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Year: 1872

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The United States mail steamer Colorado
received pouch of mail at this point on
Tuesday evening for Duckport Not having
freight for that point, her captain thought
he would save time by running IN close to
the bank and throw the mail out, which re-
suited in the pouch falling short of the bank
and sinking in the river, thus saving the
Duckport postmaster the trouble of opening
and delivering the mail There were about
twenty letters in the pouch which were put
up by Assistant Postmaster Arn in our Of
flee. This is an accident and gleam. of
charitable light should be shed upon it, had
there been a route agent upon the boat, 1T
would have been clear "ticket-otleave'
for him, and our advice to him would have
been to resign Immediately; but steamboat
contracts and route agents berths are
siiyhtly different.
Year: 1872

There was decided improvement last
night in the audience at this establishment
to witness Lester Wallack's new play en-
titled THE Veteran We regard the play
as one of the best that has been produced
here this winter. The talented company OF
the Academy have not had time to perfect
themselves in this piece, and consequently
did not get through as smoothly as could
be desired. 1t should be repeated, in order
to give our people chance to judge OF its
merits. We are satisfied the lady and gen
tleman performers at the Academy can
make this sparkling piece a. most acceptable
performance, provided they are allowed to
become perfect in it.
Year: 1872

A vigorous effort was made by our report
ers yesterday to find the " old citizen al
luded to by the Picayune who got angry
with a policeman who told him fire was in
the sixth district because he was in too
much haste 20 tell him where the sixth dis
trict was The search Will be continued till
the old citizen is found
Year: 1872

This evening a portion of the Varieties
Theatre will be converted into ball room.
where grand fancy dress and mask ball
will be given by the. gentlemen of the
Hebrew Benevolent Association. In an
other column may be found an advertise
ment announcing the price Of tickets, and
where ladies' invitations may be applied
for. The ball will commence at nine
o'clock.
Year: 1872

A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO OBTAIN \
HoME.-Upon perusing notice published
in another column this morning by the New
Orleans Credit Foncier Association. it will
be seen that two brick dwellinghouses. now
in the course of construction. are to be dis
posed of at a credit Of ten years, payable
monthly. These houses are suitable for
moderate sized families. and are situated in
one of the best localities for residences in
the Third District, On Love street. between
Clouet and Montegut streets. The books
of the association are open for subscription
to the stock, and, as matter of course.
stockholders will have the first preference
when these properties are to be disposed Of:
but the door is not shut to bids from out
siders: on the contrary, parties who are
desrous of obtaining houses have only to
let their wants be known to the association.
and they will he accommodated on the
most reasonable possible terms. For in
stance, person owning lot, 70 matter in
what locality, can get house of the dlmen-
sions he may desire put upon it by only
paying one. tenth of the cost down in cash,
and have ten years to pay the balance,
drawing six per cent annually also upon the
deposit As the association employs its own
architects and builders by the year. and
purchases all the materials from first hands,
it. of course, can put up houses far cheaper
than any private person. and better, too.
With such an opportunity to become the
owner of his own house., We can easily
promise that there will be but few working
men in our city hereafter who will not be
come proprietors. We advise all such to
become stockholders in the Credit FoRcifr
Association. Every dollar they invest in
such stock will increase year after year.
Year: 1872

New YORK, May S0.-It is reported
that thirty thousand dollars of the funds
of the Eighth National Bank have been
fraudulently paid to the ex-Bank Ex-
aminer.


Hannah Fowler was yesterday acquit-
ted of the murder Of her husband.


Weather cool and showing, with the
appearance Of rain.


Preparations for celebrating the deco
ration of the soldiers graves will be
made on large scale.


President Grant has sent a letter to
the Grand Army regretting his inability
TO celebrate the day with them.


The Greek Consul here denies that
Greek criminals have been shipped to
this country.


