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Year: 1871

The president of the mail ssea u ship COM
psny between New York and Havana says
the refusal of the company to carry the
New York papers to the latter place is in
Consequence Of the Efforts of the Spanish
authorities in Cuba to suppress inosndiary
docnments there
Year: 1871

'hls preparation has long been recognized
L by the most eminent minds in the Medical
Profession as the most rsliabls, searching and
mar m less Alternative within their reach ana ss a
b'ood Purifier iteertAinly stands without rival.
One dollar per bottle
Year: 1871

When man ceases to be his own mas
ter. and has no other, and yet is slave
to devouring habit which he would be
rid of. yet seems to lack the wisdom and
strength to emancipate himself. he is in a
bondage more difficult to break than that
which buys and sells the body,-for that
can be obviated by ransom within the
reach of friendly sympathy. A case in
illustration is embodied in the following
extract of letter received by US!


x x During the war contract
ed the habit Of drinking. but it has not
affected me seriously until lately. Now
the habit has so grown upon me as to have
almost ruined my future prospects ;-in
fact, am almost common drunkard.
Can you kindly direct me to any course
that will help me to control or govern the
habit? | have some faith in myself yet.
and if | once can get control of myself,
believe can keep it,


This case is like hundreds of others. -
The habit was contracted little by lit
tie, until the proud. free spirit which in
its liberty and pride INDUCED without fear
of harm, became enslaved; and now it
cries out. ooh, wretched man that am
,oho shall deliuer me from the body of this
death ?" At the end of year after be
began to drink he would have scorned the
imputation of being in danger. He would
have spurned the warning voice, and have
thought and said. as thousands of others
to-day think and say, Il can drink, or
can let it alone,-I can stop any time. -
Men honestly think SO. aud some of them
can do it with comparative ease; but the
great majority would be surprised to learn,
on trial, how firmly the habit has become
6xed-how much their nervous system
had learned to depend on the stimulus


Those who have used tea and coffee fol
few years think they can lay aside their
accustomed beverage. and when by acci.
dent or resolution they are for day with.
out it, they wonder why they feel SO light.
headed and confused ;-what headache
what unrest, what nervous hunger they
suffer! When one is braced up with nu-
triment and stimulants he feels strong,
and can make promises with full faith il
his ability to keep them; but when The
Year: 1871

ganizations the two former should do a


hundred times more than they ever have
done to arouse the public to abandon and
avoid all that intoxicates; but the core Of
the reform is physiological, and from this
quarter must come the antidote for the
mighty evils now preying on the moral
and physical vitality Of the world.


The oceans of quack nostrums put up
in alcohol constitute the entering wedge
of intemperance. aud hundreds of Chris
tian women in this country are to-day tip
pliers, and may die drunkards. solely from
im6ibing medical preparations put up in
alcohol. until craving appetite, entirely
physical, has been established. It is the
physicians duty to discountenance the
common use of all stimulants and narcot-
les, particularly alcohol and opium. the
use Of the latter having become fearfully


prevalent in unsuspected quarters. We
have some physicians, as we have some
ministers Of religion, who indulge in the
use Of spirituous liquor and tobacco, and
we have found on inquiry that when a
physician is said to have recommended
either whisky or tobacco, he uses it him
self; and when minister remains silent
on the subject Of liquor drinking. he either
uses it himself or he has influential par
ishioners who use or sell it. Our advice
to honest people is to avoid liquorimbib-
ing or tobacco using physicians. They
are devotees of Bacchus or Belial, ignor-
antly, perhaps, and are no proper guides
for weak, sinful, fallible men.


Touch not, taste not, handle not" is
the true motto for those who have used
little or none, but an injunction which
some do not feel able to obey, and one


which thousands would find it so difficult
to obey that. unaided by great social or
religious influence, they would not sum-
mon sufficient self-denial to succeed.


All who use tobacco in any form, and
all who babitually drink alcoholic stimu-
lants. are in that portion perverted and
degraded. The quality as we'll as the
power of their bodies and brains is impair
led, and their whole nature measurably de-


noralized. producing degradation. not on
iy physically but morally and spiritually.


