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Year: 1874

To ALL. particularly invalids, spring is a
trying season. Indications of sickness should
at once be attended to. Fatal diseases may
be caused by allowing the bowels to become
constipated, and the system to remain in
disordered condition, until the disorder has
time to develop ITSELF An ounce of preven-
ton is worth a pound of cure, is an old and
truthful saying. Therefore, we advise all who
are troubled with the complaints now very
prevalent -heRdache, indigestion, disOrdered
liver. want of appetite, nausea, or feverish
skin, to take. without delay, Schenck's Man
drake Pills. We eknow of no remedy so harm
less and decisive in its action. 1t at once
strikes at the root of the disease and produces
a healthy tone to the system. People never
need suffer from any disease arising from
disordered condition of the liver if they
would take this excellent medicine when
they feel the first indications of the
maiady. Families leaving home for the
summer months should take three or four
boxes of these pills with them. They have an
almost instantaneous effect. They will re-
lieye the patient of headache in one. or two
hours, and will rapidly cleanse the liver Of
surrounding bile, and will effectually pre- ent
a bilious attack. They are sold by all drug
gists. O0-eOu- ~
Year: 1874

An Oswego paper describes fire by
saying that the red flames danced in
the heavens and flung their fiery arms
about like a black funeral pail until Sam
Jones got on the roof and doused them
out with pail of water.
Year: 1874

Matches are said to be made in heaven
If this is really their place os manufac'
ture, says the Indianapolis Sentinel, il
seems a pity that box purporting to
contain one hundred should be found
upon examination to contain but thirty
y
Year: 1874

The continued i'll health of s. A. Stock
dale, Esq, has induced him to tender his
resignation of the Office Of internal revenue
collector for the first district of Louisiana,
on account of continued i'll health. He made
an excellent chief deputy collector of the
port under Mr.. Kellogg, our present Gov
ernor, and as collector of internal reven ue
he proved a faithful and competent office +.
1t was his close application to duty that
broke down his health, and his many
friends in New Orleans, particularly those
among the mercantile class, will regret to
hear of the necessity that has driven him
to resign his public position in this city.
The government can not well dispense with
the services of such a man, and therefore
we should not be surprised to hear that the
President had rendered Mr.. Stockdale a
position somewhere where he can have
health.
Year: 1874

Tomorrow evening will be given at the
above named hall grand concert for the
benefit of sufferers by overflow. This con-
cert will be given under the direction of
Miss Octavie Romey. by number of young
ladies Of this city. In another column we
publish the programme of the evening.
The quality of the entertainment, and the
object for which it is to be given, should
insure full house.
Year: 1874

Night Express Train on the Mobile Line


Commencing the twenty first the Mobile
line will put on fast night express train,
leaving the depot at the foot of Canal
street at 4P. M. which will make many
hours quicker time to Eastern cities than
can be made via any other route. This be-
ing the only all rail route, offers to travel
lers the advantage of through cars from
Canal street to st. Louis, Louisville and
Charlotte, and will take passengers through
without transfer, in quicker time and with
two less changes than any other route.
Year: 1874




Lieutenant Governor Antoine arrived in
the city last Saturday from Shreveport.
We understand his visit to his friends in
that section of our State proved very
pleasant one. He was honored with pub
lie meeting, largely attended, by citizens
of all parties, and afforded an opportunity
of addressing them from the rostrum. In
the course of his speech he reminded his
constituents of the difficulties that had to
be encountered when the colored man first
attempted to vote, and congratulated them
upon the progress that had been made in
Shreveport-a place that was once noted
for its hostility to Republicanism-in over
coming those difficulties. He had felt the
injustice of prejudice, and was therefore
all the better qualified to congratulate his
fellow-citizens that it had in great meas
ure disappeared, as was demonstrated by
the fact that he had been invited to attend
public meeting of the best citi
zens Of Shreveport, regardless Of
race, color or previous condition,
and asked to address them. This was in
deed progress in the right direction, that
justified him in saying that he believed the
two races were getting along mo1e har.
moniously in Caddo than in any other par
ish in the State. The acknowledgment of
the right and duty of citizens to come to.
gether and consult for the public interest
he undoubtedly regards of far more i'm
portance to any good that could come from
the enforcement of social equality ques-
ton that he believes every man has right
to regulate by choosing his associates. So
ciai equality can not be enforced by law
among any people. That is matter that
must be regulated by the people in their
individual capacity, and We are glad to
know that Lieutenant Governor Antoine's
good sense has led him to this conclusion.
Year: 1874

