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4FFICE atDr. S. Stewart’s Drug Store.
• Residence West of the Square, house
recently occupied by Maj. N. S, Allen
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W. G. BARRETT,
Proprietor Harrison Flag.
September 19.1887.
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Jeff Davis in Prison—His Mode of
Life.
GEO, L MIML.
J. EL. J ohnson,
ID E N 2Tsa,
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
$ 8 00 $ 14 00 $ 20 00
give prompt attention to all business en-
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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
advertissmentsfrequently, will be charged
the usual rate of One Dollar per square,
with a deduction. of fiflyytr cent., or one half
• he usual price.
The above terms have been agreed upon,
and will be strictly adhered to.
R. W. LOUGHERY,
Proprietor of Texas Republican and Jef-
ferson Times.
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are kept in the
H- JOYCE
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all the latest styles of
MILLINERY,
to which she invites the attention of the
ladies of Marshall and vicinity. Her stock
will be sold at
Reduced Prices.
Counting of the Electoral
Votes.
house can hear it, do you consider
the sounds produced to be vocal or
instrumental music”
0. HENDRICK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
T. M. MARKS, M. D.,
AVING permanently located in Mar-
_LJL shall, offers his professional services
to the citizens of the town and surround
ing country, and hopes by close and stu-
dious attention to his profession to merit
a liberal share of patronage.
OFFICE—Rear Office over W. M. John-
ston & Co.’s store.
RESIDENCE—At Dr. J, H. Johnson’s.
References—Dr. Eagan, of Jefferson ;
Dr. Williams, of Shreveport ; Maj. B.
Smalley, Uncle Joe Taylor, Maj. J. F.
Womack, Capt. A. M. Burnham, and Gen.
WILLIAMS & HILL,
Attorneys at Law,
ALL JOB WORK
Must he Paid for
On Delivery!
. W. L. DAWSON,
Proprietor.
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POAG & McKAY,
A ttorneys and Counsellors at Law,
h Marshall, Texas. Will practice in
the courts of Eastern Texas, and- in
Supreme and Federal courts, at Tyler.
itation and indulgence.
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only old men, women
can be found.
The finest kind is
their profession, will attend the Courts in
the counties of Harrison, Panola, Rusk, —ortugas prisoners,
and Upshur in the 6th, and Marion in the
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
AVE associated themselves together
in the practice of the law, and will
rare and great man—so great, that
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THE JEFFERSON
Iron and Brass Foundry
TRON FRONTS. Iron Railing, Veran-
A dahs,Gin Gearing, Grate Bars, Castings
of every description made to order1
DOHERTYS CARD.
March 27, 1868. n20-3m
Texas and the Supreme and Federal
()FFICE.—South side of the public
U square. Special attention given to
Professional and Business Cards.
Subscription—{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.
Advertising—{Onrrency.}—For one
square, of eight lines, $1 00. Any num-
ber of lines less than eight, charged as a
square.
Marriage and Obituary Notices, ealls on
candidates, their replies, and their circu-
lars, and all notices of a personal charac-
‘ter, (if admissible,) will be charged as ad-
Fersementg.
Ed torial notices, of a purely business
character, such as calling attention to
cards published in the paper, remarks
upon business houses, and the reception
ef goods, will be charged at fifty cents a
line. No cuch editorial notice inserted
for less thantwo dollars.
Standing ADVEETISEMRNTS — Currency :
8 months. 6 months. 1 year.
them. Panic pravails in Cienfue-
gos, and many families fled from
rice is the most blind and compro-
mising—the last to see, and the
first to yield to danger. I dare not
h pe that anything I can say will
arouse the South to a due sense of
GEORGE LANE
Attorney A Counsellor
At Law,
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
November 80, 1865. n3-Gen.
From the South-Western.
Washington, Feb. 9.—Included
in the removal of disabilities are
Robt. Ware, J J Cowder, Elijah
imilar character are
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est country in the world? Because
its capital is always Dvublin,
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In
VOL. 9.
th Aarrison flag
Self, Alex. McKinstry, N B, Mar-
dis, John S Orange, Henry W. Pick
ens, H R Wickle, J Edwards, J A
McCutcheon, Absalom Jackson, T.
Yelverton, T G Cornish, Samuel F.
