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Year: 1874




In and around Vicksburg some,of the hard
est fighting of the war of the rebellion was
done. The names that figure in history as
actors in the bloody drama belong to soldiers
and sailors who bear honorable records
Grant, Sherman, Ord, Logan Porter on our
side; Pemberton, Joe Johnston, Loring,
Breckenridge on the side of the Confederacy.
The siege was prosecuted vigorously by the
Union army aided by the feet. The defence
was such as brave troops, faithfully led might
be expected to make. That it was fruitless
was owing to the military genius and the iron
will of the great comman Ter who pressed on
ward from the Mississippi until the life was
crushed out of the rebellion; but his own
words bear honorable testimony to the gal
lantry of the defence. ''Men who have shown
so much courage and endurance as those now
in Vicksburg," wrote General Grant to the
rebel commander, twill always challenge the
respect of an adversary, and, l can assure you,
will be treated with all the respect due them
as prisoners of war" And Lieutenant Cen
eral Pemberton, who defended Vicksburg, did
not suffer the gall of defeat to deter him from
doing equal justice to the bravery and the gen.
erosity of the Union leader and his army.


From Vicksburg, where little over twelve
years ago the horrors and passions of war
prevailed comes the first note of a movement
of true peace, reconciliation and good will,
which we hope may find favor all over the
United States North and South. The SOL
ders of the late war have established there an
organization known as 'sThe Order of the
Blues and Grays." AS the name implies its
members are composed both of those who
fought under the Union flag and Of those who
did service under the banner Of the Confed-
eracy. The object is to ioster kindly relations
between the men who stood few years ago
in hostility to each other, and to practically
bury the animosities growing out of the un-
natural conflict. We can conceive of no more
effective means of accomplishing this desir-
able end than by drawing into social inter-
course and personal friendship the soldiers
who fought on both sides. and who have
learned to respect each other as brave men
always do. One such association as this is
worth thousand political union leagues
or white mems leagues. 1t brings
together the fighting element of the
country, and prepares those who fought
so gallantly on opposite sides to fight to-
gether, shoulder to shoulder, under the COM
mon banner of united nation, should the
occasion tor foreign war ever unhappily arise.
The example set by the Blues and Grays in
Vicksburg might well be followed by the
Grand Army of the Republic. What better
contribution could the members of that splen-
did organization give to that peace and re-
construction with which we should all desire
to celebrate the Centennial than the throwing
open of their doors to the soldiers of the Con-
federacy and hailng them as comrades in the
new army of the Republic?
Year: 1874

There are perhaps no two traits of Christian
character so much needed in the world to-day
as those on which Mr.. Rossiter will preach
charity and holiness. The former covers a
multitude Of sins and never faileth. Many
waters cannot quench it, neither can the floods
drown it. The latter will not thrive well
where sin does exist and is inconsistent with
it. So that the promotion of holiness in fact
rather than in name or in theory is what cler-
gymen Of every denomination should aim at
A heart that is holy is heart that has fixed
doctrines and fixed morals, and that gives no
undue care to the wants or woes of the morrow.
1t trusts God from Gay to day, and such trust
and such fxedness of doctrines and morals
DIR. Thompson will inculcate to-day.


That man should attempt to rob God may
seem an act of insanity, and yet the Scriptures
declare that such a crime is committed by
men, and DR.. Deems will set forth the utter
Nervousness of this species of robbery, and
persuade men to give it up and take to honest
methods between God and their own souls, as
they do between man and man for if they
do not Judgment will come at the end of the
Christian dispensation, and some of those
who now rob with impunity may be found
without defence or counsel in that day. 1t
will be WE'LL then, to have shelter or support
in the Higher Rock of which Mr.. Macarthur
will speak, and to feel that the hand that
healed the paralytic centuries ago is yet
stretched out for their defence and help; that
He who can baptize with fire, of which bap-
tism Mr.. Corbitt will speak, can also receive
the returning prodigal and make him forget
the days of evil through which he may have
passed.