A Washington dispatch says that the
President, when at the Senate yester-
day, showed to the leading Senators the
dispatches received from Minister
Schenck on the supplemental article.
The first of these dispatches represent
that the British Government is dissatis-
fed and cannot accept the Senate sup
piement, unless there is another supple
ment adopted, making the explana-
ton clear. To this Secretary Fish
reported that no further concession
could be made. A subsequent dispatch
reiterated that the changes in the arti-
Gle adopted in the Senate were not clear
10 the English Government yesterday.
Secretary Fish assured Minister Thorn
ton that the Senate resolution was the
alternative of the United States, and
that the further obstinacy OF the British
Government could only be regarded by
our Government as desiring to see the
treaty fail altogether. A dispatch was
sent to Minister Schenck yesterday that
the British Government must accept
the Senate proposition or none at all, OF
the responsibility of the failure of the
treaty rests on England. The President
does not think therewill be any emergen-
cy for an extra session of the Senate,
but should further treaty negotiations
ensue, it may become necessary.
Year: 1872

ST. LOUIS, May 30.-Mail accounts of
the freshet few day ago in Southwest
Missouri, say that all the farms in the
valley of Spring river, center creek and
other streams, have been completely
washed away, leaving nothing but
rocks and gravel. Live stock of all
kinds Were drowned. One hundred
yards of the Atlantic and Pacific rail-
road track was swept from its bed into
the adjacent field. A wall of water five
feet high rolled down the Spring river
valley, leaving only devastation and
ruin behind.
Year: 1872

given myself jerk forward, and thrown myself against Tom, flinging my legs round him and holding him tightly; and then tired as I was, felt that I had double weight to sustain, for Toms rope was swinging to and fro, and as my legs clung round bis body, his head hung down, and knew he must have tainted.

 How managed to hold on can't tell now, for though weak with all had done, I managed to give horse cry for help, and the next moment I heard cry of horror from the basket work car.

 Then I felt the rope begin to jerk as they began to haul us upland l managed to shriek out, " No no :" for if they hauled any longer they must have jerked poor Tom from my hold.

 I have often asked myself whether it was half an hour or only few seconds be- fore I saw big rope lowered with big running moose, and then I've misty no tion of having set my teeth fast on the dragging at me. Then I felt that it was all of poor Tom, for he had seemed to fall, as felt the rope by which hung jerk again violently. I saw the earth below like 8 m1p anu Cne SOlueu Clouus up aOoVe Iue great net covered ball, and then mist swan before my eyes, and all seemed black and thick as night.

 When I came to, I was lying on my back in the car, with man pouring brandy between my lips. My first words were grasped out in a husky tone, for did not know where was; and then l remember bursting out into quite shriek, as l cried Where's Tom ?'

 "Here old man," he said, for they had managed to drag us both into the car and for the next hour we sat there shivering saturated with cold precipitation; even the men in the car being silent, unnerved, as l suppose, by our narrow escape.

 Tom wanted to go again, but wouldn't let him. "I did not tremble," Ee said "it was only sudden fit of gidiness through being unwell.

 went up, though, many times after. wards alone on horses and on bulls; anG I meant to have had car of flying swans for grand hit, when government stepped in, and put stop to it: and as I said be- fore, very sorry I was, for it was my liv. inp
Year: 1872

The Fulton (N. Y.) 7Enaes is responsi- ble for statement which goes to prove that, in some instances, transfer of property to a wife in order to escape payment of creditors, may be no better than "jumping from the frying-pan into fre." Four years ago 8 certain gentle man, now resident of Utica, according to his own statement, was made the victim of conspiracy to such an extent that he was obliged to try an experiment of this kind. Forged checks and notes were so freely circulated throughout the State, that it would have taken the pro- ceeds of his entire estate to have paid them of. In this emergency, he assign ed all he possessed to his wife, and appointed nephew, as trustee. From that time he ceased to be master in his own house the wife became icy in her coldness to him, and he was deprived of comforts which were essential to man verging on his eighty-eight year. A newspaper correspondent finally heard of his distress, and visited him. The result was an elaborate article, descrip- tive of chamber that for squalidness was only equaled by that of the insane recluse who existed in single apartment for twenty-two years, without ever hay ing allowed the light of day to penetrate it. The nephew of the unfortunate gentleman has since brought an action for libel against the editor who published the account, but, for an obvious reason, the Grand Jury refused to indict. Con- sidering that the gentleman and his wife had enjoyed forty years of almost unin- corrupted happiness before the deed of assignment was perfected, the subsequent conduct of the latter seems all the more unkind.
Year: 1872

