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Year: 1872

EXPLOSION OF A KEROSENE OIL
LAMP AND SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO A
CHILD. = Yesterday evening, about Z
O'Clock, a two-year old child of William
Maxwell, colored shoemaker, living on
Main street, between Jefferson and Henry,
pulled kerosene oil lamp from the counter
Of the shop, causing it to fall to the floor
and explode. The child was terribly burnt
i'll the face and received injuries of an in
ternal character, which are likely to provo


fat al .. - ...
Year: 1872

j lNFANTIcIDE.-A dead colored male
infant child was found this morning in an
alley between Leigh and Jackson and Fou-
shee and Adams streets, by an old rag
picker. The child was suspended to
fence by means of a cord attached to its
neck. Coroner Trent was notified of the
occurrence, but we have not learned the
result of the investigation.
Year: 1872

The Fifth Avenue COnference-And Yet They
Are Not Happy.


Cincinnati, June 7.--Ex-Secretary Cox
left for New York this evening to attend
the meeting at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on
the goth instant. 1t was current prior to
his departure that he said the Steinway
Hall meeting intended to call subsequent
conference of the Liberals of the same
class as those engaged in that meeting, but
it was found that some of those who were
supporting Greeley gave encouragement to
the idea of their favoring a moment to put
such man as Adams in the field, and, on
their suggestion, the terms of invitation
were extended so as to include men in the
position of Schurz, Horace Greeley, and
Bowles, and that Senator Schurz was will
ing to unite in the call when this was done.
1t is understood that the majority of the
meeting will be of those who have refused
to support Greeley, but enough persons of
other shades of purpose will be there for
full conference and comparison of views.
The gentlemen named above are in no way
committed to change their attitude, unless
convinced of the duty of doing so by the
conference.
Year: 1872

[The following Atanzas are part OF John @. Whit
tiers poem, The Brewing of the Soma" in the
Atlantic Monthly for APRIL
Dear Lord and Father OF mankind,
Forgive our foolish waysi
Recothe us in our rightiul mind,
In purer lives thy service nnd,


In deeper reverence, praise.
In simple trust like theirs who heard
Beside the Syrian sea
The gracious calling Of the Lord,
Let us, like them. without q word,
Rise up and follow thee.
o, Sabbath rest by Galileel


o calm OF hills above,
Where Jesus knelt to share with thee
The silence Of eternity


Interpreted by love!
With that deep hush subduing all
Our words and works that drown
The tender whisper Of thy call
As noiseless let thy blessing fall
As fell thy mama down.
Drop thy stlll dews of quietness,
Till all cur strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of thy peace.
Brea'hs through the heats Of our desire
Thy coolness and thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
Speak through the earthquake, wind and nre
still, small voice Of calm
Year: 1872

Gentlemen Of the majority, you are not honest
in your professions Of reform; it is all cant when
you say 80 You have the power, how do you
use it By erecting yourselves as near az can
be into close corporation to share out contracts
for your own profit, and thus initiate the clan
ishness Of the oigarchy, which weighs down
the energies Of the State, and which you bawl
yourselves hoarse in denouncing.


Pass an ordinance which makes impossible
the'tricks Of Tammany in Wilmington. Unit
you de so, never open your mouths about re-
form or political honesty.
Year: 1872

THE QUESTION SOLvED.-Some officious
intermeddler having imposed upon the
Picayune with a highly sensational story
of an attempt to blow up a drug store with
a mixture of iodine and oil of turpentine,
the following assuring explanation is pub
Hshed in the Times and copied into the Re-
PUBLICAN to allay idle fears:


Last Saturdays PicGyHne contains a hor-
rible account of an attempt at malicious
injury, by which respectable citizen and
a valuable druggist came very near being
blown up.


Being myself the involuntary author of
this malicious attempt" you will believe
me when l tell you that, by reading the
Picdy1Jpe'S statement my hair stood on end,
Why if it was true, New Orleans might
have been burned by this time, and history
would put me in the same category with
the COW that kicked the bucket on which
stood the lamp that set fire to the house
that burned Chicago.


But, like Mary, Queen of Scots, / can
say Il am better than my fame" as a few
corrections will show. On Tuesday even
ing my horse took it in his head to get sick,
and being in possession of a prescription
which in such cases was said to be a sure
kill or cure" sent young man with this
prescription TO Mr.. w. L. J.'s drug store to
have it filed. 1 did not know that that
powder was explosive, else l would have
been afraid of blowing up my horse. This
fact shows that | am not druggist.


