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Year: 1871

IHE WEATHER SATURDAY, AND SOME OF
ITS EFFECTs.-Thc weather of Saturday


was little in advance of the season, and the
summer seemed to have set in in earnest.
The usual number of lazy and idle specta-
tors were in attendance at the Police Court
i'll the morning, and the fumes in that place
Of Justice were anything but agreeable.
Passing through the market when the
court bad adjourned, the most noticeable
effect which the sun had on any article Of
tcred for sale was the tafiy which number
of old and young colored females sold to
the boatmen to suck while in the raging
canawl. As Il general thing it is placed on
greasy paper in large walters. and in scve-
raj instances all that remained was a lot of
pretty thin mOlaSScS, i'll which the chips
and sticks which were blown about floated.
1T Rockets ut noon there is no telling
how hot it was, and those who had bus-
ness in that locality could be seen OCCASION
ally loa1ing under the side of house clear
out OF the sun. In the neighborhood of
the packet office, on Sth street, place
which is generally patronlzcd pretty extern
sively by idle negro boatmen, was al
most entirely clear during the day. the
| curhstonc and the bricks having become too
warm to make moderately comfortable
seat. AT s O'Clock the thermometer stood
| at SO in the Dispatch office at o clock it


was still higher, but towards sunset, when
il clouded up, the air was much more
| pleasant.


Up town during the morning but few
ladies' could be seen either on the street or
| ut home. Where they were, is mystery
which they only can solve. The shop-kccp-
ers were all cross because business WAS ne
ccssarily dull on account Of the absence OF
| the ladies; but that which was harder yet
to find was an item. The station-houSos
| were visited, but in vain. The Capitol, too,


was visited, but with but little better sue


cess; and taking it altogether, Saturday


was about the hottest and dullcst day of the
Sp0Son
Year: 1871

A PLEASANT ENTgRTAIsMENT.-At St.


Adams Hail on Friday night there was
quite a gay assemblage of young people,
and their friends, the occasion being a floral


festival and coronation given by the pupils


of Miss Tbaw's dancing school. The ar-
rancements were such that everything
passed off agreeably, and those who were


present will look forward with pleasure TO


a repetition of the entertainment.
Year: 1871

+ EXCURSION TICKErs.-It will be seen by
an advertisement elsewhere that the Rich
mond and Petersburg Railroad Company
win issue round-trip tickets during the scs-
s,ons Of the Council of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of Virginia and the Bap-
tist General Association OF Virginia in
Petersburg. The fare for the round trip is
fixed at the low rate of one dollar.
Year: 1871

The low condition Of the bank reserves and the prob
ability that the currency drain this week will stl FUR
tler draw them down, had no appreciable effect upon
the money market which has ruled easy Throughout the
day at and per cent though the outside quotation was
to certain extent exceptional. In discounts there Is
fair business done at going rates On Wednesday the
Treasury will buy 100000 bonds, and VIII
sell $lOOOOOO gold on Thursday The excess OF
the bond purchase the gold sales operates IN favor
Of easy money. The lower Of gold, IN Its eec
upon Government bonds scarcely equalzed by the
higher foreign markets. and the entire list has been dull
and in the main heavy. The funding process goes
on more satisfactorily than heretofore, the subscriptions
from private individuals being somewhat the in
crease. The National Banks are taking largely We
understand that the subscriptions for the day were over
eight millions


Iqsk A. Hatch rorort "a fol1ows at A ID. III:
Year: 1871

The shad lives but single year. II
is hatched in the early ummer-descends
the stream as soon as large enough-feeds
and fattens in the winter at the mouth OF
the stream-ascends in the spring to de-
posit its spawn-descends to die at the
bottom of the ocean. This facts ac-
counts for the uniformity in the size OF
the fish. A Connecticut river shad sell
dom goes beyond seven pounds, and the
variation in size is comparatively slight
The bass, on the other hand, which is
known to live many years, varies from
half pound up.
Year: 1871