II they would be restored to normal man
hood. let them correct their habits Of diet.
and with strong religious purpose, self
denial, and manly resolution they may
stand up redeemed. .--P Phren. Journal. }
Year: 1871

There are two kinds Of gentlemen's fa-
vorites-the bright women who amuse
them. and the sympathetic ones who love
them. But these last are of doubtful
what country people call "cbancy" kind
women who show their feelings too open
", who fall into love too seriously, or per
haps unasked altogether, being more like
ly to irritate aud disgust than to charm.
But the bright, animated women. who
know how to talk and do not preach, who
say innocent things in an audacious way,
and audacious things in an innocent way
who are clever without pedantry, frank
without imprudencc, quick to follow a lead
when shown them. and who know the diff
ference between badinage and earnestness,
flirting and serious intentions these are
the women liked by men, and whose So
cial success in no wise depends on their
beauty.


A gentleman favorite of the right sort
must, among other things. be we'll up in
the accidence of flirting, and know how to
take it at exactly its proper value. She
must be able to accept broad compliments,
or more subtle love- making. without either
too serious an acceptance or too grave d
depreciation This is a great art, and
one that more than any other, puts men
at their ease, and sets the machinery Of
pleasant intercourse in harmonious action
Never to show whether she is really hit
or not; never to give a fop occasion for
a boast, or an empty room for plying
sneer; to take everything in good part,
and to be as quick in giving as in receiv-
ing to never be off her guard. never to
throw away her arms, and to conceal any
number of foxes that may be gnawiug at
her beneath her cloak-this kind of ,firt-
ing, in which most gentlemen's favorites
are adopts, is an art that reaches almost
the dimensions of science


And it is just that in which your very
intense, your very earnest and sincere wo-
men are utter failures. They know moth
ing of badinage, but take everything au
grand serieun;; and when you mean sim
ply playful and complimentary. imagine
you in tragic earnest, and think them
selves obligedlto frown down a compliment
as liberty, or else they accept it with a
passionate pleasure that shows how deeply
lit has struck These intense and very
sincere women are not, as a rule. gentle
mems favorites, unless they have other
qualities Of such a pleasant and seductive
kind, as to excuse the enormous blunder
they make of wearing their hearts on their
sleeves for drawing-room DAVIS to peck at,
and the still greater blunder Of confound-
ing love-making with love. They may
be, and if they have nice manners and
good tempered they probably are. Of the
race of popular women; that is. liked by
both men and women but they are gen.
tlemen's favorites par ercellence. who,
moreover, are never liked by women at all.


Women are quite right in one thing.
hard as it seems to say it. Gentlemen 8
favorites, whom women dislike and dis
| trust, are not usually good for much NOR
Year: 1871

Upset and break lamp filled with oil composed of Benzine or Naphtha and ex- plosion will surely follow. Pratt's Astral Oil is perfectly safe, and is wholly free from every explosive material. ssh .1 a-
Year: 1871

Grand Ceremonies at st. Joseph's New


Church.


The grand event of the season will be the
ceremony Of the laying of the corner stone
OF the great st. Joseph's church. on Der
bisny and Common streets. We under
stand that the most elaborate preparations
have been made for the accommodation of
visitors who wish to be present on the occa-
sion. The Rev. Father Ryan, the favorite
poet and orator of the South, who is to
preach the sermon, has already arrived in
the city, We may say there is not South
ern heart in the city that does not glow
with enthusiasm at the prospect of hearing
him on so grand an occasion.


The ceremonies will commence at three
O'Clock today. The various Catholic So
cieties will meet at two o'clock at the Clay
statue on Canal street, and escorted by
Branch No. 3. Hibernian Mutual Aid AssO-
ciation, will proceed to the pastoral resi-
dence OF st. Joseph, where they will be
Joined by the Most Rev. Archbishop and
clergy of the diocese, and proceed to the
new building.


st. Joscph's building association will take
charge OF the new building and adjacent
grounds at two o'clock, and besides pre-
serving order, will be prepared to attend to
the accommodation of invited guests.
Year: 1871

Intellect is a good thing to have, but
sometimes it does not go far enough. An
Indiana cooper, finding considerable diff
Guilty in keeping one of the heads of
cask he was finishing in its place. put his
son inside to hold the head up. After COM
pleting the work much to his satisfaction,
he was astonished to find his son inside the
cask. and with no possibility of getting out
except through the hunghole.
Year: 1871

