly Springs. The tour
uament will continue for two days
and on the closing of the second day a
concert and tableaux vivants will be
given We hope to hear Of a large as
semblage on this interesting occasion.


- s--


The Richmond correspondent of
the New York World states that
greater part of the burnt district of
Richmond has been rebuilt with solid,
substantial edifces-many Of them
aiming even to splendor-and very
nearly all of excellent architectural
taste and beauty 1t was predicted
soon after the surrender that years
would elapse before this could be done
except by Northern capital This wri-
ter has inquired as to how many build
ings have been erected by Northern
capital and the result is nine-tenths of
the splendid Improvements that have
been carried on are the result of South
ern capital and enterprise.
Year: 1866

NEW YORK, March l5.-The Tribune's
special says cabinet meeting was held
yesterday afternoon, and it is currently
reported that the removal of Mr.. Clarke
was the subject under consideration.
The expressions of regret are very gen.
eral at the radical differences of opinion
between the two high financial officers
of the government.


The king of Belgium has sent special
embassy to Washington to announce to
our government his accession to the
throne of that kingdom


The House naval committee yesterday
heard Assistant Secretary OF the Navy
Fox, who earnestly advocated the imme-
diate adoption of League Island as ma
val station. He pronounced it the only
available location in the country fit for
the purposes and needs of the ironclads.


The large number of appointees to fill
vacancies in the army, recently nomi-
mated from the various congressional dis
tricts and passed the examining board,
were sent in to the Senate yesterday, but
werc net acted upon in executive session.
There are now some two thousand mill
tary appointments awaiting conhrma-
tion,


The Commissioner of Pensions yester.
day decided that unless the provision of
law granting pensions to mothers, Who'll.
ly or in part dependent on deceased
son, that it must be shown that such
dependence was not merely prospective
but actually existed prior to the sons
death.


4Seventy-fye u members OF the Society
of Friends, of Randolph county, North
Carolina. arrived in Washington yester-
day en- route to Indiana, and assert that
they were forced to leave their homes
from the prosecutions Of ex-soldieTs of
the rebel army They state that at
least one hundred and fifty more of their
persuasion, bound for the West, will ar
rive here in q few days.


An order directing nearly one hundred
officers of the Veteran Reserve Corps to
report to General Howard for duty in the
Freedmans Bureau at the South, was
yesterday issued by the War Depart
ment.


The Posts special says Mr.. Romero,
Mexican Minister appeared before the
House committee on Foreign Relations,
to explain the guarantees of the loan of
the Mexican Republic. 1t is probable
that no decision will be made on this sub
ject for some weeks.


A special to the Commercial says -
The detective Bureau of the Treasury
Department has obtained possession Of
the plate from which the counterfeit
500 compound interest notes hare been
printed. The impression was taken from
the steel roller in the departmet on
sheet of lead and plate made from it
Year: 1866

The well known clown Dan Rice is
announced for a performance on the
Johnsonian platform as Congression-
al candidate in the Nineteenth Dis
trict of Pennsylvania. Rice has al
ready been defeated on the Democratic
ticket for State Legislature, but, ac-
cording to The Erie Dispatch, is am
bilious to run or tumble for Congress


and willing to spend great deal o


money. u.i .su
Year: 1866

The Lebanon Star says: awe expect
the Johnson men and the Democrats in
this district to make a most prodigious eff
fort to defeat General Schenck, and they
win all doubtless work harmoniously to-
gether to effect their object. The cam
paign here may present the novel spectacle
Of Campbell and Vallandigham working
together to defeat the Union candidate"
Year: 1866

