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Year: 1873

New Orl cans cargo upon the probability
that it would prove to be in . damaged
condition when unloaded. What the rate
percentage of difference in value between
the two cargoes would be it is impossible
to state. Although not strictly part Of
the answer to the question asked by Sen
ator Window, l deem it not improper to
add that, in the opinion of the merchants
here, in whose Judgment l have the great.
est confidence, to insure the passage of
Western wheat via New Orleans to this
port in fair condition. when it arrives it
must be put into the ship in good, dry con-
dition. Kept dry and cool while on board,
the trip must not be unduly long, and the
graiu ought not to be excluded from the
air while on shipbOard.


am, cir. respectfully your obedient SER
want. LUCICS FAIRCHILD,


United States Consul.
Year: 1873

STREtT.CAn TiCkETs.-Owing to the an
nouncement that the price of tickets would
be put up to sight cents, the sales yester.
day were unprecedented. 4 large number
of those who patronize this line purchased
from 81 to ST worth, or even more. We
learn that at the Office of the company the
demand for them was so great that the sup
ply was exhausted. Several Of the drivers
sold rs much as $50 worth during the day.
We presume that the cash receipts of the
company for the next few weeks Will be
very light.
Year: 1873

The RAILROAD FIGHT.-The railroad fight
is brewing. at meeting Of the Senate Com
mittee on Roads and Internal Navigation,
held Yesterday morning, all the parties inter
ested in the bill to amend the charter of the
Petersburg Railroad Company were present,
and it can scarcely be many days before the
bill will be reported to the Senate, and then
the fight will probably come Oft.
Year: 1873

AN EVIDENCE OF RIcHMoND's PROSPERITY
AS an evidence of the increasing prosperity
of the city, and the growing demand for re-
sidences, we were informed Yesterday by
one of the largest real estate agents in the
city that they had not single house for rent
on their books. Every one which had been
placed in their hands had been disposed of.
Another agent says he could rent out in q
few days one hundred dwelling-houses rang
Year: 1873

There are plenty of stories of this
kind that | might relate to you. For
instance, in nunneries it ia not at all un-
common, from the secluded life, and
the attention being fixed upon one sub
ject, one particular set of ideas and
feelings-the want of n healthy vent, so
to speak, for the mental activity-that
some particular odd propensity has de-
velOped itself For instance, in one
nunnery abroad, many years ago, one
of the youngest nuns began to NEW like
a cat; and all the others, after a time,
did the same. In another nunnery one
began to bite, and the others were af


fected with the propensity to bite.


In one of these instances the mania
was spreading like wildfre through
Germany, extending from one nunnery
to another; and they were obliged to re-
sort to some such severe measures as !
have mentioned to drive it out. 1t was
set down in some instances to demonia-
cal possession, but the devil was very
easily exercised by some pretty strong
threat on the part of the medical man.


The celebrated physician Boerhaave
was called in to case of that kind in
an orphan asylum in Holland, and 1
think his remedy was n red-hot iron.
He heated the poker in the fire, and
said that the next girl who fell into one
of these fits should be burned in the
arm; this was quite sufficient to stop it.
In Scotland at one time there was a
great tendency to breaking out into fits
of this kind in the churches. This was
particularly the case in Shetland; and
very wise minister there told them that
the thing could not be permitted, and
that the next person who gave way in
this manner-as he was quite sure they
could control themselves if they pleased
should be taken out and ducked in a
pond near. There was no necessity Mt
all to put his threat into execution.
Here, you sec, the stronger motive is
submitted for the weaker one, and the
stronger motive is sufficient to induce
the individual to pnt check upon him
self. l have said that it usually hap
pens with the female sex, though some
times it occurs with young men who
have more or less of the same constitu-
tional tendency. What is necessary is
to induce a stronger motive, which will
call forth the power of self-control,
which had previously been abandoned.
Year: 1873

A friend of ours told us a story little
while ago, which interested us so much
that we want to tell it to all our little
friends. This gentleman owned fine
horse, which was very fond of him, and
would come from the pasture at the
sound of his voice, and follow him
about like q dog. Well, at one time
the horse became lame, and was com
PEELED to stay in his stable, and not be
used for many weeks, and it was during
this time that Mr.. G. became interested
to see how much the horse knew and
how kind his sympathies were.


