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From the Houston Telegraph.
Texas Journalism.
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C. A. FRAZER,
Attorney at Law,
MARSHALL, "LEXAS
ters the action taken by him to-
gether with all other information
Sally Perkins, and it was known in
fact that they were engaged, but
the day when the knot was to be
tied had not been divulged.
In the month of August, 1848,
June’s Circus came through their
town for the first time, and in fact
it was the first circus that had ever
race and color, the right to make
and enforce contracts, to sue, be
it is their duty
to advise fteedmen, when necessa-
§ 8 00 $ 14 00 $ 20 00
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MONCURE % FLANAGAN,
A TTO RNE YS AT LA w,
REAL ESTATE AND CLAIM AGENT.
Office—No. 1, Tally’s New Building,
SHREVEPORT, LA.
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Freedmen and abandoned Lands,
District of Louisiana. )
No. 181 Julian St., N. 0. Dec. ‘67
Circular No. 18.
The following instructions, rela-
tive to the duties and powers of
agents of the bureau in this State,
are promulgated for the informa-
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art was in the act of putting up the
gun in a rack, he was shot by both
Culver and the soldier. Mrs. Stew-
art was in the rear of the louse, and
hearing the shots uttered a cry
which attracted the attention of Cul-
ver, who started towards her and
shot her in the forehead; the ball
striking a whalebonein her bonnet
glanced and passed under the skin
from the front to the back of the
head, leaving her apparently dead
for some time.
A little son of Mr. Sfewa.it, who
had been out with his father hunt-
ing beef, carrying a gun borrowed
of a neighbor, lingered behind when
the party went to the house. Hear.
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MA M MOTH
LIVERY STABLE.
The officers and agents of the
freedmen’s bureau will, in all re-
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ther the wealthy capitalists at
home nor the rich foreigner, holder
of our securities, can escape pay-
ing equally with the poorest citizen
their just share of the interest on
the bonds which they are so fortu-
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E. P. GREGG,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Marshall, Texas,
VNTILL practice in the Conrts of the
Sixth Judicial District. All busi-
ness entrusted to him will receive prompt
and careful attention.
first in the hearts of his country.
Also the following which cuts the
South from any benefit in taxation
of public debt;
kesolved. That all taxation of
"Another naturalist calculated
that' "wo moles 'destroy twenty
thousand white worths a year. Ev
idedtly farmers ought to endeavor
to multiply these moles rather than
IriH 4 IP rnsfirfil ppulii;,
Culver sail there was no appeal
from his decisions, and ordered Mr.
Stewart to give up the gun which
he had out for the purpose of ki!U
ing a beef. Stewart replied that he
did not like to give up his gun, but
would go to the house, and put it up
in its place, whence Culver might
take it if he chose. They all start-
ed to the house, and when Mr. Stew.
The Corsicana Observer says Mr.
Stewart, of Limestone, did not kill
Capt. Culver, of the' Bureau, and
the U. S. soldier, some’account of
which has herelo’ore been given.
It was done by Steward’s son, after
his father and mother had both been
dangerously wounded by Capt Cul-
ver and His Orderly. A stranger in
the country saw the whole affair.
When Culver and the soldier came
upon Mr. Stewart, .he asked why
the latter had hot paid' a certain
fine. The reply was that one fine
had already been paid, and that he
appealed to a higher authority to
have the fine referred to remitted.
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DR. H. LEWIS,
AFFICE at Dr. J. B. Lancaster’s Drug
UU Store.
Professional and Business Cards.
GEORGE LANE
Attorney & Counsellor
AT LAW.
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
VNTILL give prompt attention to all
VV professional business entrusted to
him. To merchants of the cities of New
Orleans, New York, and other cities of
the Union, who have busines-matters in
Eastern Texas, he refers to over twenty
years residence, to entitle him to tneir
confi lence.
interfere in
MASON & CAMPBELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
JEFFERSON, TEXAS.
VNTILL practice in the counties of
VV Marion, Davis, Bowie, Red River,
Hopkins. Titus Upshur, and Harrison, and
in the Federal and Supreme Courts at
Tyler. Dilligent attention paid to the
collection of claims in any part of Eastern
Texas.
DAVID McPHAIL,
WATCH-MAKER & JEWELER
MARSHALL. TEXAS.
TXTOULD RESPECTFULLY announce
VV to his old friends and patrons. that
he is again at work at his old stand.
North side of the public square, where
he is desirous of again receiving a liberal
share of public patronage.
POPE, STEDMAN, & POPE.
A TTORNEYS at Law, Marshall, Texas.
M Having formed a copartnership in
their profession, will attend the Courts in
the counties of Harrison, Panola, Rusk,
and Upshur in the 6th, and Marion in the
8th Judicial District.
lion and guidance of all concerned
1. All cases of difficulty or Ris
Drs. Johnson & Crain,
/“NOMINEE in the practice of Medicine,
U Surgery, Obstetrics.
Terms, Cash
when the case is discharged, or satis-
factory arrangements.
Office—Over the drug store of G. G.
Gregg. & Co., West side of the public
square.
public debt, imposed by Congress
upon the Government securities,
' should be in such a form that nei-
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ry in bringing siuts before the civil
courts ; and should the exegencies
of the case demand it they will ap
pear as the freedmen's friend, or
attorney.
in all cases where planters or
other employers refuse or neglect to
pay wages to freedmen, the bureau
agent will, if necessary, make ap
plication to the civil authorities for
the protection of the laborers in
their just rights as provided by law.
If necessary to insure payment
to the laborers, according to the
terms of contract with employers,
the .agent will call upon the civil
authorities to make such seizures
of crops and property as may be
requisite to secure the freedmen
their just dues.