IyCENDIARY FREs.-The extraordinary and
destructive conflagrations which have oc.
Cured in this city for the past few
weeks have created no little alarm and
have set people spcculating as to the
probable cause. They were evidently not the
work of accident, because two or three great
fires do not break out on the same day or night
by chance, as on the recent occasion of the two
fires on Broadway and another on Fulton
street But we have obtained some clue TO the
origin of these conHagrations in the arrest Of
two supposed burglars on Warren street last
Monday night, who had quantity of phospho.
rus and oxalic acid on their persons, and who
confessed that they intended TO set fire to q
store in the vicinity. II must be obvious that
the object of this kind Of incendiarism is plum
der; and 1t tells very badly for the efficiency
Of the detective force that gangs Of these fel.
lows should be allowed to 20 at large and prac.
tise their infamous profession without let or
hndrance. We hope that the police authorities
will look 10 IT, While we blame the paid Fire
Department for the extent Of the damage done
when fire occurs, II Is but fair that we should
demand of the police that vigilance which may
protect us from incendiarism.
Year: 1866

THE REVISION or THE INTERNAL REvESuE.--
The report Of the Committee Of Ways and
Means, proposing certain notifications of the
taxes, indicates q disposition to impose the In
ternal revenue taxation in accordance with a
reasonable plan The state Of the country now
is such - to justify large reduction of the
total amount raised by this system and there
IL a probability that the reduction will be
made in the right places. All that long list OF
articles that under all tax laws realize so little
that the tax scarcely pavs FOR IL collection IL
Year: 1866

agers' Association did not "advertise In the
New YORK HERALD" because we would no.
submit to the imposition upon the public Of
plays possessing no merit; of performances
which usurped the place of the legitimate
drama, and put sensation pieces Of equivocal
morality and spectacular delusions in their
stead, for the profit of the managers and the
Generalization Of the stage.
Year: 1866

IMrERIAL BUEGLARs IN EURoTE.-Austra and
Prussia should be indicted at common law for
burglary in the first degree. They are each
trying the art OF experienced cracksmen upon
Schleswig and Holsein, and are ready to pum-
mel each other in order to bag the booty.
Year: 1866

This shows the HERALD to be, by its extensive and
comprehensive circulation the chief organ Of the adver
tIsers of tho Metropolis and the medium Of commun
eating their business wants to the public


The above table also shows that thc advertising ratrons
AID is more than double that of the Time
Tribune Hosr,y equal 10 the combined re.sy,s
of all the other papers in New York.
Year: 1866

Annexed are the returns to the Internal Revenue
Department of the receipts from advertising Of all the
daily papers of this city for two years. In the first
column are the receipts for thirteen months being the
year 1854, with one month of ls63 and in the second
column are the receipts for the twelve months Of 1865
Year: 1866




fuss raised in certain papers about the cholera.
1t is driving business away from this city and
soaring the country people ont Of their wits.
The truth is, as these panic-makers well know,
that there has not yet been a single case of
cholera in New York. The only cases are those
at Quarantine, which is long distance from the
city, and even about those cases we have our
doubts. The disease which has broken out upon
the crowded emigrant ships is much more likely
to be ship fever than cholera. The doctors
disagree about it, first calling it one thing and
then the other, and the symptoms Of the two
diseases are very similar. The fact that one Of
the doctors at Halifax caught the complaint
and died of it is evidence that it is ship fever;
for doctors do not catch the cholera, as has
been proven by long experience.


We know all about cholera, having lived
through two epidemics here in this city. Our
observation convinced us that the cholera Of
1882 was great panic and great hoax, and
that of 1849 was about the same thing. If
people had kept their senses we should have
had no such carnival OF death; but everybody
imagined that he had the cholera if his stomach
ached or his bowels were out of order, and
many died before they could be convinced Of
their mistake. 1t will be the same way now if
the excitement about the cholera is allowed to
become a panic. People who have no regard
for the cleanliness Of their persons or their
houses will certainly be i'll, cholera or no
cholera, and therefore 1t is right for the Board
Of Health to take every possible precaution to
insure us against disease. But we repeat that
there is no cholera in New York city, that there
has not been any, and that, with ordinary care
on the part of our authorities, it is not likely
| to come here.
Year: 1866

to be stricken out; the assessments on the
necessaries of life will be lightened, while those
on luxuries Of extensive use will be kept up
or increased, and the burden of taxation will
it reaches the whole people far less perceptibly
than in any other way. This system now pro-
posed is the one that the experience of Europe
has found to be the most excellent.
Year: 1866