ANNOYING WIrNEssRs.-Lawyers who badger witnesses upon the stand often get sharply cut, and among the hume rous stories told at the expense of the members of the bar, there is none better than one that occurred at the session of court recently held in Western city. A prominent lawyer had an old farmer upon the stand whom he undertook to browbeat, and for an hour labored hard to confuse and frighten him by his mer- ciless style of cross-questioning. The lawyer has large bald head that by a stretch of imagination might be thought to resemble pumpkin, and wore huge standing shirt collar. During his labo- rious badgering of the old farmer one side of the collar wilted and lay down on the lawyers coat. As the witness was released, he stepped toward his tor mentor and said, loud enough for the court and jury to hear "see here, Squire, if you don't put up your side boards you'll lose that pumpkin off the top of your load" Smiles were audible about that time.
Year: 1872

TAME CoDFIsH.-Mr. Buckland, in a recent number of Land and Water, gives an interesting account of visit paid by him to pond containing tame codfsh at Port Logan, Wigtonshire. The prop erty in question belongs to gentleman by the name of McDougall, and consists of an ampitheatre about one hundred feet in diameter, hollowed out of the solid rock by the sea. All egress from this is prevented by barrier of loose stones, through which water passes freely. On approaching the shore of the pond codfish of great size were seen and when servant woman who had charge of the fish approached with some mussels, the surface of the water was perfectly alive with struggling fish. They came to the edge, and after 8 little while permitted MT. Buckland to scratch them on the back, and play with them in various ways. Among other experiments tried by him was that of holding g mussel in his hand, and allowing the fish to swallow his hand in the effort made to obtain the mussel. These fish furnish the proprietor an am- pie supply of excellent food, the flavor being considered much superior to that of the cod taken in the open sea. When ever needed for the table, selection can readily be made from the most prom ising of those at hand, and the fish se- cured without any difficulty.
Year: 1872

"How did that homely woman con- trive to get married ?" is not unfre- quently remarked of some good domes- tic creature whom her husband regards as the apple of his eye, and in whose plain face he sees something better than beauty. Pretty girls who are vain of their charms are rather prone to make observations of this kind and con- sciousness of the fact that flowers of love- iness are often left to pine on the stem while weeds of homeliness go off readi- ly, is no doubt in many cases at the bottom of the sneering question. The truth is, that most men prefer homell- ness and suitability to beauty and ca- price. Handsome women are apt to over-value themselves, and in waiting for an immense bid occasionally over step the market. Their plain sisters, on the contrary, aware of their personal de- iciencies, generally lay themselves out to produce an agreeable impression, and in most instances succeed. They don't aspire to capture paragons with prince ly fortunes, but are willing to take any thing respectable and 1ove-worthy that Providence may throw in their way. The rock ahead of your naughty Junos dlIO CO1uOUG1oA AODOo-AS AdSUAuAOuS' They reject and reject, until nobody cares to woo them. Men don't like to be snubbed or to be trihed with-a les son that thousands of pretty woman do learn too late. Mrs. Hannah Moore, a very excellent and pious person, who knew whereof she wrote, recommends every unmarried sister to accept the offer of the first good sensible Christian lover who falls in her way. But ladies whose mirror, aided by the glamour of vanity, assures them they were born for con- quest, pay no heed to such advice. Itis a noteworthy fact that homely girls gen 3, orally get better husbands than fall to the lot of their false sisters. Men who are caught merely by pretty face and figure do not, as general rule, amount to much. The practical, useful, thought. full portion of mankind is wisely content with unpretending excellency.
Year: 1872