In no case will the bureau agent
proceed to make such seizures, un-
less the civil authorities fail or re-
fuse to give that protection to la-
borers which is authorized by ex
isting laws entitling them to a lien
on the crops and movable property
for labor performed.
The evidence that the civil courts
have failed or refused to take action
must be clear and positive. The
bureau agent will then seize and
same, nor
MARSHALL, TEXAS, SATURDAY, Ja WHY 11, 1868.
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whole, although there are many
good ones, is a disgrace to any
civilized country, and uttely ruin-
ous to our journalism. A large'
number of our postmasters are irre-
sponsible men; they receive scarc-
ly any pay; and they attend to
their duties or not, just as it suits
their convenience, and in some in-
stances they close the post offices
and leave the mail services to get
along the best they can.
Agents of the post office Depart-
ment have again pretended to reg-
ulate our mails, but we have as yet
seen no practicable results worth
mentioning. The irregularity and
unreliableness of the mails have
discouraged the people, and they are (
tempted in many parts of the coun- ,
try to give up their newspapers al-
together. It is not hard to come
to this conclusion when the coun-
parties, and give evidence, to in-
herit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and
convey real and personal property,
and the full and equal benefit of all
laws and proceedings for the se-
curity of person and property ; and
which subjects colored citizens to
like punshiment, pains and penal-
ties as white citizens and to none
other, any law statute ordinance,
regulation or custom to the contra-
ry notwithstanding ; and which
further m ikes it their special duty
at the expense of the United States,
to institute proceedings against all
and every person who shall violate
the provisions of the act, and to
cause him or them to be arrested,
imprisoned or bailed as the case
may Be, for trial before such court
of the United States, as by the act’
has cognizance of the same.
II Where outrages are perpe-
trated on freedmen, and the civil
authorities fail, or refuse, on prop-
er application by the bureau agent,
to take action to secure the arrest
and trial of the party or parties so
offending, it will then be the duty
of the afient to call upon the nearest
military commander for a sufficient
force to arrest the party or parties
committing the outrage, but this
course will ntt be taken unless the
civil authorities have failed, or
have refused to perform their duty
as the low directs.
Evidence of such failure or refu-
sal will be forwarded to these head
quarters, together with a full and
comprehensive report of all the cir-
cumstances attending the case.
By order of Lieutenant Colonel
W. H. Wood, 1st United States in-
faatry. Assistant Commissioner.
J. M. Lee,
1st Lt. 39th U. S Infty,, A. A. A. G.
ians. The clergy of the city of
Limerick, have affixed their signa-
tures to a document, declaring that
there can be no permanent peace in
Ireland, unless it is treated like
passed that way, and there' were a
great many people that had never
seen one. When'the important day
arrived, the town was filhed to over-
flowing with a motley crowd, of
course, and every young fellow had
his Sal. Now Pete wanted to get
married on the coming Christmas,
but Sally wished to have it put off
till the next spring. When the ticket
wagon was opened, the tent was
’ that power which has al
g claimed her, she educated
and trained in such a manner as to
make them models of all that is
gsod and beantiful and of all that .g . .
is knightly noble and heroioin man. kill them."—Practical Entomologist.
solemn toll of the church bells fell
heavily on the ear as the guard,
with the prisoner in their midst,
neared the scaffold.
Greedily the empress watched
him as he- mounted the stair. His
haughty face was rigid with re-
pose, and his blue eyes were glit-
tering as steel. His brow flushed
angrily as the headsman roughly
tied,his hands ; but a sneering
laugh from the empress seemed to
restore his calm. Agnes looked on
triumphantly as he was bound to
SCBSCRIPTION— (In Specie)— For One
Year, invariably in advance, $3 00; Six
Months. $1 75. To Clubs of Ten or more,
per annum, $2 50. each.
Auvebtisinq—(Cnrrenry.) For one
square, of eight lines, $1 00. Any num-
ber of lines less than eight, charged as a
-square.
Marriage and Obituary Notices, calls on
candidates, their replies, and their circu-
lars. and all notices of a personal charac-
ter, (if admissible,) will be charged as ad-
vertisements.
Editorial notices, of a purely business
character, such as calling attention to
.cards published in the paper, remarks
upon business houses, and the reception
of goods, will be charged at fifty cents a
line. No such editorial notice inserted
for less thantwo dollars.
Standing ADVERTISEMETTS — Currency: :
3 months. 6 months. 1 year.
Mrs. Mariam Luxton, the mother
of Lieut. Gen. Forrest, died on the
12th inst , at Navasota, Texas,
aged sixty four years. The Mem-
phis Avalanch says Mrs. Luxton
was a woman of strong and vigor-
ous mind, and a good Christian.
She was the mother of fifteen chil-
dren, and those not snatched from
freedmen, or between the freed-
men themselves, will be referred,
in the first instance, to the civil
courts for adjudication.
It is the duty of the bureau
agents, in all minor cases of com
plaint where freedmen are con-
cerned, to effect, if possible, an am
icable and satisfactory settlement
between the parties, without refer-
ring the same to the civil author
ities ; but in those cases involving
legal questions, and which from
their nature aro properly cognizas
ble before civil tribunals, bureau
filled in a hurry. Pete and Sally
had been looking through the side
shows, and they were late getting
in, and the performance had already
commenced. They walked around
the entire ring, trying to find a seat
and although it could seat two
thousand people, every seat was
full
"Never mind,” said Sal, “I’d just
as lief stand up.”
But the gallant Peto could’ut
think of it, and said ;
“Wait a minit. I’ll get you a
chair” and off he started, leaving
Sal alone.
Just at that moment the clown
camoin dressed in his usual costume,
and dancing round the ring in front
of Sal and began to sing ;
“Oh Sally is the gal for me.”
