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Year: 1873

finest piece of seamanship ever seen in
the Atlantic, turning that vessel round in
the teeth of that gale"


THE GREAT DANGER


was that in bringing her around she would
fall off into the trough of the sea, and the
waves, striking her broadside, would sink
her. The captain. standing on his bridge,
watched his opportunity, and she mount
ed tremendous wave, and saw that she
would have time to come round before the
next wave struck her. He gave the signal
The six men at the wheel threw their
strength upon the helm, and the old ship
groaned, strained, and keeled over, until
the saloon portfolios were under water
She hung so long in that position that the
panlc-stricken passengers concluded she
would never right again. I myself gave
up all hope. Visions of wrecks, of foun-
dered vessels, hid thousands of fathoms
deep, of pale skeletons in seaweed wind
ing sheets, of salt-lined bones and grin
ming skulls, which lay thickly strewn on
the sandy floor, came before me, and
g1asping my wife by the hand waited to
hear the water gurgle through the port
holes and creep through the tightly bat
tened doors. For the space of a minute
the vessel lay IN that position, and then
slowly righted Should | live q thousand
years, will never forget the sensation of
that moment, when life seemed to


TREMBLE IN THE BALANCE.


Our brave, skillful captain had chosen
his opportunity we'll The PROV of the
ship received the full force of the next
wave, and we were now in better CON
dltlon. We were cleavng the waves in
stead of presenting a broad surface to
their stroke. Toward noon the fury of
the storm somewhat abated. The waves
although running high, did not chase each
other so furiously. A new topsail was
rugged up, and we put about again, and
run with the wind. 1t was perilous voy-
age nearly the whole way. Capt Me
Mickan said that for thirty-five years on
the ocean he had not had so rough pas
sage. The storm seemed to gather its
force again as we neared the Irish coast,
and when we got into the Channel it was
blowing furious gale; SO severe, in
deed, was it that we We're unable to make
Queenstown. Night came on, and we
were without pilot. We sent up rocket
after rocket, but there was no response.


NO BOAT COULD LIVE


IN such 3 sea. We passed the spot where
the Cambria went down with all hands on
board, in Just such a gale; passed the
spot where the Royal Charter was dashed
to pieces on the rock-bound coast, leaving
scarcely one to tell the tale. Cautiously
we felt our way in the jnky darkness.
Every few rods the captain drew a bucket
of water, and, dipping the thermometer
into it would Judge of our locality by the
temperature of the water. SO that night
OF dread and apprehension, passed away,
and when morning broke we had crossed
the bar, and Liverpool was in sight
Year: 1873

When you DO me the honor to suggest
that | write an article about the Sandwich
Islands, inst now when the death of the
King has turned something of the public
attention in that direction, you un&ennel
a man whose modesty would have kept
him in hiding otherwise. could fill you
full of statistics, but most human beings
like gossip better, and so you will not
blame me if | proceed after the largest
audience and leave other people to worry
the minority with arithmetic
Year: 1873

We met several funeral professions
on the way, and have come to the
conclusion that they are a great and
good institution in England. After
one is dead, he is generally kept for
five or rsix days in the house, until all
the the mourning is finished, and
during that time there is a sort of
open house kept, and ale and cold
roast meats are given to all callers
and condolers-and they comprise
the entire neighborhood, who seem
to have a morbid desire to look upon
@corpuses." Then when the funeral
comes off, there is no long train Of
mourning friends following the car
riages. There is one carriage, In
which the nearest male relative Of
the deceased sits, but all the rest
stay at home. Hired mOurners or
.'mutes, dressed in solemn black,
with long streamers Of crepe about
their hats, take their places. The
hearse is q mere black box. and the
horses are blacx, with cloth over
their bodies and great nodding
plumes, like featherdusters, on their
heads. The drivers and pail bearers
are all dressed ina ridiculous way,
in long black robes and with crepe
"weepers" hanging down their backs
from their tall hats. They take
their unconscious loads out to their
last homes, but stop, outside the
city, at every public house for beer
to keep their spirits up, so that on
the whole funernal is made the
occasion of much rejoicing. They
have little boys in the hearse also,
and one day I saw one who put me
| in mind of poor little Oliver Twist.
Heaven knows he looked pale, thin
and mournful enoughl-Cor. Illinois
| Globe
Year: 1873

to advance and hold out my hand to
the man whom 1 had involuntarily
disliked from the first, in order that
| might have q chance to glance at
his ring. Somehow the idea posses
sed me that I should discover a
chariot wheel device upon the gilt
terino baubIe
Year: 1873