If citizens or others do not relish seeing
their names published in tue REPUBLICAN,
they must not lay themselves liable. The
moment that an arrest is made and charge
written we are undoubtedly authorized. by
all right, to print the same. If any tribu-
nal has right to arraign prisoner in open
court, we have a right to parade the case
before that portion OF the public that could
not be present when the judicial examina-
tion was in progress.
Year: 1871

Money is what most people tug and toll
for: and the majority are always short of
this very necessary article. This comes
from not outstanding their means, and oc-
casionally buying ticket in the Louisiana
State Lottery. A few dollars spent in this
way not unfrequently brings wealth and
ease for the balance of life.
Year: 1871

VIRTUE VS.. .DEPRAvITY-H0,r is II DOne!-
A very notable fact in and around the
several police stations is daily growing
more marked. Among those arrested are
men and women of almost every class in
society. and the first thought of the incar-
cerated is as to how they shall obtain an
immediate release This subject does not
particularly rufile women of the town, even
those of the lowest sort, for they have been
educated to understand that some one will
interest himself SO far as to obtain a release:
how, is not the question. This business has
grown into such proportions as to call for
reformation; at least, we shall make it our
business to inquire into the worth of these
kind bondsmen, for the impression is that
in general they are men of straw. The men
spoken OF, who willingly spend time and
money to obtain the release of vile crea.
ture at any hour during the night, pass
silently by prisoners whose moral records
are clear to liberate wicked person, one
whose daily habits are well known to be
dishonest.


The unoffending subject, perhaps, locked
up for a simple drunk, looks through the
cell bars in wonder, unable to comprehend
how it is that thief or prostitute can
find interceding friends, while decent
person must remain in durance until court
hours. This fact is so common now that it
has quite ceased to create remark. If mem
bers of the Grand Jury could only witness
these miserable transactions night after
night, as press reporters dd, perhaps par
tial reformation might be effected. 1t is
proposed to publish the names Of men who
so deeply interest themselves in obtaining
releases for the scum; possibly. such a
course would remedy the evil in part. One
night recently some women of the worst
stripe were arrested for robbery. but re-
lease reached the statiOnhOuse at the same
moment the prisoners arrived. How was
that for high hand! Would the same
energy have been displayed for respecta-
ble person! Probably not. A change is
needed, and now is the accepted time.
Year: 1871

a correspondent, "Bruce," relates
the following incident, which occurred
on his place: "One beautiful Sunday
morning, in the early spring of last
wear, whilst walking with my little
daughter i'm a field near our house. we
observed a butcher-bird flying to and
fro amongst the bushes near spring
of water, and evidently in great fear.
Alter watching its motions for some
time, we concluded to go up nearer,
and see what was the cause of all its
troubles. We had hardly reached the
spot, when a mocking-bird swooped
down as quick as flash, and struck
a large spreading adder which was on
the ground near the bushes, and which
no doubt, soon would have had the
butcher bird in its fangs. Again and
again did this game bird light on the
snakes back, and strike deep into it
with its beak. The battle was long
ono. and thinking it might be lost to
the bird, sent my little daughter for
tho hoe, and quickly dispatch the rep
tile. The mocking-bird does not
know what fear is. 1t will attack
auy bird that flies. Often have l seen
it rally out against the hawk, and
make that chicken-stealer leave the
vicinity very fast. Let a hooking
bird build near your house, and your
young chickens, have a good protec.
tor. 1t will disperse whole army Of
crows, and should. your dog 60 any
where near it's nest he is pounced
upon and ordered to leave, They are
not afraid of man and seem to know
that he will not harm them. A pair
of these birds build every year in a
peach tree near to the house, and from
early morning till late at night, and
sometimes all night, when the moon
is shining, you hear the notes of this
matchless songster. Its favorite posi-
ton when singing, is on the point OF
the very top shoot of small tree:
There, resting. and appearing as if
transfixed by the shoot it warbles
that splendid medley, that art some
times initiates, but never equal.
Year: 1871