Mr.. Hepworth is again at his post working
and ready to work, and as the campaign is
just opening before him he sets out this
morning to show his people the difference
between work that is productive Of good and
work that is good for nothing, SO that they
shall not waste time and energy on fruitless
endeavors And his maxims will, doubtless,
be applicable to others as we'll as to his own
people, for we are all alike, yet different.
DR.. Hawthorne will demonstrate the uni
versatility of the law of vicarious suffer-
ing and show how the loss of life
may be the saving of life. He will
also give some thought to ''Paurs prayer for
Onesiphorous.'' Mr.. Chadwick, who has
been studying nature in its numerous
phases during the summer, will open the
campaign in his church this morning with q
discourse on Natural Religion" the twin
sister of revealed religion. Both declare
their divine origin and give evidence of one
common parentage. And thus to-day will the
Sabbath hours be passed in meditating on
topics moral and material, practical and
| theoretical
Year: 1874




There is one important point in the Shake
spearian discussion, which at present re-
ceives SO much attention from the literary
world, upon which we must be permitted to
differ from Mr.. Horace Howard Furness,
whose brief but able contribution we recently
published Mr.. Furness said 1.-THE subject
now being discussed is one in which take
but very little interest. The name Of
Shakespeare has become household
word, and the authorship does not
affect the quality of the plays. A diamond is
a diamond, whether found in a gutter or in
Golconda." 1t is likely that this distinguished
student spoke hastily, for upon reflection he
must perceive that the question of person.
ality, as between Shakespeare and Bacon, is
of the highest importance. If it were
question as between Shakespeare
and Jones, or Smith, or Memo, we
should agree with Mr.. Furness, for
the mere name is nothing. But Bacon is not
name, it is personality. He was the
founder of modern philosophy, man who,
in his own immortal words, ''took all knowl-
edge to be his province" If there is the
slightest probability that he was the au-
thor of Hamlet and Lear, the study
of the evidence in his favor cannot be
neglected. If Bacon wrote these plays
of the power of the human intellect;
all manhood is exalted to heights
hitherto unsuspected, and if our belief
that we are not as dust that rises
up and as dust falls again is based upon the
achievements of the mind, then we should
have in the evidence that Bacon included
Shakespeare new evidence of immortality
ITSELF This is not an e1aggeration; it is
philosophy. But, dismissing such grave con-
siderations, which perhaps have no place in q
literary debate, surely the great men of his
tory are as interesting and important to US as
their works?


With this brief comment upon the observa-
ton of Mr. Furness, which We make simply
to proper understanding of the dignity of
this question of the authorship of the plays,
we introduce to the public some new contri-
buttons. Recorder Hackett who inherits a
love for Shakespeare, which he has strength
ened by his own study Of the plays, sums up
the argument as o Judge. We are indebted to
him for this valuable service, but as the evi-
dence is not all presented his charge to the
jury will have to be withdrawn. The Supreme
Court is the tribunal by which the facts
and the law will ultimately be submit.
ted to the public, and then we shall beg the
honor of offering the Recorder seat
upon the Bench. But we would
particularly commend to the intelligent public
the contribution Of Professor Y. Guilivel
Rigadoo, who has q contempt for Shake
speare's plays which amounts to the sublime
Sir Toby would have adored him, and h'
comes into this serious conference much a
Mark Twain might go into Plymouth church
If Shakespeare is all that this same Learned
Theban declares him to be, the Baconian
would do well to abandon their claim for thei
llustrious chief
Year: 1874

should be pedestrian; the athlete who de-
lights in his vigorous health should cultivate
a taste for the analysis of games which are
ought to be made larger and happier by our
amusements, and the earnestness we rightly
cherish in serious duties becomes an evil
when it causes one pastime to annihilate a
taste for multitude of others.
Year: 1874

to his own statement being doctor of medi-
cine and professor of chemistry and anatomy.
The prevalence of suicide at the present time
is very remarkable and can only be accounted
for by the unusual dearth of moral feeling
among certain class.
Year: 1874

POLICE OUTRAeEs are unhappily too fire.
quent in this city, but the last one on record
is of such flagrant nature that it must excite
the utmost Indignation in the community.
Three respectable ladies on their way home
were arrested by one William T. Graham, an
officer who is disgrace to the force, dragged
10 the station house and arraigned before q
police Justice on the charge of being common
prostitutes. They we're, of course, acquitted,
and now it remains to be seen whether the
Police Commissioners will retain on the force
a psrson guilty of such infamous cQRduct
Year: 1874