Those ot our citizens who had, until Mon day last, feared that Apaches had murdered Judge Hayden and party, felt real good last Monday, after reading our extra, over the good news of the safe arrival of the Judge and others of the party in Salt river valley. The account to which we allude appears in ou- regular Salt River Valley column.

 The paehes-several of whom the whites saw tried their old soaring dodges, for the sake, no doubt, of keeping their hands in.

 Should members of the party that were left behind to drive logs down the river meet with that success which the Judge appeared 10 expect, the day isn't far distant when Salt River Valley will manufacture her own lum- ber
Year: 1873

Ifthere is to be a sifting of the charge against Dr. Wilbur, it might be well to keep Major Larrabee in the Territory. until after ths question is settled. The Major ought to stay, as there are those who believe that he has been bribed to throw up his position and leave the Territory. Let truth prevail, and let the country know if white men have con- spired with Indians to cause another massacre.
Year: 1873

The Philadelphia Ledger has some
excellent comments on the duties Of
parents to their children. 1t closes its
article as follows:


There are not only faults to be correc-
ted, but positive virtues to be inculcated,
if we would train our children to gil
worthily their places in the world. There
are some parents whose main effort is to
keep their children innocent They guard
them from every temptation, keep them
from evil company, suffer them to see and
to know only one side of life, and thus de-
velop sort of hot-house growth Of good
ness that may be beautiful to look at in
childhood, but that will never serve them
in the rough winds and storms of tempta-
tion and trial that await them in the open
field Of life Innocence is not virtue
and those who fancy that it is make fatal
mistake. Innocence is simply the igno-
rance Of evil virtue knows it, appreciates
it, rejects it.


Infancy lovely in its innocence, but life,
with its stern realities, demands the strong,
ripened vigor of manly virtue, to resist
its evil, to protect its good, and to build
up character, and to bless the world. So
all moral education, to fulfill its true work,
must lead the innocent child up to virtue
by instilling the positive love Of truth and
justice, honor and integrity into the heart,
not by shielding him from every tempta-
tion, but by preparing him to meet il; not
by hiding from him all knowledge of
wrong, but by inspiring him with love
of right and resolute purpose Of following
it. Parents only can do this work. They
may and do have many efficient helps in
Sunday schools, teachers, friends, books,
&c. and they do well to claim and welcome
such aid, but If they rely on it to accom-
plish everything, if they think to transfer
their own responsibility in this matter to
any other hands, they infict an irreparable
injury upon their offspring and SOW seeds
Of misery for their own old age.


But if parental duties are onerous, and
theresponsibilities momentous, the rewards
are sacred and priceless. Who that has
wisely and lovingly trained up sons or
daughters to manhood or womanwood, and
bcheld then, one by one, take honorable
and useful places in the world, and has
received the respeor and love, the conf
dence and sympathy that is gladly rendered
by ilial affection, does not feel thousand
fold repaid for every effort, for every self
denial he has made in their behalf? Not
for thousands Of gold and silver would he
part from these sacred joys. They cheer
his declining years, they soothe every trial,
they brighten every dark passage of his
life. Let then, every father and every
mother take new and more solemn, yet
inspiring view of duties so emphatic, of
responsibilities so weighty, of encourage
ments so cheering. To family life is our
country looking for a new generation of
brave and noble citizens; upon it is she
depending for her stability and prosperity.
Let us each do our part, and she will not
be Disappointed.
Year: 1873

Girl Shut Up In a Room for Seven


Months and Almost Starved to Death.


PHILADELPHIA, August 13, 1873.


