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Year: 1871

serious damage was done to the reputation
of Mr.. Butler, by such a prosecution as
this, as there was no case at all, either in
law or equity, against him, and for a SIN
gle dollar the Government officials might
have known the fact, as the attesting wit
nesses could have as we'll been ;nterroga-
ted by letter as to have had this failure
to injure the reputation of Mr.. Butler.


He made the same order in reference to
the witnesses for the defense.


Mr.. Davidge remarked that they felt
pleasure in thanking the District Attorney
for the frarkness he had shown during the
progress of the case. Mr. Butler was con-
graduated heartily by his counsel and
friends. who were sure that the foul char
ges heaped upon him could not in any
manner be proved. He then left the court
followed by an immense throng of warm
friends.
Year: 1871

| commenced being good at very
early age. and built myself up on the
best models. [ was yet an infant when L
red the affecting story Of hacking down
the cherry tree by George Washington,
aud his manly statement to his father
that he could not tell lie. L red the
story and it filed me with desire to sur
pass him. I was not going to allow any
such boy as George Washington. If he
did afterward get to be President, to ex-
cell me in the moralities. Immediately
I seized an axe, and cut down the most
valuable cherry tree my father had and
more, I dug up the roots and burned the
branches, so that by no means could the
variety be procured, and | went skating
one Sunday, so that | might confess the
two faults, and be wept over and forgiven
on account of my extreme truthfulness.
The experiments we're, regret to say,
martial failures. | was very much like
Washington. but the trouble was my faith
err did not resemble George Washington s
father. which was essential to the success
of nv scheme. sDid you cut down the
cherry tree % asked he. "Father.I / cannot
tell a lie. did it with my little hatchet, -
] answered, striking the proper attitude
for the old gentleman to shed tears on me.
But he didn't she'd. He remarked that
he had rather I had told thousand lies
than to have me cut down that particular
tree. and he WHIPPED me till was in a
state of exasperated rawness. My skating
idea was no less failure broke through
the ice that Sunday and was pulled out
with dificulty-and boat-hook. AS lay
sick for a month with fever, | didn't
get a chance to get off the Washington
remark. Iscain.
Year: 1871

BY MRS. NELLIE II. BRADLEY.
Don't sell him another drink. please;


He's reeling already, you see,
And fear when he comes home tonight,
lie ii beat my poor mother and me;
She's waiting in darkness and cold,


And dreading to hear him cone;
He treats us so bad when he's drunk


Oh! don't sell him any more rum.
heard mother praying last night


She thought was quite sound asleep;
She prayed God her husband TO save,


His soul from temptation to keep.
She cried like her poor heart would break;
So, trying tc comfort her some,
told her I'd beg you to-day


Not to sell father any more rum.
Why don't you have something to sell


That will not make people so sad;
That will not make dear mother grieve,
And kind father cruel and bad?
Ah, me! it is hard; and see


You're angry because L have come;
Forgive poor little girl.


And don't sell her dear father rum!
Year: 1871

ITOm tHe GObl.l


President Grant is pensive at Long
Branch. When last seen he was sitting
thoughtfully, or at least silent, upon the
sands, the gentle surf breaking in quiet
ripples at his feet, the moonlight glane-
ing on the scarcely stirred surface of the
Atlantic, and the smoke from his cigar
mingling with the evening mist that lin
gered after the sunset. The Hon Tom
Murphy was by his side, but did not in
terrupt the apparent meditation, and
near at hand were few select friends,
also pensively ruminating over the
troubles in New York and mosquito
prospects of the season. 1t is quiet
scene, and one pregnant with sugges-
tons for poet and painter. The Presi
dent is now disenthralled from the vexa-
tious WEAKNESS Of official labor which
wore upon him at the capital, and seeks
this quiet spot, not yet invaded by pleas
uring throngs, to bend the energies
of his mind to the calculation of the
problem of the Presidential succession.
AS he smokes on the sea sands at moon
rise, surrounded by his tried and disin-
terested friends of the New York Gus
tom-house, the picture is one of such dig
nifty and solemn interest that we look on
it with admiration, and hope that the
coming of no daily Tribune or other
hostile influence will disturb the serene
confidence in his coming honors which
the Chief Magistrate involves from his
meditations with the aid of his friend
Murphy.
Year: 1871

