The Harrison Flag. (Marshall, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 1867 Page: 2 of 6
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The Son of Napoleon Bonaparte.
OIL WELLS.
legislative action, contrary to the verbi-
age of the constitution, regularly adopted
on
WM. G. BARRETT, Editor and Proprietor.
2 50.
Six Months,
ADVERTISING.—One square, eight lines, 1 00.
The story of the loves of the Duc de
ing an attachment which might throw
METEOR SAFETY LAMP!
INVENTION OF THE AGE!
NO MORE
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GENERATES ITS OWN GAS
AND SAVES NEARLY
FIFTY PER CENT. OF OIL
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January 31,'67.
the new stock of
GROCERIES
9
BOOTS AND SHOES,
AND
religious sects in
sixty-five per
following : Protestants,
PIARSON & PILLSBURY’S,
The search after the relics, writes a
Paris correspondent, belonging to the
Telegraphic Dispatches.
[Special to the Harrison Flag.J
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Over the Ordinary Lamp !
PEARSON & PILLSBURY,
Agents for Marshall.
T e r m s :
Subscription. One Year, in advance, $4 00.
For the Harrison Flag.
" Should we take ally interest in Politics ?"
Lamp Explosions
OR
THE GREATEST
heart is fully occupied with the cultiva-
tion of all her tender souvenirs of the
court of Vienna, and the place she once
occupied thereat, with the full consent
and approbation of every member of the
imperial family.
Coal Oil Lamps,
J list Opened at
Prussia, is now the
Uhe lug.
cent., ; Catholics, thirty-three per cent.,
and other sects, two per cent.
A mother and her two daughters were
married at the same time and place, at
Loporte, Indiana, last week.!
Printing Paper.
Printing paper 26 by 38 for sale at less than
New Orleans prices, at this office.
Religious Notice.
The regular monthly Conference meeting of the
Baptist Church will be held on Saturday and Sun-
day next, the 2nd and3 1 of February.
fE.Do you want plows or agricultural imple-
ments of any kind ? Call on DeLisle & Co.
8" See the new advertisements of Pearson &
Pillsbury.
g The weather is warm and pleasant, Quite
a number of cotton wagons on the streets to day.
Look Out.—A nice lot of Parlor Furni-
ture for sale at the store of J. H. Calloway,
north side of the public square.
z@ DeLisle & Co. have received 175 Stoves
on consignment. Nee their price.
gef" We learn from the South-Western that
John Dickinson has sold out the Shreveport News
to Mr. A. L. Hay.
R. Marsh Denman & Co.—The card of this ex-
tensive New Orleans Carriage Depository ap-
pears this week.
Landreth’s genuine Garden Seed, at L. C.
DELISLE & CO. ’8
ge” The elegant Drug store of Mr. Frank E.
Wood is now on the North side of the public
square, two doors East of L. C. De Lisle & Co’s.
grU See the advertisement of the meteor Safety
Lamp, and fine cigars for sale by Pearson &
Pillsbury.
New Paper.—We have received the 2nd and
3d numbers of the Semi-Weekly News-Letter, a
neat paper published by W. Lambdin & Co., at
Millican, Texas, the terminus of the Texas Cen
tral Railroad. It is a very creditable paper, and
deserving of success.
g” Messrs. G. G. Gregg & Co., again direct
the attention of the public to the fact that they
have on hand almost everything in the line of
dry goods, general merchandise, family groceries,
drugs, medicines, &c. See their elegant double
column advertisement.
Marshall Nursery.—Mr. John Duncan ad-
vertises that he has a large lot of choice fruit
trees for sale. He has a great variety and offers
them at low rates, and invites the attention of
the public to the same, especially to his superior
lot of Peach trees.
New Cemetery.—See the proposal of Mr.
Jesse Curlin to lay off a cite for a new cemetery
on his place South-West of town. It is a pretty
location, and we apprehend that it will not be
a great while before the one hundred shares are
taken.
Personal.—We were delighted with a call a
few days since, from Mr. Murray, one of the pro-
prietors of that excellent paper, the Me Kinney
Enquirer. Mr. Murray was on a business tour to
Shreveport, Jefferson, and this place, and we are
glad to know, had met with considerable suc-
cess. He spoke enthusiastically of the future of
his section of the State, and said that the En-
quirer was determined to keep up with the times.
- We wish him the best of luck.
In Berlin, horse meat has found so
much favor that the number of horses
slaughtered in a year has already
reached two thousand six hundred, and
is constantly increasing.
The Washington Republican says: —
“ The condition of the colored people in
this District has improved materially
since the right of suffrage was granted
them. They eat roast turkey every day.
Married,
At the residence of Mrs. A. E Lee, the bride’s
mother, on Wednesday evening, Jan. 30th, 1867,
by Rev. W. A. Davenport, Dr. P. II. BRUCE and
Miss CORA SIMS.