One Of the most revolving cases OF inhumanity
that has thus far disgraced the police records OF
this city was brought to light this afternoon At
O'Clock married lady named Margaret Sailor ap
reared before Recorder Better and requested that
warrant be issued for the arrest OF her stepmother
Mrs. Josphine Rowland, and Q stepsister named
Sarah Jean Baptiste, OF Dickinson street. near
her sister, Miss Mary Rowland. She stated in her
complaint that these two persons had forcbIy
detained Miss Baptiste In an attic room OF their
dwelling house since last Christmas and had not
furthermore, that they had rendered her sisters
forced Imprisonment the more horrible by a
studied system OF starvation, and that she was
only enabled to effect her escape but yesterday


The Case was Immediately afterwards riven into
the hands OF Captain Hines chief OF the detectives.
VINO detailed an officer to Investigate the affair
and his report fully confirmed the statement OF
Mrs. Sailor. He found the room In which Miss
Rowland had been confined so many weary months
to be literally covered with vermin and the stencil
SO unbearabie that he was forced to retire 10 get
fresh air. In corner OF this chamber Of
wash here and there on the walls he
inferred that the monsters had been en- ieavoring
TO conceal all traces OF the presence OF their cap.
tive but too late. Mrs. Rowland and Miss Baptiste
were arrested on the spot, and are now occupynp
a cell at Police Headquarters pending an exami.
nation.


young lady gives 1t as his opinion that she Will not
survive but rev days longer, as her frame has
been reduced to that OF mere skeleton. Miss
Rowland escaped by forcing the window Of her
OF adjoining houses The case excltes the utmost
Indignation IA this city
Year: 1873

The culvert and portion OF the track OF the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad,
near Elkton station, was washed away by the
heavy rain last night, delaying all the trains.


The air line train from New York, due here a.
FIVE O'Clock this morning, did not reach this city
until quarter past twelve p. n II took large
force Of w0rkmen three hours to repair the break.
Trains are now running regularly.


The branch road from Perryvte to Port Deposit
also suffered from the storm, large masses Of
rock being washed upon the track and the culyert
carried away completely obstructing travel
Year: 1873

BOSTON, August 13, 1873.
The third regular regatta OF the season OF the
South Boston Yacht Club for prizes offered by the
club took place this afternoon from City Point.
There was fine sailing breeze from the northeast.
sloop Kelrie was the winner. The sOop Ripple won
the second class prize and the sloop Maud the
third
Year: 1873

LONG BRANCH, August I3--ID T. III.
The storm is increasing. 1t Is now blowing a
terrific gale 1t is thought that the surf will rise
and carry of the remaining bathing houses before
midnight. The New Jersey Southern Railroad
track at Seabright Is again in danger. Much dam
age is expected along the shore.


The passengers Tor the eleven O'Clock train to
New York have returned to this place, and report
that the track has been washed away between here
and Sandy Hook. The storm Is the heaviest that
has been seen here lOr twenty years.
Year: 1873

- People are talking of the way in which the brilliant French physician, the late Dr. Nelaton, used to perform operations. While most finely accu- rate, he was also calm and cool to a marvel. One of his doctrines was that there was no danger when a correct diagnosis had been made, and when the surgeon knew what he was about. eff you have the misfortune to cut an artery" he would say, remember that syncope will not occur for two minutes, and death only about as long after. Four minutes is four times as long as is necessary to place igature on blood-vessel, provided that you do not hurry" Never to hurry was one of the elements of his power. Once upon time he gave voice to 8 clever paradox which deserves to be remem- bered by all surgeons. "You are go- ing too quick" he said to an assistant :; "we have no time to lose."
Year: 1873

A PRovIDENT1A1 MAN.-This title now justly belongs to 8 physician who has added to the list of medicines a new remedy, which appears to include all that is most valuable in the old pharmacopeia, and mot to include any of the drawbacks with which the so- called specifics of the Faculty are chargeable. The Providential man is DR. JOSEPH WALKER, of California, whose VINEGAR BITTERs have achieved, in the short space of two years, a degree of popularity never before attained by any advertised preparation in this coun- try. We have too much confidence in the shrewdness of the American people to suppose that this sudden and sur prising celebrity is the outgrowth of a delusion. Indeed, we have reason to know that it is founded on innumerable and we'll authenticated cures of almost all the bodily ills that flesh is heir to. Not the least among the merits of the famous Tonic and Restorative, is it's entire freedom from alcohol, as we'll as from all mineral drugs. It is composed exclusively of rare vegetable extracts. -GOH1
Year: 1873