EXTRACT from private letter now in


circulation from candidate for state
Senate. "Tell all our friends that | am
in favor of the Civil Rights Bill; tell all
lukewarm Democrats that | am opposed
Year: 1874

After to-day the ours oil all degrees rom the
stately 81. Bernard 10 the NANCY cur, VIII be at
liberty TO range the broad avenues, medium broad
streets and narrow alleys without any danger OF
being interfered with by the 'onlcia dog catchers
or any one else. The solid vote OF the Assistant
Aldermen on Monday, by which they concurred in
the ordinance OF the Aldermen aoollshing the Dog
law, was sufficient inducement to Mayor Have
meyer to sign the same at once even II he had the
remotest idea OF veto. During the summer the
city nas been freed from over 1000 dangerous
ours, which were OF no earthly use except TO scare
nervous people ana become infected with hydro
phooia II next summer the contingency arises
for another law OF tue same kind the new Common
Council can quickly enact one, especially as no
concurrence OF any other board wll then be neces-
sary.


rne repeal VIII be signed to-day by Mayor Have
meyer, and after t6ls evening no more dogs VIII
be received at the dog pound.
Year: 1874

Among late Congressional news is the passage in the House of bill for the bet ter protection of the frontier settlements of Texas against Indian and Mexican dep- relations, by the construction and main- tenance of telegraph line from the fron- tier to Brownsville on the Rio Grande.

 This is one of many wise acts of the present Congress which, in the flood ot abuse and islander poured upon that body, have passed unnoticed. But we propose to notice this and to seize the occasion to urge that while Congress is engaged in good workit might take the opportunity to provide for a farther extension of the tele- graph along the Mexican frontier through southern New Mexico and Ari- zona to Tucson. The cost of such an en- terprise would be insignificant when compared to the good to be effected. It would probably pass from New Mexico through Camp Bowie and along the south ern overland route to Tucson, thus mak- ing complete connection and continuous line through the Apache country and along the whole Mexican frontier. It will be some years, under the most ad- vantageous circumstances, before the Texas and Pacific railroad is built and it would be the truest economy to precede the building of this road by the proposed line of telegraph. The line already es- tsblished in Arizona has been of incaleu. lable benefit to government, and the completion of the line along this south ern frontier would be a prime agent in securing and maintaining peace. It is no spirit of eItravagance that urges this move. It should have been done long ago. It would have saved valuable lives and untold treasure. It Is to the interest of the general government to adopt any agency which promises more speedily to open up such country as this line would traverse. Many times the amount of money needed for this movementhas been lavished on useless projects and here Is a project that appeals to every man of good pecuniary sense. Let this line be built and when the railroad comes 1t will wind through the mountains on the east and span down across country already free from the assassin and savage.
Year: 1874

ESTIMATOR BUCKINGHAM has been elect ed President of the Board of Directors of the Hartford Insane Asylum"

 This is the same gentleman who lately offered an amendment in the U. S. Senate, to @ pending motion, that arms be issued to the Indians of Nebraska to defend themselves against the settlers. Now in the eternal fitness of things if we could only shut him up in that Insane Asylum and issue arms to the maniacs therein, we might be happy yet.
Year: 1874



 Inf Washington dispatches of the 1tE

 ultima xe md this bit of genuine bumor in Gongreskional proceedings:

 The bill to authorize the issue of arms

 to the authorities of Nebraska was taken

 up. Buckingham of Connecticut offered an amendment, to the effect that arms should also be issued to the Indians to protect themselves from the raids of set tiers. Logan of Illinois criticised sharp ly the course of Buckingham; and, pend ing the discussion, the morning hour ex- pired, and the bill went over.