Palmer, Calvin L Cay re, Samuel
Williams, S S Morrow and Charles
C Crane, all of Alabama, Michael
Hahn, of Louisiana; J C C Winch,
Chas. A Frazier and James M Wig
gins, of Texas.
Washington, Feb 8.— Supervisor
Creecy has suspended H H Mullen,
acting collector of the Third Lou-
isiana District.
Brevet Major General J D. De-
Russey, Captain 1st 0. S Infantry,
and Capt George Baldey,39ih U.
S. Infantry, have been appointed
aids to brevet Major General R C.
Buchanan, commanding department
of Louisiana.
Washington, Feb. 10.— Applicas
STEAM S AW
MTEE,
7heo Miles and a half Somth West of
Marshall.
FRHE undersign would inform his friends
X and the public that hisSteam Saw Mill
ia now in successful operation, and he is
prepared to furnish any amount of lumber,
fa the very best quality, and as low as can
be purchased at any mill in the country.
Bills will be filled at the shortest notice,
As times are hard I will do a general
bartering business, will take in exchange
at the market price, corn, fodder, hides,
eotton, oats, chickens, eggs, butter, &c.,
Here is a chance to buy lumber cheap,
and on easy terms, warranted to be of the
best quality.
rison and adjoining counties. From his
long experience and close application to
the profession, he feels warranted in Fay-
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
these, called pores, the sea water
beyond the is constantly entering, and out of
POPE, STEDMAN, & POPE. , , a
TTORNEYS at Law, Marshall, Texas, tion has been made to the Supreme
action. •
House last night, considering
MILLS & GREGG,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
KNTILL give prompt attention to al
VV business entrusted to them in the
Sixth and Eight Judicial Districts of the
State, and the Supreme and Federal
Courts at Tyler.
April 24th, ’68, n24-tf.
c. A. Ifrazer,
Attorney nt daw,
MARSHALL, TEXAS
DAVID McPHAIL,
WATCH-MAKER & JEWELER
MARSHALL. TEXAS.
WXTOULD RESPECTFULLY announce
VV to his old friends and patrons, that
ae is again at work at his old stand,
Morth side of the public square, where
he is desirous of again receiving a liberal
An annoucement that the Rev.
Miss Olympia Brown, pastor of the
Uuiversalist Church in Weymouth,
Mass., is about to be married, is
upposed to have reunited from the
ecent remark of George Francia
! rain that"we need more Olympia
^Browne."
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Wilson & Graham,
• MANUFACTURERS
OF
FURNITURE
OF ALL KINDS,
At Rain's Shop,North of Court-House
Marshall, Texas.
KTILL fill all orders with which we
VV may ba favored. Any article of
Furniture made to order and with dis-
patch.
Send in your orders. We sell cheap, and
ear work is warranted.
Marshall, November 2, 1857. n50-f
This case is likely to be taken as a
precedent for numberless suits
throughout Maryland,
At 10 o dock the Senators, arm
trusted to them in the Courts of Eastern . , ,T rI ,
in arm, came to the House. Wade
took the chair; Colfax seated near
House Butler introduced a resolu-
tion that Wade’s and the Senate’s
action was a gross invasion of the
rights of the House, which resolus
tion was pending when the House
adjourned,
Havana, Feb. 9.—Band of insur-
gents number unknown, made their
appearance in the town Camorones,
on the line of railroad between Ci-
enfuegos and Villa Clara, A de-
tachment of troops marched against
revenue, adopted amendments giv-
ing commissioners authority to ex-
empt distillers of apple, peach and
grape brandy from the provisions
of the act relating to the manufac
ture of spirits, at discretion, but
not to reduce the tax; also placing
compounders of spirits on a footing
with refiners.
Gov. Holden, of North Carolina,
on behalf of himself and other loy-
alists, telegraphs the North Caro-
lina Senators to oppose any reduc-
tion of the army which will reduce
Federal garrisons in North Caroli-
na.
Congress did nothing until one
o’clock, when the Senate came to
the House. Count of the electoral
vote progressing. Capitel densely
packed.
Longstreet and Frank Blair are
here. Grant has returned. A com-
pany of U. S Infantry, from New
York, passed here for Wilmington,
North Carolina.
HALL & TURNER,
ATTORNEYS & COUNSELLORS
AT LAW,
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
KN, ILL practice in the Courts of the
VV Sixth Jdicial District. All business
entrusted to them will receive prompt
attention.
DRUGS’! DRUGS!!!
