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Year: 1871

Is there a young man or woman in the
country who is impatient to have a COM
Portable home, kind and true friends, or
means of gaining ivelihood-to travel
to the city in quest of grander opportuni-
ties-some place where their love of dis
play and excitement can be gratified, in
stead of plodding along in the seclusion
of the country?


We would say to him or her, do not
come with too sanguine hopes of success.
Good situations do not go begging, and
coming without money or friends in search
of work is oft attended with sufferings in
mind and body.


In the great, bustling city nobody cares
what becomes of one stranger, and you
might walk from morning till night and
scarcely receive kind word of encour-
agement People are intent upon their
own pursuits, and have so many applica-
tions for work and help for the needy,
that the addition of one more to the num-
Der of suffering ones is not felt by any.
body. Not that everybody in town is sell
fish and uncharitable.


Many kind hearted man or woman
would give you money for a nights lodg.
ing, or 10 buy something to eat; but you
are no begger-you ask for work and are
too proud to receive charity. They have
no work for you, and perhaps you may go
hungry many a day before you find q
place, and then, in desperation, accept 6
situation you would be too proud to take
in the country.


Working on farm is much easier thar
the life of city clerk, who must work
twelve, fourteen, often sixteen hours 6
day, in close, dark rooms, year in and yeal
out, always the same drudging life.


You long to see lifeI Stay where you
are, even if you imagine yourself very
miserable. Such misery is joy compared
to the struggles. privations, desperation:
and crimes which wear and weigh upon
the darkened spirits of the multitude:
who have come before you.


You might succeed, be very happy, and
make great fortune; but, dependent up
on your own efforts, all alone, unaided by
the counsel of kind parents and the com
panionship of friends, the chances are de
cidedly against you.-Elm Orlou.
Year: 1871

]
H., for principal of our High School
for the next year Mr. Bmleigh is a
young man, recent graduate of Dart
mouth, and has had some experience
in teaching. There is to be no other
change Of teachers in any of the vii
lage schools, the next term of all of
which will commence on Monday
August 28th.


Our former principal, Mr.. c. r..
Ballard, goes to North Eastern, Mass.
to take charge of the High School
there. Mr., Ballard is an excellent
teacher, and we have no doubt will
meet with success.


Dana d Newcomb offer a variety
of new and second hand Sewing
Machines to the people of Woodstock.
They have the Agency of the Best
4NachiacS in the world


We hear that our last weeks
'obituary' on DR.. Cotton was under
stood by some persons to have been
given seriously, and to mean that the
Doctor was no more. How anybody
could take that view Of the thing
passes our comprehension, for accord
ing to our ability, it was as ridiculous
as possible but we hasten to assure
such, in solemn earnest, that the DR..
is alive and well, and to the best of
our knowledge, happy. He was simp-
ly a few days slow in returning from
his visit to Boston, and we gave his
"obituary" as he had jokingly told us
to, in such an event. We were sor-
ry to learn that his delay was owing to
sickness, but he is now at his office
ready to attend to those in need
of his skill, as usual


Josh Billings for August -


All nature bileth,


Roosters pant and 30 do Lizards


The mules upon the dusty road


Kant raise trot, to save their gizzards


1t IL hard work at fust sight, tew
see the wisdom in a rattle snake bite,
but thare are thousands ov folks who
never think ov their sins until they
are bit bi a rattlesnake.- ~. Billings.


Pretty well, Joshua, but as spellist
you head the wrong end Of the class.


Mr.. Staudish has repaired his tan
merry dam, and is making some other
improvements.


One of Benningtons citizens under
took the other day to catch a PIG that
was frequently found roofing up his
garden, to measure him so that he
might make a yoke to keep the brute
from crawling through the fence. Ac
cordingly the pig was driven into the
cellar kitchen. But when the man
and his boy undertook to catch him,
he jumped through the window and
vanished. "Therc, you cuss,' said the
citizen, ''go and be darned-that's
what ! wanted-youre by o. The
size Of the window had told the story.
-RWlomd Herald


This story Of the 7 by 9pig, now ap-
piled to Bennington, has been given
to the dear public at frequent intervals
ever since that size Of glass was in
vented, and it's time his privileges were
enlarged; he ought to be quite q shoat
by this time.


