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Year: 1866

The Richmond Times is actually growing
hopeful. In its issue of Tuesday, it says:


Adyices from the North indicate an abate.
ment of radical violence. AS is always the
case subsequent to elections, the unity of the
triumphant party is threatened, because Of
those differences upon certain questions,
which are ignored during the canvass in or.
der to MAINTAIN the harmony necessary to
success.


The recent victories of the radicals serious
ly menace their party unity. Many of the
politicians who have assailed the Presiden-
tial policy of Southern rehabilitation, and
given their cordial CO operation to the plan
of Congress, are men Of moderate views, when
compared with Brownlow, Stevens and Wen.
dell Phillips. The brutal disposition of the
latter towards the South is utterly revolving
to them, and there cannot possibly be even
an approach to unanimity in the adoption of
any general policy. Sumner, Butler and
Stevens will insist upon con6scations, negro
suffrage, the hanging of Mr.. Davis, and the
impeachment of Mr.. johnson. The more
moderate men will favor none Of these mad
projects the extreme radicals will be content
with nothing short of the thorough adoption
and execution Of their violent views; and it
is simply impossible for them to command
the strength in Congress and the popular
sympathy necessary to their plans.


It is reasonably clear that MI johnson
does not fear impeachment, and that really
he has no occasion for such apprehensions.
In addition to the fact that his enemies will
be utterly unable to establish a case against
him, sufficiently strong to Justify such an ex-
treme measure, even with the radical masses:
the length Of time consumed in debate upon
the proposition of impeachment, the impa-
tience Of the people under constant agitations,
assisted by the calm and dignifcd attitude Of
the South, will consummatc the incipient
split in the radical organization. There is
even probability that the attempt to force
tho constitutional amendment" upon us
will be abandoned. The Northern people,
seeing in our unresisting attitude of patience
under accumulated suffering and provocation,
a sufficient refutation Of the radical charges
against us, of a belligerent and rebellious dis
position, will cease to be urgent for "gnar
antees" of our faithful allegiance in the shape
of base surrender of our manhood, and an
odious prescription of our most eminent fel
low.cit!Zens.
Year: 1866

Close her eye-lids-press them gently


Der the dead and leader eyes,
For the soul that made them lovely,


Hath returned unto the skies;
Wipe the death drops from her forehead,
Sever one dear golden tress,
Fold her 10y hands oil meekly,


Smooth her little snowy dress; -
Scatter flowers Ger her pillow


Gentle flowers, so pure and white
Lay the bud upon her bosom,


There-now softly say, Good Night.
Though our tears flow fast and faster,
Yet we would not call her back,
We are glad her feet no longer,


Tread life's rough and thorny track;
We are glad our Heavenly Father


Took her while her heart is pure,
We are glad he did not leave her


All life's trials to endure;
We arc glad-and yet the tear-drop


Falleth; for, alas we know
That our freside will be lonely,


We shall miss our darling so.
While the twilight shadows gather,


We shall wait in vain to feel
Little arms, all white and dimpled,


Round our necks so softly steal;
Our wet cheeks will miss thepresSure
Of sweet lips so warm and red,
And our bosoms sadly, sadly,


Miss that darling's little head
Which was wont to rest there sweetly;
And those golden eyes, 80 bright,
We shall miss their loving glances,


We shall miss their soft good night.
When the morrow's sun is shining,


They will take this cherished form,
They will bear it to the church-yard,
And consign it to the worm:
Well-what matter? 1t is only


The clay dress our darling wore;
God hath robed her as an angel,


Sine hath need of this no more;
Fold her hands, and Ger her pillow
Scatter flowers all pure and white,
Kiss that marble brow, and whisper,
Once again, last Good Night.
Year: 1866

naa A Canadian newspaper contains the
following plaintive advertisement: "Will
the gentleman who stole my melons on last
Sabbath night be generous enough to return
me few Of the seeds, as the melons are a
rare variety"


