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Year: 1873

The object of the Convention to be


held In this State Oh the oath of the


present month has a higher object than


the mere presentment to Congress OF


the gross wrong to this people, perpe-


trated by the violent installation over


them OF the present usnrpation. 1t in
wolves tai more serious results than the
displacement of one set of men from
office to make room for another Men,
III such IA controversy, are nothing,
compared with the great rights, princi-
piles and interests involved.


10 maintain Kellogg, Clinton, and
others In their usurped offices is to de-
prive this people of their most impor-
tant right of self government, to abol
lsh the Republican principle of the
majority, and to violate the Constitu-
ton of the United States and every
other charter of republican freedom.
1t Is to recognize, too, the power and
right of the Federal Government to in
filct these wrongs and insults upon
State aud her people. 1t is to sanction
the power Of petty Federal Judge to
overthrow and set aside by a judicial
edlct, the Government created and
chosen by the people.


In these important issues, indiffer-
ence, or timidity, in demanding a relief
from such grievances, may and ought
justly to be regarded as little short of
treason, of intidelity to duty of com
mon manhood-as gross pusillanimity
And the suggestion that the perform
ance Of this duty will conflict with our
secular and selfish occupations and
duties, is worthy only of we'll fed slaves
Ihey deserve to wear brass collars for
life, who would preach such doctrines
to our people.


10 vlndicate the manhood of our
people against the influence of such ap-
peals to their lower instincts, we appeal
to all honest freemen to come forward
and lend their aid to the movement for
the holding of the Convention which is
to meet in this city on the Gath of the
present month. The last effort for the
rescue and salvation of our State is to
be made by this body. Let it be
vigorous, united and spirited effort
which, even it not successful, will place
our State on record as having main
tained her honor and rights to the last
verge OF peaceful protest, resistance
and remOnstrance.
Year: 1873

We will send the COURIER and the midland
Farmer" q large SPACE Agricultural Monthly,
one year, for 50 o5, which is just five cents
more than the subscription price of our paper
alone. Sample copies of the "Farmer" can
be seen at this office. Call and examine.
Year: 1873

CHEERING. - Pleasant reading for
the Kellogg regime must be the election
returns now being seceived, in WHICH
their doom is just as clearly fcaeshad-
DIVIDED as was that Of Bellshazzar by the
mysterious handwriting on the wall.
1t is not in the nature Of any gigantic
wrong to be long enduring, .snd al
though a few weeks ago our cause
looked cloudy enough, we can now
clearly see daylight breaking through
she riffs made by the late elections
The blow thus administered to the ad-
ministratlon was a sudden, but no less
significant one. and they will not dare
to disregard the warning. Hereafter
we may expect the Inauguration of a
temporizing policy. The plant hinges
of the knee will bow in more than one
capital to court popular will, and it is
by no means unreasonable to indulge
the expectation that the iusolent US ur-
per of Louisiana will lose somewhat of
Jis arrogance and assumption, that the
triumphs Of his armed Sepoys will be
piped to lower tone, and that whole
some respect for the people of the State
will invade councils to which it has
heretofore been a stranger.


All! the world moves. and every
thing comes at last to those who wait
We have waited long in gloom aud des-
pair sufficiently to whet the edge of
atonement to a sensitive keenness they
may well tremble at. Let US rejoice,
therefore, on the brightly breaking
morning of our hopes, which is so soon
to usher in the day of the triumph, of
right over wrong, the clean over the
unclean-which is to restore Louisiana
to life and freedom, and purge her soil
of the Infamous wretches who have so
nearly destroyed her integrity.


F. n. O. Herald, 9Th.
Year: 1873

u All the Worlds Stage, and all the
people merely players, and we surmise that
a large portion of the players thereon must be
using that Justly popular preparation for the
teeth, Fragrant Sozodont,' from the immense
demand there is for that article the most de-
lightful, convenient and efficacious beautifier
and preserver of the teeth the world ever pro-
duced.


Spaldings Glue, useful in every house.
Year: 1873

F Work will be resumed on the
Calcasieu Sulphur Mines before the 1st
of next month, under very favorable
auspices Judging from the contract
itself, we must conclude that the con-
tractor to sink the shaft, entered into
the contract fully confident that he was
equal to the enterprise which he had
undertaken. We wish him success.


