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Year: 1873

EDITOR STAR OF PAsCAGoULA:


Much has been said and published recent
ly on the subject of a Harbor on the Gulf
coast of the State of Mississippi The
Governor in an official message, and the
Legislature, by resolution. call attention to
its great Importance, and ask the necessary
aid of Congress. But in no instance have
we seen the subject treated in a practical
way. Public opinion seems directed solely
to Mississippi City, as the point and the
only point worthy of consideration.


To set this question at rest now and for
ever, just let me refer you TO tile highest
official authority as proving the absolute
impossibility of accomplishing the eld pro-
posed and therefore the folly of wasti ~
your time and influence. when. II rightly
directed, the small means necessary i So
cured to make PascagoHla second only to
Pensacola as a gulf port.


In Ex. Dee. l. Part ,. A. Congress ID Ses-
sion House of Representatives, being the
REPORT of the Secretary of War. DC" in
Guiding "Report of Chief of Engineers" will
be found the Report of the L. 5. Engineer
Department, on the Harbor OF Mississippi
City 1871, p. 548, $40.


The estimate Of the Department TO make
this place at all available as a harbor. is put
at Sl0.305,73l u and the Report adds: THE
commerce Of this village does not demand
any increased facilities. and l can see no
reason for recommending any attempt by
the General Government TO make seaport
''at this point" Enough said.


ENGINEER.


The foregoing is introduced to the
public as coming from distinguished
Engineer" We viii hazard nothing in
surmising that the Engineer referred tc
is no less parsonage than Gen. Bragg
who is now engaged on the harbor OF
Mobile by employment of the State Of
Alabama Az opinion from a source 50
eminent and impartial. is entitled t.
great weight. a1ah
Year: 1873

A silly fool a lover at Des Moines
draws blood from his arm and uses it in
place of ink to write to his girl. Ten to
one that he don't pound her with the
stove-handle in less than year after
marriage. sss
Year: 1873

" Dear me it wasn't enough for me to nurse
and raise a family of my own, but now when
| m old, and expect to have little comfort
here, it is all the time, Send for mother. "
And the dear old soul grOwls and grumbles,
but dresses herself as fast as she can, notwith-
standing. After you have trotted her off and
got her safely in your home, and she flies
around, administers remedies and rebukes by
turns, you feel easier. It's right now or soon
will be-mother's come.


In sickness, no matter who is there or how
many doctors quarrel over your case, every.
thing goes wrong, somehow till you send fOr
mother. In trouble, the first thing you think
of is to send for mother.


But this has its ludicrous as we'll as its touch.
ing aspects. The verdant young couples, to
whom baby's extraordinary grimaces and
alarming yawns which it accomplishes with its
eyes halt open and no preceptible futter OF
breath on its lips, causing the young mother to
Imagine it is dead this time, and to shrek out,
Send for mother" in tones of anguish-this
young couple in the light of experience which
three or four babies bring, find that they have
been ridiculous, and given mother good many
trots" for nothing.


Did anybody ever send for mother and she
fail to come, unless sickness or the infirmities
OF age prevented her? AS when in your child.
hood these willing feet responded to your call,
so they still do, and will continue to as long
as they are able. And when the sum
mons comes which none yet disregarded, though
It will be very dark and sad one for you, then
God, too, will send for mother.
Year: 1873

WHAT CAUSES HARD TNiEs.-Too many
spend money, and too few earn it.


Too much money is spent wastefully and
uselessly, and two little saved and made pro
ductive and accumulative.


We buy too much abroad that we ought to
produce at home.


We buy too much that we do not buy cash
down-tOo much of what we buy being what
we do not actually need


We are too wasteful, know too little how tc
economize, and have too little disposition tc
do so.


We are too speculative, unscrupulous and
actually dishonest in our efforts to make
money.


Too many of US prefer idleness to industry
and too few of US know how to work and de-
rive pleasure and profit from our labor.