 As Mir. Buckingham will soon go over also, he having been defeated in the late contest .in Connecticut and Democrat elected as his successor, it seems proper to give him an obituary notice by pub fishing the above. His offered amend ment that arms be issued to the Indians to protect themselves from the raids of settlers is sufficient explanation of his late defeat without going to the trouble which political staticians have taken to discover some other reason. No party or cause however pure could save from de- feat being so heartless as to seriously of fer such a proposition in the national councils of legislation. Ignorance and senselessness may be excused and over- looked in pot washer or a curbstone politician, but not in Senator. Mems actions and opinions are judged according to the light of the time of their existence; and so judging, in the light of this late day in Indian knowledge; when intorma tion of the live Indians character and nature has been disseminated far and wide; when the Indian of romance has been rubbed from the slate and in his place has been depicted the fiendish fact; when it has been fully shown that the Indian is no safer because he may have been wrong ed, than would be the maniac because he may have been ill treated, in this full mid day of knowledge and facts what can we say when a Senator rises in his seat and calmly proposes that these maniac wards of the nation be armed. The proposition may have been meant by the gentleman as flight of humor. Ifso it was not only a most lamentable attempt, but it was in- excusable folly. If he knew of the name less crimes committed by these savages in Arizona and elsewhere, of the thou sands of poor victims lying by every road and in every vale of this western country, he chose 6 poor subject for wit; and if he IS ignorant of these sad facts he is ignor- ant and uninformed on a most vital sub- ject and is unit to make or help make laws.

 Knaves and fools have spoken and acted in this terrible savage drama, but it was reserved for United States Senator to "close the debate" with an utterance that can be preserved no where so we'll as on his monument. "Off with his head; so much for Buckingham.
Year: 1874

The escape of Marshal Bazaine is not
matter OF very great Importance ex-
cept TO the prisoner himself. Whether
or not he was guilty of the reasonable
conduct of which re was sentenced.
public sentiment in France Undoubtedly
sustained the verdict of the court-mar-
tial. The French were eager to find
some s5apegoat for their ignominious
defeat in the field, and Napoleonism
was at the time far more unpopular
than it is at present. The charge that
a NapoleOnist Marshal was q traitor,
that lie had made Sedan possible and
sacrificed the garrison OF Metz, was one
which the French were only too ready
to believe. France, therefore, fully
acquiesced in Bazaine's condemnation,
and he has been considered as martyr
only by the most ardsnt Imperialists.


Now that he has escaped Bazaine will
probably seek refuge in England or
Belgium. He will, however, be quite
without influence upon the future of
his country. The army has lost its re-
spect for him, and no party in France
can at present afford to accept him as
an ally. He will, of course, receive q
cordial welcome from the ex-Empress,
but he will thereafter sink into obscu
rity. Should the empire be restored
he would, of course, be reinstated in
his military rank, but he can hardly be
reinstated in the respect and confidence
of the troops. His career is over, and
his escape from his prison is a matter
of far less Importance than the escape
of Rochefort. The Marshal who once
commanded an army of $4,000 men is
now powerless but the writer OF the
bitter lampoons can sting his enemies
as severely to-day as he stung the EN-
peror and his court when he was first
an exile at Brussels.
Year: 1874

Each mother is a historian. She
writes not the history of empires or of
nations on paper, but she writes her own
history on the unperishable mind of her
child. That tablet and that history
will remain indellible when time shall
be no more. That history each mother
will meet again, and read with eternal
Joy or unutterable woe in the far ages
of eternity. This thought would
weigh on the mind of every mother,
and render her deeply circumspect and
prayful, and faithful, in her solemn
work of training up her children for
heaven and Immortality. The minds of
children are very susceptible and easily
impressed. A word, a look, a frown
may engrave an impression on the mind
of child which no lapse of time can
efface or wash out. You walk along the
seashore when the tide is out, and you
form characters, or write words or
names in the smooth, white sand which
lies spread out SO clear and beautiful
at your feet, according as your fancy
may dictate, but the running tide shall
in few hours wash out and efface for
ever all that you have written. Not so
the lines and characters of truth, or er-
ror, which your conduct imprints- ON the
minds of your child. There you write
impressions for the eternal good or i'll
of your child, which neither the floods
Year: 1874