A LARGE bill of fresh English and
A. French Drugs. Paints, Oils, Liquors
&o., 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
vmt lowest diGURBS that a GEXUINR and
GKADULTERARTD ARTICLE can possibly be
sold at, for cash.
By special request he has brought on
several articles not kept elsewhere in this
city, among tnem are Catarrh Snuff and
wing Machine Needles.
A. SEARS, Druggist’
E. R. Davis,
Notary Public,
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
WNTILL take acknowledements or proof
V V of Deeds, Mortgages, and answers
to Interogatories.
Business in any part of the county at-
tended to promptly.
Office—West sideof the public square,
next loor to Dr Sears’ Drug store.
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Mohammed, the Prophet of Allah,
lies hurried in the city of El Me-
dinah, and all the world of Islam
goes up to his tomb. About this
tomb there bangs a great deal of
mystery. The vulgar story of the
suspended coffin lies long been ex-
ploded, and the question now seems
to be, whether there is any tomb
at all. Lieutenant Bui ton, who re.
BA=2GA.INS:
MILLINERY STORE.
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bright eyes, and that blood would
issue from his body if wounded,
tor no one dares to assert that the
holy one is suffered to undergo cor-
ruption —Portland Transcript.
Remedy for Small-Pox—A cor-
respondent of the Siockt n, (Cal.)
Herald, writes as follows:
I Herewith append a receipt, that
has been used to my knowledge in
hundreds of cases it will preven
or cure th- small-pox though the
pittings are filling. When Jennier
discovered cow-pox in England,
the world of science hurled an ava
lauche of fan e upon his head, but
when the most scientific school of
medicine—that of Paris—published
ihis recipe as a panacea for small-
pox, it passed unheeded. It is as
unfailing as fate, and conquers in
every instance. It is harmless
when taken by a well person. It
amination of the subject, and, for
one, see my way clearly. One
thing alarms me—the eager purs
suit of gain which overspreads the
land, and which absorbs every fac-
ulty of the mind and every feeling
of the heart. Of all passions ava-
DR. J. A. RICHARDSON,
RESIDENT OCULIST.
JEFFERSON, TEXAS.
WI- operate upon or treat all
DISEASES OF THE EYE.
Have an opportunity of seeing
whether his admiration was deep
enough to stand the sight of his
goddess in cap and apron. It stood
that test, and very soon the serv-
ant goddt ss became the wife The
relation of this story in a London
paper ia said to have already caused
several pretty servant girls to offer
iheir faces to photographers.
A young minister went into the
country to preach, and observed
during his discourse a poor woman
who seemed t© bo much affected
After the service he resolved to pay
her a visit, and see what were the
impressions on her mind. "Well,"
said the woman."I‘ll tell you
About six years ago me and my
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all the property we had was a don
key, Husband ho died, and then
me and poor donkey, was left alone
At last donkey, he died; and t<
teil you the truth, your voice put
me so much in mind of that dea
old eriter, that I couldn't help tak-
ing on about."
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octaves, so that the whole
said Billings, growing excited. •
reported bill amending army rules $ is this," said the other; “when
and regulations. Davis presented
Afghan Dervish, furnishes
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him. Senator Conkling, and Rep-
resentatives Wilson, of Iowa, and
Pruyn, acting tellers. Piuyn read
the Democratic votes, and Conkling
and Wilson alternated in reading
the Republican votes All went
smoothly until Louisiana was
reached, when Mullins, of Tennes-
see, objected, declaring there had
been no valid election. Had joint
session; session separated ; House
voted 126 to 63 to count Louisiana.
Senate, after a severe struggle to
draw in extraneous matters, voted
to count.
Houses again met and proceeded
with the count until Georgia came
up, when Butler objected because
the Georgia college had not voted
on the proper day and for other
reasons. Mach confusion ensued,
which Wade ended by ordering the
Senate to its own chamber. House
then voted 150 to 41 that Georgia
be not counted. Senate, after the
most perplexing and laughable
struggle, declared that, in the face
of the concurrent resolution con-
cerning Georgia, the objection in
joint session was out of order.—
Hauses again met. Joint session
in absolute conflict, Wade orders
ed Georgia to be read as directed
by concurrent resolution, Butler
objected. Wade would hear no
objection. Butler appealed from
Wade’s decision. Wada would al-
low no appeal, and ordered count
to proceed. Butler moved the Sen-
ate have permission to retire; not
in order. Butler insisted that they
should.