The body of an organ grinder was
found at Ludlow on Monday morning,
just north of the village. The body
and organ were carefully covered with
leaves. Some other organ grinders
who were at Ludlow last week, are
suspected of having murdered him,
and there is a rumor that they have
been arrested


The Jail building is being painted
Year: 1871

perhaps no one metii-
cine is so universally re-
quired by everybody as
a c;tthartic, nor was ever
any before SO universal
ly adopted into use, in
every eountryand among
all classes, as this mild
but efficient purgative
PHI. The obvious rea-
son is, that it is q more re-
liable and far more cffec-
tual remedy than any
Year: 1871

From Washington we get what may be con-
sidcred an authoritative statement of the exact
relations existing between the United States
Government and Spain, the acquisition Of
Cuba being specially involved. There is
nothing new in this recital Only imaginative
quid-nuncs supposed that our Government was
pressing any negotiations for the purchase of
Cuba; and it now appears that the good Offices
of the United States Government prOfered in
the hope of securing peace in Cuba and the
possible independence of the island, were with
drawn and have not been renewed. But our
Government adhercs TO its policy of keeping
watch on Cuban affairs, 30 that if the island
must be alienated from Spain it shall fall into
no other hands than ours.
Year: 1871

II is atherhard for oyer-taxed England. Swarming
with paupers, to be compelled to pay such price
for the honor and glory of Royal Family. The
latest proposal is to grant large annuity to Prince
Arthur This has aroused tho Birmingham work
men, who have resolved. in a meeting at which l,5OO
persons were present, that ample provision has al
ready been made for the Royal Family, s. provision
So prod gally liberal as to amount to waste of the
public money!" and the attempt :" to foist another
royal pension" upon the treasury was Indignantly
denounced. Certainly England pays pretty roundly
for keeping up the succession to the CrOwn-and
this the only service. and indirect at that which
this flock of princes and their sisters can render to
the nation.
Year: 1871

Yesterday the city was struck with horror
at one of those terrible calamities which from
time to time assail us, like reyolts of the ma
tcrial forces which we have made our slaves.
Forty-fve persons were killed and about
seventy wounded by the explosion of the
boilers of the Staten Island steamer Westfield.
Disasters like these wait upon state OF ad-
vanced civilization, the almost inevitable ac-
compartment of the luxury and the con-
venience which have come into the world
through the iustrumentality of steam.
Every possible means has been taken
to make them impossible. The in
genuity of mechanicans has been sup
plemented by the patient cndeayors of law
makers to cOntriye a system of checks and
safeguards which shall guarantee the safety
of all who travel by land or water. But, in
spite Of all this, we too frequently called
upon to chronicle catastrophes which throw the
whole community into CONSERVATION, and bring
lasting sorrow into hundreds of families. 1t
y
discouraging condition of our progress 1t
seems as fruitless to attempt to eradicate dan
ger from travelling as evil from the world.


There was nothing to give warning Of the
disaster of yesterday. The boat was good
and stanch one. The boilers, it is said, were
strong, and had passed their official inspection


4 f1vou nod
the decks, making them bright with their hol-
iday clothes and their cheerful faces. 1t is
only of late that our American population has
begun to follow the example of our German
citizens, in making of Sunday day
of quiet recreation-a day for a
ramble in the shady woods, or a sail on the
| breezy Bay. 1t is pathetic to think of death
| living in wait for these hard-worlSing people


on the spot where they were taking their rare
holiday. They trusted to the perfection of


the machinery, to the ingenuity of the law


givers. They felt as safe as in their own


houses. In one instant the deck sank from


un6sr them dull report filed the air, and
! the DOdJ ana tHe UulOIjUndlt plCdSult-StthclS


were one shattered and broken chaos together.
We refer our readers to the vivid account
of this appalling disaster which we publish
| to-day. Every one who reads it will draw the
appropriate lesson. At present, circumstances
seem to criminate the Engineer, who allowed
a slightly greater pressure of steam i'll bis
boilers than was authorized by the boats
certificate. But the matter is too grave to
Justify us in wroneing any one by a
| hasty assignment OF the terrible respOn-
sibility. For the present we limit our
! selves to demanding, in behalf of the


public safety what will of course not be with
| held fuA and searching investigation of the
/ causes of this horror If blame lights on any


one, let it be followed by speedy punishment /;
and at all events let a new and fresh inquest
| of experts be assigned the duty of de-


termining whether anything more can be done
to prevent this ever recurring slaughter of tie
! innOcents.
Year: 1871