This caused Sal to blush, for she
thought the clown was looking at
her. As she stood near the ring,
of course she hid the view of those
lower seats behind her, and as usu-
al on such occasions the clowns
cracks his jokes at the offenders
until they take the hint and find a
seat, but she said she had rather
stand up. At this the clown com-
menced his jokes, remarking to the
ringmaster ;
“There's a chance for me now.”
"A chance for you?’!
“Yes, don’t you see that gal has
lost her beau, and she is looking at
me, I know,” and turning three or
A blood-red dove is one of the cu-
riosities of Belfast, Me
four summersaults, he stopped di-
rectly in front of Sal and began to
sing—
Oh, Sally is’ the gal forme,
I would not have no other ;
And if Sal died, to-morrow night
I’d marry Sally’s mother*
This, evidently meant for her,
raised Sal’s dander, and she burst
out with. "I’m the gal for you am
I ? Marry my mother, would yer ?
You low lived, spotted scum of the
earth ! If my fe low was here he’d
wallp you for that I I wouldn’t stay
here another minit—nor neither
would any decent people either !
saying which she rushed out of the
lent amid roars of laughter.
The lown, assuming a comical
attitude, remarked that his grand-
father was a wonderful man. so was
his grand mother ; but that gal beat
all his forefathers.
At this juncture Pete rushed in,
closely followed by Sal, and jump-
ing into the ring, he squared off at
the clown and said:
"I’ll teach you to insult a female
under my charge!’ and let fly at his
opponent, and taking him plump in
the face, sent him to mother earth ;
he then jumped on him and com-
menced 'kicking him unmercifully.
Sally standing on the outside of the
ring, flapped her hands aud sung
out 5
'“That’s it Pete, give him Jesrie,
and we’ll get married Christmas,
sure !’
At this the ring-master and three
or fourothe.s caught Pete and com
menced to thrash him, and Pete’s
friends interfered and a general
free fight ensued, which broke up
the circus.
of all, Rudolph was doomed ; and
on the fair qorniug on which our
brief story commences, he came
forth to die.
night and noble were ranged in
a glittering circle around the im
perial throne raised on the execu-
tion ground, and on which was
seated the empress, Her haughty
face was set in pitiless hate and
triumph, as she marked the sombre
scaffold opposite, topped by the
dreadful wheel on which the crim-
inal was to be bound, and guarded
by the red-robed headsman. The
Four years of the fourteenth Cen-
tury had passed away. All Aus-
tria was plunged into dismay and
confusion. Albrecht, emperor and
king, and equally tyrant and des-
pot, had been slain by a band of
desperate nobles, of whom Rudolph
von der Wart was the chief.
Agnes, the widow of the murder
ed Kaiser, vowed vengence, and
kept her vow. One by one the con-
spirators were hunted down. Last
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POAG & McKAY,
A ttorneys and Counsellors at Law,
• Marshall. Texas. Will practice in
the courts of Eastern Texas, and in
Supreme and Federal courts, at Tyler.
January 3, 1867. n7-tf.
8 Roman conference has aban. spects, confirm theiractions to the
daned the Sulian protests to Na. provisions ofthe "civilrights bill,"
poleon agents. which secures to citizens of every
1 _ _ raoA Aane AnlAvT Aha firrhf Iza moVA
Wilson & GGraham,
MANUFACTURERS
OF
FURNITURE
OF ALL KINDS,
At Rain's Shop,North of Court-House.
NTrsnaIL, Fexas.
KKTILL fill all orders with which we
VV may be favored Any article of
Furniture made to order and with dis-
patch .
Send in your orders. We sell cheap, and
our work is warranted.
Marshall, November 2, 1857. n50—if
The Whiskey Tax —A Washing-
ton] dispatch of the 15th ult, says
the action ofthe convention of dis-
tillers and rectifiers, in demanding
a reduction of the whiskey tax to
twenty five cents per gallon, is
having considerable influence in
the conference of the Ways and
Means Committee, who have always
approved a reduction of the tax.
They are satisfied that the present
tax cannot be collected What the
committee will ultimately decide
cannot be determined; but it is
clear that the present system will
be abolished. It stands our mer-
chants in hand not to be caught
with much of the article on baud
when the tax is removed.
GEORGE SATTER,
B go t and Shoemaker,
it Chas. Deckert's old stand, South-West
Corner of the public square,
MARSHALL, TEXAS
TS prepared to execute all work in his
L’lihetbat thae citizens of Marshall and
vicinity nay favor him with.
November 22. 1865. n-ly.
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Dr. E. F. Eads,
4FFERS his professional services to
L the citizens of Marshall and vicinity
Office—At Dr. Sears’ Drug store. West
side of the Public square. All orders left
there will be promptly attended to.
From the Jefferson Times.
Washington Jan. 3.—The New
Hamshire Radical Convention, pas-
sed the following:
Resolved, That, in behalf of loy-
al people of New Hamshire, we do
hereby proclaim as our and their
first choice for next President of
he United States, General U. S.
Grant, who led our armies to vic-
Excitement ina Circus.
A number of years ago, Michigan
was a new country. In Livingston,
county of-------.there lived a fami-
ly by the name of Clayton, and one
called Perkins also—-as well as a
great many others.
Pete Clayton was a tall, fine look-
ing fellow—noble ' specimen of a
backwoodsman—standing six feet
two, in his stockings.
Pete had taken a shine to Mis
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yet appeased, and seeing some
signs of life in Culver, the boy
caught up an axe and sent its blade
into the skull.
The Observer also says :
Culver was packed for leaving
the country. He had with him sev-
eral changes of clothing, and a large
sum of money ; and had summoned
all the negroes of the surrouiding
country to meet him in Springfield.
