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Year: 1875

IT is very disagreeable thing to belong to
a party whose majority in Congress from its
make up and past affiliations is compelled to
put itself on record against recognition of the
pre-eminent claims of wounded Union soldiers
Tor official position and makes its votes tally
with its action by electing officers ofthe House
who have removed one-armed Union soldiers
to make room for able-boded gentlemen from
Texas who find the iron clad oath little too
thorough swarming. The Republican party
should not forget that by sympathy and
pledge, it is bound to recognize the claims of
the wounded Union soldiers as the best of
credentials.
Year: 1875

The Acena National. the French govern
ment organ, says that strong pressure has
been brought to bear upon the Versailles
cabinet to take measures in conjunction with
this country to pacify Cuba, and that Eng
land is anxious to join in the effort. 1t is
thought that President Grant referred to
these Governments when he limited in his
message that if he took any action at all in
the matter it would be Jointly with other
nowers
Year: 1875

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming represent our
iourna1
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

I have seen young man sell a good
farm, turn merchant aud die in the in
sane hospital.


have seen farmer travel abou. so
much that there was nothing at home
worth looking at.


l have seen yonng girl marry a man
of dissolate habits, and repent of it as
long as she lived.


have seen the extravaganza and fol
iy OF children bringing their parents to
poverty and want and themselves 10
disgrace.


have seen a prudent and industri-
Gus wife retrieve the fortunes of fami-
ly, when her husband pulled at the
other end of the rope.
Year: 1875

PETER Observation-Disclosures an
ecdotes are related of Cartwright.
Among the many we will relate one
which is strikingly characteristic of the
man. In the days of President Jack
son he was spending Sabbath in Lou
isville, Ky., and was invited by:a young
pastor to preach in his church in the
evening. He accepted the invitation
and appeared in the pulpit While 60
ing through the Introductory exercises
General Jackson came into the church
and took bis seat. The young preacher,
whose notions of responsibility we're
somewhat fastidious, began to exhibit
considerable uneasiness for fear the
rough and eccentric Cartwright might
offend the President. At length he
whispered to the uncouth old stranger
General Jackson is in The CONGREGATION
but the Individual addressed paid no
attention to the hint Again the SEN
teuce GIN. Jackson is in the congrega-
lion, fell upon his ear with greater dis
tinctness than before. The patience of
the backwoods preacher was exhausted,
and turning to his whispering torment
or,ex claimed in tone that the entire
congregation heard-'Whaf do care
for Generoi Jdckson? God wiH damn
him as quick as anynegro in Kentucky,
if he dostni rfpenfr


The mortified young man afterwards
tried to apologize TO General Jackson
for the roughncss of Mr.. Cartwright.
Jackson replied-"You need not apollo
gize for that man; if ! had a regiment
of such men, ! could conquer all Eng
land"
Year: 1875

A STREET RoMANCE.-Virtue should
ever be its own reward, moralists tellus,
but little incident which recently oc-
Cured in large city seems to prove
that occasionally it seems to appreciate
more substantial thanks. A blind beg
gar was crossing crowded street, while
a beautiful young lady, fearful for his
safety, anxiously watched him from the
sidewalk. A careless cab driven would
have run the old man down had not the
kind girl, at the risk of her own life,
rushed to the rescue, and piloted the
beggar to the pavement in safety. A
rich bachelor saw the transaction, and
straightway sought her out, was intro
duced, coulted, proposed, was accepted,
and married the heroine without loss of
time. Let us hope she will be happy,
for nothing is more lovely in the young
than a gentle, charitable spirit. Com
mending ON this anecdote, waggish
reporter declares that the effect it has
produced is wonderful. Hopeful young
ladies can be seen standing in the vicin-
ity of street crossings, with one eye
searching for stray blind men, and the
other on the lookout for rich bachelor;
for it would be an awful bore if they
should help the beggar and then fail to
find the nice old bachelor. We'll, girls,
you'll all decide that that reporter certain
ly isn't nice bachelor, thought he may
be old one Let us hope that if he
ever finds himself in the way of a care
less cab driver no lovely lady will rush
to his rescue-he does not deserve sue
cor at the hands of the girls he ridicules,
the monster!
Year: 1875

A short time ago young looking
woman of the middle class, who had
seemingly lost her mind, was arrested
in a selni-destitute condition and carried
to the Central Station in New Orleans,
charged on the books with being insane
and not being able to give satisfacto-
ry account of herself.