Lake Charles Echo. Sth inst.
Year: 1873

The condition of our Cemetery, now under
going preparation for permanent improvement
and decoration, necessarily debars our people
from the sacredy solemn duty of paying fttins
honors to the memory of the heroes who gave
their bright lives for u.s." Still, We canno
forbear giving expression to the feelings which
animate our people by republishing the fol
lowing lines by the gifted and devoted Father
Ryan:
Do we weep for the heroes who died for us?
Who living were true and tried for US,
And in death sleep side by side for us?


The Martyr band


That hellowed our land
With the blood they poured in a tide for us?
All fearless on many day for us,
They, stood in the front Of the fray for US.
And held the foeman at bay for US;


Fresh tears shall fall


Forever-o'er all
Who fell while wearing the cray for US.
How many glorious name for US
How many story of fame for US
They left Would it not be shame for US


IT their memory part


From our land and heart?
And a wrong and blame for us
NO-HO-H HO-Iu0y were SlAiH IOr US,
And bright were the lives they gave for US;
The land they struggled to save for us


Cannot forget


Its warriors yet
Who sleep in so many grave for US.
were slain for US,
And their blood flowed out in rain for US,
Red, rich and pure, on the plain for us


And years may go,


But our tears shall flow
~ or tho dead Who hsya III cd in vain for
And their deeds-proud deeds-shall remain for
us,
And their names dear names-without stain
for US,
And the glories they won shall not wane fer US:


In legend and lay


Our heroes in gray,
Though dead, shall live over again for us.
Year: 1873

An impression prevails that very
large portion of last years crop Of wheat
and corn Is held over in many parts of
the west. Some say fully One-third is
thus retained in hand, but it is probably
beyond the fact. Still there is no doubt
that it will take a very poor crop indeed
to make much difference in the price.
The present prospect is that the crops
will not equal those of last year, but the
difference is not so great as to much af-
feet things,
Year: 1873

department the first gun fred in the cause
of tho rebellion. 1t was fired at the steam
or Vicksburg, bound for New Orleans, and
supposed to have ON board arms and am
munition belonging to the government.
The firing took place several days before a
gun was fired either from Charleston or
Pensacola. II is a small four-pounder, and


formerly belonged to the city of Vicksburg.
Year: 1873

A Much MARRIED WoMAN.-There is
a woman in Washington who has buried
five husbands. Recently she married a
sixth. Upon the day of the wedding, man
called at the house of the groom, asked for
that gentleman, and then proceeded to mea-
sure..his, body with tapeline The infatua-
ted groom entertained an idea this migth, per-
haps, be man sent around by his tailor
After the ceremony in church, however, the
husband was surprised to observe this same
person standing in.the vestibule and wink
ing furiously at the bride as the party came
out to the carriages. Just as they were
starting off the mysterious being put his head
into the carriage window, and whispered to
the bride: Got ready-made one that i'll
just suit him. Beautiful ft-beautiful' ~
When the happy man demanded the name
of the intruder, the bride blushed and said
she believed he was some kind of and under.
taker Then the man was not SO happy
He was hardly happy, at all, and a certain
gloom seemed to overcast the honeymoon
Perhaps the undertaken was too prompt
But still, we like to see man take an inter.
est in his business.
Year: 1873

VACCINATIoN-The following brief ex-
tract is from an article in the last Boston
Medical and. Surgical Journal upon the
subject of vaccination. The Journal is very
high medical authority in this country, and
We add that the recent prevalence Of Il ma
lignant type Of smallpox in Boston is excl
ting an unwontod degree of professional at
tention to the subject


The following propositions are offered as
matters Of belief, and some Of them matters
Of record:


l. Without vaccination, one death in ten
from all causes would be the result Of small
pox.


2. Without vaccination, nineteen out OF
twenty would have small pox.


3. Without vaccination, sixty seven per
cent of the cases Of small pox would be IA
tai


1. With vaccination, not two per ceut OF
the inhabitants will take the small pox


D. With vaccination, the percentage OF
deaths from small pox is only about eight of
the two per cent who will take it.


6. y larger percentage of those who have
had small pox will have the secondary dis
ease than those who have been vaccinatcd.
That is to say, vaccinia is better preven-
tion in variooid than small pox is


Z. Humauized virus is more likely to take
than the original virus from the COW.


8. Humanizcd virus, whether it takes OF
not, does not produce such violent con>tlu-
tional symptoms as primary COW virus does.


