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Year: 1871

PEYCHAUD's AROMATIC BITTERs-We in
vite the attention of our readers this morn
ing to the certificate OF sundry physicians
of this city in relation 20 these bitters.
which appears in another column. We take
great pleasure ia calling attention to this
matter. because we consider that the more
publicity given to the proof of the
value OF this great medicine the
greater the service done to the pub
lie, and the sooner will those suffering
from all the terrible diseases for which they
are sure remedy be cured. They are no
quack nostrum, but an article OF real
merit, made from the p4rest and simplest
vegetables, and hundreds OF cases where
they have been used successfully have come
under the notice of the writer. They can
be found at all retail drug and grocery
stores. Let those afflicted with dyspepsia
and debility try bottle of them.
Year: 1871

Mark Twain once attended funeral in
Nevada, where every one was trying to say
something pleasant about the late lamented.
The only statement that met with universal
assent, was one ventured by a conscientious
and observant mourner, that the departed
made nice, quiet corpse"
Year: 1871

We owe An apology to that respectable,
intelligent and fine appearing organization,
the United Brothers Benevolent Society,
for not before acknowledging the agreeable
serenade they honored US with in passing
along Camp street the other day. In fact,
it was one Of those good things that will
keep, and hence We preserved it until
SUNDAY
Year: 1871

There is a brisk demand for property in
the vicinity Of the Base Ball Park and the
new State House grounds. One party sold
three lots, at advanced prices, Friday, and
yesterday the St. Charles Auction Exchange
presented an animated spectacle during the
bidding on uptown squares. Several sales
were made at prices largely above The ap-
praisal by experts
Year: 1871

Commerce street, Mobile, has been put in
proper repair after the general tear up that
occurred from laying down the track Of the
New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga rail
road. The people have stopped fretting
about the through track.
Year: 1871

1t is stated that at recent revival meet
ing in New Hampshire, one of the Young
brethren arose and said that he had re.
ce1Ved revelation from the Lord that it
was his duty to kiss Sister -: and she
nothing 10th, rejoined that if the Lord was
Wiling she was, and the kissing was pro
ceeded with then and there, to the evident
satisfaction Of both parties
Year: 1871

To-day will be ,anctitied by holy
charity; for not only throughout the city,
but throughout the broad country, in
churches OF every denomination, differing
widely in various points OF faith and doc
trmc, there will be union of common
benevOlence, the object Of which is to
succor the furnishing thousands now suf
brought upon unhappy France.


1t is not necessary for the public journals
70 commend this work OF holy charity to
the attention of the benevolent. The mere
mention that such q collection is to be
made will open the hands of thousands;
and there is something the more inspiriting
in the circumstance that the charitable
efforts OF to-day will pervade the broad
Union, and that from every quarter beneyo-
lent hands will contribute to save gallant
people from the famine and pestilence that
is assailing them The pure charity which
we have now the opportunity to exercise is
far removed from all partakings of sectarian-
ism or Of party feeling.


Their differing wide apart in religious or
political views can make common cause
in extending aid to a gallant people pros
trated to earth by 10 fault of their own,
OF starving thousands guiltless of wrong,
but on whose innocent heads the storm of
war falls with the same unrclenting force
as it visits the armed warrior in the field.


1t is earnestly hoped that no hand will be
held back from this good work, but that all
will give freely, as the Lord has prospered
them. There has never been nobler field
for benevolence since America became a
nation.


1t may be hoped, too, that the contribu-
tious to the unfortunate victims of war will
not be confined to the frequenters Of the
churches alone, but that many will attend,
if it be only for the purpose Of swelling the
contributions. "He that hath pity upon
the poor lendeth unto the Lord and that
which he hath given will He pay him
again
Year: 1871

LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
Revenue Officer and Illicit Distiller
EACH KILLS THE OTHER
FIRST SHOT A DEATH WOUND
TRIBUNE AND HERALD ON SUMNER
ITS EFFECT IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Trochu Insane - Rochefort Dead
TEE REDS PROPOSE NEW REPUBLIC
Anarchy Among the Insurgents
ACCIDENT ON GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
ELEVEN PERSONS KILLED
Year: 1871