An old cat had made her nest upon
the scaffold just above the horses mang-
er, and had laid there her little family
of five kittens, to bring them up under
good tuition, we suppose. She and the
horse got on nicely for some days. She
jumped down into his manger and went
off for food, and then came back and
leaped up to her kittens again. But
one morning she rolled off into the
manger, with her foot bleeding, and
badly hurt, so that she could scarcely
crawl: but she managed to leap away on
three feet and get her breakfast; but
when she came back she was entirely
unable to get up to her kittens, and
what do you think she did? She lay
down at the horses feet, and mewed
and looked up several times, till at last
pony, seeming to understand her wants,
reached down, took the cat in his teeth,
and tossed her up on the scaffold to her
kittens, who, we doubt not, were glad
enough to see her.


This, Mr. G. told us he saw repeated
morning after morning. Kit would roll
off into the manger, go and get her
breakfast, come back, and be tossed up
to her family by the kind horse, who
must have understood cat language and
been willing to listen to it.
Year: 1873

If there be one thing in existence


more miserable than another, it most


unquestionably is the being compelled


to rise by candle light. If you ever


doubted the fact, you are painfully con-


vinced of your error on the morning of


your departure. You left strict orders


over night to be called at half-past four,


and you have done nothing all night
! but doze for five minutes at time, and


start up suddenly from a terrific dream


of large church clock with the small


hand running round, with astonishing


rapidity, to every figure on the dial


plate. At last, completely exhausted,


you fall gradually into a refreshing


sleep-your thoughts grow confused


the stage coaches, which have been ''go-


ing off, before your eyes all night,


become less and less distinct, until they


go off altogether one moment you are


driving with all the skill and smartness


of an experienced whip,-the next you


are exhibiting, la Ducrow, on the off
leader; anon you are closely muffied


up, inside, and have Just recognized IN


the person of the guard an old school
fellow, whose funeral. even in your
dream, you remember to have attended


eighteen years ago. At last you fall
into state of complete oblivion, from
which you are aroused, as if into a new
state of existence, by a singular illu-
sion. You are apprenticed to a trunk
maker how, or why, or when, or
wherefore, you don't take the trouble
to inquire but there you are, pasting
the lining in the lid of a portmanteau.
Confound that other apprentice in the
back shop, how he is hammering +
rap, rap, rap-what an industrious fell
low he must be you have heard him at
work for half an hour past, and he has
been hammering necessarily the whole
time. Rap, rap, rap, again-he's talk
ing now--what's that he said ? Five
o'clock You make a violent exertion,
and start up in bed. The vision is at
once dispelled the trunkmaker's shop
apprentice your shivering servant, who
has been vainly. endeavoring to wake
you for the last quarter of an hour, at
the imminent risk of breaking either
his own knuckles or the panels of the
door. You proceed to dress yourself
with all possible dispatchi The faring
light enough to show that the things
you WILL hT6 uOJ WHtI6 GIl6J OllSnJ W
be, and you undergo trifing delay in
consequence of having carefully packed
up one of your boots i'll your over
anxiety of the preceding night You
soon complete your toilet, however, for
you are not particular on such an occa-
sion, and you shaved yesterday evening;
so, mounting your Petersham great
coat and green travelling shawl, and
grasping your carpet-bag in your right
hand, you walk lightly down stairs, lest
you should awaken any of the family,
and after pausing in the common sit
ting-room for one moment, just to have |
a cup of coffee, (the said common sit
ting-roo looking remarkably comfort
able, with everything out of it's place,
and strewed with the crumbs of last |
nights supper,) you undo the chain and
bolts of the street door, and find your
self fairly in the stTeet.-DickenS.
Year: 1873