GOVERNOR DIX is not seriously III, and the
alarm of his friends is fortunately relieved.
He has been confined to his bed for a few
days by poisoning from elder leaves OF which
the painful effects will no doubt be easily and
quickly removed. His sickness has not pre-
vented action in the case OF Mayor Havemeyer.
The decision of the Governor will be an
nounced tomorrow and it is believed that
while His Honor will be censured he will not
be removed from Office.
Year: 1874

ANY COMBINATION to keep back the crops to
increase the price of grain would be worse
than highway robbery. 1t would be crime
against humanity, and in America ought to be
an impossible one. For this reason we expect
that the rumor of combination between the
grangers and Chicago wheat spectators will
have prompt and effectual denial To with
hold food from the market is conspiracy
which has for its object the starvation of the
OOOr
Year: 1874

GENERAL BUTLER has opened his canvass for
reelection to Congress with one of those re-
markable speeches in which he has scarcely
rival. 1t is published in our columns, and
deals principally with Southern outrages and
with the financial condition of the country.
He thinks the war is not over yet and that his
mission is not ended. Upon both of these
points there is likely to be difference Of
opinion in his district
Year: 1874

The EXCURSION OF BEfLEvUE PATIENTS yes
terday, an account Of which we publish to-day,
was quite an enjoyable affair and exercised a
beneficial influence on the poor sufferers. The
presence of few amateur negro minstrels
evinced the power OF music Oh the patients,
and the soothing strains of the banjo, the roll
of the tambourine and the click of the
bones were as grateful to the excursionists as
Muzio's orchestra would be to the fashion
sbles of the Academy.
Year: 1874

The PROSPECT PARK RACES yesterday were
very interesting. Culpepper won the sweep
stakes for three year-olds, Quits the Consola-
ton Handicap and Vesuvius the extra hurdle
race which was added to the events on the
card on account of Limestone finding no COM
petitor for the Hurdle Sweepstakes. An ac-
count of the racing will be found in another
cOfumn
Year: 1874

The ILLEGAL ACTION of the Park Depart
ment in leasing the city property to an officer
of the Corporation is likely to receive inves-
tigation in the Grand Jury room. But this is
not the only violation of law
Year: 1874




The following is an extract from one
of Prof. Chandler's lectures on the Sun:


Thus it is proven that the materials
of the earth and sun are similar the
conclusiveness of evidence is overwhelm-
ing. While thousands of the ablest ply
sicists of the enlightened world yield
concurrent and unanimous support to
the entire trustworthiness of this new
mode of investigation, not one, to my
knowledge-certainly no one worthy of
the slightest credence-has expressed
doubt of its unerring correctness. The
earth being so much smaller than the
sun, is in condition far more advanced.
By radiation, 1t has already parted with
most of the heat which it contained,
when in an incandescent and luminous
state. Were it as large as the sun, it
would doubtless yet be in the same con-
dition the sun now is, emitting light and
heat, and of course entirely unfit for the
existence of animal life. Being another
sun, it would reyolye around common
centre with our present sun, presenting
the same magnificent spectacle to the In
habitants of worlds in immeasurable
space which we ourselves perceive in
many instances. The sun is undoubted-
ly advancing to the same condition In
which the earth now is, but by reason
Of It's enormous size, the change is i'm
perceptible. But when the wheel Of time
shall have rolled on throughout unnum-
bered cycles, and the sun shall have ar
rived at condition similar to that of
the earth at present, whence will be gen.
Grated the light and heat necessary to
complete it as an abode suitable for ami
NAL life ?