The Richmond Hhg Conservative has discovered
that kind and cOnsiderate treatment of Blacks by
gentlemen will go far to win them" 1t will be a
great good,' adds The Uk0, to break up the solid
negro vote" Perhaps At any rate. we say, with
all possible candor, that the Conservatives may con-
serve anything they please except inhumanity and
blrbarism; and we say further that they quite
welcome to all the votes which they may win by
their kind and cOnsiderate treatment OF the freed
mon. We are not bit afraid Of their being too
kind" or too "consderate" OF Ofther spelling the
Blacks by undue indulgence. Old prejudices are
still too lively for that
Year: 1871

Ii seems as if the hatred which Gen. Butler
bears to Massachusetts, cannot be satisfied with
inhicting less humiliation upon her than his
own election as Governor 1t was bad enough
to have him localized in the Lowell District,
but the ,Butleritis diffused over the whole
State would be the acutest of Affections.
There is, however, a most cheerful prospect
presented by the OratiOn-miscalled an inter
view-which the General delivered on Satur
day to an appreciative audience of one re-
pOrter-if, indeed, the reporter himself be not
a convenient fiction, the questions and answers
being evidently the work of the same adroit
and shifty intellect The only thing noticeable
about this last manifesto, and the thing which
is full of comfort and promise, is that the
General appears to be packing his luggage to
leave the Republican party, and we cheerfully
print his confession of unfaith as one of the
most hopeful signs of the times.


He begins with passage of historical rem
iniscence, of the kind which has become so
familiar since the death of T. Lincoln, wherein
the RecOlectOr goes down to Washington and
informs the President that he is all wrong,
and the meek Illinoisan assents, and asks what
he must do to be saved, and the Recollector
tells him, and all is well. We are not sure
that these "reminiscences are not among the
worst of the woes which the pistol of Booth
entailed upon us. But the General does not
linger long in the twilight of ancient history.
lie comes prancing down into the field Of to-
day and defines his position upon every point
whereby he imagines he may gain boiling
votes lie Is Communist, and peradven-
tuTe some Gallo professor of billiards will
be brought to east ballot for the man
who thought that pulling down monuments
was heroic and burning cOurt-houses was
poetically just. He says it is not fair
to call him a demagogue for fattering the
Labor party to-day, because twenty years ago
he used the same catch-w0rds to carry an
election. lie intends to get the votes Of the
FEMININE Suilragists, at all hazards, and ho
knows no bid eau be too coarse to accomplish
this. lie relates. With singular iunocenco. how
Year: 1871

The Rev. Mr.. Duryea has said nothing particularly
new in his Wine Sermon, and especially in that
part Of it which sets up distinction between
Temperance" and Total Abstinence" From q
pathological point Of view, Temperance certainly
does imply use in greater OF less degree But, on
the other hand the word Temperance has acquired
fixed specific, and Independent meaning. And it
is understood by everybody that Temperance now
implies total disuse ID alcohol through whatever
medium Mr. Duryea must decide for himself
whether it is worth while to set mp his nice distnc
tlon and whether also men who use alcohol habit
ually can as things are claim to be Temperance
men.
Year: 1871

1t is roundly asserted by the enemies of Pro-
lection that we are producing no moro Cotton
Fabrics in this country than we did ten years
ago.