Though her hair was unkempt and
disheveled, and her clothing scant,
soiled and draggled from her wander
ings far and wide in the streets, ''look-
ing for her lost husband" as she said,
there was such pitifnl look about her
face and eyes that the officials, and es-
pecially Lynch, the turnkey or the sta
tion, treated her with little more con-
sideration than is usually show prisoners
of her class.


And as she sat in her cell swaying to
and fro, as suffering women often do
a short of keeping time, as it were to
her sobs and means, all about her lost
husband-Lyncb, who looked in upon
her, thought he recognized in the Mary
Stephens before him the wife of Stephen
McGill, confirmed lunatic, who had
been sent to the Insane Asylum several
months ago.


This suspicion he communicated to
DR.. Cooper, who at once had the wo-
man removed to the Insane Asylum,
whittier she would have been sent In
the end.


When taken to the asylum she was
placed in the reception room and short
iy aftcrward Stephen McGill, the luna
tic, was brought in and placed before
her.


Instantly the poor woman sprang to
her feet, and rushed forward placed her
arms about her husband. McGill, for a
moment, stood as though more dazed
than ever, and then rubbing his eyes
and face with his hands and shaking
his head slowly, as if to clear away the
obstruction placed npon his brain by
his disease, said "ls this you, Kate?
Have you come to see me at last?'


AT the mention Of the name Kate the
face of the woman flushed and clouded
for a moment, and then recovering
herself quickly, she said: "No, it is not
Kate, your first wife, Steve, but Mary
Stephens, whom you married alter
ward


McGill, however, could not under
stand how it was that the woman before
him was not his Kate of early days,
and do what she would he keeps calling
her simply "Kate, Kate" The second
marriage was evidently blotted out
from bis distempered mind as though it
had never been reality.


Then the two were separated, and
the man went back to his place of con-
finement, calling now and then for his
Kate, his "own dear wife Kate" until
his daily rawlings came on and he was
again stark mad-forgettul even of his
first love.


The shock of the meeting had con
trary effect upon the woman. She is
growing better and better, and will
shortly be able to come out again into
the world alone and join in the multi
tude of toilers seeking their daily
bread.
Year: 1875

In speaking of the young men of the
South, the Richmond Wing utters
these truthful words:


but what shall we say of the young
men Some of them are talented, met
tlesome, high-spirited lads who feel
that they cannot work, aud to beg it is
a shame, and so they sit down and do
nothing. They dream away the active
period of life. Fortunately, there are
others who have a more practical turn,
and do not rest until they find something
to do. They start ont with determi-
nation to find some occupation, and eve
ry youth who does that will succeed
sooner or later.


"One thing is certain, if the broken
/ down families of Virginia, and indeed
of the whole South, are ever to be re-
cruited and restored, that result is to be
brought about by the young-those
from fifteen to thirty. They can do
this if they will, and surely there could
be no higher duty"


To which the Chronicle adds: Never
were truer words uttered by tongue or
pen. They should be read by every
young man in the land. They should
be clipped out and posted up where
they can be read daily. A volume
could not contain greater wisdom than
is condensed in the above extract. If
Democratic papers would place the last
paragraph in the above quotation at
the head of their columns, and keep 1t
there, they would do more to advance
southern prosperity than all political
bombast could do for century. What
the South needs today is an industrial
revolution among its young men. 1t
may be difficult for the old, or those
advanced in years, whose lives have
been moulded in the school of slavery
to change their habit of dependence to
one of personal industry-to hold the
plough, drive the team, swing the axe,
push the plane, handle the trowel, en-
ter the workshop and store-in word,
to depend upon their own labors when
unable to employ the efforts of others.
They can, however do something in
this direction, although the change re-
quires a degree of will and moral cour-
age possessed by few in the declining
years Of life.
Year: 1875

tr-A Young man Of Iowa went crazy
on seeing NJ circus a representation OF
hell. What i 10 become of the lowans
W hen the time arrives Tor them TO con
front The reality. is what we should like
To know.
Year: 1875