The Radical organs grow fierce
ly indignant over the idea that
the South has any constitutional
rights. They rant about the
crimes of perjury, treason, and re-
bellion, and ask with triumphant
assurance, what rights can men
have to participation in Govern
ment against which they have ta-
ken up arms? But under the
Constitution all that can be claim.
ed about the Southern people is
that they are offending parties.
The commisson of an offence, how
ever, does not debar man from
his political rights. He must be
convicted of the crime with which
he is charged. Now, the parole
of the Southern armies, the re-
peated protestations of the press,
the universal talk of the people,
the amnesty proclamation of the
Executive, all commit this nation
against the prosecution of the great
mass of the Southern people. We
agreed not to punish if they would
return to their allegiance. The
abandonment of the purpose to
try. to convict, and to punish is q
complete reinlistment in their
former rights, and radicals violate
the national faith in seeking to inn
pose disabilities now that are re-
troactive in their nature.
Year: 1866

Methought wandered with maid
The fairest gal know,
Through my dear old daddy's woodland,
Where lovely flowers grow;
And where the birds sing songs of love
From morn till starry eve,
When till the morrow's sun doth shine
The dear ones take their leave.
The maid and I me thought did talk
About our future life
About grand :imes of pleasures dear,
About great woe and strife;
When all at once it did appear,


A snake with mighty charms
Struck at my love, which made her faint
And fall back in my arms,
/ bore her offas fast as feet


And legs would let me 20,
But not forgetting as / went
To kiss her cheeks of snow;
For who could carry in his arms


A queen of earthly bliss,
dressed out from head to foot In white)
And not give her kiss?
But my surprise was great indeed


When l awoke and found
Nv arms as tight as tight could be


Around my pillow bound;
While with my lips, I tell you what,
/ made the kisses fly,
At fast as ever kisses few


Beneath the starry sky. ALoNzo
Year: 1866

GO The admirable consistency of
the Radical friends of the negro,
who claim to be governed by such
an intense devotion to human
rights as not only to desire but In
sist upon suffrage for the negro,
is shown by the bearingof two clau-
ses of the constitutional amend
ment.


The first section of that amend
nent makes the freedmen citizens
not merely of the United States,
but of the States in which they re-
side. The right of suffrage is held
for everywhere as an incident of
citizenship, o-s:


The second section virtually
offers to trade off this incidental
right OF citizenship if the South
will consent to diminish the num-
ber of its representatives in q ra-
ito conformably to its white and
black population. Thus Massa-
chusetts says to Mississippi, "You
have five representatives, and we
ten. Yournegroes are citizens, and
have Alright to vote; but so desirous
are we to keep in our own hands
such legislative power as will enable
US to pass tax, and tariff, and inn
propement, and bureau bills, that
we are perfectly willing to trade
off this precious and inestimable
right of the negro, to secure which
such costly sacrifices have been
made, if you will reduce the
amount of representation to such
a minimum as will perpetuate our
power. We are devoted to the
negro and his rights, but that de-
votion sinks into insigniticance
compared with our idolatry of
wealth and power" No wonder
that Wendell Phillips denounces
it as swindle and a cheat.
Year: 1866

Any information that will be OF
benefit. in this time of need,
should be given to the public
Mr.. Reuben Hodges, an old and re-
spected citizen and successful plant
! Ier, says he has used cotton seed
as food for hogs a number OF years,
without the least danger, and with
great success. The cotton seed
intended to be given to the hogs
should be thrown in water at night
before, care being taken that the
seed are thoroughly covered, so
as to fully wet the lint, and the
hogs can be turned upon them the
next morning. Brood sows should
not be allowed to eat the cotton
seed. Hogs thus fed are not liza
BILE to the numerous diseases that
abound. Hogs can be fed in this
manner on new cotton seed, and
three weeks feeding on corn will
work a complete purgation of the
taste of the cotton seed from the
meat. A bushel of new cotton
seed in putting a hog in condi-
ton for fattening is regarded as
good as a bushel of corn. The
above is invaluable. Many farm
ers in this vicinity have adopted
Mr. Hodges method of feeding
on cotton seed with uniform sue
cess.-Leaington (MiSs.l AdOerti-
ea1. IE t. .rtt.t.i#
Year: 1866