The young man who went for the pre-
scriptiOn went into the wrong drug store,
and consequently Mr.. w. L. j. escaped the
danger of being blown up, but my horse
did not get well.


On Wednesday the same young man went
again to Mr.. w. G. HIS drug store with
1riu foys q of in OiI Of
turpentine. Here he was assaulted, and
told that the said prescription, and the man
who sent it, were both of a highly danger
GUS character. This news was startling to
the young man, but did not surprise him so
much as to induce him to run away, as the
-PicGy3JlJe stated.


Having read of the terrible consequences
which would result from an attempt to
mix iodine in oil of turpentine, took a few
lessons in chemistry, and made the attempt
to mix those things. The result was only
that the iodine did dissolve in the oil of
turpeutine. but no fire, no explosion fol-
lowed no burning fluid was scattered
around, and nobody blown up. 1t would,
there fore, be advisable that druggists who
wish to write articles for the newspapers,
should first take a few lessons in chemistry,
which would prevent them exposing their
ignorance. Finally, allow me to inform
Mr.. W. G. H, through your paper, that
il he is afraid or unable to ill a prescrip-
ton, he need not do it; there are others
who Will but, if that affair was only taken
hold of to start the public, and get a free
advertisement, then my apology is unneces-
sary and this abbreviated statement will
only serve to perpetuate Mr.. w. G. HIS
name


| Aave instructed my young man not to
make any more such mistakes, but 90 to the
right drug store at once.


Yours respectfully, *. A. w.
Year: 1872

Auctioneer Montgomery is fixing up his
building SO that it win soon look prettier
than Dolly Warden. Other buildings in
the neighborhood begin to look really dirty
in comparison, though a growler might
suggest that one of the colors of the auc-
tion building is suggestive of something
dirty.
Year: 1872

CECOND DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH
- of Orleans-Notiee is hereby given to the
creditors of this estate and to all other persons
herein interested TO show cause within ten days
from the present notification, if any they have or
can, why the account presented by Charles u
Rivet testamentarY executor in this estate, should
not be hOnOlOgated and approved and the funds
distributed in accordance Herewith.


By order Of the Court.


jeI59 81 o. TRACY. Clerk.
Year: 1872

A noted wag in a Western college one
morning read a theme of unusual merit.
The president, being suspicious, asked
pOintedly if it was original. "Why, yes,
sir," was the reply, "it had original over it
in the paper l took it frOm.n
Year: 1872

There is man in Boston who has been
seen by competent witnesses to set fire to
portions of his stock, and heard to express
the wish that most of it might be burned,
and yet no notice Of these facts have been
taken by the authorities. He keeps a cigar
store.
Year: 1872

The English Anti-TobaccO society got
Prof. Newman, who had never used the
weed, to smoke and report his experience.
They calculated he would get sick and
write feelingly Of the horrible effects. But
he rather enjoys the practice now, and
keeps right on smoking,
Year: 1872

= We have not the room in our paper tC
spare or disposition to reply in length to the
Little Rock Ga$eHe's Much Ado about No
thing" The Editors Of the Gazette know
very well that we have no personal i'll will to-
wards them. In justice to ourpeople and the
proprietor of n democratic journal, we felt
compelled TO speak as plainly as we did. II
is fault we have. If fault it is that We are
not able to sugar-coat words with the bark y
on as not 10 appear plain or to convey differ
ent meanings. so long ~ the Editors Of the
gazette and its special correspondent confined
themselves to grounds outside ofour immedi-
ate province. to manufacture public opinion
in sustaining the unwise and untenable posi-
ton they are occupying, we had but little to
say of their course. But when special tray
cling CORES spondcnt oftheirs encroaches upon
our territory and msstates the universal sen.
timents of the democratic and conservative
masses, We cease to remain quiet.


The Ga%ene says it has not opposed Mr.
Brooks. Perhaps not. But have they not
used every appliance and ingenuity. through
CORES spondcnts, to create the impression that
he Is weak as candidate for Governor. and
could not command the vote efthe democratic
masses. We think they have.