\ VERY PATHETIC STORY. That wa>
Il very pathetic story of Il little cold and
ragged boy on an East River ferry boat
TIA" other day. He WAS in the cabin
hcgging. contrary to rule. and Il deck
hand waS lifting him out by the ear.
But Il richly dressed and noble heated
lady intertered and rcprovcd the I'M
feeling man. He released the hoy re-
lurtantly. protesting that he had orders
to keep suclI out of the cabin. Then
with heart aglow with generous feel
ing the stately lady gave the little WALL
drrer IL dollar and said she felt sure that
every one in the cabin would be glad
to rebuke the brutality which they had
all witnessed, in the same way. SO the
Year: 1875

hoy passed around his ragged cap and
got ii well filled with the offerings of
generous natures. And the observant
reporter followed the poor boy and the
rich lady ashore and us they turned
the first corner he heard the lady SAY
"Nell Dickey, we done pretty good
that trip; now let's try the other line.
Year: 1875

MINNESOTA has elected lawyer to Of
fee. and he has published the follow
Ing notice: Agreeable to PROMISE be-
fore election. l shall DO pleased to give
any person who voted for mo taking
their word for ~ legal advice free OF
charge for two years. For any town
which I carried. or nearly carried. l will
with pleasure prosecute or defend suits,
or do any business they may desire free
OF charge" Z"
Year: 1875

TwEKp's escape created a decided
flutter at the New York Press Club an.
nual dinner recently. AL the Quill
drivers thought they were through their
work. and were nbout to have jolly
time. A soon as the news came. there
was a beat to arms. rush for coats and
hats. and half the reportoria portion OF
the diners were sent od to set facts and
interview people.
Year: 1875

The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial seems to understand
the situation here, as viewed from the Dem
ocratic standpoint, very thoroughly. He
says:


Private advices fro,n Louisiana continue
to represent the prospect OF an early COM
promise there as exceedingly favorable.
The chief impediment to this adjustment
has been the opposition of the Democracy
of the North to any compromise. They find
it extremely convenient to have the disOr.
derly state of affairs continue in the South,
in order that they may make party capital
out of it, very much resembling in this
respect the other party. At safe distance
they have contemplated with much compls-
cency the sufferiDgs of the people of Louis.
lana, because they were enabled to 20 before
the country and point to them as having
been brought about through the NAL ladmin-
D1etfation of the Republican party. The
Democrats OF Louisiana have but recently,
it seems, come to realize that they are
sought to be used as the monkey used the
cat in the comedy Of the roasted chestnuts
They have consequently about concluded to
disregard the dislnterested advice of these
patriotic brethren of the North opposed to
compromise, and are inclined to waive the
rights due to state Of martyrdOm. Those
best informed with regard to Louisiana are
quite confident that it settlement ls once
reached. it will be accepted in good faith BY
all the people in the State, and will be the
end to the confusion and turbulent disor-
der that have prevailed there.
Year: 1875

The Wheeler plan of adjustment, which
has been the cause Of so much dissension
in the ranks of the Democracy, causes
hardly a ripple of excitement at the State
House. The Republican members of the
House, who would be the most sensibly af-
fected in case the plan should be agreed to
have thus far not even had the subject un-
before it could be carried out, the Repub-
ican members would have considerable to
say about it. In fact, we do not see why
the Democrats should get SO hot about the
matter one way or the other, until they
have made sure that the Republicans will
voluntarily step back and relinquish that
to which they are in justice entitled, and
which they have got. This is the way we
hear many Republican members talk They
are sincerely anxious that the Democratic
members should resume their seats, and as
sist in accomplishing such legislation as is
essential to the best interests of the State.


As an expression Of the opinion of the
Republican members of the House on this
question, the following invitation and pledge
was yesterday signed by forty-seven of the
gentlemen occupying their seats:


NEW ORLEANS, February 8, 1879.