They also as rOundly assert that the Cotton
Manufacturers are obtaining higher prices and
making larger profits because of the Protection
afforded them by the present Tariff


Suppose this latter assertion were true, is it
not certain that more and more capital and
labor would be employed in this manufac-
turef Suppose there were profit Of one cent
per yard on the manufacture of Sheetings Qor
instance), would not that profit induce more
and moro people to make Sheetingsl Or has
a new law been set in operation which pre-
vents water running down hilli


Is it not clear that they err either in saying
that Protection increases the price of Cotton
Fabrics and the profit of making them, or in
saying that this manufacture is stationary if
not declining2
Year: 1871

The statement that the change in the Span
ish Cabinet will not affect the administration
of Cuban affairs is rather dscOuraging, though
meant to be reassuring. The revolution in
Cuba began in the Fall of 1868; there is no
better prospect of its end now than there has
been at any time since it began. We have
had numbeTless announcements of new and
more drastic policy in the conduct of Spain
toward the rebels; and not few pompous
proclamations of the end of the insurrection.
If this latest report is true, there is an end of
Spanish hopes for an armed peace in Cuba.
Year: 1871

A Boston correspondent gives us inmate
and careful survey of the political field in
Massachusetts,. 1t will ne seen that the Labor
Reformers are making considerable showing,
and that various other unessential isms are
getting upon their legs for the political race.
Looking over the list of semi political Organi-
cations in Massachusetts,, the very number and
variety of them is enough to warn the major
ity to prudence and vigilance in the coming
Year: 1871

In The summing mp of the Subcommittee
on Ku-Klux and the digest of The facts estab-
lishcd by the whole investigation, made up by
the Washington resident Republican Executive
Committee, we have a very fair statement Of
tho condition of things in the South. The
Subcommittee spent four weeks in the coun-
try, taking testimony and seeing and hearing
for themselves. Their report, as summarized,
is before the country; and the facts therein
detailed together with the results of previous
Investigations, justify the conclusions arrived
Of by the Washington Committee. That the
irrcconclables of the South see mo hope for
them but through the success of the Demo-
cratic party is admitted; that these Outrages
are perpetrated in the interest of the Democ-
racy is too evident to admit OF a cayil; and
that Ku-Klux organization, working to
prevent the spread of Republicanism and
promote the interest Of the Democracy, does
exist in the South is a conclusion to which all
candid examination leads.
Year: 1871

They do tell tough stories ont in Nebraska. Not
long since we had from there report of a tornado
which blew freight train thirty feet from the rail-
road track. And now wo arc told to believe that in
a severe storm west of Omaha the other day. quar-
ter of mile of track carried bodily orer teace
four feet high, landing distance in the prairie
Perhaps this is all right, but il must have been an
uncommOny strong fence
Year: 1871

CITY subscribers to TuE TRIBUNE can have
the paper sent by mail their temporary residences in
the country by giving orders direct to this Office Terms
81 per mouth, payable in advance.
Year: 1871

The performance of the Marble Heart
at the st. Charles Theatre last evening
was witnessed by large audience, the
dress circle and parquette having but few
unoceupied seats. The representation was
given by the Orleans Dramatic Relief As
seciation tor the benefit of the sufferers by
the overflow. The matter was fully sue
cessful, as well in the pecuniary result as
in the excellent manner in which the drama
was portrayed. The Marble Heart" is
perhaps as difficult of effective rendering as
any play that now keeps the stage. 1t is
founded upon a farfetched idea, and there
are but few salient points through the
whole production. But it certainly did not
suffer in the hands of those who performed
it last evening; and the repeated applause
of the audience testified their appreciation
of the excellent acting.
Year: 1871

Gradually the time approaches when the
next single number drawing OF the Louis
lana State Lottery takes place. 1t is one of
those events wherein the fate of over four
hundred persons may be involved. There
are four hundred and forty prizes in this
lottery, many of them sufficient in amount
to make the possessor Of prize feel that he
is wealthy man; and any one OF them'
even unto the smallest in amount of money
drawn, would be calculated to relieve the
immediate wants of most persons, and, Ii
their aspirations are not too high, might
serve to establish them in business. For
this reason, it is well that all remember to
huv tickets.
Year: 1871