This article, which to almost any
casual observer would seem to be of small
moment, is really of very great impor-
tance to the nation, as with all our in
genuity we have never yet been able to
find substitute for it in the manufac-
ture of bedding, furniture, and many
other articles of use which contribute to
our comforts. The amount of business
done in this article is something really
astonishing when reduced to figures.
We imported into this port from the
various ports 10 South A meFica during
the past year n little over 5000, 600 lbs,
to about $500 600. When
imported it is not curled, but Ia the nat
ural state, just as it is taken from the
horses, of which many thousands are
killed every year on the vast pampas in
Central South America, and is made up
into ropes here and afterwards picked by
machinery aud by hand, when it is ready
for use. The business in curled harris
Increasing every year, and although the
manufacture of hair cloth has IN great
measure died out, there is still a very
great increase in the amount of hair i'm
ported each year for this one purpose of
curling. Two or three large houses in
this country do most of the business, and
are situated in New York, Boston and
Baltimore. The raw material is worth
from 32c to 34c, gold, and after manu-
facture brings from SOC to zoe, currency,1
but the cost of manufacture is a very
large item, and employs a large amount
of capital and great deal of skilled labor.
Ybe imports of hair into this port this
year. in the opinion Of parties in the
business, will be from one to two thirds
larger than last year.-Neto York Com
mercial Bulletin
Year: 1871

By notice elsewhere, it will be seen
that another death has occurred in our
city from excessive rope jumping, little
daughter Of James A. Moody having
died, on Monday evening, from iufam-
nation of tie bowels, brought on by over
indulgence in that exercise While rope
jumping may be pleasurable aud health
full recreation, within reasonable limits,
the tendency to excess in the eexcitemeuts
of the exercise, should lead to disuse of
practice entirely. In this case we learn
thet on Thursday, in the strife with her
companions to see which could jump the
greatest number of times without stop
ping, the deceased accomplished the feat
something over three hundred. times,
after which. feeling greatly exhausted,
she sat or laid down upon the grass for a
considerable time, probably taking cold
by so doing. The next morning, though
complaining to her companions of being
sore and lame, before entering school
she made 170 consecutive jumps more.
About IL O'Clock she was compelled to
return home from school, severe inf1a-
nation Of the bowels rapidly developing
itself, from which she died three days
thereafter as above Louis-
| vills Sun.
Year: 1871

ing to her vanity, she turned and locked
at her reflection in the water, and she
The same plain face she
remembered long ago the same, the
very same, without one feature altered..


With a scream of-despair she tottereds
forward stepsstoo far, and before she.
could recover herself she fell into the
water which had shown her the dreadful
truth. The. tide bore her away, and
never again was seen the miller's daugh-
ter-Carfs' young bride. Alas, for
vanity
Year: 1871

Pros FEBr AND Raw ONIoNs.-Did
you ever cat pigs feete Never did : Then
you was never on q time, There is no
stronger proof Of the assertion that the
devils in a hog, than the fact that when a
fellow is out late he goes for pigs fest.
The devil part must have all centered in
the feet-especially in "soused'' feet, and
when you hear of fellow going to the
devil, if you afterwards see him indulging
in pigs feet, you may safely bet that the
unfrriunate has reached him. Should lie
eat raw onion with the feet he furnishes
the devil aforesaid club with which to
beat and bang his liver. We do not in
tend to say hoeo we know all this, for it
might reflect upon our moral character,
but we know it. Have felt the ''cloven
foot prancing upon our suffering liver,
while every now and then we could feel
an extra pang-that was the onion.
Avoid pigs feet and raw onions just be-
fore bedtime, or you viii probably be able
to express yourself more emphatically in
regard to them than We have been able to
do in this.
Year: 1871

Ninth Days observation-disclosures ON the


Tables of Mortality.


On motion OF Mr.. Row, OF Michigan, the Conyen.
tion resolved that communications be sent 10 the
Governor Of each State, with the request that the
recommendations OF the Convention be laid before
the Legislature Of each.


The Committee on Dividends, Expenses and Ap
pointment Of Attorneys reported in addition TO the
report Of the Committee to be found on page l2l
record Of May session, the fOll0wihg:-


Whereas the tables of mortality in common based
upon extensive observation Of The Of human
OF life in any year will be balanced by corresponding
bsequenty, therefore, .
Resolved, That life company should divide
portion Of its surplus derived from excess Of vitality and
that all such gains savings less mortality rate than
the anticipated should be gdy held special
to meet excesses 4 death losaes In future years.


After this the Convention accepted the invitation
OF the Mutual Life insurance Company to visit their
institution.


DR.. LAMBERT then addressed the meeting on the
subject OF mortality connected with life insurance.
The Convention soon after adjourned
Year: 1871

Miss Augusta Darg0n-HeF Narrow Es.


cape at Chicago.


1t will be remembered that Miss Augusta
Dargon was attached to the Varieties The
atre last year when that was destroyed.
This season she had made an engagement
at Chicago, and again the theatre with
which she was connected was DESTROYED bv
fire The Chicago Tribune of the fourteenth
instant says:


Miss Dargon, the leading lady of the late
Hooley's Opera House, was stopping at the
Sherman House on the night of the fire, and
is now in Quincy, guest Of the family of
whole of the dreadful night OF Sunday, and
about three o'clock on Monday morning,
the courthouse having caught fire, she be-
came convinced that the destruction Of the
Sherman House was inevitable. She then
packed her trunks and determined to save
as much as possible.