We often see large stock of cattle which do not seem to thrive. and come out . spring poor" all for want of something to start them in the right direction. One dollars worth of Sheriddn's Caudlry Condition Poqo- ders, given to such stock occasionally during the winter, would be worth more than an extra half ton of hay.-Coo.
Year: 1873

FUNNY.-An exchange tells of an agreeable incident that occurred few days ago. The lady had man bred to the business to put down her carpets. While thus engaged he held the tacks in his mouth, and they natur- ally embarrassed him in articulation. Noticing his fruitless effort to answer one of her questions, and understand ing but one cause for the trouble, she sped out of the room in search of a spittoon, and after some fifteen minutes of overhauling and tearing down, found the article, and returning with it to the room, sat it down in front of the man, with the brief injunction to ''spit in that" He looked up at her for an instant, and then got his head down in time to enable the spittoon to catch the velley of Jacks that followed the ex- plosion.
Year: 1873

TO BE HELD IN NEW ORLEANS ON NOVEMBER "a


The "Committee Of Seventy" at a meeting
held in New Orleans OH the 9th of September
adopted the following resolutions:


Resolved, That u Mass Convention of the
people Of the State of Louisiana be and is
hereby called to assemble at the city of New
Orleans, at II NJ, on the 9th day of Novcm
ber next, being the fourth Monday of said
month, and the people OF all the parishes
irrespective of party, who are opposed to the
Kellogg usurpatlon, are earnestly invited and
requested to join and participate in the clec
tiun of delegates to said Convention.


Resolved, That the purposes and objects OF
said Convention are to takHdntO consideration
the political situation in Louisiana, to insti
tute the necessary measures looking to al
ameioration of the condition of the people
to set forth our grievances to the Congress OF
the United States and to the people of the
Union, and to petition and memOrialize Con
grcss for relief from the Kellogg uslirpatiOn
established over us alone by Federal power
without reference to and IN defiance Of the
will of the people as expressed through theil
ballots.


Resolved, That the Sd day of November
first Monday be and is hereby appointed as
the time for the election of delegates through
out the State to said Convention.


Resolved, That each ward of the city OF
New Orleans and parish of the State shall be
entitled to double the number of votes i'll SAID
Convention which it has in the House Of Rep
resentatives; but the country parishes may
elect as many delegates to cast SAID votes al
they shall see fit.


Resolved, That all papers in the State op
posed to the Kellogg usurpation be and are
hereby requested to publish these resolutions
and accompanying address.


true copy
Year: 1873

The effort which is still being made to in
duee our people to surrender the government
of this State to the corrupt and crushing
usurpatiou that has been forced upon us by
the bay0nets of the Federal Governnfent-to
submit in silence and ignoble acquiescence to
the grossest wrong and ignomiuy ever perpe-
trated upon any people-involves al insult to
the manhood OF treemen.


Our cause is now pending before Congress.
There are abundant reasons for the belief
that our demands will have favorable con-
sderation by that body. The Radical majority
i'll that body will not be in a condition to com-
nit itself to so grave wrong, so heavy res
possibility as will be imposed upon the party
by the recognition of the Durell-kellogg vii
ltiny. The least that can be or is expected
of it, will be the setting aside the false and
fraudulent returns of tue Hawkins Board and
the ordering a new election. That will be
preferable to a continuance of the present
dynasty.


The most effective mode of defeating or
preventing such solution, is that employed
BY those who enjoin upon our people to have
no part in, to manifest no interest whatever
in the effort to enforce our claims and the
merits of our case upon the attention and jus
tice of Congress. 1t is all waste OF time
Let us submit aud go to work to make more
money to enrich and fatten the usurpers. Let
us quit politics and be contented seris.


Why not initiate the sagacious and obese
yafu dOg, anu wear tile Coliti, dc d ottuSO vi
our subjugation. rather than assert our rights
as freemen, at the risk of a loss of comfort
luxury and ease! 1t is only politicians who
thus waste themselves and neglect their mate
rial interests in the idle pursuit of the shadow
of freedom and of right. The man who raises
his voice against this great wrong is dena
gogue, an asitator, public disturber, an OF
fice-seeker, who ought to be discountenanced
by all good citizens.