That the interior of the human eye
has been photographed is well known
though the experiment is a somewhat
cruel one for living subject, still there
are victims who endure it. An instance
of this kind is given by DIR. Vogel-that
of very handsome young lady (whose
brother is a physician who patiently
takes extract of belIadonna until the
pupil has become sufficiently large; the
interior of the eye is then illuminated
with magnesium light and photograph
ed. In a similar manner has the ear
been photographed that is to say, the
tympanum only. A tube is inserted, in
which is a mirror, inclined at a certain
angle. The mirror throws light into
the interior of the ear, and is also pro-
vided with a central hole, through which
the illuminated tympanum can be in
spected. A system of lenses projects
an image on the sensitive plate, and the
picture is made in the ordinary manner.
Year: 1873

1 am going to tell you story about
three little children whom L met not
long ago. They showed me their little
wooden savings banks, which their sick
father had made for them for he was
too poor to buy tin ones, such as you
sometimes see in sfop-windows, and as
some of you, perhaps, have. Each OF
the children had some pennies, which
they have saved, instead of spending
them for candies. / asked them what
they were going to do with their money.
They replied that they did not knew
lust then, but would find some use for
it.


Some time after this again visited
the home of these children, and pick
ing up one of these little savings
banks, found it empty. Inquiring what
had become of the money, one OF the
children told me that they might never
get it back again. "We have lent 1t,
said they, to One who is ever SO
rich -


"What rich, and borrowing pen
MES ?" we exclaimed. They then told
me this story =


Gone day a missionary of the Cos
pei came to the town. He was poor,
and was on his way to a neighborhood
in which the people were noted for their
wickedness. He was going to preach
to them. While riding along, his horse
lost shoe, and he had no money left
to pay a smith for putting it on. The
horse was getting lame from travelling
without the shoe, and so we emptied
our savings banks, and gave him the
money. And doesn't the Bible say that
if we give to the poor we lend to the
Lord? So you see, we have put it at
interest and we have no doubt we
shall be repaid-not, perhaps, IN
money, but in blessings. Besides, by
helping the missionary on his way we
have helped to spread Gods Word,
which teaches sinners the way to get to
heaven"


Don't you think, children, that we
might all learn lesson from the action
of these little children? Some of us
are not so poor as they, and yet do we
do as much? They, like the widow,
gave all /; we give only a small part OF
what we have Let us pray that the
Lord will give us liberal hearts, SO that
we may not refuse to give Literally,
according as He has blessed us with the
means, for the spreading of His Word.
Year: 1873

One room at Malmaison was especi-
ally cOnsecrated by Josephine to the
memories of happy days passed there
by Napoleon before his divorce from
her. 1t was a room then used by him
as a study whenever the cares of war
and politics permitted him to seek
temporary rest in her society in that
charming retreat; and when she was left
there alone to mourn their separation,
she would allow nobody to occupy this
room but herself. In it lay the pen last
used there by the Emperor, which the
ink had long since cOrroded; on a table
lay the map he had last studied; over
there the line of march tracked out
which had long since taught Europe to
feel the power of his tactics; ON the
wall hung a glass case in which some of
his hair was arranged in ornamental or
symbolic form. 1t was so long since
that hair had grown on his head that
the sight of it must have carried Jose
phine's memory back to the time when
she, the widowed Vicomtesse de Beau
harnas; determined on marrying its own
er, the young soldier of fortune, with
nothing but "his love and his sword
and his cloak to offer her" Such a
sanctuary indeed was this chamber at
Malmaison to the ex-empress that she
would not allow any hand but her own
to dust or move the objects in it, which
had been consecrated, as she deemed,
by the touch of the husband who had
sacrificed her to his ambition, and in so
doing had lost the guiding star, the
guardian angel of his life.


Singular Effect of Heat on the Desert.
Intense radiation of heat in the great
desert of Sahara produces extraordinary
| effect on all living things; but the most
singular of all is the malady to which


men are incident after being exposed
| short time to burning sands and a sun.
| 1t is called ragle-a kind eff brain fever.
| The stricken traveller is delighted,


amused, and made extensively happy
| by exhibitions and fantastic forms. He


sees mirages, palm trees, groups of
| tents, shady mountains, sparkling cas-


cades, and misty forms dancing delight
| fully before his entranced vision. From


all that can begathered upon it it appears


that certain condition of the atmos-


phere, wholly free of moisture, with
intense solar heat, produces effects on
| the brain very similar to hasheesh.