Whereas, it is the earnest and honest
desire OF the undersigned Republican men,
bers OF the House of Representatives to do
all that lies IN our power to assist in bring
ing about such an adjustment of the pres
ent difficulties under which the people of
this State are laboring as will rebound to
the good of the State, by the repeal of such
laws as are considered obnoxious and inju-
rious, and the enactment of laws looking to
the peace, welfare and prosperity Of the
whole State;


Now, therefore. the undersigned members
OF the House earnestly invite the Conser.
vative members to come into the Legisls-
ture and unite with us in the enactment of
such laws as will prove to the prosperity
Year: 1875

ALWAYS, on Southern gentleman's
table, the dessert of oranges is furnished
with small silver fruit knives and spoons.
The orange is held in the napkin-just as
you hold an egg-and with the slender
point of the knife circular incision is
carefully made in the stem-end of the
orange and the stem-core is nicely cut
out, leaving an orifice large enough to
admit an egg-spoon. The orange is held
and eaten then, just as g0ulmGnds eat an
egg, in its 0son shell; and the skill and
grace with which this is dOne-that is,
without soiling the fingers or napkin
are, as in the same process with an egg,
test of good breeding | have known
the most inexpert persons TO master the
few difficulties in the way after two or
three efforts; and their satisfaction was
an infinitely pleasant sight. To hostesses
who like TO have their tables preserve in
some degree, at the close OF an enter
tainment, the beauty which dazzled the
guests upon entering, this method IS
most desirable. Servants--let me put in
plea for those silent ones whose inter
ests are too seldom Tegarded-are spared
the tedious duty of gathering up the
fragments. and guests who look with dis
may at this tempting apple OF the
Hesperides can thus enjoy il as they
never did before. Only the delicious
nectar of the fruit is eaten, with the
more delicate pulp; the tough tiber-of
which, indeed, there is very little in an
orange plucked from the tree under It's
own skies-being left In the shell.-CoT.
J Home Journal.
Year: 1875

A GENTLEMAN had occasion to visit
certain city of New England. He ar
rived at night, went directly TO his &C
customed hotel, and TO bed, slept sound
ly through the night, and In the morning
discovered his watch had stopped during
the night. When he opened the door of
his room another gentleman was taking
in his boots on the opposite side of the
corridor; and of him our friend asked If
he could tell him what time it was. To
his surprise, the gentleman took no
notice whatever of the question. lie
asked again: "Sir, will you be good
enough TO tell me what time it is? My
watch has stopped" No answer The
gentleman, without looking up, shut his
door and disappeared. At the moment
two other gentlemen came walking TO-
gether down the corridor; and MIR. y
asked of them the same question. The
two gentlemen, without looking to the
right or left, continued their walk with
out an answer or sign. "Well, " thought
Mr.. X, "this is very curious" However,
he went back into his room. Presently
the bell rang for breakfast; and immedi,
ately waiter entered the room, seized
him by the arm and began series Of
| gesticulations. Mr. X lost his temper,
and burst forth with: "What in thunder
is the matterY" When the waiter cried


'Ohp and vanished, laughing. MIR. X


began to think something was very
wrong, but went. down to breakfast


When he entered the sale mdn0er,
which commonly had dozen or twenty
people at the tables, he found the hall
filled with gentlemen in black coats, all
feeding gravely, and in perfect silence


A waiter silently beckOned him TO I


place; and, when he was seated, he sale


to his neighbor; "Sir, will you be kline


enough to tell me what this is all aboutY'
No answer. The person, like Charlott'


in Werter,n went on eating bread ant


butter" Our friend too began to fee


decidedly what the English call queer


and, getting out of his seat, went TO tn


nearest waiter and piteously besough


him for Heavens sake 10 tell him wha
was the matter with this house. "Ohl
said the waiter, " don't you know Why
this is the Deaf and Dumb Convention
which meet to-day in Hartford."-U
and Ne0.
Year: 1875