"Among the histories of unsuccessful
attempts at political assassination,
says the Paris Journal, els one dating
from the early part of the reign OF
Queen Isabella II. In those days lived
at Madrid a man of family named Angel
de la Vaga, but as he was dying with
hunger sullen anger filed his heart, and
at last he fixed his hate on the Queen
and resolved to kill her. One evening,
as she was passing the Puerta del Sol,
he fred at her and missed he was i'm.
mediately seized and taken to prison.
When his trial commenced he disdained
to defend himself, and was sentenced
to death. The fatal day arrived, and
he was about to be taken to the place OF
punishment, when the Queen ordered
him to be brought before her. Don
Angel she said, I pardon you, but
you must leave Spain at once and for
ever. My treasurer will furnish you
with the means The man retired,
filed with an emotion easy to compre
hend, and, during ten years, nothing
more was heard of him. At length the
day of exile came for Queen Isabella,
who took refuge in Paris. The first
visit she received was from Don Angel,
who, having become rich through spec
ulations at the Paris Bourse, came to
lay at the disposal of her majesty all he
possessed. The queen refused the offer
of the old regicide, and the latter, deep
ly hurt, left for America, where he still
resides
Year: 1874

Mrs. Hooper writes from Paris, that,
early IN the season as it is, the fashions
Tor the autumn are already under dis
cusslon, and here are one or two authen-
tic items culled from the floating mass
of chit-chat and reports, and impaired
TO me by an unquestionable authority :
False cOlors," as they are called, that
IS, dead and mixed hues, will still,
regret to say, be worn to the exclusion
of the natural and brilliant hues of
blue, and crimson, and purple. The
fashionable tints, next season, are to be
marine blue, bronze green, mouse gray,
and new and reddish shade of plum
color. jet will still be extensively worn
In passementerie and embroidery, and
an effort is to be made to introduce en-
broldeTlos and trimmings of colored
steel beads, which are manufactured in
various tints of blue, and red, and
yellow. / should think that the effect
would he theatrical, but on materials
of the same hue as the heads themselves
the combination cannot fail to be rich
and effective. The polOnaise is to be
definitely abandoned as a part of in
door costume, or of a silk suit, and is
only to be worn in eavy materials,
such as velvet and cloth. In velvet the
pOloDaises are to be made very long and
looped slightly at one side, the looping
70 be caught up with buckle and bow
of ribbon. Bonnets are to be worn
RATHER larger, and trimmed with a pro-
fussion of flowers n wreath, placed in
side the brim instead of around the
crown, will be the most marked inno-
walton. The question of strings or no
Strings has been left in allowance, and
probably will be settled later in the
season by the fair wearers themselves.
Some effort has been made here to in
troduce boots of buff and gray linen to
he worn with dresses of the same shade.
but the effect is bad, and the articles
uubecoming.
Year: 1874

When you see man going home at 2
o'block in the morning and know his
wife is waiting for him it is likely to be
stormy.


When a man receives.a bill for goods
his wife has bought unknown to him
look out for thunder and lightning.


When man goes home and finds no
supper ready, the fire gone out, and his
wife visiting the saloons with the rest
of the boys" it is likely to be cloudy.


When a man promises to take his wife
to party and changes his mind after
she addressed, you may expect shower.


When a man saves his cigar money to
buy his wife a new bonnet, and the
children new shoes. it indicates a spell
of sunshine.