We were present on the occasion, and don'
recollect ever having seen a more lovely bride,
or a happier looking bridegroom. May the fu-
ture have naught but happiness and prosperity-’
in store for them.
g£T* Godoy’s Lady’s Book for February has
come to hand. We regard it as an excellent
number, and one that will prove of great interest
to the gentler sex, giving the latest and most ap-
proved styles of dress-making, trimming, hair
dressing, &c. The literary department is as
usual, well conducted.
Disgusted with the restraint of the life
at court, wounded by the position to
which his birth had consigned him among
the proud archdukes, his high born rela-
tives, he was wont to steal away into the
country to enjoy solitude and the contem
plation of nature, at a little village near
Vienna. The doctors had foretold that
unless some interest in life was offered
to this sensitive, nervous youth, he must,
of necessity, sink into atrophy, and with-
er away in consumption. Many and
orandum book. After giving up what he
had, he attempted to return to the city
with the buggy, but was frustrated by
the negroes, who compelled him to con-
tinue on his way home withott Major
Elstner, who at the time was undergoing
J. J. Carr util—This gentleman, formerly one
of the popular merchants of this place, and more
recently of Mansfield La., has established a " Pur-
chasing Agency,” at 119 Common Street, (over
the store of Messrs. Moore & Gasquet,) New
Orleans, and is prepared to fill orders from all
Eastern Markets, and any manufactory or foun-
dry in the United States. Parties referring bu-
siness to him may rest assured that it will re-
ceive prompt attention. Nee card.
Fair Visitors.—Our office was honored a few
days since by a visit from some fair ladies, who
desired to see the printing machine put into op-
eration. They were heartily welcomed, and
seemed delighted at seeing the rapidity with
which our improved Liberty card press was turn-
ing off work—actually printing at the rate of
two thousand impressions per hour. We are decided-
ly proud of this press, which is the fastest and
most approved piece of printing machinery this
side of New Orleans. Call again, ladies, and
bring your female friends with you, for we always
feel better, all hands work better, and the office
seems far less monotonous, after having enter-
tained you.
White Labor.—Mr. Morys Hagar, who has es-
tablished an Agency .in Liverpool for the special
purpose “ of inducing immigration to Texas, and
supplying suitable male and female servants,”
forwarded several servants for citizens in this
place, who arrived several days since. They
were at once put to work, and have thus far giv-
en entire satisfaction. We are of the opinion
that the introduction of this character of labor
will be of advantage to all classes of the commu-
nity. In the first place it will establish a stand-
ard of labor, which all who offer to hire as labor,
ers must come up to, and keep up to, or lose
their places. Consequently the result will be
that the gross negligence and tardiness which
has been< but too-general in our Southern Coun-
try since the- emancipation proclamation was put
into practical effect, will not be tolerated, and
many of the annoyances- and- vexations of latter
day housekeeping be removed.
Look out young Men.—We clip the following,
from the Rusk Observer of the 26th, and invite
the special attention of the young men of Mar.
shall to the proposition. “ Go in lemons, and
get squeezed, ”
Husband Wanted.—A young lady of more than
ordinary personal attractions, well educated, and
possessed of a comfortable estate, is desirous of
forming a matrimonial alliance with some re-
spectable gentleman, whose age does not exceed
thirty-two. Congeniality of sentimen t and equal-
ity in social position, are the Fonly additional
qualifications required. Address Miss WILLING-
LY, care of the •* Observer Office,” Rusk, Texas,
giving true name and residence; when, (if the
description suits,) a personal interview will be
arranged.
Rusk, Jan. 24, 1867.
life of this son of the great emperor, who,
according to the touching epitaph writ-
ten by himself for his own tomb, “ was
born king of Rome, and died a lieutenant
in the Austrian service,” was too short
to admit of any ver)' voluminous rec-
ord.
The souvenirs now brought to Paris
have been wholly furnished by the well-
remembered danseuse, Fanny Ellsler,
who lives in the strict retirement of a
country life near the Hague, occupied
solely in the cultivation of a certain spe-
cies of rose, which she has brought to
the highest perfection. By the fortune
left"her by Gentz, added to that acquired
by her own industry and talent, she is
enal led to live the easy life of a chate-
laine, and while her leisure time is occu-
oliecusuuuu,egualyauvpiu, Duke de Reichstadt, king of Rome, lias
which Nebraska claims admission, ended in the securing of several most in-
ed an act denying jury rights to negroes.
The bill before me grants rights de-
nied by the legislature and constitution
of Colorado. This incongruity and pro-
test on the part of the people against a many a hope had been raised of his form-
“ MARCELLUS.”
A Western editor, indignant at the
usurpation of power generally, gets off
the following :
The suple jacks of power—the pamper-
ed parasites of place, with their infernal
incubation and disaphonous stolidity,
may wreak personified envy upon the
tendons of sempiternal wrath ; but will
this menace affright the immortal lustres
that cloud the brow of the executive con-
ventionalities ! Never! Then'let the
gyascutus rave ! The armed denizens of
a treacherous contamination of ertuscant
and eratic energy. But if, despite the
caustic sinuosities of a dec:epid umbrag-
eousness, the license of co ordinate diabol-
ism shall be penetrated with the Ithuriel
spear of ingratitude and obesity, the can-
didates will be found to meet them, or
any other man.
pied with the cultivation of flowers, her jury was concerned, but went up pecuni-
arily for $85 in greenbacks and his mem-
No. 2, Uncle Joe’s Block.