/ intended to devote portion of the
evening to the probable theory of the
physical constitution Of the sun, but
time admonishes me to curtail my re-
naming remarks, though appreciate
the evident interest and close attention
given by all, even the younger portion
of the audience. will, however, barely
advert to
Year: 1874

A resident of Ward l6 in Boston, be-
lieving that drinking liquor was a per-
nicious custom, resolutely set his face
against the saloons, and put barrel of
ale in his cellar. On the first evening
of the purchase he repaired to the cellar
to tap his ale, taking a kerosene lamp
with him. On reaching the barrel he
thoughtfully sat the lamp on the floor in
the direct line with the spot ne was to
tap, and taking the faucet in one hand
he drove in the bung, and meant to have
applied the faucet at once But the pow
er at the vent was so great that the fau-
Get was Knocked from his hand, and the
lamp being in direct range was upset
and put out in flash. A less sanguine
party would have straightway plunged
up stairs for another lamp, but he'd find
that faucet in the dark if it took him
seventy-fve years to do it. He dropped
on his knees, and described various cir
cles with his hand, while the foaming
and sputtering ale whistled uninterrupt-
edly. He moved around swifter and
swifter, losing the calmness born of his
determination, at every unsuccessful re-
turn of the encircling hand. He bump
ed his head against other barrels, and
scratched his knees on the floor, and was
bombarded in the face and neck and un-
der his coat tail by the fierce stream.
But he ao0uld find that faucet He beat
the cement surface with his fist, and
prayed, and howled, and screamed, and
wept. But he wouldn't 60 after light.
The flying ale got into his throat and
choked him, and into his nose and made
him sneeze. 1t ran from his eyes and
his ears, and down his neck and face
from his hair. But he wouldn't give up.
And down there on his knees in the dark
and flying liquid, he stayed like an hon.
est and honorable citizen until he had
found that faucet, and jammed it into
the barrel. Then he felt his way ur
stairs, and appeared to his family with
a want of cOngruity in his appearance
that was painful to behold. The blood
from scratch over the eye had min.
gled with the fecks of foam and trick
ling ale and these in turn were loaded
with dust and cobwebs. His hair anc
clothing were saturated, and one eye
was completely closed while the othel
glared upon the horror stricken family
in unconscious ferocity. But he hat
found that faucet, and he would hav,
found it if he had stayed down there un
til Canada had frozen over 1--WE think h


said Canada. Then he went up stair
and got into bed.-Dan6ary NeicS.
Year: 1874

as they all nave Engllsh goVernesses.
English and American books are in all
first class libraries, Russia having but
comparatively little literature of its
own. Law and order here are as much
respected as with us. While the En-
peror appoints everything and every
body and can do exactly as he likes,
still he governs by and through law
The knout is long since abolished, and
a trial by jury is regular and safe.


1t is no-heathen country by a long
ways, but the Greek or orthodox church
is strict in its discipline and thorough
in its organization. Divorce is almost
impossible. Prisons are few. Capital
punishment is unknown except for at
tempts on the Emperor,s life All con-
victs are sent to Siberia, the worst to
work in the mines and others on the
land. Their families can go with them
if they like, so that the country is now
full of pretty good people of this kind.
This nation is growing rapidly in all
the directions of national greatness.
Education is being pushed slowly but
steadily. Most of the people I see can
already read and write. But the rich
being so rich and the poor so very poor
makes progress very slow. The police
regulations are perfect. though people
drive through the street as fast as ever
they can go. Those on foot have no
rights which the carriages are bound to
respect.


Handsome black Tartar horses go past
one like wind, with little light harness,
no binders, and low light sleighs, or
sledges as they call them. Nobody
goes out minute here without being
fully wrapped up in fur, and no one
sits a minute in the house with them
on. In the halls are servants to take
off and care for these wrappers. In this
way they never appear to take cold. In
no other way could they live in this
changeable climate. Not one of US have
had a cold this winter. So all the sto-
ries about this being so bad a climate
appear to US to be a humbug. But great
care is necessary, and that everybody
take of themselves. So in this way we
get along, and on the whole, find the
climate not bad.


Do I like it? Well, some. Don't
believe I should want to spend my life
here though. 1t is a great thing to see
for time and 1 find my colleagues
pleasant people and the social life il
doors was enjoyed for time. In al
the elements of strength and greatnes;
America is so far ahead of Europe that
the contrast is painful. So my eyes
constantly turn towards Hartford aftel
all. But read a great deal of politics
and write many letters and hear from
home daily almost. When l next come tC
Rochester l shall have something tc
talk about. You know lack of talk is
my failing. Esther don't fancy it very
much. The girls like it tolerably we'll
but [ can see would tire of it. We dc
not find so much intelligence as we are
used to, or so much to talk about. Il
is mostly grand dukes, opera, dress and
flap doodle generally. We have beau
tiful apartments and entertain a gooC
deal, and so fill up the time. find my
official intercourse delightful, as the
Russians like US very much indeed.