What the Rack clans were sume
moned for we do notpretendtosay;
but we do say there was ho neces-
sity for it. We further say that of
all the petty tyrant's ever sent South
or anywhere else, to disturb and
annoy the people, both black and
white, this same man Culver is ens
titled to the bannea.
He is the chap who rode a negro
on a rail for refusing to pay a vol-
untary subscription—shot a woman
old enough'for his grandmother, at
the wash tub, and her unoffending
husband near 60 years old.
Had he lived a few hours longer
most likely the town of Sringfield
would be reduced to ashes, and
many other outrages committed.
How our quiet and law abiding
people bore his outrages, so long is
only accounted for by the fact that
we wish to assure all law abiding
people that we are determined to
do nothing that can be construed,
upon fair intepretation, as resist-
ance to the powers that be.
miserable as can well be imagined.
We have no doubt that the postal
facilities of British India, or China
anomalous state of things. The
NEW BARBER SHOP.
THE subscriber begs leave to announce
JL to the public that he has opened a
Barber Shop, on the
North Side of the Public Square,
Marshall, Texas, and respectfully solicits
a share of public patronage. Being well
skilled in all the various branches of the
tonsorial art. bo feels assured that he can
give entire satisfactio to all who may fa-
vor him with s=l
’' ' VILLIS McNAIR.
Tune 1808. ‘ n81-*.
A cynical old bachelor who firm-'
ly beleives that all women "have
something to say on all' subjects
recently asked a female friend:
"Well, madam, what dolyou hold
on this question of female suflerage?
To him the lady responded calmly:
“Sir, I hold my tougno."
purpose, by the National Govern-
ment, it will be the duty of the
Legislature of New Hameshire in
some prudent and equitable mode,
to provide for applying the sums
received by the State to relieve its
various laws from the burdens as-
sumed by them in order, in the
late war, for the maintenance ofthe
Union.
By cable—The Fenian head-
quarter at Paris has discovered an
important documeut which was
captured, sent to explain the re-
cent diplomatic meeting at St
Petersburg, regarding the Eastern
question.
London, Jan. 4.—evening—The
ing the shooting, he went up, saw
his father writhing and bleeding,
his mother apparently dead, and
two armed assailants brandishing
their six-shooters,' whereupon he
sent the contents'of one barrel of
his gun through the body of Culver.
The soldier tllen turned on the boy
and fired two shots,which failed of
effect, because the little fellow was
protected partially by a fence. The
boy then shot and wounded the sol-
dier, who badly crippled, beat a re-
treat. The enraged boy seized the
pistol of Capt. Culver, followed the
soldier, and shot him dead. Not
“ Long before the real situation
is understood, the country, by the
ruin and desolation occasiened by
an attempt to make black white
and wrong right, will deplore,
amid destitution and suffering, the
misrule and misery occasioned by
demoralized Southern suffrage.—
N. Y. Commercial.
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Say what we will about Thur-
low Weed, the writer of he above,
he can see further through th Re-
publican party than any other man
in the party. He is always the
first to see the shadow of coming
events.—Flakes Bulletin.
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tory and our country to peace; ra- agreement between the'whites and
diant modest and magnanimous in
victory. He is first in confidence and
HALE & TURNER,
ATTORNEYS & COUNSELLORS
AT LAW,
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
KK , ILL practice in the Courts of the
it Sixth Jdicial District. All business
entrusted to them will receive prompt
attention.
-L friends and patrons in Har-
rison and adjoining jounties. From his
long experience and close application to
the profession, be feels warranted in say-
ing that his work will be infeiior to none.
Artificial teeth inserted on the vulcan-
ite base, from one to a full sett, and per-
fect satisfaction guarantied.
Office—West side of the public square.
Marshall. Sept. 20, ’66. n45-tf
DR. W. A. STARNES,
Narshall, Texas,
KNTILL practice Medicine, Surgery,
VV Obstetrics, &c. Terms cash.
Office—J. B. Lancaster’s drug store.
Residence at Judge Adkins.
Horses Bought and Sold.
gg2,r-- THIS splendid
98452685922593 Stable. located
KSMawas Cfads on Austin street.
North of the Court House, is now open,
and well stocked with saddle and harness
Eorses, Buggies, Hacks, &c.. all of which
will be hired on reasonable terms. Horses
‘hoarded’by themonth, week. day. or sin-
glefeek. ‘‘Itorses’and Mule's bought and
'sold on comsaiesien.
WM. BRADFIELD, Proprietor.
Marshall, March 1. 1866. nl6—tf.
Notice !
TF you want' your Buggies #88.
I and Carriages repaired in ■
good style, take them to
GOLDIN & MANN.
Beautifully Expressed.—T h e
Memphis Avalanche of late date,
thus classes an editorial upon the
character, intelligence, courage,
and patriotism of the soldiers that
composed the Southern Army :
Surely no army ever had in it
such soldiers as were those of our
Southern army : The pulpit sent
its ministers, great and good. The
bar sent its lawyers in troops.
The press sent out its editors, pub-
lishers and printers. The college
sent out its professors and students
by the hundreds. The morals, the
intelligence, the courage, the puri-
ty of the Southern soldier, has
hardly been equaled in the annals
of war. No power can ever com-
pel the Southern people to forget
their virtues or ignore their patri-
otism. The heel of the despot can
never crush but the feeling of devo
tion to the 'memory of our glorious
dead. The "military satrap may
prevent our following the exumed
dead to their last resting place,
but we cannot be prevented from
embalming them iii our memory,
and enshrmning them in our hearts.
As long'as'earth bears a flower, or
the searolls a wave,’ so long will
heart and memory cling to those
who fell in the lost ebuse ! The
name of the humblest private shall
live in amaranthine beauty, when
prouder Hames 1 shall have gone
down to infamy.