We spend too much time learning what i,
not useful, and too little informing ourselves
upon the methods Of promoting our materia
prosperity.
Year: 1873

HASN'T TINE TO BE POsTMAsTER-The
Postmaster General, il is stated has received
the following letter from person, who was re.
Gently appointed postmaster, at a salary of $l2
per annum, of town in Iowa:


Ito the general postmaster at Washington
City my Deare friend hope you will, not
apint me postmaster in this here town hahn t
got no time to tend to it i suppose you got the
paper someOw, my frinds sent up Reckomin-
den me but | hain't got time to do the thing
as it ort to be done. In fact l don't know
hardly what is go in to be done our shoomak.
er would be very good man only he was Grely
square out which you know Onfts him for the
position then there is our storekeeper Jim
B that wants the position mighty bad
but as shure as 20 arc living man jim B
KANT read good writin and that's the trouble
You see them that wants it don't know enuG
to tend to it and them their that does don't
want to take it Jim b wus rased out in the
cOuntrey and jest come to town last week and
don't know enuff to be postmaster but do as
you think best only don't apint me hain't got
time ever your friend" etc.
Year: 1873

As an illustration Of the widespread use of
a certain popular title, it is related that gen.
tleman recently stepped into saloon in Dem
yer and cried out in loud cherry tone, Hell
10 come Professor, take drink" Six men
sitting in the saloon at once arose and came
forward, while boot black, whose stand was
just outside the door, and passing corn doc
tor smlIingIy accepted the invitation.
Year: 1873

A lady took her son, of some Eve years, to
church. After the minister had been preach
ing about half an hour the little fellow grew
sleepy and began to nod The mother reused
him into attention several times by pushing /;
but as it seemed hopeless case, she concluded
to let him sleep undisturbcd. After awhile
the little fellow had his nap out, and saw the
minister still holding forth. He looked up in
his mother face aud innocently asked, Moth
er, is this Sunday night, or is it next Sunday
niEht?
Year: 1873

When there is not breath of air stirring.
and you are in danger of stirling, attempt 70
lig ght a cigar out DOORS and you will be surpri-
sed at the breeze that will start up We have
seen a man try this experiment in dead calm,
and by the time he had scratched thirteen
matches it was really so windy as to be uncom-
fortable.-Mdr Adler
Year: 1873

When you make mustard plaster, use no
water whatever, but mix the white of an egg,
and the result will be a plaster that will
" draw perfectly, but will not produce a bis
ter, even on the skin of an infant, no matter
how long it is allowed to remain upon the
part-Er
Year: 1873

Mother wants to know if you'll please lend
her your preserving kettle, cause you know as
how we want to preserve" We would with
pleasure, boy, but the truth is, the last time
we loaned it to your mother she preserved it so
etfectually that we have not seen it since"
" WE'LL you needn't be so sassy about your old
kettle. 1t was full of holes when we borrowed
it, and mother wouldn't a troubled you again
but she seen you bringing home a new one."
Year: 1873

A curious case of mesmerism i recorded h


the civil surgeon of Hashungabad. A young


woman named Nunnec, aged tweuty-four, wss


married some twelve years ago; she, however,


did not 60 to her husbands house tor two years


afterward. After staying with him for eight
days she suddenly became insensible, and re-


manned 80 for two or three days. She was
taken back to her mother and soon got well.
Then follows very remarkable history. Dur.
ing the next four or five years she never en-.


tered her husbands house without falling in
sensible and remaining 20. He was very kind
and attentive to her; she liked him, but when


ever he came into her presence she ct once


sank into this state. This went on until she


BECAME emaciated and exhausted, and at last


her parents applied to the Court for separate


maintenance for her. While she was in court


her husband entered, and she instantly became
insensible, and was carried to tho hospital,


where the case was carefully attended to BY
Or. Cullen. in March, this year. While in
this state her pulse was even, breathing soft,
her body plant. but she could eat nothing.