AT a social party, says the Post, where
humorous de6nations was one of the
games of the evening, the question was
put "What is religion p Religion"
replied one of the party, more famous
as man of business than as . man Of
wit-"religion is an insurance against
FIRE in the next world, for which honesty
is the best policy" f'
Year: 1871

The interior Of Abbotsford is an inter-
esting but mournful sight; and most
rlournful of all, says a contributor to
Al the Year Rotosd, is the study of Scott,
where his teeming brain, his gentle
heart and hisaindustrious hand pro-
duced his best novels ; the laboratory of
the literary alchemist, where he turned
inferior metal into gold the sanctum of
genids that was as copious as it was
beneicent. Here is the cosy arm chair
in which he sat, here are the books of
reference which he consulted, the pic
lures on the wall on which his eyes were
accustomed to dwell, and more mourn
full than all, because to some extent
painful lat least they were SO to me J,
the clothes and the hat that he usually
wore, still as fresh as in the time-ffty
wears agone, or nearly-when his liter
ary work done for the day, he received
his friends at luncheon, or roamed
through, the comparative wilderness,
which it was his dearest wish to convert
into an earthly paradise
L desired to sit in the great novelist's
chair bat the attendant who showed the
rooms, q buxom and we'll behaved Scot
tish lass, politely but very firmly re-
fused, on the ground that she had been
kexpressly Forbidden to grant the privi-
lege to- anybody. "The chair" she
said, "would soon be worn out, if every
Done who came in here was allowed tc
.sitin it, l respected her orders, but


sat in the chair nevertheless, not simply
with the consent and approval, but al


the request of the owner of Abbotsford


and the present representative of Sn


Walter. Our party enjoyed, moreover


the additional privilege of inspecting


many interesting and valuable relics o


the departed, which are kept carefully


under lock and key, and are not showr
to the mass of tourists.
Year: 1871

The sheriff of st. John the Baptist parish
reports to the Governor that the Bonnet
Carre levee was cut by the federal forces of
Bonnet Care camp, in 1863, and that almost
every year since that time it has been cut
by Mr. Edward Porche, owner of the planta-
ton where the crevasse occurred.


Mr.. Porehe has been arrested for cutting
the levee, and has given bonds in the sum
OF one thousand dollars to appear before the
district court in October next


The st. John the Baptist Pioneer of the
sixth says:


The crevasse at Bonnet Carre is still run
ming in all its mad fury, and even ali efforts
TO stop the widening of the break have
proved Truitless, and the work has been
abandoned, and the unclaimed waters OF
the Mississippi go tearing over the beauti-
fdl fields, carrying destruction aud desola-
ton with them. From point near the
break the scene is truly heart-rending, and
would move with pity any but a man de-
void of human feeling. 'Tis true a little
care and watchfulness would have pre-
vented all this ruin, but when we view the
terrible retribution, the remembrance of
their error is drowned in the milk of human
kindness. Where once stood those neat
little cottages, the happy homes Of many of
our most honest and industrious citizens,
now rush the fierce and angry waves, dash
ing to pieces the result of years of toll, up
roofing the very trees which once sur
rounded them.


Above and below, as far as the eye can
reach, the fields SO lately covered with a
wealth OF sugar cane, are covered with a
vast sheet of water, the cabins deserted,
while far beyond an occasional sugar-house
lifts its head above the SUI face Most of
the planters for some distance have left
their houses and found shelter wi Ii some
of their more favored neighbors. The
water has already reached some of the low
lands in the rear of Joseph L. Bourgeois
plantation, at the upper line of this parish,
and we are informed that it is some distance
below Kennerville. Many of the planters
in the upper portion Of the parish have put
up draining machines in order to save their
crops. The only hope we have is a CON
tinued fall of the river, and the prospect
for the same is quite favorable at present.
but we hope that the severe lesson we are
now receiving will not soon be forgotten by
the people OF this parish.
Year: 1871

The New Iberia Sngaf-B -B0icL says:


We learn from Mr. H. Crawford. near
Centreville, that the bagasse of the Chinese
sugar cane has been successfully used in
the manufacture of paper in the North,
where a good price is paid for It, This he
learned from personal observation. If the
woody fibre of the Chinese cane can be used
to make paper, there can no longer be any
doubt as to the adaptability of the bagasse
of our Southern cane to the same purpose
and as immense quantities Of paper are
annually imported from the North, we can
conceive of no better place for the estab-
lishment of paper mills than in the sugar
sregi0n of Louisiana. We hope that Colonel
W. II. Brown, who has a fine water power
and the clearest water, on the old Canal
plantation, three miles this side of st. Mar
tinsville, will yet carry out his idea of
establishing bagasse paper mill there.
Year: 1871

We learn that surveying party, belong
ing to the Texas Pacific, are now on the
other side of the Trinity, en- their line from
Tyler west, expecting to cross the Trinity
river at the mouth of Cedar creek. This will
bring them direct to Corsicana, on one of
the best natural routes in the world, there
being no hill between Corsicana and the
Trinity at the mouth of Cedar creek.
Year: 1871

Up to the fifth instant, fourteen and a
half millions of the ffty-four millions of
newly authorized national bank currency
had been issued. Only about five millions
more have been awarded. The banks which
are 20 receive the latter are not yet COM
pletelY organized
Year: 1871

Enlistment in America of Men TO Support


the Napeleonic Cause.


BERLIN, May Sit is stated upon what is
said to be official authority that the enlist
ment of men for the support of the canse
of Emperor Napoleon in France is being
made in America
Year: 1871


itself from impairing these rights, has no
grant of power to interfere for their pro-
lection as against the States; that the first
eight articles of amendment were passed as
limitations upon the power of Congress,
and that the history of the constitution
shows that in the adoption of these articles
1t was not the purpose of the people to en-
large, but to restrain the power OF Congress.


In the FederaliSt, article eighty-four, Mr..
Hamilton, in replying to the objection that
the proposed constitution of the United
States contained no bill of rights, says: Il
affirm that bills of rights in the sense and to
the extent they are contended for are not
only unnecessary to the proposed constitu-
tion, but would be even dangerous. They
would contain various exceptions to powers
not granted, and on this very account
would afford colorado pretext to claim
more than were granted; for why declare
that things shall not be done which there is
no power to do2 Why, for instance, should
it be said that the liberty of the press shall
not be restrained when no power is given
by which restrictions may be imposeda !
will not contend that such provision will
confer a regulating power, but it is evident
it would afford to men disposed to Hsupp a
plausible pretense for claiming that BOWER"
The debates in the communities of the
several States upon the adoption of the
constitution and bill of rights proposed,
especially in Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire and New York, show that the pur-
pose of the people in the adoption of the
first eight amendments was to limit, and
not enlarge the powers of Congress. See
Elliott's Debates, vol. l, PIP. 800, 326, 328.
We are of opinion, therefore, that under
the original constitution and the first eight
articles of amendment, Congress had not
the power to protect by law the people of
State in the freedom of speech and of the
press, in the free exercise of religion, OF in
the right peaceably to assemble.
Jealousy of the power conferred on the
Congress by the original constitution sag
gested and accomplished the adoption of |
the first ten amendments to thecenstitution,
Year: 1871

The Democratic majority in Ken
lucky is reduced in the late election
to from five TO twenty thousand. In
1868 the majority for Seymour was
10000 in 1870 it was $4,000; now
reduced to half that. We may yet
have hope for this most incorrigable
Democratic State in the Union.
Year: 1871

ASTONISHING. A farmer near
Cedar Rapids came into town and
sold . load of new wheat, and the
first thing he did after getting bis
money, was to pay for his newspa-
per. That man must hsve been out
OF bis mind. ee
Year: 1871

THE DISTRICT CoURT.-This Court, which has
been in session in our town for the last fifteen
days, began the trial of criminal cases last Mon
day. As usual, these cases make slow progress,
notwithstanding the efforts Of the Judge and
officers of the Court to dispose of them.