( January 31,’67. n1l-1
Reichstadt is short and sad enough, the outrage spoken of above. One of
the negroes, by way of convincing the
One of the many benefits that has been
derived by the probing of the earth’s sur.
face and drawing off from the seemingly
exhaustless supply of petroleum there de-
posited, is the facility with which novel-
ists and romance writers can now enrich
their heroes. In the first development
of their plots, the hero born of " poor but
I respectable parents ” starts out to face
the stern realities of life in the great
world, and while in the employ of some
wealthy firm, living upon a salary just
sufficient to furnish good clothes, fancy
cravats, &c., falls desperately in love
with the beautiful and charming daugh-
ter of his employer, or some “ other man,”
and is so fortunate as to find in her, a
heart that beats responsive to his own,
and they revel for a while in the delicious-
ness and forgetfulness of Love’s Young
Dream, never once daring to think that
the “ stern parient” could be so utterly
unmindful of their happiness as to refuse
to yield a willing consent for them to go
into co-partnership for life, But alas !—
MARSHALL;
THURSDAY............JANUARY 31, 1867.
to inconsistency with the enabling act,
and the constitution of an additional sec-
tion conferring suffrage on all citizens by
He maintains indirectly, but positively
the right of the States to regulate fran-
chise within their borders, and urges
that the organic changes proposed by
Congress be submitted to the people of
Nebraska
The House Committe on Election asked
to be relieved from the consideration of
illegal voting in Maryland. The com-
mittee.could only inquire into the acts
of the President, and the Judiciary
had him in hand. The committee was re-
lieved and the matter referred to the Ju-
diciary Committee.
Senate.—The Colorada veto was read,
and a motion to postpone its considera-
ties occupied the Senate till the expira-
tion of the morning hour, when the tariff
bill was taken up.
Washington, January 28.—The mes-
sage of the President returns the act ad-
mitting Colorado, since duty prevents
his approval. With the exception of the
additional clause to the same, it was re-
turned in May last, which still awaits
the Senate’s consideration. He was un-
able to perceive any reason for changing
his opinion, but could see additional rea-
sons confirming the wisdom of his former
veto. The additional section makes the
bill more objectionable. The constitu-
tion of Colorado provides that the laws
existing shall continue. Among these
is one absolutely prohibiting negro suf-
frage. The recent territorial legislature
almost unanimously refused its repeal,
and pending the passage of the act by
Congress, the territorial legislature pass-
teresting souvenirs, to be placed in the
Napoleon gallery of the Louvre. The
twenties 731. Consols unchanged at
95 5-16. New York flour 10020 lower,
wheat 203 lower, oats one cent lower ;
pork lower: news mess 20 25027;
western 19 ; Lard dull, Cotton firm and
quick at 34 for middling uplands ; freights
quiet, stock market improved one cent
shortly after opening board but after-
wards not so strong ; Coupons 108;
Gold, 351 ; Exchange sixty days 109,
sight 1094.
Congressional.
Washington, January 28,—Senate.—
Among a number of petitions was one for
a national bureau of education.
The military committee reported a
bill forever prohibiting peonage.
The library committee reported a bill
amending the act regarding copy rights.
Passed.
The President was directed to inform
the Senate why the Governor of Colorado
was absent from his post and why here ;
who paid his expenses ; when and how
often absent from his post. The same
inquiry was ordered regarding other ter-
ritorial Governors and Indian Agents.
The judicial bill goes back to the
House with amendments. It prescribes
its operations to military offenders or
those tainted with rebellion.
The tarriff bill was then taken up, and
the Senate adjourned.
House — Trimble, of Kentucky, intro-
duced a bill repealing the cotion and
-ugar tax. Referred to the committee
on ways and means.
A bill to amend the district franchise,
extending it regardless of sex, was in-
troduced. A motion to refer it to a
special committee of five was lost; yeas
49—nays 52. Referred to the district
committee.
An unsuccessful effort was made to re-
fer the impeachment committee, on the
ground that the judiciary committee
lacked time. The chairman said the
committee had time, and in answer to
what the committee was doing, said it
would be known at the proper time. No
one out side of the committee knew, he
said, and branded all reports sent forth as
false.
A bill passed creating a commission
to examine into the Treasury Department.
The Postmaster General was ordered
to report what amount was due contrac-
tors in Tennessee on the opening of the
rebellion.
Stevens’ bill was then taken up. Mr.
Julian opposed as he favored excluding
Southern States from representation in-
definitely. Stevens modified his bill ma-
terially and appealed to Bingham to
withdraw his motion to refer, so the bill
might be completed. Bingham declined,
wishing the House to decide. Stevens
said the reference of the bill would be
its death. Bitter colloquy between Bing-
ham and Stevens, when the Speaker
called Stevens to order for saying he did
not believe a word Bingham said. The
bill was then referred to the reconstruct-
ion committee by 88 to 65. Adjourned.