0. 1t is not proved that either humanizcd
virus or primary COW virus is the better in
It's protective results.


10 There are certain individuals who do
not seem susceptible of variola.


II. There are certain individuals who do
not seem susceptible Of vaccination.


II. The taking Of small pox after vaccl-
nation is no proof that second vaccination
would have succeeded.


13 \ successful re vaccination is no proof
that the individual rc-vaccinatca would have
taken smallpox.
Year: 1873

LONDON, DecemDer 20.


have adyices from Berlin from source
in which have great confidence to the ef'
feet that the resignation of Prince Bis
marck means nothing less than that the
great chancellor has received heavy check
and defeat. 1 am assured that the report
that this defeat and cheek is due to the alb
sence, through illness. of the crown prince is
entirely false This report makes out that
the crown prince is the especial friend and
supporter Of the chancellor; but 1 am told so
far from this being the case, the truth is that
his imperial hishness agrees with his mo-
ther, his wife and the other members Of the
family in viewing with alarm the conflict
with the catholic church which Bismarck
has urged on, and in desiring to wean the
emperor from his submission to Bismarck S
will. In this they have now succeeded, says
my informant, and it is probable that the
fight with the church will now be quietly
abandoned. Bismarck attempted to make
the Prussian cabinet entirely subservient to
himself-but this did not suit the other
ministers nor the king either; and when Bis
marck, suddenly recovering from his preten
ded illness when he saw his scheme for
swamping the house of peers defeated, has
tened to Berlin and tried to make the empe-
ror see through his spectactes, he foond him.
self too late. The court, the empress, the
crown :princess, the kings old friends, the
other ministers, and the kings own judg-
mcnt were all against him. They all saw
his policy would ALLEVIATE from the throne
the nobility, the gentry, the clergy Lutheran
as we'll as Catholic, and all the conservative
interests in the kingdom; aud the old en-
peror put down his foot and said he would
go no further in the path that Bismarck had
marked out for him. The chancellor then
offered to resign. " He did not believe that
the emperor would accept it," says my in
formant; he believed that the emperor would
become alarmed, and beg him to retain his
Office at any price. But the old man went
out the room for few minutes and consult
ed with Augusta, who was in an adjoining
chamber, and when he came back his mind
was quite made up. Bismarck might go
his health was not strong enough to bear
the double burden of the empire and the
kingdom; he had better be relieved from
the work of taking care of Prussia, and give
himself rest for awhile" You will see how
important and significant is this view Of the
case.
Year: 1873

nnon the island consisted of John Ellis, his
wife, two daughters and son SIX years OF
age.


As the waters began to rise the women
were wild with terror, and the anxious
watchers could hear them wailing and crying
out. At 2 o'clock the great rush came,
when the island was totally submerged. Two
horses and eight head of cattle, which were
in the stable, were at once drowned, as we'll
a, a number of hogs. Two heifers swan
through the ice and water and got upon a
rick of straw fodder. The rising ice carried
the rick fifteen OF twenty yards up to the
house, and they escaped to the porch of the
house. The island was noted for the great
number of rabbits which ran wild upon it.
These and large number of muskrats crowd
ed into the house as the water rose, perfect
" insensible to the presence of man, so
frightened were they by the frigid torrents
that rolled around. After the rise Mary
Ellis, girl of sixteen, hung table-cloth
out of window to let people know


TVEY WERE LIVING.


John Ellis now thought the worst was
over, and was reluctant to to risk an escape;
but Mary said they might as we'll be drown
ed in the gorge as in the house, and the i'm
portunities of the women prevailed upon him
to make the attempt They started out,
scrambling over the ice, fearing every mo-
ment that it would move again and crush
them. The men watching on the hill hnr-
ried toward them and met them; they found
them very much exhausted and Mr. Ellss.
had almost to be carried They crossed the
gorge in thirty-6ve minutes, scrambling
over the jagged edges of the ice as hastily as
possible. They were bruised and cut when
they got to land, but the daring deed was
safely accomplished Susan Ellis, who had
been living at Safe Harbor, had been almost
frantic with grief, and the whole town was
in painful suspense until they were saved.
Their losses were very severe; two crops of
tobacco, which had been stored away in the
cellar, the stock, damage to buildings, farm
implements, &C., will amount to over $4,000,
the greater portion of which, however, fahs
upon the company who owns the island, of
which company, however, Ellis is member.