WHEN young man in Patagonia falls
in love With girl he doesn't visit her
six nights week and twice on Sunday
and feed her upon molasses-candy and
gum drops and sit up until two O'Clock
in the morning gaping and burning the
old mans oil-and that sort of thing.
Not at all. Courtship in Patagonia is
much more simple. He lassoes the girl,
drags her home behind his horse, and
sary. Such marriage ceremo; will
never become popular in this country
however, because so many of our young
men can't afford to own horse
Year: 1875

A worthy wife of forty years stand
ing, and whose life was not all made up
of sunshine and peace, gives the follow
ing sensible and Impressive advice to a
married pair of her acquaintance: The
advice is so good and so well suited to
all married people, as we'll as to those
who intend entering that estate, that we
here publish it for the benefit of your
own house, your married state, and your
heart. Let not father or mother, sister
or brother, or any third person, ever
presume to come in between you two,
or q to share the joys and sorrows that
belong t, you two alone. With God
help build your own quiet world, not
allowing your dearest earthly friend to
be the confdant of aught that concern,
your domestic peace. Let moments OF
alienation, if they occur, be healed at
once. Never, no, never, speak OF ii
outside, but to each other confess, and
all will come out right. Never let the
morrow's sun still tind you at variance.
Review and renew your vow; it will dc
you good, and thereby your souls will
grow together, cemented in that love
which is stronger than death, and you
will become truly one,
Year: 1875

DIR. Hayes says that wintering in the
Arctic regions is not so terrible a matter
after all. He adds: l would observe
that the public sympathy becomes very
needlessly excited when an Arctic voy-
ager takes the field. The dangers and
privations. are greatly exaggerated, and
it happens sometimes that men are
forced to consider themselves heroes
whether or no. 1 have never met with
any one who had ever been to the Arctic
regions who did not want to go again
sure proof that it is not such terrible
thing after all to sail among the ice
foes and icebergs and to winter near the
North Pole. 1t must be confessed that
the moral and mental strain of the long
winter is a severc ordeal; but this can
be alleviated by cheerfulness and good
discipline. Travelling with sledge,
through deep snowdrifts and over
rough ice hummocks, day after day,
with no shelter in camp but snow hut,
when the thermometer is down in the
zeros, is most certainly wearisome to
the flesh, 3" but it need not be dangerous.
Shipwreck and disasters in various ways
may and do happen to "try mems
soul s." but these come elsewhere, and
so often, that passing paragraph In a
newspaper disposes of them, while the
exceptional experience of an Arctic trav-
eler is more striking because of the mys-
terious nature of his surroundings. WI
are all awed by the contemplation O
what is unknown and which seems mac
cessible; but actual experience quickly
dispels Il illusion,
Year: 1875

becomes convinced that she knows more
than she is willing to tell of the murder.
This induces him to go with the aount' 8
mother to the inn of Pierre Michel,
where he examines Pierre, his servant
Moulinet and Rose Michel herself. His
suspicious are confirmed, and, after en-
deavorirg by all fair means to induce
Rose to fell the truth, he at last resorts
to the EXTREMIST measure and condemns
her to the rack. In the last act we learn
that torture has been Intellectual, Rose 8
love for her child enabling her to con-
ceal the truth. The Count de Vernay IS
condemned to die, and is to be executed
at dawn, but he has one last interview
with Rose, who has partially recovered
from the. effects of the torture. Finding
all appeals fruitless, and believing De
.Vernay innocent, De Marsan determin es
at the last moment that the count must
escape.


Rose pledges her life to the effort,
and secures the services o. her hus-
band, supposing, as she does, that he
will be only too glad to save his second
victim.


But Pierre, fearing that if the count
escapes he will leave nothing undone
to discover the real culprit and thus
clear his own name, betrays the plot to
the guard; and just as the count is
about to leave the prison he is arrested,
and Rose, discovering her husbands
treachery, denounces him In moment
of supreme agony, thus saving the life
of the count. They are about to arrest
Pierre, when he, breaking through the
guard, is about to fly, bu is shot by the
guard and falls over the parapet OF the
prison. The Count de Vernay, touched
by the heroism of Rose, and grateful
for her timely aid, makes an appeal to
Bernard which induces him to consent
to the marriage of his son with Roses
daughter.