According to the Breslauer Zeitung-
the Imperial ukase prescribing a change
of costume to the Jews in Poland has
not met with as ready obedience as was
expected. The long coats have indeed
been easily disposed of; whenever the
owners refused to shorten them the po-
lice obligingly took the task off their
hands. The curls have undergone simi-
lar treatment. But as the myrmidons
of the law are not as skillful in handling
the needle as the shears, the trousers
have for the most part remained as short
as before. The provision exciting most
resistance is that ordering the chin to be
shaved; BARRIERS work seems a tieklish
matter for policemen to undertake; the
Jews on the other hand venerate their
boards almost as a sacred thing; they
would as soon think of cutting their
throats as their boards. The War
saw police still allow the latter, shun-
ming an application of force as
apt TO produce disturbances; but
Year: 1871

The ideal marriage is thus described
by a young lady of st. Lous: A mole
eule of oxygen roaming lonely through
space, seeking for its mate, but finding
none, of a sudden, in some hidden nook
it discovers a molecule of hydrogen,
when lol there is a rush, an embrace,
and there is neither any more oxygen or
hydrogen, but a diamond drop of dew
reposing on the bosom of the lily" But
when she added that she herself was a
moleoule Of hydrogen, the only respons-
i've rush on the part of the moleeule was
toward the door.
Year: 1871

MEETING OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATIoN.-
The Board Of Education held called meet
ing yesterday afternoon, and determined to
have Il reelection OF teachers on the first
Tuesday in August next, and TO examine
applications for new teachers on the first
Tuesday in September.


The examination of those selected will
be held some time during the month Of
September, of which due notice will be
given. .


The board also changed its time of month
ly meeting from the first Monday to the
first Tuesday in each month.
Year: 1871

A GRATEFUL SHOWER OF RAIN, wetting the
ground about an inch deep, fell here about5
O'clock yesterday afternoon, cooling the at
mosphere and relieving to some extent the
anxieties of those whose crops had begun


to show the effects Of the hot, dry weather
Of the last few weeks.
Year: 1871

The occasion of the parade was the en-
tertainment given at the Fair GOunds by
the Southern Cross Brotherhood and Old
Dominion Lodge of Knights of Pythias to
raise funds for the removal of the remains
of the Confederate dead from Gettysburg
to Hollywood. The companies went out OH
the cars ut about 10 O'Clock. Several trains
having preceded them, they found the
grounds already enlivened by large
crowd, and the number of visitors con-
tinued to increase until about O'Clock in
the afternoon, when the assemblage might
have been numbered by thousands. The
attendance reminded US forcibly Of that on
a big day during the State Fair week.
Year: 1871

Never since the war has the Fourth of
July been so generally observed in Rich
mond as on yesterday. The suspension of
business on the principal streets and the
Sabbath like appearance of the city in the
afternoon was doubtless owing to the at
fractions Mt the Fair Grounds, and the dc.
sire to aid In the object of the entertain.
ment there, more than to any violent desire
to observe the birthday of American Inde-
pendence. It did seem something like old
times, however, to see the young men out
In their soldier clothes, and trying hard to
feel contented and patriotic while march
ing up and down hill beneath the rays of
brOiling sun.
Year: 1871

IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CUsToMHoUsE.-
The improvements in the Customhouse are
going on steadily. The ceilings of the
basement stories, wherever corroded by
rains and damp, are undergoing repairs, and
the interior is occupied by scaffolding and
the usual accompaniments to works of this
kind. The roof having been thoroughly
covered, one great cause of decay in the
brickwork Is thereby removed, since there
is no leakage in the new order of things.
The rotunda resembles nothing at present
80 much as an old ruin, but will soon put
on new face.