Experiments were carefully made to zee If
there was no trick about it. While she was
in bed, her husband was muffied up, and made
to walk through the ward. She said ahe felt
he was near her, aud she was BY no means
well, but had not seen him anywhere about.
Next day this experiment was repeated. and
she actually became insensibIe a. before. When
the husband left the place she recovered. Tho
experiment a. to the influence ofthe husbapd's
presence was tried in all sorts Of ways. He
was made to pass behind her, and to be near
her in separate ward, but this had no effect.
but whenever he was brought to look on her
face. though muffled up, or disguised a. pe-
liceman. as a sepoy. aud 90 forth, she was ut
once influenced. The experiments continued
for about a month, and the conclusion was
that the husband unconsciously mesmerized
her. The Court came to the conclusion that
it was impossible that she could live with him,
and separate allowance was ordered. Tho
husband was asked to try if he could not re-
move the effect, seeing that he had the power
to cause it, but he was quito frightened at tho
idea Of having the power. and could not COZ
troll it 10 any way.-Homcrdri (Ind Mali.
Year: 1873

a "CoRNER"-Wha hat the ,rord really means
AS some Of our readers who have read about
the recent Wall street corner may misunder.
stand the term, will explain that it simply
means in this application just what it does 10
common parlance. Men are cornered when
placed in n difficulty from which there is no
escape. The great effort in Wall street is tn
accomplish this. and the man that can best sue.
ceed is the hero Of the day The same kind Of
transaction has been attempted in merchan-
disc, but is not 90 practicable as in stocks. If
a man could contract with number OF dairy
men for large amount Of butter, say at thirty
cents per pound, and then should secretly pois.
on all their cows. he would certainly have them
in "corner." This would be considered crime
Of an outrageous character, but it is just what
Wall street men are daily trying to do. In or
der to corner" others they will destroy values
and thus commit direct robbery. Hence if
they fail to accomplish this they need expect
no quarter. inquired Of one Of the lucky
men the reason why he was so hard upon his
victims "Sir," said he "whet business had
these men to sell property that was not their
own; what business had they to sell my prop.
ertyl" It must be confessed that this is true
view Of the case When broker who has not
dollars worth Of Northwestern contracts to
deliver thousand shares Of the stock at 80
within thirty days, hoping that he may depress
it by some trickery so as to make handsome
profit, then it is just retribution he should be
made to smart for it. This 10 the retribution
that such men as Henry N. Smith and Daniel
Drew have been called to suffer. Who will
pity themF
Year: 1873

Therefore the higher duty on us.
have received letter from gentleman
in Massachusetts in which he wrote ::
"Our people owe you debt of gratitude
for maintaining those principles ofcon-
stitutional liberty on which the safe
ty of the country depends and which
would have been lost sight of but for
your struggle"


Ladies, / have often said in you
was my greatest hope for the future of
our country. 1 have never seen a
southern woman, who had been recon-
structed, The men of this day may
yield the principles for which they
contended, but the children which suc-
ceed them will cherish and perpetuate
them.


Gentlemen of the Society, may
your steps ever be onward and upward,
| urge you to all diligence and fidelity.
You must succeed with the grand old
Early at your head, whose brave heart
never failed or faltered, and who had
the manliness, whether in a foreign
land or on his native soil, to assert the
glorious principles for which he so
nobly struggled"


Mr.. Davis took his seat amid great
applause He spoke with all his ac-
customed grace and elegance, and
while he showed deep feeling he ut
tered no sentiment of hostility to the
Government. bnt only evinced a deep
and earnest devotion to constitutional
principles.


At the conclusion of Mr.. Davis's
speech the Convention adjourned sine
die.
Year: 1873

tain to fire at so large a number of
mounted men. ThereupOn they dis
mounted and proceeded to the top of
the mountain, where a small tempor-
ary earthWork had been thrown up.


They remained there some half
hour. accommodating the enemys move
menJs-they were only some 1900
yards distant-when suddenly shell
was fired ut the group, which passed
Oft TO the right crashing through the
branches of the trees This Occasioned
but little comment, and shortly there
after General Polk, leaving the group
walked slowly away, as Maj. Men
who followed him, at first supposed to
get out Of range. He was surprised
however, to see his chief take mar
row and overgrown path which led TO
a still higher point.