The colored cadet Napier passed his ex-
animation at West Point, and exhibited
hiober qualifications and attainments than
a large number of the white students.
brigham Youngs son came out from the
ordeal unscathed, and young Grant is
youched for as being endowed with superior
intellect. These three young men may be
takent to represent the extremes OF Amerl-
can soSetvi No favor was shown to them
over others. They were put upon the naked
test of ability, and compelled to prove
their superiority in a fair competition with
their associates to win the coveted prizes.
The son of the President is put upon an an
equality with the son of negro and why
should he not be2 The colored lad, having
equal ability, is entitled to an equal chance


in the race of life, and nothing but the
smallest prejudices could strip him OF
the privilege. Brigham Yonng,s son mas
nothing peculiar to distinguish him but t1e
neteriety of his father; and what has that
to do with his fitness for the armyE lt is
time that West Point began to be con
sidered something better than an asylum
| for dandies. Every race, sect and condl'
ten of people have equal rights there.
Year: 1871

The water has now receded as far back
as Bolivar street, though the heavy rain
Yesterday afternoon added nearly an inch
to the already abundant supply Common
street and most of the streets parallel with
it are dry as far back as Hotel Dieu. For
various reasons the water has not been
pumped out as rapidly during the past
twenty-four hours as was desired, but the
work is progressing steadily. As the water
goes away the sanitary police go on in the
work of disinfection with carbolic acid and
other deodorizers, whose reputation is well
ast tahlished L..
Year: 1871

However cramped the planters in the cot
ton States may be at present, the Savannah,
Georgia, Republican says 1t is convinced,
from all the information it can gather, that
their prospects are really better than they
ticipates that they will realize more money
and comfort from the growing crops than
any year in the past five, because the pro-
vision crop will be much larger than usual,
and the cotton crop, the proceeds OF which
will be fully million bales less than last
year, will be money in hand. 1t also thinks
the planters have, by bitter experience,
learned economy, and in regulating. their
plantation expenses, have based their cal
culations on the minimum and not on the
maximum price of the staple.
Year: 1871

CONFIDENCE MEN.-That class of chera-
liers d'i1.dushie known as confidence men
most abound about hotels and places where
strangers to the city visit. They have the
manners of gentleman, seem to be well
brought up, and have a way about them
that wins the confidence of their victims,
from which habit they get their title. Re-
cent instances of robberies of strangers
should be additional warnings to all who
have money in their purse not to expose
themselves to such losses by yielding to ap-
proaches made by those who manifest an
anxiety to scrape an acquaintance.


Sometimes there are two who play upon
the sympathy of new arrival by intro
ducing themselves as father and son who
are obliged to pay the interest on lottery
prize, for example, to third party, and
who call upon the new man to advance the
money, which he readily does. Sometimes
thev are cattle drovers from Texas, or
planters from Adams county, Mississippi,
or merchants doing a large business in
other cities. But the upshot of all these
entertaining episodes is, the victim is
robbed OF his money, and the loss is none
the less heavier because he parted with it
of his own accord. A little wariness would
save a great deal of annoyance, and would
let up on the whole confidence system.
Year: 1871

ALL ABOUT A Cow.-The Bulletin OF yes
terday, with the peculiar taste for fault
finding which distinguishes that print,
spreads out upon case of ''outrage on
citizen" The "cows of an old lady, re
siding in the overfowed district, were i'm
pounded by the police" The outraged
citizen accompanied the old lady to pro-
cure the release of the cows, and when at
the pound relieved his feelings by abusing
the officers. The Outrage" consisted IN
warning the citizen to desist from abuse,
and finally arresting him when he per-
sisted There is little doubt that the COWS
were confined in consequence Of an order
of the authorities to take the wandering
cattle belonging to people in the overtiowed
district, and feed them at the public ex-
pense. But under no circumstances can
abuse of the police when doing a duty be
justified by law or the rules of courtesy.


What happy country we should have
were the Bulletin its supreme ruler
Year: 1871

CECOND DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH
y of Orleans.-Notice is hereby given to the credit
of this estate, and to all other persons herein
interested, to show cause within ten days from the
present notification, If any they have or can, why
the account presented by the Administrative of this
estate should not be homolOgated and approved,
and the funds distributed in accordance Herewith.


By order of the Court


iel3 1922 NJ q. TRACY, Clerk.