The publication of the Dundee Weekly in Illinois has been discontinued. This is the sixth time that the Weekly, under successive proprietors, has come to an untinely end and in it's final issue the rules are turned and the resources of the

 office in the way of ghastly cuts of cof- fins and tombstones are exhausted in the effort to render suitable mortuary honors to the expiring journal. And as the editor had many gaping columns at his disposal which should have been filled with paying advertisements, but which owing to the penuriousness of the non- advertising population of Dundee were not so occupied, he took occasion to fill the vacant space with earnest and un- equivocal expressions of his candid opin- ion in regard to the place and it's in- habitants. His description of Dundee is hardly calculated to attract immigra- tion to that particular part of Kane county. He calls it Chicago burned into a crust by the fires of misery San Francisco shocked by the earthquakes of meanness into grabbing after pennies and cold victuals and declares that ii Gabriel's horn is ever heard within its precincts it's sound will be drowned out by the clamors of its hungry. people thinking it an invitation to free lunch

 He pathetically alludes to his own trials while endeavoring to escape starvation

 and recites the melancholy experience of some of his predecessors who had been deluded by fair promises into the disastrous experiment. of publishing z newspaper Gin the foul graveyard, as warning to printers who may hereafter be enticed to bury their talent in so un

 promising a field. And finally, witt sardonic glee he directs the attention O.

 his readers to a cut which he tells then represents the identical train of cars il which he intends to leave for any place on the known earth which will take hin out of sight of the dead things that wall the streets of Dundee. If the editors prudence was equal to his disgust, he dit not wait to observe the effect of his val edictory upon the minds of his patrons
Year: 1872

A TRAGEDY IN IND1ANA.-A horrible tragedy came to light in Clark County, two miles above New Albany, in Indiana. A log house in which resided German and wife, named Bently, was found burned to the ground, and on searching the debris their remains were found in the cellar. Bertly sold large lot of bacon, and it is supposed that they were mur- dered for the money he received, and the house burned by the robber to cover the crime. The case is now being in- vestigated.
Year: 1872

VANrrY.-At length it is proved that man has more vanity than woman. This is the way it came to pass. A curious investigator watched while a thousand men passed looking-glass use as sign on the sidewalk in Broadway. The re- suit of his observation showed that nine hundred and ninety-nine men glanced complacently at their image IS they pass ed. The other man was blind. Four hundred and fifty-two women passed during the same hour and half, ana none of them looked in the mlrror-aA of them being engaged intently exanln- ing each others appearance ana oress'
Year: 1872

A lI1CClC MOuSes I am 2 little mouse,

 Only that Chased about the house

 By the cat. But small as I am,

 Weak and shy, I have sharp little teeth

 And bright eye. lean see when the great

 Are in pain, I can gnaw for a friend

 At a chain, Dear lion, you are kind,

 You are strong; But the day may arrive,

 Before long, When in vain you shall roar In net; Then your small mousie friend Won't forget.
Year: 1872

A musician doing business at Hudders-
field, England, was recently sentenced to
eighteen months imprisonment because when
asked by his sick wife to run for the doctor he
merely sat down by her bedside and played
the "Dead March in Saul" He had also in
other ways shown lack of artistic perception
in the treatment of his wife, but the ''Dead
March in SauP' played to live woman in
bed and suffering from severe illness seemed
so utterly and helplessly unesthetic that the
husband and musician was deemed unfit to
associate with men. Such is ever the fate of
genius.
Year: 1872

The Canadian view of the Ogdensburg
question is well put in the following article
from the Canadian Cleaner published at
Huntington. Our magnificent vote of Tues
day will satisfy our Provincial friends that
the ''unenterprising citizens ''of Portland are
in very small majority here and that We
propose to do the shipping business for the
Canadas at least during the winter months.
We are glad to recognize these expressions of
sympathy from our Canadian neighbors,
whose interests in this business are identical
with onrs, and we look for hearty greeting
from them on the result of Tuesdays vote.