We shall be truly glad, If the Go,eue, will
be able, between this and the election, to rec
tify the breaches made in the reform move
ment. by their quasi opposition to Mr.
Brooks. and bring back to the democratic
fold, all those who have been led astray or
made Indifferent to the great dangers that SO
boldly stare them in the face, b., its short
sighted and ill-timcd advice, and the defiant
opposition assumed toward the position taken
by the Executive Central Committee.


We rcitcrate that JosEPr BROOKS and the
names that shall be presented by the State
Executive Committee on the oath, will receive
the united support Of both Democrat and Lib
eral of thi. section Of the State. The ticket
can be made strong. We would not dictate
to the committee. We know they feel the
great Importance Of the trust conferred oi.
them, and will act in their wise judgment, for
the great interest all,
Year: 1872

The money market steady durDg the morning
at abt7 per cent currency the general rate On new
business, and frequent exceptions at Q. Ia the
afternoon there better demand, and late borrow


ers were compelled " pay full per cent gold, for then
Year: 1872

william Ward, who makes a speciality OF dealing in
Stock Privileges quotes them as selling for one per cent
bonus on days time and u bonus on GOldays at the
following variations from the market price OF the seeur
Year: 1872

The position and animus of the city
government in the Nicolson pavement
suit, is well exemplified by the solemn
ly avOwed purpose of the City Attorney
not to surrender any one of his one hum
dred and sixteen points, all of which
were overruled by Judge EmmOns, after
months Of patient investigation, careful
thought, and consultation with MEM
bers of the United States Supreme court.
Thus, it is not the interests of the tax
ridden people that are being con-
suited. but the merits of the law-learning
Of our sapient attorney, who is as con-
spicuous for his failures in city cases as
be is for the tenacity with which he
hugs his own ideas. The city dads acted
upon this expressed determination of
the City Attorney, and the case is to be
fought out in the Supreme Court of the
United States, at an expense of perhaps
five times the yearly salary of the At
torney and Mayor put together. The
taxpayers viii have to take this matter
into their own hands, avert the progress
Of useless litigation, and settle on rea-
sonable basis the just claims of Brown
q Co. If they do not, they may expect
embarrassment upon embarrassment,
until even the machinery of the city
government becomes clogged beyond
remedy. NIulishness and pig-headed-
hess are sometimes desirable qualities,
but when nothing else is offered, and We
are treated to them every day, they
sieken and Hauseate US. The public de-
msnd a speedy settlement Of this claim
Of Brown & Co., and are unwilling that
the City Attorney shall try his "'pren-
tiee ham, at their expense.
Year: 1872

Comb. Il it were not, however, for
the confessing and exposing letter of
.Anles, the issue would be simply one
Of veracity between McComb and
Ames. As it is, that lette. gives
strong color to the suspicion that
somebody was bribed. Who were
the guilty parties requires further
evidence.


Ames must account to McComb
for the large deficit in the fund, in
which the latter claims u share
" Either show how you spent this
money or fork over" il what McC,omb
demands, and McComb is a very
positive man, who will have his
rights OF break trace. He declares
himself Grant man. So is Ames,
and therefore no party motives OF
influences enter into the discussion.


Between them it is a pretty fair
fight, and with Philadelphia lawyers
to help them, there is little danger
that the whole matter will lot be
thoroughly ventilated.


But the national question is above
all their interests and squatbles, and
we hope that part Of it will be set.
tied now. After the election the
public interest in the matter will
subside.


We have still an undetermined
case, wherein the chiefs OF a great
political party in the country stand
charged with fragrant corruption
We do not assume their guilt we
shall, on the other hand, presume
their innocence, but we affirm that
there has been q sufficient showing
to justify al investigation, and te
that end, McCo1nb and Ames ough
to be confronted, and all the testi
mony bearing upon the case laid he
fore the public.-N. O. Times.
Year: 1872

drought, the growth OF sugar Gaze
has been retarded and the stalks are
Of rather Iinlinutive size, we
are told by several planters that the
cane is very sweet AMI Juicy, and if
heavy rains Go not tail just before
the grinding season u fair yield of
sugar cane may be expected. While
water would be Of great advantage
to the crops, protracted and copious
visitations of rain later in the sea-
season would prove q great injury
We hope for the best
Year: 1872

an open confession is said to
ood for the soul, would it not be
as too much of the editor Of the
~ organ, down town, to unbos-
himself, and tell his ebony read
what were the inducements of.
to make him a noisy Republi.