The servants about the hotel had been on
duty, fighting the fire on the root and else
where, and she applied to one of them
offering him hundred dollars to assist her
in getting her trunks to the sidewalk, but
he declined the tempting offer, as he was
still under the orders Of the hotel, the dis
cipline OF which, amid all the excitement,
WAS still maintained. She then dragged
her trunks down three or four flights of
stairs with her own hands. receiving little
incidental assistance only from one or two
guests. Arriving at the sidewalk, no con-
veyance could be procured. She at last
spoke to boy, whom she induced to assist
her, and by dragging one of her trunks along
the street with her own hand, while her
assistant took care Of the other, she at last
reached the river.


She finally found small boy with poor
excuse for horse and light wagon, whom
she engaged to convey her and her trunk
to railroad for twenty five dollars. The
prospect was decidedly unfavorable for
getting anywhere, but the horse pulled
through. and she was landed at the Chi
cago, Alton and st. Louis railroad. She
desired to go East, but being unable to
reach an Eastern train she took the first
train on the st. Louis road, went to Alton,
and from there came to Quincy by boat.


Mrs. Lander, the tragedienne, who was
in the city on the same evening, We under
stand, lost all her personal baggage and
wardrobes.


Theodore Thomas and his orchestra saved
their instruments, and Miss krebbs, the
pianist of the troupe. made her escape with
a single sheet of music in her hand.
Year: 1871

JOO0ety Among toe Ste0oOOat l0epcctOFSs


A Washington special to the New York
Herald says:


The special meeting Of the board of su-
pervising inspectors OF steamboats,, now be-
ing held in this city, has developed not only


a desire to evade the law for the safety Of
passengers, but An amount of jObbery that
is astounding. The little schemes OF the in
vent0rs Of hfesaving apparatus and other
is machinery enough here to fill the patent
office; but the jobs are in an entirely differ


ent direction, and the chief promoters Of


them are the supervising inspectors them


selves. MIR. Addison Low, the member of


the board from New York, occupies q very


singular position with regard to these


schemes, and appears to he the friend and


counselor Of the steamboat interest as Olt


posed to public security and safety He WAS


the leading spirit in setting aside the Law of


Congress, 80 that its provision in regard to


the appliances to boilers and the equipment


of steamers will not take effect till January


l, 1872, thus making the Westfcld and other


accidents possible.


1t was mostly through the influence
that the meetings of the board were made
secret. He it WAS who secretly invited the
steamboat interest to come forward and
combat the law, and he declared at meet
ing Of the board that the act of Congress
was conceived in iniquity and born in
fraud. even going 40 far rs to assert that
every friend Of the law which it is his duty
to execute was the friend Of q job. For
this he was taken severely to task by Mr..
Bemis, of Buffalo, and he afterward ex-
planned bis words away, but not till after
the aDimus Of the majority Of the board
was made manifest. In some respects the
law requires amendment. The act was
drawn by two clerks in the Treasury De-
partment, both If whom have been dis
missed from their positions fOr artfully in-
serting provisions in the bill in the interest
Of SPECTATORS. 1t will be necessary to
dismiss nearly every member of the board
before the act can be properly amended or
the law he made operative.


Secretary BOutwell's order, reconvening
the supervising inspectors in their present
session, was intended more particularly to
secure a wise aud equitable amendment of
the law than for anything else, but in this
desire he is likely to be defeated by tue un-
willingness to aid him Of this very board.
To-day the board gave a hearing to Western
teambOatmen, who are an xiOns to secure q |
greater amount Of steam for freight boats, |
that they may be able to blow up their en- |
gineers and deck hands with impunity The |
same kind Of thing is constantly engaging
the attention Of the supervising inspectors. |
and :hey have lively row among them
selves, a few men in the board taking the
ground that the stringent provisions of the
law were intended to protect the lives of !
the travelling public, while the majority
seek only the interests of the steamboat
owners. If the fight goes on for many days
longer there will be some queer exposures.
Year: 1871

Note From Lfeutenant Governor Dunn.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN,:


In your issue Of yesterday I am editorially
charged, upon what you esteem informa
ton that you can not IGNORE" withou,
criminal neglect of Duty with having, in
my speech to the, Carrollton mass meeting
Of the sixteenth instant, said: ''The time
has come when cOlOred men can vote for
none but cOlOred men. There are few white
Republicans whom would trust, and am
as good judge of human nature US any Of
my race" More than one journal in the in
terest Of his Excellency Governor War
moth. though never protesting to quote my
language, has made similar assertions
wit: That i was attempting to array the
races against each other, and advocate a
colored mans party in this State. Permit
me to say, Mr.. Editor. that you have been
misinformed ON the point at issue rela-
tive to my speech. used no such Ian
guage, nor it's equivalent. The colored
people Of Louisiana, have not only the same
rights under the constitution and laws as
other citizens, but have the intelligence, in
tegrity and capacity to estimate and pro-
tect their rights by a wise exercise of their
franchise at the ballot boxes, and have
simply urged them to this duty. 1t is
neither necessary nor desirable that they
suspect the integrity of their white breth-
rem because of a difference in their complex
ion, nor monopolize the Offices of the State,
but it is their duty to exercise q wise dis
cretion in the selection of their State Off
GERS, and to hold said public servants to a
strict accountability for the manner in
which they discharge their official trusts;
and it is their right and privilege to claim
and hold a fair proportion of the civil po-
sitions for which they may be qualified, and
to which the people may elect them.


Under distinct conception and appre-
citation of my obligations as an officer to the
people of the whole State, and my special
duty to labor for the elevation and improve
ment Of my own race, have uniformly ad-
vocated the cultivation of kindly feelings
and good fellowship between the white and
colored citizens, ON the basis Of exact and
equal Justice to each, and have contented
myself in this direction by advising the col
ored voters. courteously and resolutely to
demand that the white men Of Louisiana
should concede. that citizenship for the one
imparts all that is received by citizenship
for the other class; nothing more, nothing
less.


In conclusion, Mr.. Editor, permit me to
suggest that it Is neither delicate nor Just to
place me in SO false and injurious position
before the community as that assigned me
n your editorial, without first more care
'ully assuring yourself of the correctness of
he information upon which you act


Very respectfully,


OSCAR j. DUNN.
New Orleans, October 19, 1871.
Year: 1871

raft, whilst in breathless silence we all
watched her as she dipped at the various
falls, and each time recovered herself |
shuddered as she was launched,for began
to see that the man could not be saved by
a boat ; boat could never return against
a rapid, however well able to float down 1t.
No sooner would her bow come in contact
with a fall than it would dip, fill, and
spin round, as did the first skiff which was
lost.


The poor fellow himself was getting i'm
patient, visibly So lie. united his lash
ings, stood upright upon the raft, eagerly
waiting to seize the boat, and jump into
her She had but one more fall to pass,
and that was situltcd just above where he
stood She paused at the brink, it swung
down it like lightning, and, as he leaned
forward to seize her, she rose on the re,
turning wave. struck him in the chest, and
he struggled in the overwhelming torrent.


The exclamation Of horror. for it was
not u cry, which burst from the thousands
who by this time were assembled | shall
never forget, nor the breathless silence
with which we watched him, fighting with
the waters as they hurried him along
upright, waving both arms above his head.
We lost sight Of him at intervals, yet
again and again he reappeared, and [
thought hours must have passed in lieu Of
one brief half minute. But the end came
at last, once more saw his arm wildly
wave above his head, and, in an instant,
the crowd turned from the spot in dead
silence. The man was lost
Year: 1871

was standing about thirty or forty
ards Iu advance of the Clifton, that is,
thlrty or forty yards neare~ to the Horse
Saoe q a.ong the bank of thc rocks and op-
u9-itc the American fall The ground
must have been about the same height AZ
the opposite fall but, owing to the i'm
mense hin down which the rapids rush. 1T
was pointed out to me. | saw, in the mid
die of the rapid, a huge log Of wood, the
trunk Of tree. which had lodged there
some years before and upon 1t a black
.peck. This, after some observation, !
perceiyed to move Il was man. O. ;
he and his two companions had, on the pre-
vious night been rowing about some dis
tance above the fall BY some means or
other they had yentured too near the rap
ids had lost all command Of their boat,
and had been hurried away TO destruction.
1t was supposed tat about halt mile
above the fall the boat had upset, and
with the two wretched men still clingng
to j.. went over the fall at about nine or
ten O'Clock al night, while the third man
was driven against this log ol wood,
climbed upon it, and sat astride OF 1t
through the darkness Of the night, amid
the roar. the turmoil, and the dashng
spray Of the rapids.


crossed the river, ascendcd the rock
bv the railway, and hurried to the spot
where I found him 50 near that l could al
most distinguish his couutenance. lie was
then lying along the log, grasp'ng 1t with
both arms, appeared exhausted to the last
degree. He was evidently as wet from
the spray. as though he had been standing
under water. BY this time people were
assembling, and different plans for his re-
cue we're proposed and discussed on all
sides already, indeed one effort had been
made. \ small boat bad been firmly
Iashed to a strong cable, and dropped
down TO him from the bridge which
crossed the rapid between the mainland
and Goat Island, about sixty yards above
the log.


This boat had proceeded few yards IN
safety, was upset, spun round like piece
of cork at the end of thread by the 1oret
of the water, which finally snapped the
cable in two, and the boat disaPPearo'
over the fall