They walked slowly along this an
gled and circuitous pathway about one
hundred yards, when the General,
being i'll advance, stepped out upon
clear place that commanded a fine
view of the enemy, and folding his
arms, was looking intently out upon
the plain before him, when the Major
turned to see if General Johnston was
following. Just at the instant that he
turned, another shot was fired. and he
plainly heard heavy dull thud, as if
the ball had struck near. Turning
quickly, he saw the General lust fall
ling backward, and rushing up he
found TO his unutterable horror, that
the form of his beloved chieftain had
been pierced by a rifle shell.


\ few short grasps and the soul of
Polk was with its God. The shell had
struck his left arm just above the ell
bow, shattering it, and passing en-
tirely through the body, had broken
his right arm also.


Walking back to General Johnston
Major Men informed him
of the dreadful accident. The entire
party at once repaired to the spot
where the dead hero lay, and his staff
remained there until arrangements
had been made to bear the body to the
rear.


This i correct history of the sad
circumstances attendant upon one of
ihe saddeSt bereavements that the
people of the South were called upon
to endure. Bishop Polk was beloved
by every human being who knew him
and no braver or purer gentleman ever
drew sword in defense of his native
land. He was entirely destitute Of fear
and always exposing himself in the
most reckless manner, and when re-
monstrated with by his officers, would
laughingly remark


"Oh, they can't hit me and old roam;
there's not the least danger"


He seemed to bear charmed life,
and those about him were finally al
most convinced that no bullet could
strike him, so frequently had they
seen him ride through the thickest of
the fight on his old roam charger and
escape unscathed-
Year: 1873

on the old one.


The State Committee.


1. There shall be State Committee,
composed of three members from each
congressional district. such members
shall be appointed by the President of
the Convention on the nomination of
their respective congressional delega-
tions; provided that such nomination
shall be made by at least a majority of
such districts concuering; otherwise
and in default of such nomination, the
president shall make the appointments
for such districts,


Vacancies in any such delegation af-
ter the same shall have been formed,
shall be filled by the committee upon
the nomination of the remaining men,
bers from such district.


The State Committee thus constitu-
ted is charged with the affairs OF the
party, and shall have power to perfect
its organization and to direct its con-
duct in obedience to the declarations
and policy of the party as the same
shall be sent forth by this Convention.
II NAV decide all questions at issue
which may arise in election districts
calculated to effect the harmony and
the interest of the party.


The state committee shall meet at
such times and places as they may
themselves determine, but especially
at such time and place as the Execu-
tive committee may designate.


2. There shall be an Executive Com
mittee, resident at Richmond, COM
posed of three persons, to be appointed
by the President of the Convention, /;
and q secretary to be appointed by such
committee.


This. the Executive Committee,
shall have no power to originate any
measure. 1t shall be their express
and single duty to execute and carry
out the plans of the State Committee,
as the same shall, from time to time,
be laid down by that Committee, un-
der whose authority it shall act, and
to whose revision all the acts OF this
Executive Committee shall be subject


CITY AND COUNTY ORGANIZATION.


8. Each city and county, by popu-
lar meeting, after due notice or through
the medium of existing organizations,
Year: 1873

Our correspondent, MOdoc, in his
letter published on the Ord instant,
falls into an error in his statement of
the circumstances attendant upon the
death of General Leonidas Polk. He
repreSents the General as having been
shot by a young Federal Lieutenant,
named SimOnSOu, and pictures Gener-
al Polk as wearing his Bishops gown,
and being the centre of group of Con-
federate officers when the fatal mess
enger struck him. He makes Gener-
al Howard remark that-"the figure in
the centre must ne Bishop POlk-he
sometimes goes out in gown and slip
pers."


The story is an entire fabrication,
and was doubtless imposed upon our
correspondent. The fact is, that when
the noble and gallant General met his
tragic death, he was standing entirely
alone and wore his ordinary undresS
uniform. There was no officer in the
army more punctilious about his dress
and no man ever saw him outside of
his own headquarters i'll gown and
slippers.