The criminal docket being always heavily
loaded it is but natural that the sessions of the
Court should extend through month, and often
longer; and the present will probably be one Of
the long ones.
Year: 1871

a well known Kentucky minister.
subject to severe spells of nervous
headache, was In our office the other
day during one Ofthese attacks. Ma
j0r Brown, of Mexico, was present
and prosed to relieve him in five min.
utes, which he did most etlectuaIly.


The following is the prescription :
Take q desert spoonful Of common
soda, such Is used In making bread,
and dissolve it thoroughly in quart
OF cold wat,r, with this shanpOon
the head for about five minutes,
scratching the skin OF the head and
back Of the neck well with the finger
nails; then rinse the head with clean
cold water. Major Brown says he
has used this remedy in perhaps n
thousand cases since 1863 and never
once failed to give relief In five or ten
minutes. The remedy is for nervous
headache, and is not for those atfer-
tions OF the head arising from de.
ranged stOmachs.-Er.
Year: 1871

very pious lady in a town in Illinois, not
many years ago, was pondering how she could


be most useful in promoting the spiritual well


fare Of the people. She finally settled upon
this plan to purchase with her own money
carefully selected library of interesting and
appropriate books and lend them gratuitously
to such persons as she could induce to read
them. She was not wealthy, but had Just re.
ceived small sum Of money as her portion
of her recently deceased mothers estate. A
portion Of this money was expended for the
library of religious books. This proved to
be quite as profitable an Investment, fnan.
cially considered, as many less considerate
Christian has put into silver-mining or petro.
leum stocks. The books obtained, she visits
from house to house calls the attention of
each lady friend to such book as she Judges
most suitable to her present spiritual condi-
ton, and leaves it with her to read The en-.
tire field was gradually cultivated by this kind
of judicious labor, and well covered with the
seed Of books. Never obtrusive never giving
offense, cautiously and kindly feeling her way
to the sanctuary Of the heart she worked on
patiently like the secret agencies of nature,
with little noise and no pretension, until, after
weeks Of delay, the signs of hopeful promise
appeared. The result was that, with other
laborers in the field, powerful and wide.
spread reformation swept over and through the
town, in which many nearly hopeless cases
were happily and Thoroughly converted to God.
Temperance Adrocafe.
Year: 1871

1t is their eminent domain There is a
good deal Of banter afoat on the subject and
one might easily suppose that our women
were given to talk but nothing is further
from the truth. Their fault in society is
that they do not talk. They are timid-not
socially, but intellectually. They are afraid
to imbibe, or to cherish, or to enuncate ideas.
They mistrust their own capacities and ac.
quirements, and have mistrusted them so long
and so sincerely that the mistrust presently
becomes final and fatal They have too much
sense to be silly, and too little power to be
self-forgetful; so they take secondary place
when they ought to be in the van 1t is not
oppression on one part or superiority on the
other, but the natural effect Of long line of
causes. Women not only fear men, but they
fear each other.-Gaa Hamilton.
Year: 1871

The other day little son Of a well Unknown
bank officer in Wall street, New York, lost
his purse while coming from Central park,
and stranger seeing his discomfort, paid his
railroad fare three cents. The boy, thanking
him, said, If you will tell me your name,
sir, will bring it to you tomorrow" "Oh,
no" said the gentleman, never mind about
it, The boy persisted saying his father
never allowed him to run in debt. ." | will
not give you my name" replied the gentleman,
" but live at No - on -- street" The
next morning the door bell rang at that
house, and our little hero told the amused
servant maid his erraud (Which of the
gentlemen is it2" said she there are sew
oral in the family" The boy twisted on his
heel, and after a moments thought said,
" Have you photograph book in this house ?"
She brought it and turning over its pages,
he said, pointing to one That's my man.
Please give him these three cents, and tell
him the boy who borrowed it in the cars yes
terday left it to pay his debt"
Year: 1871

a poor boy, the son of an Incorporate
man, brought for the first time into a Sab.
bath school, eagerly drank in the story of
the cross.