T , i • frase * ,
I hope this is not counterfeit,*
said a lover as he was toying with
his sweetheart’s fingers1. “The best
way to find out is to ring it,' was
the neat reply.
There was a yielding of the vast
crowd round the scaffold, and a
murmur of sympathy, unchecked,
even, by the awe of the empress.
A woman passed swiftly up the
scaffold, and paused for a moment
as she glanced at the criminal
stretched on the wheel above. She
was very beautiful. Her golden
hair fell in thick ringlets over her
rounded neck, and her dark blue
eyes and sculptured face were of
rare lovliuess. She was Gertrude
von der Wart, come to soothe her
husband’s agony to the last.
The empress laughed in bitter
derision, and the suple courtiers
around, taking their cue, launched
shaft and shaft of biting derision
and coarse double eneenire against
the woman who dared to cling still
to a traitor. Her fair face crimsoned
for a moment, but she crushed
down her woman’s torture at the
voices round her, and looked only
on her dying love.
"Water I” he muttered. " Water!
this thirst burns.”
Gertrude glanced around, and
saw near a tank which fed a foun-
tain. Swiftly she swept down the
steps, and taking off’one of her
shoes filled it with water. Then
reascending, she climbed slowly up
to the side of her husband, and
heedless, in her lofty love and sub-
lime calm, of the venomed tongues
around, pressed her lips passion-
ately to his face, whicli worked in
agony.
He scarcely seemed to feel her
lips on his brow at first, for be only
muttered, “ 0, death, death, end
hold a sufficient portion of the crop
or property to cover the amount
Nth^'
The Culver Case.
From the Galveston News.
nate as to possess; that taxes on im- final disposition of the
•ports should be paid over and ap- ‘
plied for the benefit of the respect- ......... ..
ive States according to their quota ities in such cases,
of troops furnished for the suppres-
sion of the rebelion, and that when-
ever action shall be taken for this
RESPECTFULLY tenders
his services to bis old
E. R. Havis.
Notary Public,
MARSHALL, "TEXAS.
{KTILL take aeknowledements or proof
VV of Deeds, Mortgages, and answers
to Interogakories.
Business in any part ofthe county at-
tended to promptly.
Ornes—West sideof the public square,
next door to Dr Sears’ Drug store.
February 14, ‘67 13—$
Russian agents are endeavor-
ing to excite a revolt among their
Christian subjects
Austrian dispatches from Alex-
andria state that the Abyssinian
expedition has suspended.
Washington, Jan J4.-Bullocks mes-
sage says let us then hear no more
of confiscation and attainder for
Southern masses; let us make an
end of illiberal and unfriendly leg-
islation, let us restore those lately
in rebelion to eqality of rights as-
speedly as is consistant with the
national safety. He concludes
with a long eulogy of Grant, with
strong expressions regarding his
fitness for presidency.
Dr. S. EAGAN.
Afice East of the Capitol Hotel and
% opposite the Telegraph office.
Office hours, from 10A.M., to 11 a. M.,
and from 5 P. m., to 6 r. m.
Terms.- Bills will be considered due
when the case is discharged.
The Model Boston Girl.
An acute correspondent of a Wes-
tern paper thus photographs the
Boston girl:
s"The Boston girl is of medium
height, somewhat cottony, pale, in-
tellectual face, light hair, blue eyes,
wears spectacles, squints a little,
rather deshabille in dress, slight tra-
ces of ink on her right second fin-
ger, blue as to her stockings and
large as to her feet. Of phsical
beauty she is no boaster, but of iu-
tellectual she is the ‘paragon of an-
imals.’ Gather a dandelion by the
roadside, she will only recognize it
as the L^ontodon taraxacum, and dis
course to you learnedly of its fructi-
fication by winged seeds.
The Boston girl is a shell She
never ripens into a malured flesh
and blood woman. She is cold, hard
dry and juiceless—an intellectual
mummy. Gail Hamilton is a type
of the Boston girl at maturity. Ab-
by Kelly Foster was a type of the
Boston girl gone to seed, if Gail
Hamilton lives as long as did Ab-
by Kelly, she will carry a blue cot-
ton umbrella, wear a Lowell calico,
and make speeches on the wrongs
of woman and abuses of the tyrant
man. If the Boston girl ever mar-,
ries, she gives birth eit l er to a die
tionary or to a melancho y looking
young intellect, which is fed exclu-
sively on vegetables, and at the
age of six has mastered logarithms
and zoology, is well up in the car-
boniferous and fossiliferous periods,
falls into the Frog Pond a few times,
dies when he is eight years of age,
and sleeps beneath a learned epi-
taph and the Leontodon taraxacum.'
The Southern girl is the very an-
titype of the Boston monstrosity
The Southern girl is fair, but rosy,
with black or golden hair, and eyes
that sparkle with the light of love
The proportions of Venus are hers,
and the chastity of Diana. No bl ue
stocking, she knows enough to en-
chant the wisest; and her dainty
feet"trip gaily before a host of lov-
ers. She is the model sweetheart,
wife and motherland, as good as
she is beautiful. Men live and die
for her, and chivalry surrounds her
in perpetual guard and homage!—
RtchmonA Southern Opinion'.
woman to the court with a basket-
ful! of wonderful toys. She had
shells in which you could hear
whether you should get your wish;
ivory horses which turned which-
ever way the wind would blow to-
morrow ; and boxes of golden
pins with diamond heads, which
excited the Princesses curiosity,
because the old woman said that
they were commonly used in the
kingdom of King Marie.
“ And who is King Marie ?”
asked the Princess.
“ He is a young King who is
richer and greater than any other
monarch/ answered the old woman;
* but he is unmarried, for he de-
sclarethat there is no Princess in the
word who can please him.