The old passage way to the federal courts
and Offices has now been appropriated by
the postoffice, and is used for the daily dis
tribution of exchanges. The rooms ad-
Joining on the north side are both intended
for the same department, and workmen are
busy recOnstructing the whole ceilings.
The slabs designed for the completion are
prepared and fitted into their positions
surely and steadily, and ere long the whole
will be ready for use. The old floors of the
former Marshars store rooms are all taken
up with the object of replacing them with
newer material.
Year: 1871

says:


The crop prospect throughout this this parish par 81
are very discouraging. The recent heavy
rains together with the cool nights, have
had their usual bad effects; and the stand
of cotton, which was so favorable at the be.
ginning OF the season is now worse than II
has been known for years, and together
with the grass, make things look gloomy
for good crop this year. Should the nne
weather continue, however, that we are a al
present having, the planters may be happily
disappointed in their calculations OF short
crops.
Year: 1871

ladies' wearing apparel. All that is known
OF the thief is that he came in at the side
window and went out the front door.


Nearly ten thousand dollars have al
ready been collected for relief of the suffer
ers by the overflow. ai .


Two-thirds of the net proceeds of the
forthcoming military festival will be given
to the drowned out quarters


The Citizens Committee were still yigor-
ously at work yesterday.


A great deal of what is yet unexplained
remains concerning the deeease OF George A.
Freret Esq. "f HH 49,


The Clerks Benevolent Association con-
tribute fifty dollars to the submerged.


A concert was held last night at Lyceum
Hall, for the benefit of.Rev. Mr.. Percivars
church of the Annunciation.
Year: 1871

false alarm of fire was sounded last
night at quarter past twelve o'clock, from
the box corner of Henderson and Levee
streets; and though the engines were
promptly on the spot, there was no oc-
casion for their services
Year: 1871

Office of the Louisiana Land Company
and Loan and Savings Bank-New Orleans, May 22
l87l.-At meeting of the Executive Committee,
held this day the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That an additional assessment OF forty
per cent on the capital stock be and the same is
hereby assessed end payable within fifteen days
from the date of this resolution.


mv23 l5t CHARLES H. FOX. Secretary.
Year: 1871

H5UCCCSsHOH


rance cOnsolidated-NO 80 $780,
SECOND DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH
y of Orleans.-Notice is hereby given to the cred
tors of this estate and to all other persons herein
interested, to show cause within ten days from
the present notification (if any they have CAM.
why the account presented by the testamentary
executor of the deceased should not be homolO-
gated and approved, and the funds distributed in
accordance Herewith.


BY order of the Court


ie6 10 Is M n TRACy CLARK
Year: 1871

II shall die happy" said the ex-
piring husband to the wife, who was
weeping most dutifully by the bed
side, . if you will promise not to
marry that object of my jealousy
your cousin John" Make your
self quite easy about that, 1 am en-
gagged to his brother; now die happy
dear, please" said the expectant
widow.
Year: 1871

Step out into the purest air you
can find, stand perfectly erect, with
head and shoulders back, and then
fixing the lips as if you were going
to whistle, draw the air through the
lips into the lungs. When the chest
is about half full, gradually raise the
arms, keeping them extended, with
the palms of the hands down, as
you suck in the air, so as to bring
them over the head, just as the lungs
are quite full. Then drop the
thumbs inward, and after forcing
the arms backward and the chest
open, reverse the process by which
you draw your breath, until the
lungs are empty. This process
should be repeated Immediately af-
ter bathing, and several times dur.
ing the day. It is impossible to de.
scribe to one who has never tried it
the sense of vigor which follows
this exercise.-TDr. Paine.
Year: 1871

/ From sn Article in the Independent, by MARI
Clemmer Ames.


In the profoundest sense Alice Cary
never loved but once. The man whom
she loved is still alive; yet gossip, with
its keenest scent, has never found OF
named him. With all her fullness OF
affection, hers was an eclectic and soli-
tary soul. He who by the very patent
of his being was more to her than any
other mortal could be, might pass from
her life, but no other could ever take his
place. A proud and prosperous family
brought all their pride and power to
bear on a son to prevent his marrying a
girl uneducated, rustic, and poor. 81
waited for one who never came back, -
she said. "Yet I believed he would
come till read in a paper his marriage
to another. Can you think what life
would be, loving one, waiting for one
who would never comet"


He did come atlast. I saw him. His
wife had died. Alice was dying. The
gray-haired man sat down beside the
gray-haired woman. Life had dealt
prosperously with him, as it is wont
with men. Suffering and death had
taken all from her save the lustre of her
wondrous eyes. From her wan and
wasted face they shone upon him, full of
tenderness and youth. Thus they met
with life behind them-they who parted
plighted lovers when life was young
He was the man whom she forgave for
her blighted and weary life, with a
smile of parting as divine as ever lit the
face of woman,
Year: 1871