Washington Jan 29.—The President
submits the correspondence relative to
Frazier, Trenholm & Go’s. settlement. It
involvs unsatisfactory and contradicto-
ry orders to agents of the Treasury, but
involvs no new facts.
The Nebraska veto confines arguments
New Orleans, Jan. 28.—Cotton firmer;
sales 6850 bales. Low middling 301031.
Middling 311032. Receipts 8860 bales.
Exports 4100. Sugar in good demand—
fair 13c. Molasses higher—fair 73c. ;
prime to choice 74080. Flour higher—
superfine $11,85012; extra $12,50 015,50 .
Corn, oats and hay firm and unchanged.
Pork dull at $25. Bacon firmer—shoul-
ders 121c. ; clear sides 18c. Lard quiet
at 13014c. Whiskey unchanged. Gold
1341. Sterling 46. Freights—cotton to
New York 1c. by steam ; to Liverpool5c
11-16 per sail.
New York, Jan. 28.—Cotton very firm,
and more active. Sales 1500 bales. Mid-
dling uplands 3334. Gold quiet and
firm to the close.
New York, Jan. 29.—Pork dull ; new
mess $20,50a20,621. Corn dull. Flour
dull and nominally easier. Cotton quiet
and firmer at 34 for middling uplands.
Freights firm. Gold 1345. Exchange
sixty days 8 7-8; sight 92.
Washington, Jan. 29.—W. L. Sharkey,
of Mississippi, was admitted attorney of
the Supreme Court.
The Reconstruction Committee is hope-
lessly inharmonious.
The phraseology of the exception to
the bill securing habeas corpus to per-
sons imprisoned contrary to the consti-
tution and treaties is as follows: That the
provisions of this act shall not apply to
the case of any person held by the milita-
ry authorities of the United States,
charged with military offenses, or with
having aided or abetted rebellion against
the government of the United States, pri-
or to the passage of this act
Wheeling, West Virginia, elected dem-
ocratic municipal officers excepting the
Treasurer.
The Maryland legislative bill for a con-
stitutional convention excludes preachers
as Delegates.
Ashley is mooting the question wheth-
er the acts of Mr. Johnson before be-
coming President render him liable to
impeachment.
A letter from Guthrie expresses hope-
lessness of physical ability to resume
his seat.
Grant was in consultation with the
committee on military affairs, yesterday.
Senate took no action whatever on
the Colorado bill.
Liverpool, Jan. 28-eve —Cotton closed
firm at 14 7 8d. Sales 12,000 bales.
New York.—Mexican advices by way
of New Orleans, dated at Vera Cruz on
the 24th, say that a French newspaper
in the City of Mexico says Mexican au-
thorities at Mazaltan executed Cormon,
United States consul at that place, upon
which a U. S. gunboat lying near at
hand had bombarded the place for eight
hours.
New Orleans, Jan. 29.—Vera Cruz
dates of the 23rd, say that the French
frigate Racoon departed with 1200 Aus-
trian infantry. The city of Mexico will
be completely evacuated by the 28th.
Bazine ordered transportation for 200,
000 troops per day, and announced free
transportation to those wishing to return
to France.
Liverpool, Jan. 29—noon.—Cotton
market opened quiet and steady with
probable day’s sales of 10,000 ; middling
uplands still quoted at 14 7-8d.
Liverpool, Jan. 30.—Cotton market
quiet and unchanged ; middling uplands
steady, opening price being 147 ; sales
to-day not probably exceed eight thou-
sand. Breadstuffs : market dull ; corn
flat,
- London, Jan.. 30.— Illinois Central
shares advanced one-half and quoted at
721 ; Erie’s advanced to 447 ; five-
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Another HOnRIBIE Outrage.—-We are
again called upon to chronicle auother of
those horrible outrages committed upon
our peaceable citizens by negroes wear-
ing the United States uniform. Last
Snturday night Maj. Elster, of the firm of
Elstner, Kins worthy & Co., in company
with one of his clerks, Mr. Ivy, started
for the former’s residence beyond the
corporate lithits in a buggy. When
about a mile beyond the corporation line,
they were stopped by some eight ’or ten
negroes dressed in the uniform of the U.
S. colored troops—armed with muskets -
bayonets fixed—and ordered to stand,
and deliver” Maj. Elstner was ordered
to descend from the buggy and his per- '
son searched for money. These uniform-
ed colored robbers, finding that he did
not have a cent with him, subjected him
to the most brutal treatment. He re-
ceived a bayonet wound in the head
about six inches long, cutting through
the scalp, a heavy blow with the butt of
a musket on his arm, and another on his
breast, after having been shot at twice.