As soon as the Princess heard
this she was seized with a violent
desire to see if she could please
this slow agony I Come—come—
welcome death !”
"Rudolph my own! she whisper-
ed and placed her shoe to his
quivering mouth, which seemed to
cling to the welcome water.
He glanced at her with ineffable
fopdness, and strove to raise his
head But there was no need for
she pillowed it on her bosom. And
the empress laughed a harsh laugh.
But even in her sycophants' breast
was some touch of shame, and they
were silent in the presence of such
noble constancy aud truth.
The sun sloped to the west, and
its red rays fell on the damp brow
of the dying man. His wife kept
her marble calmness and with
ceaseless care her little band wip-
ed the drops from his forehead and
wet his blackening lips with water.
“I pray for the co]tp de grace-f he
whispered, “before thou earnest,
darling, but I am content to linger
now,"
“So perish traitors!' said the ems
press.
Gertrude von der Wart looked
round in silence. Her beautiful
face showed no quivering or emo-
tion; but with inexpressibletinder-
ness, she bent over her husband,
and cooled with the water drops
his burning face, oyer which the
last shadows were creeping
A mortal wrench of pain shook
his very limb for a space, but he
set his teeth hard and made no
sign. Then he caught Gertrude,8
wrist and looked at her with the
last long vaze of unutterable love
radiant in his dimming eyes.
She drew his head on her bosom
and clasped it, as if those twining
arms could have guarded him from
death. And she heard him say,
with much gratitude in his tone
as could only be syllabled by lips
to be stilled forever in a moment's
time.
"Gertrude! my Gertrude! This
is indeed love till death!4*
in that vocation, but because journ-
alism is one of the most potent
agencies of our civilization. A
poor journalism and a low and de-
fective civilization go hand in hand.
Wherever journalism is generally
successful and well supported, and
where a high standard of edito.ial
ethics and taste exists, the civili-
zation of the country is established
upon a good basis, and will pro-
gress as rapidly as is healthful. In
these days, when the current histo-
ry of the whole world is dialy
chronicled in the public journals
a man who does not read a news-
paper is an ignorant man. He is un-
acquainted with the life of his time.
His knowledge is purely local, and
he has no living sympathy with
the great body of his fellow men.
He is consequently unfitted to
make as good a citizen as his obn
ligations to his family, to society,
to his country, and to his God, res
quire him to be. The press is now
the great educator of the human
race, and will continue to be. He
who neglects it, neglects his own
culture, and nothing will make
amends for his loss.
LOPEZ & LO E B,
DEALERS IN
INE SMOKING and CHEWING TO-
A BACCO, Real Havana Cigars, Snuffs.
Pipes, &c. East, side of the square, (be-
tween Ro enham’s and W. M. Johnston
& Co’s.) Marshall, Texas.
geWill keep constantly supplied..g3
Marshall, Nov. 23, ’67. n3-ly
this difcult King.
‘It is no use,’ declared the old
woman ; ‘he will not even see you.
But the Princess was all the
more eager to visit him, and insist-
ed that she should start on her
journey directly. Her father and
mother, who were worn out with
her whims, did not offer much op-
position ; and, taking the old
woman to show her the way, she
set out with her ladies to visit
King Marie's dnminions.
After many days she reached
the kingdom, and found it as splen-
did as the old woman had described,
which, of course, made her all the
more anxious to see the King.
-gszezaarmnzrwmeem-gggemesege
necessary for a full understanding
of the case.
The most discouraging india-
tion of our Southern civilization, es
pecially in Texas is the popular
neglect of our own journalism.
Since the war, we have not been
able to form any definite and satis-
factory estimate of the circulation
of home papers in other Southern
States; but we have the bad sign
before us in Texas that an unusal-
ly able State Journalism exists
among us for so a young a country
with a circulation so small, as
compared with our population, as
to be a shame to the State. Nc.t
more than one family in ten in Texas
takes a paper,
There are many causes of this
and soon emerged into an open
space where the silent and mysteri-
ous individual came momentarily 10
a halt, and theh began stepping off
after the. most approved style of
duelists.
Mr F- seeing the course matters
were taking, quietly drew his re-
volver, which the other had previ-
usly done, and stood on the defen-
sive His antagonist having meas-
nred about twenty-five steps, slid-
d nly turned and cried, " are you
ready ?" " Ready !” coolly replied
.Mr F. “ Fire exclaimed the stran-
ger, and almost with the word a
ball knocked out the two front teeth
of Mr. F., breaking the bone and
embeding itself in his upper jaw3
The pain for amome t madened him.
but spitting out the teth, he fired
rapidly at his antagonist twice,
striking each time, and causing
him to turn and run for his life. Mr.
F. placed his pistol in its holster,
and returning to the city, sought
a surgeon, who attended (o his
wound, aiid to wlioom he relati d
the circumstance, extracting, at the
same time, a promise of secrecy.
The wounded man" was picked up
in the woods, and died next day.
The whole matter was shrouded in
mystery, Arid though rumor was
rile, and all sort- of impossible
stories gained credence,’1 no one
suspects the truth, and Mr. F.
quietly left the city of Houston for:
ever. ' ‘ 1
deep=w
government is almost continually
in receipt of information relative
to the movements of the Fenians.
The public excitement caused by
the recent operation of the broths
erhood, has by no means abated.
Tosday dispatches have been re-
ceived from Cork, giving the de-
tails of another Fenian movemeut
in that locality A body of Fenians
last nignt Surreptitiously entered
the magazine in that city, unchal-
lenged, and carried away more
than half a ton of blasting powder.