Ra A boy brought an egg to school late
ly in Linn county, Iowa. The teacher broke
It over the child's head, and told him to 60
home and have his mother wash his hair.
Boy did so. Mother came with club, hit
the teacher with it over the head, and then
closed one eye with her fist.
@ An eccentric old Rnglishman has just
died, leaving his fortune to two nephews,
provided they take three hours exercise each
day before 8 o'clock in the morning, for seven
years. ''a '+'


s@ The population Of Texas is rapidly in.
creasing by immigration.
Year: 1866

;LUDIcRous ScENEs IN A CuuRon. -
An aged clergyman, spanking of the
solemnity attached to the, ministerial
office, said that during the whole term Of
forty years that he had officiated therein
his gravity had never beeh but once
disturbed in tho pulpit. On that occa
sion, he NOTICED man directly in front
OF him, leaning over the railing of the
gallery, with something ina his hand,
which he afterwards discovered to be a
huge chew Of tobacco. just taken from
his mouth. Directly below sat man
fast asleep, with his head back and
mouth wide open The man in the gal
lery was intently engaged in raising and
lowering his hand, taking an exact OBJ
servation, till at lasthaving got it right,
he let fall his quid, and it went plump
into the mouth Of the sleeper below!
The whole scenes was so indiscribably
ludicrous, that for the first and last time
in the pulpit, an involuntary smile
forced itselfupon the countenance of the
preacher. .y
Year: 1866

Coop FOR EvIL--Stegeas HIT
Mr.. Beecher, in concluding sermon
on Sunday from the text Overcome
evil with good" spoke as follows:


"True, the Canadians did act most
unfairly, and the Mother Country
most wickedly toward us when lin
our dire distress; but if we take like
opportunities to show the same spirit,
in what is republicanism greater or
better than despotism? / want to
heap Goals of fire on their heads by
showing the grand spectacle of a
Christian nation actuated by Chris
tian principles. If England is in
volved in war, I don't want to see a
single ship 60 out of our ports to de-
sttroy her commerce, and over the
Canadian border [ do not want a
single cottage harmed. I want them
to find their evil overcome by our
good. The way to live in peace is
to be better than your enemy-in his
opinion, not yours"


After enlarging somewhat on this
point, Mr. Beecher paused, and look
ing around with a humorous glance,
continued-"I don't know whether
I'd better make any further applica-
ton OF this principle or not. I have
not been very popular with my peo-
pie during the past year. have
failed to carry them altogether with
me on some public questions-and [
am sorry for them! But yet, ! must
say, that | cannot escape the direct
bearing of this great gospel law. /
am as strong as ever in the convic-
ton that the true result of the war
must berecognized. Whatever went
into the Constitution on account OF
slavery must come out; and what
was kept out on account of slavery
must be put into our organic law !;
and I have believed and labored for
this as strongly, and longer than
many of you. But have felt that
it should be done in the spirit of
love, not of hatred. / consider the
doctrines brought forward in the
House of Representatives by Mr..
Stevens--though followed in their
entirety, thank God by very few
/ consider them to be doctrines Of
Belial, leading to destruction. The
North has a chance to show grace,
and love, and magnanimity. How
! long to see it Both Congress
and the President should have been
: pressed to union. / had hoped to
see the North showing her superb
ority in Christian nobleness and
generous forgiveness. But I have
been disappointed. 1t has not been
done. You can no more change
rebels to loyal men by casting them
out and turning them away, than
you can convert the wicked by
building up wall of separation be-
tween them and the good-shptting
them out from the very influences
that should be brought to bear upon
them. If thine enemy hunger, feed
| him; if he thirsts, give him drink,
for in SO doing thou shalt heap Goals
of fire upon his head. Be not over
come of evil, but overcome evil with
good There, go; vote that. You
have been talking it long enough !;
do it. You have been praying it
long enough; try it." d- uart
Year: 1866

f. OTTo respectfully announces to his friends
and customers and the publ generally, that his
store having been removed from its former stahd,
adjoining Days Drug store, to the large store and
warehouse building,


ON THE SOUTH EAST CORNER OF THIRD AND


LAUREL STREETS,
He Is fully prepared to keep on hand one of the
largest and most varied assortmenrs of the above
artices to be found in the city Of Baton Rouge.
With his increased aud increasing facilities for
obtaining and storing merchandise. he is enabled
to meet all present and future demands, and there
fore invites the sps cia attention of purchasers to
that fact, hoping by spirit Of accommodation to
please all, and to always sell on as reasonable
terms as the state of the markets will permit, to
secure lib raj share Of regular patronage.