Amid the most intense excite-
ment Wade ordered the count to
proceed. Conkling commenced
reading the result but his voice was
drowned by cries of order. The
noise became deafening by cries of
‘‘order!’ when Colfax sprang to the
desk, proclaiming that the Vice-
President must be obeyed in joint
session, and ordered (he Sergeant-
atArms to arrest disorderly per-
sons. Colfax was ordering and ap
pealing probably two minutes, du •
ing which time the Sergeant-at
Arms had distributed his men well
through the House and order was
restored, when the reading of the
result and proclamation followed,
and houses separated. The Senate
immediately adjourned. In the
RESPECTFULLY tenders
his services to his old
friends and patrons in Har-
MARSHALL, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1869.
A Hartford burglar, in conduct-
ing his own defence? before the
court, disgusted the District Attor-
ney by calling him "my learned
brother.”
TIH, COPPER, AND SHEET IRON
MANUFACTORY.
T HA VR now on hand, (at my old stand,
_L South aids of the public square, Mar-
'hall, Texas,) an assortment of material in
ny line of business, of the best quality,
tad am now prepared to sell
TIN-WABE,
• wholesale and retail, as cheap as it can
ve bought anywhere in the South. Any
rder will be filled with dispatch.
I especially invite the Country Merch-
nta to give me a trial before purchasing
a the city.
I have also on hand COOKING
STOVES, OVENS, SKILLETS, POTS,
DOG IRONS, WASH KETTLES, COAL
OIL, COAL OIL LAMPS, WICKS,
DHIMNEY8, &c. All the articles which
I offer for sale, I bought directly from the
danufactories, and I will sell them cheap-
er than they have been offered in this
Market.
J. H. VAN HOOK.
doubtless finds in the sen
will also cure scarlet fever. Here
upon him, and that he should thus is the receipt as I have used it and
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RS LEWIS & BEALL are permanent-
• ly located, and will continue the prac-
ice of their profession at Marshall, Texas.
Liberal deductions for cash payments
OFFICE—At Lancaster & Garrett’s
Drug Store.
Dr. Beall’s residence removed to Mrs.
Van Zandt’s place.
A curous incident occurred on
Saturday afternoon, near the depot
of the Knoxville and Kentucky
Railroad, at Knoxville, Tenn. An
engine was proceeding along the
’rack at good speed, when theen-
gineer suddenly discovered a man
walking along the track. The man
lid not appear to heed the whistle
f warning, and before (he engine
could be reversed he was struck by
the cow-catcher, and knocked
about twelve to fifteen feet in ths
air, alighting in the fall upon the
bumper beam in front of the ongine.
Si range to say, the only injury he
received was a fracture of one of
'he small bones of the left ankle.
His mysterious conduct was fully
explained when it was discovered
hat he was deaf and dumb, being
ne of the school of the deaf and
dumb.
It is generally supposed that all
the essences of flowers are produced
by distillation. This is far from
being the case; some of them would
be seriously injured by7 such a pro-
cess, and are caught and fixed as it
were, by what may be termed a fat
trap.
In the flower Season at Cannes,
plates of glass are thinly covered
with clarified inodorous fat; upon
and under this fat the flowers are
placed, and the power this sub*,
stance has to absorb and retain
perfumes is astonishing. On these
sheets of glass the most delicate
odors are thus fixed almost as se-
curely as, on the collodion prepared
plates, .the most delicate pictures
are retained. In this way thejesa
samine, the violet, the tube rose,
and orange perfumes travel across
France, and arrive here as pure as
the day they were given forth from
the flowers themselves. The eman-
cipation of the odor from its im-
prisonment is very simple; the fat,
cut into small cubes, is placed in
spirits of wine, and the delicate
essence immediately deserts the
coarse fat for the more spiritual
solvent. Mr. Piesse, in his inter-
esting work on perfumery, says
that, “while cultivators of gardens
spend thousands for the gratificas
tion of the eye, they altogether
that is accomplished the flotilla
will proceed to attack the earth
works which- the insurgents have
erected at Laguanaja Rebels re-
cently assembled at Mangua to the
number of three hundred, wero at-
tacked by troops and defeated, los-
ing arms, ammunition and eleven
prisoners. Government is organ-
ising several new battalions of vol-
unteers, part for garrison duty and
part for active service. La Caba
na, the strongest fortress in Havana
is now garrisoned by volunteers, in
place of regulars sent to Cienfeugos
Havana, Feb 10.—Arrests con-
tinue Last night the police sai ch
ed several houses. Two companies
of regulars left Matanzas for Maer-
gna, to suppress disturbances there
Vuelta Abajo continues quiet,
Washington, Feb. 10 —Butler ad’
dressed the House, after the Senate
returned, in support of his resolu-
tion very violently, and seemed to
carry the House with him. Spuak
er Col’fax, calling Dawes to the
chair, took the floor and in a brief
cured my children of scarlet fever;
here it is as I have used it to cure
the email pox; when learned phy-
sicians said the patient must die, it
cured: Sulphate of zinc, one grain;
foxglove (digitalis,) one grain ; hail
a teaspoonful of sugar; mix with
two tablespeons of water. When
thoroughly mixed, add 4 ounces of
water Tako a spoonful every hour.