There is no clue tothe perpetrator justly due to the freedmen, report,
of this mischeif. Die people stand ing immediately to these headquar.
aghast at the effrontery of the Fen- ■ ■* • ... 1
Local Advertisements.
DRUGS!! DRUGS!
A LARGE bill of fresh English and
.. French Drugs, Paints, Oils, Liquors
&c , is now being received and opened by
A. Sears at the old stand of Sears & With-
erspooon, where he will be pleased to see
his old customers as well as new ones, and
furnish them with genuine and unadulte-
rated Drugs, Medicines, and all other
articles usually kept in drug stores at the
VERr LOWNT .‘Iqures that a GENUINE and
VNADULTERAETD article can possibly be
zold at. for cash.
By special request he has brought on
several art cles not kept elsewhere in this
city, among tnem are Catarrh Snuff and
Sewing Machine Needles.
A. SEARS, Drugrist:
Marshall, Texas.
Feb. 21, ’67 n!4-tf
An editor become martial and her by
was created captain. On parade length
instead of "two paces in front—ad- ' •
vance!" he unconsciously bawled
but, “Cash-two dollars a year-
advance^'
The Use of Moles.—“Our read-
ers will remember that for a dozen
years we have combatted the fool-
ish idea that got into the heads of
many persons, even editors of ag-
ricultural journals and some of
their best writers, that the mole
lived upon vegetablhs, and was in
consequence very destructive to
gardens, etc. We tried to couvince
them to the contrary, but they
would persistently stick to their
belief,
“The following interesting and
careful experiments made at Zu-
rich, by a swiss, named Weber, a
distinguished naturalist, ought to
settle the question. The result
of his experiments was laid before
board of agriculture of his canton,
and is in brief as follews:
“Mr. Weber had car- fully exam-
ined the stomachs of fifteen moles
caught in different localities, but
failed to discover therein the slight-
est vestage of plants or roots;
whereas they are filled by the re-
mains of ascaris or earth worms.
“Mr. Weber, not satisfied by this
fact, shut up several moles in a
box containing soda of earth, on
which fresh grass was growing,
and a smaller case of grub aud
and earthworms. In nine days two
moles devoured three hundred and
forty one white worms, one hun-
dred and ninety-three earthworms,
twenty five caterpillers, and a
mouse skin and bones, which had
been enclosed while alive in the
box.
“Mr Weber next gave them raw
meat, cut up in small'slices, mixed
with vegetables; the moles eat,the
meats and left the plants. He next
gave them nothing but vegetable;
in twenty four hours two moles died
of starvation.
When she reached his palace, she
sent a herald to tell King Marie,
. ‘ that the most beautiful and be-
loved Princess in the world had
come to see if she could please him. ‘
But King Marie only seat back
answer :
‘ That the most beautiful and
beloved Princess in the world had
better go home and mind her own
business."
All the ladies cried out at this ;
but the Princess was all the more
anxious to see this disdainful King.
She ordered her people to build her
a bower close by his gates, and
there she remained. Every day
she sent him some present. One
day it was her portrait ; another
rare fruit ; another, gold and sil
ver work—and each time that her
present was delivered her messen-
ger asked, * if King Marie would
yet admit the beautiful and beloved
Princess to his palace V
And each time she was told to
go home and mind her own business.
So many days passed away ; and
news going through all the coun-
try how the Princess had built her
bower close by the King's gate,
the people flocked in crowds to see
her. The princess was not dis-
pleased at this, for she supposed
that they must all admire her ; but
she and her ladies could not under-
stand why all the people who came
there laughed. They would come
and stare at her, and then they
would go away shaking and hold-'
ing their sides with laughter :
but when asked a reason, they
would say nothing but ' We can-
not tell ;' and this laughing humor
even seemed to infect the birds
and beasts of the kingdom. If she
met a monkey, it would stand up
on its lets, cross its hands on its
breast,look straight at her for a
moment, and then giggle out, he !
he ! he ! rollover and over, kick-
ing with fun, and shurry away,
if she went for a walk, the birds
kept up continual titterig, and the
leaves whispered about her ; and
one morning the Princess, waking
suddenly, actually found two fat
frogs staring at her, and chuckling
fit to split themselves, all of which
was disagreeable you know, to a
person of fine sensibilities.
At last, however, King marie
relented, and her messenger came
back breathless to tell the Princess
that the King would see her. The
Princess was so overcome by the
news that she faintad away sixteen
limes ; and when she recovered
sufficiently to go to the palace, she
was obliged to be held up on either
side by her lad ips.
At the door of the palace the
Lord High Fiddlestick met her and
offered her his arm, to conduct her
to the throne. The Princess in-
stantly fainted away ten times, and,
recovering, delcared that she was
too bashful, and should never have
courage to go. Then she took the
arm of the Lord High Fiddlestick,
and held it very tight, and walked
very slowly, with her hankerchief
up to hide her blushees, till the
Lord High Fiddlestick said :
"Here is the King, your Royal
Highness."
And, taking away her handker-
chief, the Princess saw a great
black ape. The fact was that the
people of Marie had been so badly
used by their last king that they
put an ape in his place, and govern-
ed themselves ; but they kept it se-
cret, lest other nations, thinking
they had no nations, thinking (hey
had no leader, should come to fgh
against them.
Guess how the Princess scream-
ed Her ladies were obliged to car-
ry her back ; and when she recover-
ed her senses, she made them all
promise to keep the matter secret, ‘
but one day the Dame ofthe Pow-
der Closet told it in her sleep, and
the Flour Pages heard her, and they
told it everywhere, and everybody
laughed, and in that way I came
to hear of it.