Mr. Ivy got off easier so far as bodily in-
State government clearly indicate the
impolicy and injustice of the proposed
enactment. It is a subject of serious in-
quiry whether the enactment is not an
attempt to exercise power not vested in
them by the constitution. The President
submits evidence of the repugnance of
the people of Colorado to a State gov-
ernment. The total population of Colo-
rado is twenty-seven thousand nine hun
dred and ninety. Only fifty thousand
required for Congressional representa-
tion, arguing that this is unjust and not
enough for two Senators. Such admis-
sion of States was not practiced in the
early days. Florida’s admission, in 1845,
resulted from sectional strife, which we
would do well to regard as a warning of
evil rather than an example for imitation,
and shows by statistics that other States
when admitted had populations entitling
them to nearly two representatives.—
Every organised territory, equally with
Colorado, is entitled to admission. Logi-
cal precedent admits Dacotah, Montana,
and Idaho when they present themselves,
giving us ten New senators and five rep-
resentatives, furnished by a population
scarcely entitled to one representative in
the existing States, while the average
population for two senators is now near-
ly a ’million. He argues that the ena-
bling act for Colorado was passed under
false statistics and the deliberate decision
of the people against forming such ex-
hausting enabling act, besides the bill is
so framed as to render its execution im-
possible, and questions whether it is not
in itself a nullity. He argues at some
length the incongruities of the bill, and
concludes that the admission of such a
State would be regarded as an epoch in
our history, and as marking the progress
of the nation ; but cannot see that the
proposed proceeding accords with the
uniform policy of the gevernment in the
admission of a new state.
A Lucky Individual.—Mr. Henry Mey-
er, 168 Randolph street, Chicago, is a
lucky fellow. The Crosby Opera House,
drawn by him in the lottery, is the finest
and most costly establishment of that
kind in the United States, with the excep-
tion, probably, of the one in Philadelphia.
The ground alone upon which it stands
is valued at half a million dollars. Mr.
Henry Meyer, two daysago, sold whiskey
for a living, at ten cents greenbacks, a
drink ; to-day he is one of the princes of
the land, Mrs. Henry Meyer two days
ago, no doubt Washed dirty linen, to help
her lord eke out a wretched existence ;
to-night Mrs. Henry Meyer, no doubt,
will flash in some splendid ball-room, the
bright cynosure of all eyes. So much
for the wheel of fortune.—Houston Tele-
graph.
Hot Weather.—This is from a Slaters-
ville (R. I.) correspondent: The recent
warm weather brought to my mind an
anecdote of an old man who lived in this
vicinity some fifty years ago, by the
name of Joe Aldrich. Some considered
him half witted ; but I think the follow-
ing will give him credit for a little sharp-
ness : One exceedingly warm day in Ju-
ly, a neighbor met the old man, and re-
marked that it was very hot.
“ Yes," says Joe, “ if it wasn’t for one
thing, I should say we were going to
have a thaw.”
“What is that?” inquired his friend.
" There’s nothing froze,” says Joe.
The man went his way much enligh-
tened.
Natural Curiosity.—Capt. Vining has
deposited in our office a deer skin, the
hair of which is perfectly white. The
annimal has frequently been seen by
hunters in this vicinity, during the fall
and winter, and was killed by Mr.
Stafford, one day last week, about five
miles from town. It is his opinion that
the unusual color of the hair, was caused
by extreme old age, and that it was
nearly blind from the same cause, its
eyes presenting a very glassy and unu-
sual appearance.—Rusk Observer.
Curious Experiment.—Take a wine-
glass, fill it with wine—see that you fill
it drop by drop, with as much wine as it
will hold, without running over. Then
drop into the wine as many pins as the
glass can contain, and the wine will not
run over. Take a fresh wine glass of
similar size, pour the wine from the first
glass into it, and you will have a glass
full of wine and a glass full of pins.
A statistical genius calculates that the
cost of washing linen that might as well
be worn two days longer, amounts to
enough in this country, to more than de-
fray the expenses of the American Board
of Foreign Missions.
The relative proportion of the several
the course of true love never did run
smooth. The hateful “Papa” has other
plans for his daughter’s future, looking to
a union with some one of those whose
bank account comes up to or beyond his
own, and actually gets into a terrible
passion, locks his daughter up in a close
room, and feeds her sparingly for a few
days. For instance she is only allowed
about three plates of buck-wheat cakes,
the half of a well grown chicken, a dozen
fried oysters, and other et ceteras for
breakfast, which owing to the dilapidat-
ed state of her mind does not half satiate
her appetite. The young man, his hopes
crushed, his future without a ray of hope
to cheer him, is discharged, and the un-
palatable fact that it is desired that his
shadow shall never again darken the
door of the establishment where late he
held the “posish'1 of confidential clerk.—
Sorrowing and heartbroken, he turns his
face towards the home of his childhood,
away off in the interior. We will not at-
tempt to portray his thoughts or feelings
on that journey, certainly the most miser,
able of his life. Suffice it, that by fre-
quent reference to a certain black bot-
tled comforter which he had provided
himself with, he is enabled at length to
reach the paternal residence, where the
light of day had first dawned upon his
infantile vision, and the days of his boy-
hood passed in innocence and glee.