An American Captain had passen-
ger ON board his ship very beautiful
young lady, with whom i'm the course of
very short voyage, five young gentle
men, also passengers fell desperately in
love. She liking them all equally well,
felt herself placed in a position of some
difficulty, and the emergency applied
to the Captain for advice He being a
man of an original turn of mind, sug-
gested that she should jump overheard
The taking care to have a well-manned
boat alongside to prevent possibility
of the farce turning into tragedy, )and
that she should accept the man who
jumped into the sea after her. The
lady liked the notion, and one fine
morning, when her five admirers ere
all upon deck, went over the side-fore-
mot. Four of the five Immediately
followed her lead. Then said the puz-
zied damsel to the Captain:


"what am to do how? See how wet
they all art?"


"Do?" replied the Captain" why take
the dry one. "


Which she did-ari it il to be hoped
lived happy ever afterward. =.
Year: 1871

Mr.. Augustus Smith, living three.
miles from Cairo, In Randolph county,
Mo. has a hog seven months old that
is every way healthy except that it is
very restless, being never still except
when asleep. Its head looks perfectly
natural and well formed In every way
except that it is possessed S i.t Of eight i
;s an other hogs and about the usual
size, si e. and the eyes are set so far back
one on the right side, is twice as large
as the one on the left. The hair on
the head does not look like that OF a
hog, but more like that of buffalo:
The seven unnatural noses come out
above the natural one, and are smaller
IN size.
Year: 1871

At Camp Parapet, at six o'clock last eve
ming, about fifty feet of the levee gave way.
and the appearances are that the crevasse
will increase. No further particulars were
learned here last night.
Year: 1871

ROBERTSON & Co.-Our readers will find
in our advertising columns the card of this
firm, for which We ask a perusal. They
will perceive that the firm is composed of
Judge J. B. Robertson, gentlemen known
throughout the State as an able jurist and
profound scholar, as well as indomitable
energy and business qualifications of high
order. His health forcing him to leave his
practice at the bar for some more active
pursuits, he has associated with himself
Captain D. DeHaven, who is par excellance
the popular and accomplished steamboat
man Of the Mississippi and its tributaries
q man who never blew up boat or q
friend-who knows no such word as fail,
nor understands how to do mean action.
A business man all over, whatever is en-
trusted to him will be done well. Such Q


firm deserves success, and we hope sim
cerely that they will find it. ,4
Year: 1871

TIE wife of Socrates was said TO be a
great soold. Had her husband furnished
her with Rsnne's Pain Killing Magic Oil to
cure a painful tOoihaohe and headache, sht
would, no doubt, have been one OF the oes
women Of that age.
Year: 1871

DESERVED CoNPLINksT.-During the re.
cent session Of the Grand Jury Of La Sale
county, committee Of the jury visited the
county Jail, and made to the Court the following
report: THAT while We see the necessity of
new Jail, that the condition of the Jail under the
management of the present jailor, Mr.. Frssden.
burg, is in every respect creditable and kept in
as clean and healthy condition as can bs for such
Z lsil."
Year: 1871

Coop CLoTH1NG---Ben. Padgott desres US
to announce to his patrons and the public in
general that his new piece goods have come.
lie has an excellent supply of the best and
most fashionable imported and domestic piece
goods. Call early and get your choice.
Year: 1871

The Aetna Insurance Company of Hartford
have already paid One Million Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars Of their Losses BY the Chicago
fire. The premium receipts Of the Aetna since
the fire have been nearly Three Quarters of q
Million
Year: 1871

This well known firm daily receive immense
quantities Of dry goods, consisting in part of
dress goods of every description. It would
be useless to enumerate the different grades,
as they are so numerous and varied that any
definite description. would be impossible, be-
Sides the ladies are we'll aware that they can
get at this house, goods of all styles, and of
every quality, and as excellent in material and
tirash as can be found in this or any other
market.


They have trimmings, white goods, WOOL
ems, domestics, SC. Also 3 very large stock,
and cheaper than can be found at any house
in town.


They are also provided with a splendid
stock OF furs, cheaper than ever.