Please call before purchasing elsewhere


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Year: 1866

A new trouble has turned up; or
rather new way of its development.
For the information we are indebted to
an earnest article going the rounds,
credited to a religious journal. Our
pure minds would never have discover
ed it. 1t appears that the women have
taken to rounding out their forms with
bags of seed, the specific ovule in this
case being the seed fed to canary birds,
which it is said has caused an imitation
in the price of bird seed. At the risk of
exciting the market of painters oil we
suggest that fax seed would be still bet
ter.


The religious journal thus describes
this new danger:


at seems by the manner of its use it
will deceive the most wary. 1t is said
to be inclosed in small bags adapted to
the proper size and shape, and attached
in some peculiar way to the undercloth-
ing, so that at the motion of the body
the bagged bird seed moves so as to re-
semble very much the living flesh"


Ifit deceives "the most wary" what
chance is there for the simple, confding
and credulous, who take every female
seeming for TRUTH Should not those
who are most wary in these concerns
give to the unsophisticated the benefit
of their experience and skill in detect
ing these counterfeit presentments Of
female charmsi 1t would seem also that
those who have made this investigates
Year: 1866

rate of recantation, we expect him
shortly to repent of all his errors and
join with us in heartily advocating the
Mayors reelection. And, by way of
fastening that repentance, we would
like to ask him, confidentially of course,
whether he was not just little impru-
dent in charging Mr. SWEENEY with
having made deficient return to the
assessor of taxes. If he thinks not, we
will endeavor to show him at some fu-
ture time that, by alluding to this sub
ject, he has "put his foot in it" as badly
as before. We will allow him a few
days for reflection. If he is not, by this
time, heartily ashamed of the slanders
contained in his article Of yesterday
morning, he is certainly more shameless
than some Of his friends have heretofore
believed him to be. We know of more
than one of his party associates who
consider his assaults upon Mayor SwEE-
NgY's reputation as citizen and man
outrageous and despicable beyond ex
preston. We will not dignity the
charges he has made by offering de-
nial. The people of Wheeling will
make all the reply that is necessary, by
their votes in the next municipal elec-
ton.
Year: 1866

The radicals in Congress still have IN
eye to the "main chance" and are piously
opposed to anything that may work
detriment to the plentitude of their
p ockets. The bill for the assemblingof
the Fortieth Congress on the 9TH OF
March 1867 was u very shrewd dodge
for securing to the reelected
members few hundred dollars
mileage for trips home and back which
were never performed. Of q piece with
the same class of legislation was the re-
cent tabling of resolution directing
that no more government bonds be is
sued unless made subject to tax
alton like any other property.
The taxation clause didn't 60 down
with the men who had invested
their extra pay" in Government bonds
and SO the proposition was incontinent-
ly strangled. While the laboring
classes all over the country are
groaning under the burdens Of Fed
eral taxation which the payment
of the national debt has rendered neces-
sary, these men who are every day
squandering millions of the public
money not only refuse to permit the
bonds of the government already is
sued to bear their proper share of
taxation, but are unwilling to permit
those hereafter put forth to contribute
to the ultimate liquidation of the na-
tional debt.
Year: 1866