Few persons have any just con-
ception ofthe extent of their indebt-
edness to the papers for the informa-
ton they possess and the moral SEN
timents they cherish. Compared
with any past age of the world, this
is a remarkably enlightened period.
A large portion of the people have
a considerable share of correct in
formation on almost all topics of
any real Importance. Religion, ge-
ograpby, history, the political con-
ditiOn of the world, astronomy, the
important practical features of nat
ural philosophy, something of geOl-
ogy, chemistry, as applied to agri-
culture and the mechanical arts, and
many other subjects, are tamilarized
to the popular mind. Most persons
can talk intelligently about them
without pretending to learning or
research.


But how did they come by this
knowledge ? Not at school, nor
from books-generally speaking
but by picking up, here little, and
there a little, from the family news
papers, in imperceptible small in
staIments. Let any one ask himself
where he obtained his knowledge of
any particular fact. He is probably
unable to tell, because it came
silently, unpretendingly, in thonews-
paper.


The same is true in regard to our
best moral impressions and senti-
ments. They have been suggested,
reiterated and fastened upon the
mind by the family press. The pull
pit does much but the press more
than either, often moro than both
Let any reader of a we'll conducted
family paper open its pages and
consider thoughtfully its contents.
There are in a single number some
times from one hundred and fifty to
two hundred separate and distinct
articles, each one conveying an idea,
q fact, or sentiment, and stated or
illustrated so as to produce an effect,
in enlargiDg the readers store of
knowledge, or giving right direc'
tion to thought, feeling and action.
Must not all this have its influence
on the reader? We think so.
Year: 1871

Commend us to such preachers as
the Rev. Robert Colyer Of Chicago.
His congregation gathered on and
about the ruins of their church on
Sunday, and Mr.. Colyer mounted a
stone which had fallen from the cor
nice, for his pulpit After preaching
a short but touching sermon, with no
whines or snivels, he concluded as
follows:


1t was day or two before I began
to look about and think with my
self what I could say to these, my
children. At last it came to me in
in one word-and this is what I
have to say about it. If you will
stay with me will stay with you; if
| you will work with me, will work
with you, and will make the best
/ fight we can against this adverse
situation. / am not going to be a
burden to you. You can not find
a cheaper man anywhere than I will
| be. I preached seven year for seventy
five cents a year. won't take any
more than that if you can't spar any
more. I don't mean to task Unity
Church, but I mean to stick by you
if you will stick by me. Never fear
for me, can get along well enough.
People wilIgive me more for lecture
than they will give some folks, and
if the worst comes to the worst I can
make as good horse shoes aud nails
as any man in Chicago.
Year: 1871

81 FEANAnh NAAAF
81 said, if might go back again


To the very hour and place of my BIRTH
Might have my life whatever chose,
And live it in any part of the earth;
Pat perfect sunshine into my sky,


Banifh the shadow Of sorrow and doubt;
Have all my happiness multiplied,


And all my suHerings stricken out
If I could have known, in the years now gone,
The best that woman comes to know;
Could have had whatever will make her blsst,
Or whatever she thinks will make her 50;
Have found the highest and purest bliss
That the bridal wreath and ring enclose,
And gained the one out of all the world
= That my heart as well as my reason ehOssi
And il this had been, and I stood tonight
BY my children, lying asleep in their beds,
And could count in my prayers, for g rosary,
The shining row of their golden heads;
Yea said, if a miracle such as this


Could be wrought for me at my bidding, still
would chose to have my past as it is,
And lot my future come as it will!
would not make the path have trOd
More pleasant or even, mere straight or wide !;
Nor change my course the breadth of a hair,
This way or that way, or either side.
My past is mine, and take it ALI


Its weakness-its folly, if you please
Nay, even my sins, if you come to that,
May have been my helps, and hindrancssi
If saved my bJdy from the flames


Because that once had burned my hand;
Or kept myself from greater sin


By doing a lsss-you will understandi
1t was better I suffered little pain,


Better I sinued for a little time,
If the smarting warned me back from death,
And the sting Of sin withheld from crime.
Who knows his strength by trial will know
What strength may be set against a SIM
And how temptation Is overcome


He has learned, who has felt its power within
And who knows how life at the last will show {?
Why look at the moon from whore we stand
Opaque, uneven, you say yet it shines,
A luminous sphere, complete and grand,
So let my past stand just as it stands,


And let me now, as may, grow old;
am what an, and my life for me


Is the best-or it had not been, I hold"
Year: 1871

Young Lady.