Either disease will disappear in
twelve hours For a child, smallet
doses, according to age If cot ns
ties would compel their physicians
to use thia there would be no i ee l
of peathouses, if you value ad-
vice and experience, use this for
that terrible disease.
the following joint resclutiou: That
the noisy disorderly conduct of
Benjamin F. Butler and other mem-
bers of the House during the count
ing of the votes for President and
Vice President, whereby said bus-
iness was disturbed, is disrepnta-
ble to said Benjamin F, Butler and
other representatives acting with
the gean sea, At daylight there
in the summer time, when the
weather is pleasant-- for it requires
smooth water—the boats, each
with six or eight men and one pair
of oars, will leave the shore and
proceed to where the water is
eight or ten, or even thirty fathoms
deep, for those found in shallow
water are very inferior.
Here they stop, and the div rs
prepare to descend. Each one puts
a hoop around his neck, and to this
fastens a bag, in which she sponges
are put as they are gathered. in
very deep water the diver uses a
rope with a heavy stone to it. He
sinks the stone to the spot he in-
tends to reach, and this holds the
rope steady, which he uses to as-
sist himself in coming up again to
the surface. After being busy
until noon, they retire to some of
those pleasant little nooks which
abound on the shores of the archi-
pelago, to prepare what they have
gathered fit for sale.
The first thing is to press out
the soft part of the animal, and
then to bleach the remainder in the
sun ; so they beat them, and stamp
on them, and trample them till
there is no more life left The
skeleton part is then washed and
spread in the sun till it is quite
clean, and grows to be this dull
yellowish color; then it is packed
in bags and sent to market for sale
to all parts of Asia, Europe and
America. — Golden Hours.
him and insult to the people of the
United States. Resolution went
over under rules. Resolution for
printing medical and surgical his-
tory of the rebellion recommitted.
Senate resumed consideration of the
Freedom of ths PREss.—A late
Baltimore dispatch to the Philadel-
phia Telegraph says:
The jury iv the case of Daniel
Dechert, editor and proprietor of
the Hagerstown Mail, gave him a
verdict against the Hagerstown
corporation for $7500 damages for
allowing his ofise, types, etc., to
be destroyed by a mob in 1862/
and driving him out of town as a
secessionist. Other cases of a
minute animals, which serve it for
food and increase its bulk.
And this strange animal produ-
ces others like itself, I will tell
you how. From the soft part a
little globule is seen to float off,
and after moving about a while
very briskly here and here, as if
looking for a place, it fastens itself
to some rock. Next, gradually, be.
gins to be seen the more solid
skeleton — what we have here—the
soft part increases, and so it grows;
not very slowly either, for the di-
vers find it at the eud of three
years large enough to bring away.
To get these sponges from the
bottom of the ocean furnishes oc-
cupation for a great number of peo-
ple. One thousand men are busy
in the Grecian Archigelago alone;
and thousands besides, with many
hundred boats, are engaged in the
Gulf of Machri, on the Barbary
coast, and elsewhere, so that in
many villages, there from May to
September — the best diving time—
tion, one cannot come near him
without the utmost respect
Mr, Davis dined on New Year's
day at the residence of his old rep-
resentative at Paris, Mr Slidell.
The dinner was quite private, and
Mrs, Davis, in mourning for her
mother, was not there,
York and Brooklyn tabled Wilson
most reliable information upon this
point. We learn from his narative
that, although thousands go yearly
to El Medinah to see the tomb of
the Prophet, yet no one ever saw
it.