The Supreme Court of the United
States has rendered its final decision
against the authority of courts martial
or military commissions to try citizens
for offenses committed remote from the
theatre of war and in districts where
the process of civil courts is unobstruct-
ed. The decision is complete justifi-
cation of the course pursued by the
Democratic party in denouncing and op-
posing these mock trials during the
late war, and it stamps with the ap-
proval of the highest court in the
land what, few years ago, was called
"copperheadism," "disloyalty" and
treason" We all remember the time
when it was even dangerous for any
man to question the legality of these
Military Commissions for the trial of
persons not connected with the military
service, and the so-called 'loyalists'
were never moved to deeper wrath than
when some man who revered the Con-
stitutiun of the United States dared TO
protest, he it ever so mildly, against
the system which has just been officially
declared to be without the sanction of
law. No American citizen can avoid
feeling some degree of humiliation when
he remembers that, with the sanction of
the War Department of the Federal
government, these illegal tribunals
have. i'll some instances, condemned
citizens to death, and, in many cases,
inflicted the most rigorous and cruel
Imprisonment that brutality could con-
ceive. The decision of the Supreme
Court, declaring that these things were
in violation Of the fundamental law of
the land, is very satisfactory to those
who, at the peril Of their lives,
protested against military despotism
during all the dark days of the civil
war. but it cannot restore to life the
victims who were illegally put to death,
nor erase from the memory of thousands
the bitter recollection of the horrors of
incarceration in a military prison"
The decision will probably secure our
countrymen from a repetition of these
wrongs, but it cannot blot from our
history . bloody page which every lover
of his country would be glad to have
erased.
Year: 1866

a speciality, might find q way to dlstln-
guish the dull and senseless movements
Of a bag of canary seed from the living
palpitations. But of course we do not
venture to pronounce in a matter IN
which it seems there are experts.


The religious journal thus moralizes
ON its dangers to conjugal happiness,
and exorts mothers to resist this seedy
deception of the "most wary"


Doubtless many unhappy marriages
have resulted from such deceptions
arising from such sources. Mothers,
do your duty and take this matter IN
hand by seeking to exercise that infu,
ence and authority with which You are
invested by your position. Asguardians
of the welfare of the social compact we
deem it our duty to take the lead in this
effort at reform"


About the duty of the religious jour.
nails to take the lead in approving this
reform, there can be no question. There
is high precedent. The prophet pro-
nounced special wo against women
who sew pillows to their armholes
which, we suppose, was delicate way
of describing the same substitution.


Imagine the anguish of q young man
when he finds that he has taken q wife
that has gone to seed; that the rest fol
the conjugal head, an invitation tc
which sounds SO well in poetry, but
which may not be mentioned in plain
prose, is bag Of grain. 1t cannot be
doubted that, as the religious journal
says, much marital unhappiness has re-
suited "frOm such deceptions arising
from such sources" 1t is law that
contract made in fraud is void. Is moi
that a fearful law to the marriage con-
tracti We know not whether the loose
proviso, "for better or worse" would
cover this.


Hawthorne, describing the habit OF
tile English matrons of taking on flesh
SAYS that in few years the wife be-
comes so different person that the mar,
riage ceremony ought to be performed
again. But it appears that man may
find in twinkling that what he took
for woman is granary. Can such
things overcome us like summer cloud
and be bindingi


We have often observed that the same
customs, relations and institutions exist
among every people, with only differ
ence in the outward manifestations
The Asiatic husband is not permitted te
see his wife before marriage. How mu cE
wiser are we as to what we are getting
even "the most wary" 1t may be Q
museum of foreign substances, gathered
from the four-quarters of the globe
from air. earth and sea; from the whole
animal kingdom; from the living and
the dead.


As family journal, We feel to second
this exhortatiOn of the religions journal
Mothers, doyour duty" Cast the barr
out of your own eyes, and then you shal
see clearly to pluck the bag out of youl
daughters. Let grain be food for man
and not delusion to turn his head
Eject these swelling denominations; or i
YOU will re-enforce nature, use the
other infinite contrivances, which give
the desired roundness of figure, without
deceiving the "most wary" And thu
seems satisfactory compromise to th'
religious journal, whose idea is like tha
expressed by Hamlet to Ophelia:


If thou wilt needs marry, marry fool; TO
wise men know well enough how you are made
Year: 1866