Both exhalt the nervous system and
| speedily destroy all who desire to exits,
deprived of that unnatural excitation of
the brain.
Year: 1873

in his hole took advantage of the fiji
warm day to timber up for the comil
campaign. Having tied himself into
intricate knot, he was so overcome
the warmth of his own body that he fe
asleep, and did not wake until mig
fall. In the darkness he was unable
find his head or his tail, and so cou
not disentangle and slide into his hol
Per consequence, he froze to death.


Many a suitable philosopher has ia
ed to solve that knotty problem, hi
self, owing to his inability to discern L
beginning and his end.
Year: 1873

Telegraph dispatch from New York Of the
26th says: The city is being drained Of money
at pretty lively rate. Since Saturday last
outgoing moneys through Adams express
have amounted to about $1,000, 600 daily
while that coming In exclusive Of what went
10 the treasury. amounted to about SGC0.0c0
The United States company have been send
ing out from 100000 to 100000 daily fer
several days past, while the receipts through
that medium are very small. The National
Express company Is carrying away an
amount about three times as large ms usual
at this season Of the year. and the American
Express company is doing likewise.
Year: 1873

The following is from the Shreveport Times
of the 10th.


The epidemic has PLAYED sad havoc with
this community since our last weekly issue.
The unfsvorable change In the weather here
Friday night sent scores to their beds, and the
deaths in the last few days have been fearful
to contemplate. The number OF eases report
ed in the last day or two exhibit marked
falling of in the city. though an Increase Is
observable in the outskirts. The falling off
In the city is owing to the want of material to
work on ns the disease is no doubt steadily
progressing where 1t can find fit subjects. The
black people have not suffered to any extent.
The total nun her OF cases down now Is estl-
mated at from five 10 eight hundred. All our
stores are closed and our dwelling houses
turned into hospitals. All communication
west Of us by rail Is entirely cut off, and 1t Is
only within the last day or two that we have
had telegraph communication.


From the first OF September up 10 Wcdnes-
day night. l7th OF September, the interments
In the city cemetery reached two hundred ana
forty five. Some persons were buried in the
immediate vicinity. and at least fifteen OF our
citizens who refngeed. died away from home
thus swelling our list to two hundred and
sixty four


We regret to learn that the fever is spread
ing in the country towns. Mr.. Wilson. hide
dealer, and his wife are both down at Long
view. william johnson. son OF Col Ii. Nj.
johnson is down With it at Dallas, and anoth-
er son of his Mercer. is sick with it at MoE-
roe. We understand that Minden has quaran-
tined u.s. although she has no cases Of the few
err The Chicago circus it seems spread the
disease MS she went, and it prevails in most OF
the small towns between here and Monroe. At
the latter place 1t is said to be very bad. The
writer has no doubt that the yellow fever was
brought here by the eircuses, although there
was good deal of pernicions fever here be-
| fore
Year: 1873

The PEOPLES RAILRoAD.-The Port
Townsend Argus concludes an able ar
gumen. in favor of the Seattle and Wal
Ia Walla Railroad as follows:


1t may be argued that the same bene-
fit will he derived from the Northern
Pacific Railroad, but such is not the
case, at least, for years to come. The
line Of the road now being built does
not tap the country in question, save
by the expensive route already enjoyed
by Portland-the river, and this mode
of transit will be employed by the
Northern Pacific Company until the
other parts of their trunk line is finish
ed. The branch line of that company
which has been already located with SO
much flourish, with its terminus at Ia
coma, Is an uncertain matter thai is al
together in the distant future. The
road from the Sound across the Cascade
is q need of to-day, and the
only way that it can be obtained is by
and through the Seattle and Walla Wal
la Railroad and Transportation Compa-
ny. We hope business men will give
his subject their earnest consideration,
md lend their aid to the important en-
.erprise.
Year: 1873

In little over one month The third
exhibition Of the Western Wash
ington Industrial Association will be
held on the University grounds, in this
city,, commencing or October LIST, and
continuing over the End and 3rd days.