Having thus got the couple into a ter-
rible pickle, the old romance writers
would by some process or other, manage
to kill off some rich old miserly relative
of their unfortunate hero, and have the
major part of the property come into his
possession, and bring about a reunion.—
But now they fix it up more satisfactori-
ly and decidedly in a more modern style.
The youth going sensibly into a decline,
and distressing the old folks dreadfully
by his mopings, is passing his life miser-
ably on the old homestead, and his fair in-
amorita is being dragged into society by
the “ old man.” Now presto, change.—
The obscure homesteal is visited by
some energetic looking men from the city
who spend several days in rambling over
the broad acres, and wind up by shelling
out immense heaps of spondulix for a ti
tie to the same, having discovered plenty
of oil sign. The youth with plenty of
rocks in his pocket, and more to fall back
on, again appears upon the boards in the
circle where his “ darling pride” is mov-
ing, a pale unhappy but still lovely belle,
and the old man being posted as to the
improved state of his finances, make8
overtures, and our hero is again a wel-
come visitor, and the nuptial night is
hastened. The splendor of the occasion
is duly chronicled by the daily press, and
the happiness of the couple is fixed for
life in the world of shoddy. The after
fate it is unnecessary to say anything
about, as we presume is was something
similar to that of all who marry and
do well.
The Rebuilding of Columbia —We are
pleased to learn from the Charleston
News, whose editor has recently visited
Columbia, that this once beautiful city,
the pride of the State, which was destroy
ed by fire by Sherman’s Vandals, is fast
raising from the ashes. The writer says
“ Main street is being rapidly rebuilt,
and for the most part in a substantial
and ornamental manner. Several ranges
of three story buildings have been erec-
ted, principally with fine iron fronts,
the latter being of Columbia manufac-
ture, and from the foundry of Messrs’
Goldsmith & Co. Bedell’s fine building
looms up at the corner of Plain and Main
streets ; and its glistening appearance
renders it an admirable landmark for
travellers and strangers.
Electricity.—Bayard Taylor, while re-
cently camping out in the Rocky Moun-
tains, Colorado, experienced three dis-
tinct electric shocks ; probably, he says,
from the fact that lie was insulated by
the India-rubber cloth upon which he
was lying, and then touched the earth
with his hand. On the snowy ranges
persons are sometimes so charged that
there are sparks and crackling sounds at
every movement of their bodies. Men
unacquainted with the phenomena im-
magine that bees have gotten into their
hair, and that rattle-snakes are at their
heels. Many strange stories are told of
the effect of the fluid, which seems to
manifest itself in an eccentric but not a
dangerous form.
A letter from Alabama speaks of the
great unanimimity there prevailing in fa-
vor of a relief for debtors, which shall
wipe out the past completely, and enable
them unfettered to start anew.
some interest around his existence and
ward off the ennui which was killing
him by inches.
But the conviction that the opportuni-
ties thus afforded him were but snares
of the enemy to set a spy over him in
his most unguarded moments, kept him
on the watch, and he never once yielded
to the temptation. But the moment came
for him, as it comes for all men. He be-
came struck with the grace and beauty
of his landlady’s niece—a girl fresh
from the woods, whose picturesque cos-
tume and simple manners flattered both
his artistic and moral taste, and he soon
became deeply enamored. To this girl
he told the whole story of his life—the
temptations which had been offered him,
the aspirations in which he indulged, the
hopes he entertained. His entire exist-
ence underwent a change. To one being
could he unfold the secrets of his heart,
and the restraint which had been killing
him was overcome at last.
But as there must always be a demon
at work upon the happiness of every
mortal here below, so did the happiness
experienced by the young Duc de Reich-
stadt soon come to an end. lie who had
ever shunned all gayety, who had obsti-
nately refused to attend all courtly fetes,
operas, balls and plays—finding his
health and spirits much improved must
needs one night be seized with an irre-
sistable desire to see the ballot of “ The
Diable Boiteux," in which the cachuca
danced by Fanny Ellsler had become the
aim and object of every conversation
and of all the enthusiasm of the city.
He went alone to the footlights with that
swimming step which had won the hearts
of all maukind—le gazed first in terror,
then in doubt, then in horror and amaze-
ment, aud sank slowly down senseless on
the floor of the box where he was placed!
It was the dancer berselt on whom his
whole heart and soul had been bestowed.
It was to her he had confided his most se-
cret thoughts. The whole intrigue of
the court became revealed at once to his
mind. He went back no more to the vil-
lage, but retired again to the little stu-
dent’s room in the palace, still shown as
the place where he died, and could never
be persuaded to behold even once again
the traitress who had so imposed upon
his trusting heart. No one but himself
ever suspected Fanny Ellsler of any base
intrigue—the pastoral comedy had been
played out in good part, and with the en-
tire concurrence of imperial relatives.
The end of the drama was a bright and
glorious existence for the dancer ; for the
duke, misery, despair and death.