Serious apprehensions are beginning
to be felt by tho family and friends of
Mr.. Louis Fox, the distinguished bill
liard-player, of this city, as to his safety.
He has not been seen or heard from since
Tuesday forenoon of last week, when he
left his residence, on North Clinton
street, apparently in his usual health
and spirits. A few minutes later he was
met by Mrs. c. A. Kellogg at the west
end of Andrews street bridge, and that
is the last that is known of his move
ments. Mrs. Kellogg conversed with
him about the accident by which he had
some time previously shot himself, and
he seemed to be cheerful and in excel
lent humor. For two or three days il
was supposed that he might have gone
To New York. He had been talking Of
visiting that city, but as he took no
baggage or change of clothing it was
supposed that his absence could not be
protracted beyond a day OF two. Eight
days have now elapsed without
bringing any tidings Of him, and it
seems to US that the alarm Of his family
is fully justified by the circumstances,
especially as hismOst intimate acquaint-
aflce5 III Ne" lOIk anu OtLtE Cllicb Say >
in reply to kilograms, that, they have
not seen or heard Of him.


Mr.. Fox carried an umbrella in his
hand when he left home, and is sup-
posed TO have had about one hundred
dollars in money in his pocket. 1t is
possible yet that he was called out OF
town suddenly on business, but it is GER
tainly strange that he has not notified
his wife, TO whom he was warmly at
tached, of the fact. Inquiries have been
made of the conductors on the several
routes leading from Rochester, and none
of them remember seeing Mr.. Fox on the
day of his disappearance, or since.
There are but few persons among Mr..
Fox's acauaintances here who are aware
that there is anything unaccountable
with respect to his absence, and among
them nothing is known that can lead TO
a suspicion Of suicide, as his domestic
relations and pecuniary circumstances
were entirely satisfactory. If anybody
who reads these lines knows anything
of his whereabouts, his family hope that
the information will be forwarded to
them immediately.
Year: 1866

A wife in New Orleans sued for o di-
yorce and obtained it on the established
testimony that . piece of belt ribbon
and q hair pin belonging to another
woman were found in the plaintiffs
bedroom. A wife in New York visited
her husbands office down town and dis
covering long hairs in the hair brush,
tried on the same dodge, but he turned
the laugh against her by proving that
his char. woman had been surrsptitious-
ly using bis toilet apparatus. "
Year: 1866

Editor Of the Register:


During this weather, when the pave
ments and curbings are so slippery, is it
right that the streets should be almost
by big boys and little boys,
on sleds, who come across the street
crossings, not unfrequently at q break
neck speed, regardless as to whether
gentlemen or ladies may be crossing at
the time 7 = 1t may be fine sport, but it
is dangerous, and l think should be
prohibited by the city officials.


A LADY.
Year: 1866

Editor OF the Keglster:


Since small commencement has been
made in that way, would it not be we'll
for one of the city papers to publish a
list of the names of all our prominent
citizens with the returns of personal
property made by each of them to the
Assessor last springi Perhaps it might
add to the revenue of the city, some
what. How did the editor of the Intel
ligencer vote on that question: PIP.
Year: 1866




New YoRK. Nov. 16z-The morning
papers have the following special from
Washington t..t
General Logan il in the city and
announces his determination TO do all
in his power to induce the impeach
ment Of the President. Chief Justice
Chase called at the White House last
evening and was closeted with the
President for an hour Seward, Ran
dali and McCulloeh were afterwards
present and long consultation was
held, believed to be upon the most
important subject, based upon the
efforts now being made by leading
men Of all parties 10 induce the Presi.
dent, in consideration Of general
amnesty, TO induce the people Of the
South TO accept impartial suffrage,
with the qualification Of either in
telligence or property. Prominent
Southern men are cooperating.


General Grant was quite unwell
yesterday, but was out to-day.


A Cabinet Minister stated to-day
that the question Of recommending
TO the South to adopt the Constitu-
tional Amendment had never been
considered in the Cabinet as reported,
nor ever proposed.