1t is thus all people have been enslaved ane
ruined. The siren notes OF the advocates o.
submission, of peace and avoidance of the duty
of all good citizens, have done more to suhju
gate iIeemen than force and arms. The grea
damage inflicted upon this State and people
from the neglect and Indifference OF large
classes of the population, to their duties o
| citizenship, has been long known, felt and de
plored. Still there are those who counsel th'
continuance of this same fatal lethargy in b.
far the most perilous crisis of our political for
tunes-in the gravest emergency which ha
arisen in our history


It will, indeed, be mournful proof of th'
| decline of virtue and manhood of our peopl
when such counsel is received with any othe
feeling than that of scorn and contempt.
Year: 1873

New ORLEANS, Sept. "a, 1873.


Fello1r- Citi=cns of Louisiana The Commit
tee of Seventy has called Mass Convention
to assemble in this city ON the fourth Monday
of November next.


The time is fast approaching when the cause
of the people of this State will again be pre-
sented to Congress for final adjustment and
settlement and your committee moved by pro-
found convictions looking to the weli-belng OF
the entire people of this commonwealth, have
concluded that Convention of the people of
the State would be the most acceptable me-
dunn for an appropriate presentation to the
Congress of the nation OF the alarming and
unprecedented Outrages committed against
the rights and liberties of the people of this
State, by which Il government never elected
by their suffrage has been set up and estab-
lished by fraud and force over them.


Elect to this Convention your tried, truest,
aud abest men, and let US make one united
and combined effort to rescue our State from
the grasp Of the spectators and usurpers.
Let us make at least one last grand effort
to arouse the Congress of the Union, and the
people thereof, to full appreciation of the
means and methods, employed under Federal
auspices, that throttled the State Government
of Louisiana.


We owe this much to ourselves and to those
to come after us.


We desire to present the question. fairly
and squarely, to the Congress and to all the
people of this Americah Union, whether OF
not it is permissible under our form ofs6vern
ment. for an inferior United States Judge
supported by United States soldiers and the
Chief Executive Dl the nation, without refer
ence to and in defiance OF the will of the peo
| pie as expressed by the ballot, to pull doWI
one State Government and set up another il
| its stead.


Should Congress repudiate such reprehensi
bic practices, We merely will obtain our rights
on the other hand, should Congress permi
such practices to 90 unrebuked, we will thei
know our status; know that despotism ha
usurped the place of constitutional govern
ment, and the quicker we know it the better
! Let the people of this State take al acsiv'
/ part in their own cause, which is the cause o
every State in the Union, and you may thel
rest assured that all will yet be well.
! By order Of the Committee Of Seventy.
r. II. MARR,


Chairman Committee Of Seventy.
InsEp14 Con- Secondary.
Year: 1873

Thus far there have been about five millions
of dollars of cotton received in this port to
date. against eight or ten millions of last year.
In this contrast lies the main cause of our
present stringency. The usual receipts and
sales of cotton at this point would have put
our banks in a condition of independence of
New York and in command of sufficient cur
reney to escape at least such pressure as
now exists. IF the receipts continue to i'm
prove as they did last week-about $4,000
bales--the present suspension will cease
NJ o. Herald Oct Is.
Year: 1873

NonCE-Parties indebted to this Office for
subscription, advertising or job work are earn
esty requested to come forward and settle
without delay. We have urgent need for the
money-not to indulge in expensive luxurles,
but to pay our employees and to purchase the
necessary material to continue the publication
of our paper. principally 'for glory" and in
order that the numerous opponents of the
Kellogg usurpation and other frauds in our
Parish may have an organ upon which they
can depend to express their true sentiment, at
this, the most momentous crisis of our history.
Year: 1873

u Armed to the teeth is very common
expression, but we think armed to embellish
and preserve them to ripe old age is decided
only be done by the fragrant "Sozodont." For
cleansing, beautifying and preserving the
teeth, sweetening and purifying the breath, it
has no equal.


Spalding's Glue is up to the sticking point.