On Skating and Winter.—“ Gris ” who
is evidently a brick, writes as follows to
to the Cincinnatti Times. We commend
the item to all skaters, and every body
else who can enjoy a laugh :
Winter is the coldest season of the
year, because it comes in the winter,
mostly. In some countries winter comes
in the summer, and then tis very pleas-
ant. I wish winter came in the summer
in this country, which is the best Gov-
ernment the sun ever shone upon. Then
we could go skating barefoot, and slide
down hill in linen trowsers. We could
snow-ball without our fingers getting
cold—and men who go out sleigh riding
would not have to stop at every tavern to
warm, as they do now. It snows more
in the winter than it does at any other
season of the year. This is because
sleighs are made then.
Ice grows much better in winter than
in summer, which was an inconvenience
before the discovery of ice houses. Water
when left out of doors is apt to freeze
at this season.
Skating is great fun in the winter.
The boys get their skates on when the
river is froze over and race play tag,
break through the ice and get wet all
over, (they are drowned some times) and
are brought home all dripping, which
makes their mothers scold getting water
all over the front- room ; fall and break
their heads, and enjoy themselves in
many other ways. A wicked boy once
stole my skates nd run off wih them,
and I couldn’t catch him, Mother said,
“never mind judgment will overtake
him.” Well, if judgement does, judg-
ment will have to be pretty lively on his
legs, for that boy runs bully.
There ain’t much sleigh riding except
in the winter. Folks don’t seem to care
about it in warm weather. Grown up
boys and girls like to go sleigh riding.
The boys generally drive with one hand
and help the girls hold their muffs with
the other. Brother Bob let me go along
a little way once when he took Cecelia
Ann Crane out sleigh riding, and I
thought he paid more attention to hold-
ing the muff than he did to holding the
horses.
Snow balling is another winter sport.
I have snow balled in the summer, but
we used stones and hard apples. It isn’t
so amusing as it is in winter, somehow.
What is happiness ? An inexpressible
thing ; a golden dream of pleasure : the
, great desideratum.
Certainly an interest, but no further action.
What are we to accomplish by an expression of
our opinion ? Can we hope to influence the pres-
ent Congress by anything which we may say ?
The attempt has been made often enough, to
have our grievances redressed, and has resulted
in confirming the hatred borne us by the radical
Congress.
We had as well look the question squarely in
the face. We can do nothing ; and may make
our case worse, by intermedling in a game in
which the power is all against us.
Political matters are dead to us, and must re-
main so. until more fitting opportunities than
now present themselves, are thrown to the sur-
face by the surging waves of national ruin at
present spending the power of their might upon
us. Let us not arouse a deeper vengeance than
now threatens us, by bickerings, which must, in
effect, prove suicidal, but proudly and gracefully
yield to a fate, against which we battled bravely,
but which’no human power could resist! remember-
ing the while that there is a just God, who pre-
sides over national as well as individual interests;
and that He meets out justice or condemnation to
whom it is due. And so sure as that God exists,
the death knell of such hellish barbarism as is
now being enacted will soon ring out in thun-
der tones against those who are now perpetrating
it. And O ! what a condemnation awaits such
miscreants as Stevens, Sumner, and Butler. In
vain may they crouch, Cerberus like, beneath the
very throne of the old arch fiend himself for pro-
tection, for the more respectable spirits of Orcus
will drag them forth, and pelt them with the
paving stones of hell into regions of deeper dam-
nation.
If the question be asked, how are we to pro-
tectourselves from the mechanisms of these foul
mouthed Harpies who are now defiling the re-
mains of a desolated nation, and griping with
their filthy claws the repentant necks of a war
worn brotherhood, we would say, let those answer
who can conceive a remedy. We say it cannot be
done. Do you expect a vessel with rudder gone
and masts overboard to breast the angry billows
of a storm lashed sea ? No! let us weather the
gale as best we may, trusting to the coming calm
for an opportunity to re fit the dismantled ship of
State.
The million and a half of northern conserva-
tives know oUr sentiments, and no reiteration of
them would avail so much to convince them that
we are with them heart and soul, as a manly and
determined silence upon all political questions.
A development of our inexhaustable resources
will avail more than any political chicanery could
hope to do: and manufactories throughout the
south for the consumption of our own productions,
would be a more potent argument politically as
well as financially than all the wise heads in the
land could suggest.
Every Southern State can raise all the necessa-
ries, and most of the luxuries of life. They can
and must live within themselves, and for them-
selves ; and untli they see the necessity of this and
act upon it, their case is a desperate one.
Yet us go to work then, and trust in time and
the God of justice to bring about the resurrection
of our dead liberties, which we are powerless to
do. The future is before us, and though the last
ray which hope had kindly lent to cheer the ag-
onies of a dying nation is shut out by the threat-
ening clouds of desolation, yet let us still look to
Johnson, the Palinurus of our destinies, and
like men proclaim the watchword “Nil des-
perandum.’’
Governor Allen’s Final Resting-place
—The Baton Rouge Gazette of the 15th
says :
Ground has been broken in the State
House grounds for the tomb intended as
the receptacle of the remains of Governor
Allen. Alessis. G. M. Loockwood and
P. A. Walsh have kindly volunteered
their services to build the vault, and Mr.