The vote in Portland with regard to the
question whether or not the credit of that
city should be loaned to the Portland and
Year: 1872

Bathers should not dive in shallow water
At one OF the London public baths recently a
man dived in three feet six inches of water
and, not rising, was found by his companion
to be actually drowning, having struck his
head with such violence as to fracture one of
the vertebrae and cause speedy death.
Year: 1872

Live as long as you may, the first twenty
years form the greater part of your life. They
appear so when they are passing; they seem
to have been so when we look back to them,
and they take up more room in our memory
than all the years that succeed them.
Year: 1872

Under ordinary circumstances, it is danger
Gus for drunken man to go a-swimming, but
doubly dangerous it is for him to complcate
monkey with gin within him and water
around him. The truth of this willy PROPOSE
tion was proven at Chelsea lately, when a
man named Joseph Small went to bathe in
the Serpentine, accompanied by favorite
monkey. Having undressed himself, he
placed the monkey on his shoulder, secured
by chain, and then boldly waded into the
water breast high. Finding itself in so un-
congenial an element, the mokey got fright
ened, and rushed frantically about tis mas
ter's head tightly twisting the chain about
the mans neck and producing semi-strangu-
lation. In moment down they went to the
bottom, but were soon rescued, the man in
sensible and the beast chattering and grimac-
ing at tremendous rate. Hereafter Joseph
Small will leave either his gin or his monkey
on shore.
Year: 1872

PHILADELPHIA, August 27.-The loss
by the wreCking Of the train and burning
OF the oil and cars on the Reading road,
this morning, is nearly quarter of o
million. No lives were lost.


The New York freight train consisted
OF % cars; the fifteenth car jumped the
track and striking the end OF the bridge,
carried it oil the abuttment carrying the
rest OF the train down on the Reading
track, twenty feet below. This disaster
had hardly occurred when train OF 90
coal cars, fully laden, came running up
to the bridge; the engineer and fireman
jumped from the engine and escaped with
their lives, though sustaining some slight
injuries. In q moment more the coal
train collided with terrific force with the
huge pile, which filled the chasm. The
shock TO the train threw every
car from the track, while ten were
completely smashed and battered up, ly-
ing piled upon each other. Some were
tossed distance Of twenty feet and others
thrown back upon the train. Their wreck
was complete in o few minutes. After the
collision OF the coal train confagration
ensued, which destroyed oil the cars that
plunged into the chasm, with all Of their
valuable merchandise and the locomotive,
the latter being completely destroyed aud
piled upon the charred cars and ruins of
the bridge, The cars of the New York
train contained dry goods. The fire de-
partment was quickly summoned, but de-
spite the efforts of the firemen all that was
combustible went TO ashes.
Year: 1872

Boston, August e7.-Gen. Banks made
his first speech Of tho campaign tonight
at Lynn on the occasion Of the Greeley
and Brown flag raising to large aud.
fence. Gen. Banks said in the present
issues there was no more Democrats and
no more Republicans, but patriotic men,
who sacrifice their prejudice, and as one
party, and one man, stand before the
country in supportot the great principles
on which the government was established.
The aim Of this movement was to
place power in the hands Of the peo-
pie, while the Administration party de.
sired their own perpetuation in power /;
but the claims Of factions whether at the
North or South would be respected. The
speaker said we have no cause to press
those who engaged in the rebellion fur.
ther than our safety demands. They are
but faction; a minority without posi-
ton, wealth or influence, and 1t is not rea.
sonable TO suppose they would take
power out OF the hands Of forty millions
OF people and reopen old issues.
Year: 1872

CINCINNATI, August 27.-The old man
Platfoot, who was cut in the head with
an ak in Cincinnati, by an insane man a
couple of weeks ago, and was reported
doad, is in fair way OF recovery.


All the engines were operating in the
Exposition today. Machinery is going
rapidly into the power hall. Most OF the
oil pictures IN tho art gallery, are hung
oil over the building, for which space i
being mapped of. The applications are
double those Of the previous Exposition,