hisis the most interesting public event
~ the year, and appeals to the local
pride and public spirit of every citizen
Of Western Washington for cooperation
and support. Especially is this appeal
MADE to King county; which heretofore
with the largest resources for such an
exhibition has contributed least. There
is no time to lose for preparation. Be-
gin qpw to prepare articles for exhibi-
ton, and if the matter is taken hold of
with proper zeal and followed up with
Year: 1873

CHOLERA following recipe for
the cure of cholera, cholera morbus or
SUNNI er complaint in any Of its forms
is furnished US by an old sea-faring
man who vouches for its efficacy: Take
equal parts tincture of opium, red pep
per, rhubarb, peppermint, and camphor
and mix them for use. In case of di-
arrhea take dose of ten or twenty
drops in three or four teaspoonfuls OF
water. No one who has this by him
and takes it in time will have the chol-
era. We commend 1t to onr Western
friends, and hope that the receipt will
be widely published. Even when NO
cholera is anticipated it is an excellent
remedy for ordinary summer complaint.
Year: 1873

words and false promises, to their ser


row. But, sir, Seattle has swallowed


the bitter pill at last, and on Thursday,


the 26th of June, day that every citi-


zen of Seattle will remember with sor-


row, the N. P. r. r. Co.'s tools left


with the glorious satisfaction OF having


demoralized the place at last and swim


died the greater part Of its citizens out
of their hard earned possessions. l use


the words tool and swindle" for l


know no other to apply to men who can


stoop so low as to take from those they


have demoralized for the purpose of


robbiug without. They will take all of


Seattle they can get, and the next re-


quest they will make will be for the cit


zens 10 move out and let them move in.


"Olympia'' thinks that some one may


object to tho movement proposed. on


account of the injury to the company,
and seems to delight at the thought of
its bringing then to bankruptcy, as the
quickest course of justice. l concur
with Olympia;" nay, I admire his
spunk. If We decline acting because
the criminal will suffer for his wicked
ness and folly by our acts, and wink at
corruption in its most obnoxious form
(ah! putridD !; when or how can we hope
o reform our land and purge the coun-
try of its refuse. five wish to do unto
others as We would be done by; If we
hope to be warned against the practices
of the untrustworthy and deceitful; We
must send forth our warning to all. and
especially to those who slumber in for
eign lands unconscious of the wholesale
robbery going on in our midst. Scatter
the pamphlets broadcast; publish them
fairly and correctly to the world; and
God grant that they may arouse the
people to sense of the duty they
owe the world, reclaim our Government,
and rid the community of monopolies
and all bad -principled men IN power.


I reeollect aremark of Daniel Webster
in regard to the principles of men. He
said that man was either possessed, to
a greater or less degree, of good or bad
and that man who was no.
toriously wicked was net unprincipled,
but possessed of large amount of bad
principle. Would to God that some
one to-day could fill his place on the
floor of the Senate and initiate his ea
ample, set in his reply to Haynes, byl
.slling that body what composed that
,e. If he could return and takeu hoa
glance at its acts to-day, he would find,
not body of men of individual honor
or mutual discussion, Senate; but an
exchange for the manipulation of rail
Dad and steamboat monopolies; an as
;embly of men. IN the majority for the
discussion of iudividal interest. not ma
ional affairs. say the majority and l
10 not exaggerate. But, sir, I will sub 1
nit this, my poor attempt to give you
ny views on subject and proposition ]
n which fully concur. SEATTLE.
Year: 1873

T The Lafayette Wisconsin Demo-
crat says: ga terrible accident is re-
ported from Lafayette. 1t appears that
a little girl was standing in the wheat
field, and was not seen by the driver OF
the reaper until her body was seen on
platform of the machine with both legs
cut off.
Year: 1873

persistence, an exhibition Of products
will be had which will astonish the
world. With tbs resources which we
have to draw upon, it would be dis
graceful not to beat any other commu.
nifty of equal numbers in every depart
ment of agriculture and horticulture,
and give to the world better knowl-
edge of the productiveness of our soil
than is now had by strangers.