Rabenhorst, in like commendable svirit,
has proffered the use of a magnificent
hearse for conveying the remains from
the landing to the place of interment as
soon as they shall have reached here.
The spot selected for the monument is
one admirably suited to the purpose,
being upon the immediate brow of the
hill, near the principal entrance to the
grounds, surrounded by handsome ever-
greens*and.commanding a fine view of the
ri ve r.
The net proceeds of the Catholic fair
recently held in Baton Kouge amount to
between fourteen and fifteen hundred
dollars.
A Nation’s Death.—It is a fearful tiling
to behold any being, endowed with in-
tellect however weak, fall a victim to the
hand of him, who spares not—relents not,
at the cry of high or low. It is incon-
ceivably more awful to behold a nation
in its decline and fall, which has arisen
from a handfull of needy colonists ; grad-
ually increasing in territory and popula-
tion, adding strength to strength—power
to power, going forth conquering and to
conquer. But when that people is the
chosen of the Lord ; when that land is
the fairest that is lit up by the sun of
Heaven ; when her commerce whitens
every sea, and her flag is known and
respected among those that go down to
the sea in ships ;—when it is a land
where enlightenment has attained its
golden prime, and where all religicus
creeds are recognised and protected, the
sight may well cause angels to weep,
and men to bow in humility and acknowl-
edge the vanity of earthly grandeur and
glory.—D. W Voorhees
ge The Houston Journal of the 23d, has the
following item among the locals :
The water cart man is again at work sprink-
ling the streets. Give us a land of sunshine.
Let the cold Yankee trudge through his snows,
but as for us, we delight in our own sunny South,
where the grass grows and the flowers bloom in
January.
A person asked Mr. Patrick Maguire if
he knew Air. Tim Duffy. “ Know him !"
said Pat ; " why, he’s a very near rela-
tion of mine. He once proposed to mar-
ry my sister !”
Four tons of Idaho silver orc are on
exhibition in one room in New York.—
One of the nuggets weighs three hundred
pounds, and is worth $3,000.
Ristori has thus far pocketed a round
$100,000 in America.
Major that he had money with him, stated
that he had seen him collect $1,000 that
day from a steamboat. This was proba-
bly true, but Maj. Elstner, like most of
our business men, deposited his money
in the bank, which fact probabiy never
occurred to the ignorant negro scoun-
drels who waylaid him. Finding they
could get nothing from him they left him
for dead. How he managed to reach the
nearest house, wounded as he was and in
a deranged mind, is more than we can
conjecture. But yet he did, and was
kindly cared for. Up to the present
writing, though not out of danger, he is
doing well.
As soon as the above was generally
known in the city, no little excitement
was exhibited, and a meeting of the citi-
zens was called for the purpose inquiring
into the matter. We were not present at
the meeting but learned that a committee
was appointed to wait upon the General
commanding, explain matters,’and ask for
redress. Said committee waited upon
the General and the said General, as a
matter of courtesy, turned out his full
force to receive the committee, and the
witness (Air. Ivy) who supposed he could
identify the robbers turned out to be mis-
taken. We understand that the General
commanding expressed himself willing to
afford the civil authorities everything in
his power to assist them in this or any
other like manner. This ends the farce.
Now the curtain arises upon another
scene. The citizens generally believe,
from the lights before them, that this out-
rage was perpetrated by the negroes be-
long to the 80th United States Colored In-
fantry, and that the officers should be
held responsible for their acts, by the
proper authorities.—South- Wesfecn.
Cotton.—With the staple we have had
another lively week, nearly as much bav*
ing changed bands as did the week prev-
ious, though at prices not quite so steady.
We refer to the following memoranda of
the commission house of Col. I). B. Martin
for full particulars of the slate of the
market from day to day:
(MEMORAMDA of D. B. MARTIN )—Wed-
nesday, January 23.— Market this morn-
ing drooping, with a decided tendency to
lower figures, closing at a decline of 1c.
Ordinary 25c., good ordinary 26, low
middling 27028c Gold ruling 1360138
Thursday—.Owing to unfavorable news
over the wires from other ports, the
market opened dull, with no disposition
on the part of buyers to give yesterday’H
quotations. The eagerness on the part
of wagoners to sell enabled buyers to pur-
chase at a decline of alc. Gold easy
at 136a138. Friday.—The market open-
ed this morning with good demand, and
the decline of yesterday has been recov-
ered. Sales were made, for ordinary 26c.,
good ordinary 26a2Tc., low middling 2Te
28c. Gold 135a136. Saturday.—The
market this morning opened steady, for
ordinary 25c., good ordinary 26a2Tc,
low middling 27a281c, showing an ad-
vance in the better grade of |c. Alon-*
day—The market opened quite active?
this morning, but the offerings light.—-
Sales were effected readily at yesterday’s
quotations. Gold 135a137. Tuesday.-—
The news being favorable by telegran
received from Liverpool last night of yes-
terday’s sales, showing a slight advance
and market firm and active, has given
firmness to our market, without any quos
table change up to 10 A. M Gold easy
at 135al 37.— South-Wesl&rn. in -t.
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