When his teacher asked him what he would
do for Christ, who had done so much for him,
he said rich folks could do great deal but
he had nothing. When made to understand
that all Jesus asked was his love, he replied,
in his own artless way o, yes can love
him, and | will | have nobody else to
love-"


A marked change was apparent in the boy
that day. He became constant attendant
of the school, and also of public worship
He began doing odd jobs, as he could get
them, and saved his money to clothe his moth.
er. He then persuaded her to 20 with him to
the house Of God and what she heard there,
and the changed conduct of George, we're the
means Of her conversion. Night and morn.
ing, they knelt together and he sought Gods
blessing on drunken husband and father.
One evening while thus engaged, Mr.. Gray
came in, and their earnest supplcations in
his behalf struck an arrow of conviction TO
his heart, leading ultimately to his conver.
sion. Thus in one short year, by the means
of one kind act, family of three sonls was
rescued from eternal death, and made heirs of
glory.
Year: 1871

1t fell when the crimson began 70 shine
In the round of the robins breast,
That the feet Of the maiden, Madaline,
Came not to dance with the rest.
And when the splendor shone in the grass
And the head Of the rose was high,
She sang OF love, though the song, alas!
Was only lonesome cry.


But, all when the drifts Of gold in the air
Betrayed where the broom was sweet,
She took the combs from her silker hair
And let it fall to her feet Thrown |
And in the days when the woods grew
And red haze fringed the skies,
She wound it back, and wound it down
From her poor bewildered eyes.
And by and by, when the SHOWS were white,
And shadow sat In the land,
She lay on her bed from morn till night,
And turned the ring on her hand.
The midnight moon was blind with storms,
But her heart with dreams was light
For she cried, He has come let me go to


his arms


And passed away from our sight.
We searched the valley, far and wide.
For the print Of step-but no bride,
And we combed her hair like the hair OF a
And made her grave in the snow.
And we took the smile with trust so sweet
And we took the ring-for a sign, feet
And the name we graved at her head and
Was FAITH-not Madaline.


-Scribner'S NOathlzJ t0,. Feb,,,n,7,
Year: 1871

THE Vallejo Cali chronicle gives the
following account of spirited runaway
match


An exciting runaway match took place
Yesterday in which the would-be bride
groom, by superior speed and bottom,
Overcame all obstacles and won his prize
The hero is @. w. Benedict, formerly
leader of the Vallejo Rifles Brass Band,
and at present band-master on board the
California the heroine is a young lady
of this city. The two had formed Il
mutual attachment, and were engaged to
be married. But "the course of true
love never did run smooth and the
young lady had a big brother who was
strongly opposed to the match, not being
satisfied with the social standing of the
suitor. So Il runaway match was ar
ranged, and Yesterday the latter engaged
splendid double team of Johnnie Brown
lie and, resplendent in naval uniform
and brass buttons, drove around to the
residence of his afiianced The two then
drove off to Suisun. Meanwhile thc
brother finding his sister absent smelt a
rat and having an idea what was up,
straightway got a buggy and started after
the runaways. The latter, arriving in
| Suisun, had put up at a hotel, and fancy
ing the coast was clear were enjoying
themselves leisurcly, when the brother
appeared on the scene. The couple catch
ing sight Of him, made for their team
and jumping in, started for Fairfield at
break-neck pace to get the license.


Their pursuer whipped his horse afte
them ana finally overlook them in th
clerks office, Here he tried to proven
the clerk from issuing license, but botl
parties being of age, the latter could no
refuse Armed with his license, Benedie
handed his sweetheart into the buggy
and was about stepping in himself, whei
the brother colared him. A serious scum
ensued, but Benedict finally shook hir
of, and started for Suisun TO find lustlc
to perform the marriage ceremony IN