The ice is gorged for miles above; no
body of water can possibly can clear it out
before April If freshets come, the back
water will overflow the river banks, spread
ing destruction along the line of the stream.
Year: 1873

THE WAY THE ENGLISH DANCE.-A
writer in London journal eirds at the
solemn, funeral way in which Englishmen
dance. In his eyes the majority look as if a
dress-coat were the tunic of Nessus, and
treasure up their words as if precious stones
issued from their mouths when they speak
Moreover, they evince remarkable DISPOSE
tions to put themselves in theirown pockets,
and they fdgct with their hands without
ceasing. Something of this might be saved
by the taking up stairs the fiat hat under
the arm in the French fashion but this they
will not do. They enter quadrille with
Il whalebone stiffness, lugubrious air
with which they might go to the stake, and
the coralicr SeM they execute in a way that
would send even an undertaken to an early
grave with laughter And when they do
talk they rarely get beyond the unhappy
weather If these be the manners of the
ball. what, oh what is the English funeral
like?
Year: 1873

A St Louis gentleman. took room at a
Chicago boarding house recently, and was
aroused early the following morning by the
chambcrmaid, who remarked that, as it was
near time to set the breakfast. table, she
would have to trouble him for the top sheet.
Year: 1873

1t is question with many good
people whether it is wise to spread
certain kinds of information. People
who are inclined to cheat, it is said,
profit by this knowledge, and the
world is made worse. Ofcourse there
will always be some classes Of facts
which will not come under general
rule; hut as the rule it does good to
tell people how cheating is done The
man who wants to cheat generally
finds out how to cheat, and one of his
securities is that the public is ignorant
Of what is going on. When there is
room for suspicion, he of the other
party is on his guard.


In this spirit we give the following,
from Land and Water, not that we
would advise any one to impose half
rotten butter on good customer Gt
is not so much matter how a cross and
cantahkerous wretch is served), but
that those who want Il good article
may see how the thing is done: "Ran-
cid butter can be greatly improved in
quality by washing it thoroughly in
lime water; and then clearing out the
lime waterby good washing in cold
spring water. The lime-water is easi.
ly made by allowing a lump of limo
the size of the fist, to slake in a bucket
Of water, stirring it well, and after
wards allowing the lime to settle. 1t
is said that large business is now
done in England by sundry persons
who purchase rancid butterat low rates,
and sell it again at much higher prices,
after manipulating it in the manner
mentioned"
Year: 1873

One of the most heart rending
stories of the year comes from Fond
du Lac a young lady was passing
through a piece Of ground adjoining a
farm house with her lover, when the
girl was attacked by a savage dog.
Before her lover could protect her the
dog had seized her by the breast and
tore the breast from her body. When
the young man saw the dog shaking
portion of the body of his intended he
tainted away, The young lady, how
ever. did not faint. She was so morti-
fled that she seized fence rail and
went for that dog, and she pounded
him until he laid still When her
lover recovered, the young woman
was trying to hide one of the wire
screens that people put over plates to
keep the flies off. 1t seems that the
dog didn't draw blood, owing to the
fashions of Fond du Lac, which it is
needless to describe. However there
is great excitement at Fond du Lac,
and the young man has broken off his
engagement and has bought that deg
what there is left of him, and he is
going to set him again. La Crosse
(Wis.) Democrat.
Year: 1873

A correspondent Of the Cultivator
states that he kept 1900 bushels of
apples mostly Baldwins, through the
past winter and spring in his cellar.
He claims that by his mode apples
may be kept the year round, without
loosing their iuiciness Of crispness.
His theory is that the early roofing and
decay Of apples is due, to great ex-
tent, to vegetable miasma IN the air,
which communicates to it by vege-
table evaporation under certain condi.
tions. The effect of this miasma is
first seen in minute speck; some
times as many as a dozen may be
counted on the same apples. His
remedy is daily airing ofthe cellar
place where apples are stored, arrang-
inc so as to have a brisk circulation,
until all the stagnant air is expelled,
and its place occupied by pure healthy
air. His success proves that his views
are at least worthy of consideration.
Year: 1873