A little of the real once in 9
f. would, by way of a change
as<e your political friends. You
v, you know.
Year: 1872

from lands end to lands end, that all may
read, and reading, believe, that for the
countless millions who are on the road to
an untmely grave with bilious oOm?laints,
there is but one truly great and reliable
remedy, and that is
Year: 1872

Costly apparatus and splendid cabi-
nets have no magical power to make
scholars. Asa man is in all circum-
stances, under God, the master of his
own fortune, so he is the maker of his
own mind. The Creator has 50 consti-
tuted the human intellect that it can
only grow by its own action; and by it's
own action it will certainly and neces-
sarily grow. Every man.must there
fore educate himself His books and
teachers are but helps; the work is his.
A man is not educated until he has the
ability to summon, in an emergency,
his mental powers in vigorous exercise
to effect its proposed object. 1t is not
the man who has seen most or read most
who can do this; such one is in danger
of being borne down, like beast Of
burden, by an overloaded mass Of other
mems thoughts. Nor is the man who
can boast merely Of native vigor and
capacity. The greatest of all warriors
who went to the siege of Tray had not
the pre-eminence because nature had
given him strength, and he carried the
large bow, but because discipline had
taught him how to bend it.-[ Daniel
Webster.
Year: 1872

The State of New York is proceeding
before the Legislature to impeach two
Of its Judges, Cardoza and Barnard.
Iowa has at least one Judge that should
be got rid of by impeachment as he has
declined to resign at the request of the
Governor. The leading attorneys all
over the State entertain the same feel
ing toward Judge Cole as we. The
cause Of their clients with the Judges
known corruption and vindictive spirit
to them and their eases injury simply
keeping them quiet.
Year: 1872

BY an odd coincidence, the semi
officially expressed opinion Of the Ad-
ministration concerning the Liberal Re-
publican meeting in New York, aud tho
opinion Of the great majority Of the
people concerning the Administration
itself are precisely alike: "a failure,
and III thing more"
Year: 1872

Some of the Presidents papers call
Dana, of the New York Sun, .'an in-
imitable liar" Then is it not very
foolish in them to be all the time trying
to initiate what cannot be imitated2


But they remind us of the fellow who
beat the pig all hollow in squoaling like
Year: 1872

BY WIN. D. MoRANGE.
Put on the airs of an eight-keyed flute,
If you're only penny whistle;
Pass where yon can for garden rose,
If your only a wayside thistle.
Blow, whenever you blow you're horn,
So people can understand
That You may be sharp, but you won't be fiat
In socicty's great brass band.
Pass the plate or hat in church


With the usual Sabbath air,
But move with a mild, religious squeak,
That people may know you're t.crc.
IF you carry a nose six inches long,


(And a heal: can scarce be lcngcr,
Believe it a sign of perception strong,
And the longer it is, the stronger.
But if in the order of nasal tubes


Your organ is brief in measure,
Then brevity, being the soul of wit,
Consider your pug treasure.
Love your neighbor-but mark the force
OF the Gospel RUE o: grace ~
The more you admire yourself, my friend,
The higher your neighbours place.
Clink your dime in the dcacon's pan,
As if you were throwing nold,
And give with an eye to the business hope
OF reaping hundred fold.
Whether your reading is little or great,
Quote right, or never quote;
Polish yonr uppers, though down at the heel,
And ncvor indorse a note.
Always advance best hand, best foot,
(Best hand, best foot, your OWN,
And thus You may feast on the fat of the land,
While others enjoy the bone.
Year: 1872

awaken. The shock reused, too, all the latent
loyalty to royal family inherited for gen.
erations, and which philosophy or common
sense is slow in roofing out. But the weight
lest cause for anxiety in Albert Edwarps Ill
ness, as we all know, was the certainty ol
the great and unexpected advantage II wOuid
give to the radical party. Hosts OF SLOW
moving, neutral Engishmen who would see
the Prince of Wales succeed his mother WIN
out thought, as they submit 10 al lonS-
established precedent as matter Oh course,
would be driven in the case OF a protracted
regency to think to make choice; 10 "eish
the actual advantages of republic WORKING
in all its parts, and this sham OF a govern
ment that has itself been an idle, costly
sham so long. Nothing could bo more fatai
to the Conservative party of England than
any such halt for thought among the masses; ;
hence arose their breathless watch over the
sick bed ut Sandringham, and hence their
outcfy of rejoicing when the danger was lor
n time tided over. There are probably lew
men of intelligence in England who 90 hot
secretly feel that the days of royalty are mum
bered, but, their own position being comior'a-
BILE. they fondly hope and labor to make IL laSt
out their time. "After us-the Deluge; Dut
wby sbould any man leave solid footing ard
stone house, and betake himself to an efk ana
whirlpools so long as he can help it9 1t Is
this party which is striving to prolong the late
flicker of loyal flame, by the pageant OF TO-
day. Religious devotion Is called III 10 help'
and the Queen, who has so long obstlnateiy
refused to fight her own battle with the
people, by making herself q spectacle to graf
ify their love of show and splendor, ID
cheated nv religious duty into doing it at last.