At a recent temperance meeting
an amusing incident took place.
A strong exhortation had been de-
livered by a speaker present; and
the President requested the Secre-
tary to pass around the pledge for
signatures, and taking from his
pocket what he supposed was the
document, he, without looking at
it, gave it to the Secretary for that
purpose. Alarge number of names
were enrolled of both ladies and
gentlemen present, and the docu-
ment returned. 1t was observed
by the Secretary, while passing
around the paper, that considera-
bic tittering prevailed among the
ladies who took the precaution to
read the contents of the paper,
whilst those who did not read it
and desired to sign, did SO. After
going through the congregation
the Secretary, on his way back,
looked at the paperto see what was
the cause of amusement, when it
was revealed to him that, instead
of the temperance pledge, he had
passed around and received sigma
lures to a document setting forth
the pedigree of a celebrated horse.
Year: 1866

Farewell, p'a nlie, since part we must
And each from each must sever!
How brief the word-how long the pain
To part-and part forever!
'Twere bootless now to question why,
Or fan the dying ember,
Enough! The wrathful moons have merg
Our May in dead December.
Farewell, ma ME, since part we must,
Wen part in quiet fashion,
For us no foolish tears, you know,


For US no idle passion.
You sometimes wished that you had died
Ere you had ever met me ;
The future years are all your own


Wherein to quite forget me!
We drained Loves goblet to the dregs,
With neither rhyme nor reason,
And shamed the ferver of the days


Through all the summers season.
We drank the cup of passion dry


Through lips, our spirits blending;
How strange that that should cease to be
Which once we thought unendlng
1 saw you first when early spring


Just tipped with green the heather;
The robin piped upon the tree,


All Nature came together.
The light of love was in your eyes,


And you were happy hearted,
The brown leaves lie beneath us now,
And we, ma mie, are parted!
But why should love like yours survive
The fading of the pansy2
An April blossom of the heart,


Twas but summers fancy.
And if the thought of it should hap


To cross my mind hereafter,
How like an April day win seem
A thing of tears and laughter!
But back, ma n.ie, you'llsometimes turn,
Your thoughtful vigils keeping,
To other days where, early slain,


Our buried love lies sleeping,
And, happy, then, you'll learn to feel,
When Mem'ry stirs the ember,
How sad the heart which would forget
But must the past remember
Year: 1866

An old criminal was once asked
what was the first step that led
him to ruin, when he replied;


"The first step was cheating the
printer out of a years subscrip-
tion. When I did that the devil
got such hold on me that l could
not shake him off"
Year: 1866

There is a street in New York
city where the tenants of every
house on both sides of the street
have applied for licences to sell
liquor. How the hydrants will
suffer in that vicinity
Year: 1866




Hoe AND CATTLE LICE.-We
find the following in the Robert
son Register; ~fa. .i -e


We hear many complaining of
their hogs dying with disease sup
posed to be the cholera, which
proves on examination to be lice.
They are to found round the ears
and in the fanks of the hog, eat
ing great sores, causing the hog to
dwindle and die in few days.
They are to be found on cattle.
Coal oil we'll rubbed on will cause
them to crawl off Immediately.
Year: 1866

RECIPE FOR CoLORISc CHEEsE.-Dissolye
over slow FIRE one quarter pound annatto
in one quart of soft water, and when thor
oughly dissolved, add two quarts of weak
I've made from wood ashes; then strain of
and bottle for use For 100 pounds of curd,
one half to one full teacup full should be
used.


The above recipe is furnished US BY IA large
dealer in cheese. as one used for a good while
by practical cheesemaker in this county,
with excellent success.