Two IN A BED More quarrels
arise between brothers. between sis
ters, between hired girls, between
school girls. between clerks in stores,
between husbands and wives. owing
to electric changes through which
their nervous system goes by lodging
together night after night under the
same bed clothes, than by any other
disturbing cause. There is nothing
that will so derange the nervous force,
as to lie all night in bed with another
person who is abSorbant in nervous
force. The absorber will go to sleep
and rest all night, while the eliminator
will be tumbling and tossing, restless
and nervous. and will wake up in the
morning fretful, peevish, fault finding
and discouraged. No two persons, no
matter who they are, should habitually
sleep together. One will thrive and
the other will lose. This is law and
in married life it is defined almost uni
versally.
Year: 1873

How GREEAD4cK PAPER 10 sMADR.-All the
paper for the money issued blythe United States
Government is manufactured on a sixty-two
lach Eourdrlnler machine. AT the Glen Mills.
near West Chester, Pa Short pieces of red siIL


are mixed with the pulp in the engine. and the
finished stuff conducted to the wire without
passing through any screens, which might re-
tam The silk threads. BY an arrangement above
the wire cloth, shower Of short pieces of fine
blue silk thread is dropped in streaks upon The
piper while it is being formed. The upper side.
on which the blue silk is dropped, is the one
used for the face Of the notes, and, from the
manner in which the threads are applied, must
show them more distinctly than the reverse side,
although they are imbedded deeply enough to
remain hIed. The mill is guarded by officials
night and day to prevent the abstraction of anv
paper Paper Trade Journal.
Year: 1873

A correspondent of the department
of agriculture at franklin, Pa, writes :
have always believed that coal ashes
had value for agricultural purposes,
and have advocated the free use of
them, particularly on limestone soil.
This season determined to get closer
to the root of the matter and test their
value fully. I had plot of ground on
which I had been unsuccessful for sew
ersl years in raising good Early Rose
potatoes. The soil was in the best con-
dition always. The tops did we'll. This
spring had the ground scored about
six inches deep, placed the cut potatoes
in the bottom, and filled up with coal
ashes. The plants grew finely, not
understanding the dry weather. The
tops did not fall over even after the
weather changed, and secured a crop
of the very best potatoes for the table 1
ever raised.


The second experiment was with onion
seed and coal ashes. I put out five
good-sized beds in seed. In four the
seed was covered with soil the fifth
covered with sifted coal ashes. The
result surprised every person that knew
of the experiment and watched its pr
gress.


A third experiment was started on
seed, which promised inter failure to
those who looked on. The end has not
yet been reached, but 1 am more than
satisfied with the result thus far, and
fully satisfied that my experiment will
bring me at least one hundred dollars
more than if left untried. have abid-
ing faith in coal ashes, and am ready to
use all can purchase.
Year: 1873

There are some points in the dress
ing of the hair which all women should
understand. The present universal
fashion of covering the forehead with a
fringe of hair or small curls is a great
wrong TO the majority. They may twirl
and twine over small, delicate, lair
countenances but nobter faces want a
smooth expanse of forehead, aud in the
fashionable "idiot fringe" we lose all
the upper lights of the countenance.
Dark complexions, too, always require
masses of hair lying languidly in grand
easy forms of shining coils black hair
is spoiled by g frizzing."


In order to bring out the intellectu-
ality of any face, the hair should be
swept back and raised high. The face
lights as the brow uncovers, but care
must be taken not to draw the hair too
tight and rigid all that is necessary is
to show that exquisite line along the
roots where the skin is soft and fair, and
the coloring fresh and sender even in
old age. The covered forehead is of the
earth earthly; all the Delilahs of every
age and country affect it, and to prove
its effect you have only to take any all
pictured beauty and in imagination
sweep the forehead clear, and turn up
the flowing curls into smooth, tidy
coils, and the woman looks reformed.
Children and young girls may were un-
bound hair, but in a woman it looks I'M
tidv-and worse.