Boots and shoes in endless variety: also
very large stock of groceries, which are being
sold as rapidly as received, because the prices
are low and the goods of the first quality.
Year: 1871

An experience of fifteen gears, in conducting
the Dry Goods business, in Alexandra, has
convinced us of the correctness of the principle
laid down at the commencement of our busi-
ness career that the true policy and only GER
tain road to success is to give every customer
full measure and the very best article the mar
ket will afford for the price demanded.


For the fidelity to which we have adhered to
this principle, we have only to refer to the
many hundreds of your readers that SO liber-
ally patronize US.
we are now receiving full supply of Spring
and Summer Goods, at greatly reduced prices,
and will be able to exhibit an assortment this
season that will suit all tastes.


ROBERT l.. WOOD,


No. 62 King Street, Alexandria, Va.
Year: 1871

How N1CE,-A country girl wrote
to her lover: Come over and see
me, we have a new lamp at our house
that We can turn down, down, down
until there is scarcely any light in
the room" He went ,
Year: 1871

The stories of living toads, adders,
oysters, etc, being found in the center
Of marble quarries, and granite bould-
ers, recently related in Chambers
Miscellany, have been thrown into
the shade by a discovery said to have
been made ont West somewhere.


After powerful blast in massive
granite ledge, something was seen to
project from the broken surface, which
proved, on close examination, to be the
body of man, clad in blue broad
cloth suit with brass buttons On be-
ing poked with a stick, he winked one
eye, made an Intellectual effort to put
one finger to his nose and Immediately
expired He was much emaclated and
his skin looked like an old parchment.
There was no possible hole through
which he might have crept into the
aperture, which indeed, was a perfect
cast of his form, buttons and all. 1t
is supposed that he must have laid
there since the deluge. There is men
ton in Genesis of Cain having built
city in which were artifcers in brass,
which accounts for the brass buttons.
Much interest has been felt in this re
markable discovery, and the question
arises how the man could have existed
III solid granite for thousands of years.
But is the question more difficult to
answer than how the toads, adders,
etc, could have lived under the same
circumstances
Year: 1871




A brooch worn by the Countess K. has re.
Gently been the subject of conversation in an
eminent company Of polished nobility who are
now exiles in London. Encircled By twenty
brilliants upon dark blue ground Of Iapisla-
zull, and protected by q glass in front may sbe
seen-what? A portraits A lock of hair?
No, neither the one nor the other; but only
four bent pins wrought together in the form OF
q star. The history of this singular ornament
is contained in the following communication:
The Count X. was some years ago, in his own
country. suspected of being two much inclined
to politics, and was, consequently, one night,
without examination or further inquiry, torn
from the bosom of his family by police officers,
conveyed to fortress in distant part of the
country, aud thrown into damp, dark dun
geon Days, weeks. months passed away with
out his being brought to trial The unhappy
man saw himself robbed of every succor. In
the stiffness of death and the darkness Of tho
grave he felt not only his strength failing him,
but also his mind wandering. An unspeakable
anguish took hold upon him. He who feared
not to appear before his judges now trembled
before himself Conscious Of his danger, he
endeavored to find something to relieve himself
from the double misery and idleness and IOneli-
ness, and thus preserve him from terrible in
sanity Four pins which happened accidentally
to be in his coat had fortunately escaped the
notice of the jailer. Those were to be the
means of deliverance to his spirit. He threw
the pins upon the earth, which alone was the
floor of his gloomy dungeon, and then employed
himself in seeking for them in the darkness.
When. after tiresome search, he succeeded
in finding them. he threw them down anew, and
50 again and again did he renew the voluntary
task. All day long, sitting. lying. or kneeling,
he groped about with his hand until he found
the pins, which he had Intentionally scattered.
This fearful, yet beneficial, recreation continued
for six years. Then, at last, great political
event opened suddenly the doors Of his prison.
The Count had just scattered his pins, but
would not leave his cell without taking with
him his little instruments Of his own preserva-
tion from despair and madness. He soon found
them, for now the clear bright light of day
beamed in through the doorway Of his dungeon.
AS the Count related this sad story to the
Countess she seized the pins with holy eager
ness Those crooked. yellow brass pins, which
during six fearful years had been scattered and
gathered alternately. had become to her as
precious relics; and now, set in frame Ut
brliants worth f400, as treasure Of much
greater value, she wears them on her bosom.