Believe me. yours truly,


MARSHALL JEWELL.
Year: 1874

The many friends of the Hon. Charles w.
Lowell will be pleased to know that he has
so far recovered from his late severe indis-
position as to be able to make his appear
ance upon the streets again. Few men in
this State have been more prominent in the
Republican party, and done better service
for Republican principles than this gentle
man; and as he is yet comparatively
young man, endowed with good mental
powers, and an experience in pub
lie life that are calculated to rem
der him very useful as public serv-
ant, it is safe to say that if his
life is spared he is destined to reap higher
honors than those already bestowed upon
him. He has served two terms as Speaker
of the House of Representatives, and during
part of the time was Postmaster of this
city. He has proved an excellent presiding
officer OF the House, and so long as he was
enabled to give his undivided attention to
the Postofice, made most efficient Post
master. For these reasons, and his dsvo-
ton to his country in her time of peril, We
believe Mr.. Lowell deserves the confidence
Of not enly the people of this State, but of
the nation.
Year: 1874

EDITOR REPUBLICAN,:


Correspondents for newspapers are ex
pecsed to send in encouraging and fatter
ing letters from the country, dwelling upon
the unusual good prospects of the crops
and looking for great prosperity when they
are gathered. These letters when read by
subscriber in other States have tendency
to induce an emigation of labor and capital,
which is always desirable, but at the time l
write this our entire parish is in a state of
gloom. The Bass and Melbourne levees
have already broken and overfowed many
fine places, and for week the levee at
Elton has been threatening to give way.
This would be most formidable disaster,
as it would inuudate the best part of the
parish. At one time the water did COM
mence running through at about nine
o'clock in the night, but through the great
energy of Major James. with bis convict
labor. a crevasse was prevented. TO make
matters more cheerless, it has raned
almost necessarily tor weeks. 1t is time
now to have corn planted, and but very
little land has yet been broken up, while
most OF it is under water. Many planters
have no provisions for the making of an
other crop. and have been for years depend
ing upon their commission merchants for
assistance; now in most trying time, we
learn, that the merchants have unanimous.
ly agreed to make no advances on the.
future crop. Should the water fall, and,
through struggle and privation, we were to
succeed in raising our usual amount of cot
ton, we shall be really better off than if it
were paid for long before it is made, not
withstanding that there would be actual
suffering to do this.


A month ago we were a most sanguine
people. Our prospects were brighter than
ever before. We had received large immi-
grafton from Georgia and Alabama, and
contracts had been made to put in a great
deal of land that had laid out for years,
and now that we are so badly drowned out
we still hope that we shall yet see the water
run of in time to enable us to carry out our
original plans. Should the Elton levee stand
the pressure of water, the community will
to great extent be indebted to Mr.. w. C.
Sanford, of this parish, and Major James,
Of your city, for their continual exertions
and prOmptness.


Respectfully, JOSKINS.
Year: 1874

Lyceum Hall was by no means crowded
last evening, but despite the threatening
weather very large audience gathered to
hear Professor Joseph Jones lecture. The
great ability of the lecturer vas well kno wn,
and public expectation was correspondingly
excited. The audience was by no means
The lecturer showed himself
fully equal to the task, and tor an hour de-
lighted the hearers by the elegance of his
diction and the force of his reasoning.
Year: 1874

The announcement of the death of Mr.
Fisk, at the early age of twenty five years
will not be surprise to most of his friends.
For over year he has been failing in health,
and though apparently rallying at times,
it was evide 1t he could never entirely
recover. Since he resigned his position as
attorney of the Baton Rouge district he
has taken no part in active life, but was
prominent in politics all his life previously.
He enlisted in the Union army when only
fourteen years old, and studied law and was
admitted to the bar before reaching his
majority. He was attorney for Jefferson
City until its annexation and was then
appointed by Governor Warmoth district
attorney for Baton Rouge. This Office he
was compelled to resign by illness over a
year ago. He was a genial companion, a
faithful counsel and had many friends among
his clients and associates, and leaves a
wife and family. His funeral will take
place to-day from his late residence.