The scheme is well planned, but we thlhh
has been little too tardy III eXecuIion'
Public fervor has had too much time 10 cool
People have had space to recover from Vne
contaeion of the personal grief in the palace,
and TO weigh the actual value of this life
saved to the nation. Without any cynical or
irreyercnt feeling, it is natural that they
should doubt whether the boon Of this klng
Log this lumpish young man as ruler
whose only sign of vitality so far has been a
dull good humor and zeal in his sensual
pleasures, be really blessing to call for uni
yersal Joy and thanksgiving. We have no
doubt the pageant will be both imposing anu
pathetic, and the unreasOning mass OF LOCKERS
on will be mOmentarily impressed and touched'
as it was intended they should be; but 1t Is
not likely the event to come will be delayed
years time by it.


There was pomp of sacrifices and marrying
and giving in marriage in the days before
Noah, but the fountains Of the great deep
rose none the less surely about the reyeleis'
The ebb and flow Of human beliefs, the great
currenta of human action, are as certain ana
inexorable as those of the sea.
Year: 1872

Perhaps there is no more curious phase OF
our purely social life, or one more deserv-
ing of attention, than that of the South at the
present time. We have occasional elaborate
pictures of IL from several Southern writers,
who find it not only soothing to their sensibil-


tiles to deplore the lest golden age OF Slavery,
but, most probably, profitable in pecuniary
sense. One of these gentlemen, in magazine
of the current month, dips his pen in alternate
tears and gall to depict the deplorable cOndi-
ton of the young ladies and gentlemen of Yir-
ginia deprived of their former corps of field
and household servants. There can be little
doubt that life in the Virginia plantations is
the most suggestive sign of the depth of the
change made by the war, and one that
appeals most nearly to our sympatLies.
The culture particularly of the women) was
higher and broader than in any other Southern
State: the treatment of the slaves more hui
name the hospitality as unstinted and more
enlightened, for it was capable of offering food
to the brain of the guest as well as his body.
In spite of the peevish heat and resentment
with which our neighbors are apt to reject our
ovcrtmes of friendship, they cannot hinder
our warm and hearty recognition OF their
claims upon it, both before and after our quar-
rel. No person of common sense denies either
the compassion due to their position, deprived
of their sole source of income, at the very
period when an exhaustive, crippling war rem
dered them least able to bear such loss.
But the Northemer, when he loses his income,
does not fall fiat to the ground; his brain or
hands or feet are ready to help HIM; and if
the negro, as q source of livelihood, crippled
all these in his master so as to make HIM the
enfeebed. resourceless burden which he de-
cribes himself to be, it was high time, for his
own sake that the negro was taken from him.


The lug,brious writer in Lppincott begins
his tale of woe by stating the alarming failure
ia the wheat and other crops. which he
Year: 1872

One good result of the investigation into
the General Order business in this city, is
foreshadowed in the correspondence between
Collector Arthur and Secretary Boutwell,, pub
lished to-day. The Leet barnacles are to be
scraped of if possible, and the business is to
be conducted, according to the Secretary, with
view to the best accommodation OF the
merchants, after the primary consideration OF
the security of the Government has been
made. The result will. of course, be the
utter extinction of the hangers-on who pro-
cure their sustcnance through the Military Ring.
To be sure, they may yet find some means OF
circumventing the rules which are expected
to be applied to the details of the new scheme
but the public attention has been so closely
drawn to the business that we have hopes
that this time the Secretary's opposition to a
plan which is devised for the express purpose
of furnishing pap for special favOrtes will
not, as before, be found Intellectual.