When a man dies and leaves a nice
young widow with plenty of money, and
you see her walking out with the execu-
tor on Sunday afternoon, a change is
imminent.
Year: 1874

The Evening Star prints communi-
cation making the announcement of the
of the supposed existence of a ace OF
AIbinos on the Rio Grande, near San
ia Fe. The paper vouches for the
standing and good character of the
writer. The communication states that
in the month of July, 1945, the writer
was travelling east from the Pacific, and
seeking a gap or pass though the noun
tains, which would lead to the Rio
Grande, south of Santa Fe, he found a
passage which led into their country.
It was canon of thirty miles in length.
From the outlet of the canon he travel
ed about mile, when he found three
women and two children, their skin as
women left the place in haste, and,
about sundown, three men came riding
rapidly down on the finest horses he
ever saw. They were well mounted
and we'll armed. They Immediately
dismounted and disarmed him.


They were white men, such as are
frequently seen in Santa Fe, and some
times in California. The next morning
early, he was ordered to mount his
mule one of the men rode ahead of
him, and the two others followed be-
hind. After riding about twenty miles
they dismounted, and ordered him to
do the same. They had short confab
together, and he was ordered to mount
his mule. They then gave him all his
arms and traps, with the understanding
that he was to make good time out of
the canon, and continue going in that
direction without looking back. From
that point he travelled thirty miles be-
fore he reached an Indian village. It
was that of a tribe of Cemanches.
When he told the chief, by signs, that
he came out of those mountains, he was
afraid of him. He said that they were
the abode of the evil spirit, and that no
Indian that went into those mountains
ever returned from them. He describes
the country as circular, surrounded by
steep and high mountains, covered with
snow, without break or pass.-Chj-
cdOO Times,
Year: 1874

nor storms of earth can wash out, nor
deaths cold finger can erase, nor the
slow moving ages of eternity obliterate.
How careful, then, should each mother
be of herself in her treatment of her
child. How playful, and how serious,
and how earnest to write the truths of
God on his nind--those truths which
shall be his guide aud teacher when her
1oics shall be silent in death, and her
lips no longer move in prayer in his be-
half, in commencing her dear child to
her covenant God,
Year: 1874

A writer in Nature says: eff the
brains of different individuals are COM
pared to running srreams, in which the
waters exhibit different degrees of clear
ness, as brains give evidences of differ
ences in quality, their thoughts may be
compared to the reflection of surround
ing objects, on the surface of the streams,
different in intensity according to the
clearness of the water or the quality of
the brain cells. Upon this analogy it is
evident that the relative intensity of
different reflections is not dependent at
all on the stream itself, but on the illu-
minating rover of the objects reflected !;
in like manner we cannot conceive that
the amount of nerve tissue disintegrated
by the greatest minds at the time that
they are evolving their mightiest
thoughts is in excess of that which is
wasted during the same time by the
most commonplace member of every
community. Thought is as intimately
connected with the reception of external
impressions by the healthy human brain
as reflections from water are with the
illumination Of the surrounding objects;
they are involuntary when cause for
their development is present"
Year: 1874

Life is monotonous. Whether we re-
gard the life of man, or the life OF
beasts, we are struck by the same re-
markable fact, that life, to all outward
appearance, is a monotonous succession
of scenes and movement-all but Incl
dental. We wonder how the interest
is kept up. But we never tire of going
to bed at night, and we are very sorry
when VIC tire of getting up in the
morning. We never weary except with
regret, of breakfasting, dinning and
supplng; and yet these actions are re-
peated necessarily three hundred and
sixty-fve times in the year, with renew
ed excitement on every succeeding occa-
sion. We take off our clothes once
every day, and put them on once every
day. We do this at nearly the same
hour, in daily succession; and when
health is good, the pleasure derived
from so doing is not marred by the
repetition of the act; for the ebbing
and flowing of our bodily sensations
prepare us. without any effort on our
part, for all the vicissitudes of our ex-
istence. When hungry, food is agree
able; when weary, sleep or rest is a
treat when warm, the cool air is agree
able when cold, the pleasure derived
from a cheerful freside is delicious.
The excitement is kept up by contrasts !;
and we purchase the enjoyment of one
feeling by encouraging the reverse.
With health, youth and prosperity, we
should never be weary. 1t is age, and
weakness, and poverty that prepare us
for death; and even that comes easy
upon most men, at least, like a sleep,
and the heaviness of the heart gives
even the last sleep a welcome.


-"My notion of wife at FORTY. " said