A Texas Duel.—The following
incident is vouched for as being "a
true story,” and forcibly illustrates
the manner in which difficulties are
settled in some portions of our
neighboring State of Texas. In
the city of Houston during the re-
cent epidemic which raged there
with even greater fury than in our
own city, a gentleman who had re-
covered from a violent attack of
fever, found that during his illness,
his whole family, consisting of a
wife and several children, had died
and were buried. Life under these
circumstances became an almost
unendurable burden, and he was
preparing to leave the scene of his
trials and suffering'when a person
who, it seems considered himself
agrieved by something the gentle-
man referred to, and who we shall
call Mr.F., had said, stepped up as
the latter was entering his house,
and touching him gently on the
shoulder, requested the pleasure of
his company' for a short walk. Mr.
F. turned and they both walked on
in silence. Passing the confines of
the city the two entered a wood,
postal facilities are as poor and
the wheel, and a thrill ran through
all the great assembly as the ex-
ecutioner lifted his iron bar, and
let it fall with a sickening crash on
the limbs of his victim.
He gave one moan of agony and
was, silent. The torture that for
hours wou d be his he knew, and
steeled himself to bear, before the
eyes of his deadly enemies, Von
der Wart resolved he would wait
the bitter end in silence.
fl ll
There was once a Princess who
had a great many lovers. Because
she had so many, she grew very
vain, and thought herself made of
better clay than the rest of the
earth. In this frame of mind no
one could be found to suit her.
She found some fault with every
one, no matter how brave, rich and
handsome, and declared that she
would die unmarried, since no one
was worthy to be her husband.
At last however, came an old
shall, Texas,) an assortment of material in
my lino of business, of the best quality,
and am now prepared to sell
TIN W ABE,
at wholesale and retail, as cheap as it can
be bought anywhere in the South. Any
■order will be filled with dispatch.
I especially invite the Country Merch-
ants to give me a trial before purchasing
■in the city. «
I have also on hand COOKING
.STOVES. OVENS, SKILLETS, POTS,
DOG IRONS. WASH KETTLES, COAL
-OIL, COAL OIL LAMPS, WICKS.
CHIMNEYS, &e. All the articles which
I offer for sale, I bought directly from the
manufactories, and I will sell them cheap-
er than they have been offered in this
market.
, J. H. VAN HOOK.
January 11, 1866. n9-ly.
try is so poor as it is now. Many
think they are not able to take a
newspaper, and yet they will
spend as much money for tobacco,
or something else equally unneces-
sary, in one week, or one monih, as
would be necessary to pay for a
daily newspaper for a whole year.
This inadequate support of the
press of the State, has a depress-
ing influence upon our journalism.
Newspaper editors and proprietors
are so inadequately remunerated
for their investments of money, time',
labor and brains, that they often
become discouraged, and (Jo not
make as interesting, tasteful, able
and useful journals'as they other-
wise would—Many of our State
journals, especially some of the
weeklies, give evidence most of
the time that they are left to edit
themselves. Ther is not one third
as much editorial work expended
in a whole wrek upon them as is
expended every day upon any one
ofthe leading dailies. Many of
our weeklies, however, are now
and have been for years, edited
with much care, taste and ability
All of these have a permanent and
increasing circulation.
Our leading dailies in Texas are
really an honor to the State. We
are constantly in receipt of the
very best daily journals published
in the English language, and we
are proud to be able, and even com-
pelled to say, that, considering the
newness of the country, the princi-
pal daily newspapers of Texas are
really in the front ranks of journal-
ism. There are very many daily
journals in the cities of the Union,
which are making ten times the
money the Texas dailies are mak-
ing, far inferior, in taste and abili-
ty, to our daily journals.
We iong to see the assurred suc-
cess of an excellent journalism in
Texas, not merely because we are ;
British Capital for THN South.—
The London Morning Star, of Nov-
ember 19, understands that John
Everett, Esq., of Allhallows Cham-
bers, is on a visit to the United
States to ascertain how the owners
of plantations and other estates in
(he South can be assisted with cap-
ital to develop the resources of those
provinces, which at present are so
depressed through the poverty of
their owners. The Star says: Mr.
Everett’s chief object will be to see
if absolute and available security
can be given, and if so, it is obvi-
ous that immense sums now locked
up in our own country might be in-
vested, realising two great objects
—a good and safe return for Brit-
ish capital, and giving effectual aid
tothe industrial people ofthe South.
VOL. 8.
==—=--=-
Uhe Earvison E lag,
w. G. Barrett, Proprietor.
H ! (
HILL & LANGLEY.
Attorneys at Law,
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
KXTILL practice in the Courts of the
VV Sixth Judicial District, and in Ma-
rion county, in the Eighth District, and
the Supreme and Federal Courts at Tyler.
f#" Special attention given to proceed-
ings under the Bankrupt Law.
Marsheall, June 6, 1867. n52-tf
A. POPE. wM. STEDMAN. J. W. POPE.
are far better than we now have in
Texas. The routes are badly ar-
ranged, and the services misera-
bly performed. Owing to the test
oath regulation, we have a corps of
postmasters which, taken as a
DR. 1 F. WITHERSPOON,
Surgeon and Physician,
HARSEALL. TEXAS.
Office—Up stairs, joining the Flag
office, over the store house of W. H. Bris-
tow.
Marshall. Nov. 15. 1865. n1-tf.
J . EL. J ohnson,
DENEST,
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
Fifty per cent, on the above added for
double column advertisements.
Persons desiring to do an active adver-
tising business, that is, to change their
ad vertisemen tsfrequently, will be charged
the usual rate of One Dollar per square,
toith a deduction of fiftyper cent., or one half
the usual price.
The above terms have been agreed upon,
and will be strictly adhered to.
R. W. LOUGHERT,
Proprietor of Texas Republican and Jef
ferson Times.
W. G. BARRETT,
Proprietor Harrison Flag.
September 19.1867.
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