On Thursday night a singular
case of somnambulism occurred in
this city, the victim being young
lady of eighteen, of good family and
prepossessing appearance. She had
the habit of getting up in her sleep,
and going about the house at night,
after all had retired, always return
ing to her room, however, without
disturbing the family. On the even
ing mentioned, the fair sleep walker
arose about midnight, and with
lighted lamp commenced to explore
the house. In one room was young
man, a friend of her father, who had
arrived that evening, and among the
chambers visited was his apartment.
The door leading into the room be-
ing unlocked, the unconscious young
lady, with a lamp in her hand, en-
tered the room, and while the visi-
tor was in the arms of Morpheus, she
took his clothes, coat, pants, vest and
boots, even to his hat-not leaving
a garment to clothe his frame-and
deposited them all in the kitchen,
turning the dish-pan over the duds.
Her father, hearing the noise made
by handling the pan, discovered the
sOmnambulist and witnessed the
singular proceeding, and without
being detected, followed the sleep
ing girl back TO her room, saw hel
put out the light, lock the door and
retire. Comprehendtng the situa
ton at once, he, without notifying
his wife, went to bed. The young
man was called to breakfast mex
morning. He answered the sum
mons from the closed door, but the
family waited until the beefsteak
got cold; impatient at the length o.
time it took the young mau to make
his toilet. Mr.. -, enjoying tht
ljoke, and seeing the unconscious
cause quietly seated in the dining
room, could keep in no longer. Go
ing to the kitchen he lifted up tht
dish pan and exhibited the ward
robe of the tardy guest. 1t is un
necessary to add an explanation haC
to be made TO the clOthless younl
man up stairs, who had been search
ing in vain for the missing garments
There was very little breakfast eater
Friday morning in that house, ant
of those about the table the som
lnambulist was not counted in.-
| TSteubenviIle Herald.
Year: 1871

There is one place where love is
more nearly supreme than anywhere
else, and that is where success has
been achieved more nearly than
anywhere else. refer to the house
hold. There the fountain of love is
never sealed. There love is more
nearly on the pattern Of love in
heaven than anywhere else. That
is the bright spot of human history.
While nations have gone on, vol
luminous, dark, with desolation on
every hand, groaning and Travelling
in pain, until now; while there
have been outward conflicts innum-
erable; while the world has been
full of confusion, and crying, and
misery, there have been in all lands
with families secluded in them.-
And that which the State lacked,
and business lacked, all men cut
side the household have possessed.
Equity, justice, forgiveness, have
hourished in the household
! [Beecher.
Year: 1871

With shauks Of steel and fancy toe,
Our French Calf Boots are al the 80.
or the best stock they are made it's true,
By nrsI-cIass Worknisu at the Golden Shoe.
II y0u call on us before you buy,


We will ht you to an Oxford Tie,


They will ease your corns aud bunions too
II you have them made at the Golden Shoe.
We make every style to at the foot,


Webster Tie or Congress Boot,


IN this county there are but few,


That can beat the style Of tie Golden Shoe.
And Ladies', too, II you give ua call
We will at your foot hether large or small,
And about the price ven make no ado,
For we are selling chesp st the Golden Shoe.
Our French Kid Boots are very nice,
They are high in style, but low in price,
And for ready nash, between us and you,
You viii find cheap goods at the Golden Shoe.
Ouf store IS small, but our stock is nice,
or any style you eau have your choice,
II on the shelves there's none that viii do,
You can have them made at the Golden Shoe.
II your Boots are worn at the heel or toe,
To the Golden Shoe is the place to 60;
We will make them look as good as new
II you leave them in az the Golden Shoe.
HiTsbnro, Sept Z, 1871. SEPT