The day before the tragic event was
Sunday, one of those lovely June
mornings when a holy quiet pervades
all nature, and nothing disturbs the
peaceful silence save the exquisite
chants of the feathered choristers
General Polk occupied as headquarters
a small rude cabin ON the Kennesaw
line, and after the morning repast he
stepped out under the shade of a
spreading oak, and accOsting one of
his aids, Mai. +. II. Men, re-
marked "What a beautiful quiet
morning. I know of no more appro-
pirate way to spend it than to have a
other members of the staff"


The officers were soon gathered to-
gether, in that grand cathedral, whose
dome was the vaulted sky, the Bishop
read the beautiful morning service of
the church. Never before had his
matchless form seemed so majestic,
and the solemnity of the scene WAS
such as to indelibly impress itself upon
those present.


Next morning General Joseph John
ston rode by and asked General Polk
and staff to accompany him to Gener-
al Hardee's, on the left of the line, as
he wished to recoluoitre the enemy.
They all proceeded to General Har-
dee's headquarters, and from thence
with Hardee to Pine Mountain, which
was two miles in advance of the main
line. While the party, some twenty
five in number, were ascending the
mountain on horseback. they were
met by an officer wko advised them to
dismount, as the enemy would be cer-
Year: 1873

A word on a subject which has such
immediate interest as cholera from an
expert sent, as DIR. J. G.. Peters was. by
the Board of Health recently on tour
through the Southwest to examine in
to the causes and character of the dis
ease then raging there, is Important
Therefore the following letter will be
of interest aside from the intrinsic in
terest of its facts and their infeIen-
ces;


To the Editor of the World.


Sir: Cholera is pursuing its SEEM
ingly well known mysterious and ca
PRECIOUS course yet numerous exam
piles of every vile and vagary that it
ever has orperhaps ever will achieve
have been carefully recorded and stud
led again and again. Sometimes 1T ad-
vances step by step as regularly as if it
had a timetable of its own, and had
taken possession of a river or railroad
by right of eminent domain. 1t al
ways touches some towns gently, 9TH
ers ferociously, and while near towns
stand in awe quickly expectingits desc
lating presence, it suddenly shows it.
self leo miles away. Then in a few
weeks or months it may retrace its
steps and mercilessly strike the best
and worst. strongest and weakest alike
In some States and counties every town
of from 100 TO 800 inhabitants may
suffer, while in adjoining places not
even breath of it has been felt. This
unequal and partial distribution OF
cholera always has been its first great
characteristic. This localized action
requires some more tangible and spe-
cifie cause than an immaginary some
thing floating about in the air, or car
ried by the winds from place to place.
There must be some force at work
more definite and limited in its opera
tions than this. We can only fall back
upon persons and things, upon trav-
ellers and infected clothing. Here al
so many difficulties arise but many OF
them may easily be unravelled. Out
breaks like that in the Columbus Pen
itentiary are among the easiest prob
lens to solve. An infected person
with cholerine has come from Cincin-
natl, or some other stricken place
Year: 1873

All Through Carelessness.


PITTsBURG, Sept. 13-Shortly before 8
O'Clock last night a frightful accident occur
red on the Pennsylvania railroad one mile
east of Wilmore, by which one man was
killed and several wounded, ali the trains
east and west delayed and large amount
of property destroyed. The accident was
unmistaksbly the result of violation of the
re2 ulations in reference to the opening and
closing of switches from the main track at
the point named. A freight train bound
east switched from the main track to the
middle siding according to orders, so as to
allow the Philadelphia Express to pass A
westward bound freight came darting along
before the switch at the last end If the sid
ing could be turned to the main track. The
westward train ,an Gn the siding and collid-
ed with the train which was lying there.


About the same moment the Philadelphia
express passenger train east came along
and passed safely until the rear sleeper was
reached, when one of the eastward bound
freight struck it and badly wrecked it. One
lady who occupied seat in tbs rear car re-
ceiVed number of bruises from the flying
debris, but was not seriously injuret. The
express train was not seriously damaged,
but the escape from total wreck was al
most miraculous. The engineer of the
westward freight train was caught in the
cab Of his engine and received such injuries
as to cause death instantly. The engineer
and fireman of the e stward train was in
jured badly, but not fatally. Three loco
motives, one pusher and two engines, were
almost totally destroyed. A number of
freight cars were also demolished. The
different tracks around the siding and the
ground, for q considerable distance, were
torn up. -a- ZIG