In one 'corner of the grand
mosque of that city is a chamber
supposed to be entirely walled up
with stone or planking, inside of
which, the pilgrim is iold, are the
tombs of Mohammed and the two
first caliphs, Abubeker and Omar.
But this walled chamber is sur-
rounded, outside, with a curtain,
somewhat like a four post bed.
No one is permitted to look behind
tho curtains except the eunuchs,
who at times replace it with a new
one, and they say that a supernat-
ural light surrounds the tombs that
would strike with blindness any
one that would have the temerity
the extreme violence which the ex- ues of the place
would spread, have arrived in this
, city. Fort Cabanes, which guards
the place, is garrisoned by a bat-
talion of volunteers, and a force of
regulars has been dispatched to res
inforce them. The Diurio, in an ac
count of the outbreak at Camoro-
nes, states that the first action of
the rebels was to destroy the sec-
tion of railroad batween Cienfeugos
and Villa Clara. The same paper
acknowledges the situation in this
quarter to be very brave. Much
excitement created in Havana by
versions more or less exaggerated
of events in the central department
The approach of the revolution to
the vicinity of Cienfeugos, which
is in the centre of a large planting
district, is expected to cause a rise
in the sugar market. Several at-
tempts at revolution have been at
Vuelta Abajo region. First and
fifth battalions of volunteers are
under orders to proceed to that
point to prevent a renewal of the
disorders. Strangers continue to
arrive at vorious points on the
narrow passage betwveen the rail-
ing curtain. The amount is said
to be enormous, which Lieut. Bur
ton doubts. No one is permitted
to enter this passage except on the
payment of an extraordinary sum.
What there really is behind the
curtain seems to be a matter of
great doubt. The Moslem author-
ities are divided in opinion. Some
say there is no wall behind the
curtain; others that it covers a
square building of black stones in
the interior of which is the tomb,
while olhers say there are three
deep graves, but no traces of
tomb?; and lastly, Lieut. Burton
strongly suspects that the burial
place of the Prophet is entirely
unknown. Certainly the eunuch’s
story of the blinding light that
surrounds the Prophet’s tomb,
looks like a priestly gloss to hide
defects.
Yet all the world of Islam goes
up to pray at the Prophet’s tomb,
and millions believe that he now
igences of the anti-slavery party
caused, the effect of which was the
sudden ruin of the Southern people
was, in his opinion, the consequence
of the resistance which the latter
made,
Here, Jeff. Davis is fully enjoy-
ing all the cariosities that Paris
affords, which he finds very beanti-
ful, and which he untiringly visits
all the day. As to his material life
he does not care, as to his food,
breakfasting on a slice of bread
and butter and a cup of coffee, and
dining on two dishes.
Morality, bis courage, his views,
his strictness, his exquisite probity
the example of all his devotedness,
his self denials, hialgood faith to
his principles—to which he has sac-
rificed every thing, for which he
has suffered everything — the plac-
idity of an apostle, and the com-
miseration of a martyr for his ene-
mies, his resignation and serenity.
Female Lawyers.— Te Louiss
ville Courier-Journri says :
The last of the woman’s rights
horror is the admission of a young
lady to the St. Louis Law School.
Nothing would be more likely to
melt a jury than the appeals of
youth and beauty in behalf of the
offenders against the law. Where
is the judge whose opinion could
not be warped and he himself
twisted around the dainty little
finger of a fledgling legal duck of
eighteen summers? In a breach of
promise case your female lawyer
would be overwhelming, her ca-
pacity to paint the villainy of a
faithless swain being derived from
a practical experience perhaps.
The young lady who has just been
admitted to the St. Louis School
has, however, no intention of be-
coming an attorney, a solicitor, or
a barrister at law, but a prolessor!
Sho will expound Blackstone and
explain Coke upon Littleton to the
future chief justices and attorney
generals of the country.
cannot assimilate, As to the rest, their contributions, and the treas-
TIVHE undersigned having purchased the
L interest of Mr. W. T. Brooks, is now
the sole proprietor of this well known and
popular house. Thankful for the liberal
patronage heretofore received, nothing
will be wanting to induce its continu-
ance.
The house it is generally known, is
one of the most commodious and elegant
Hotel building West of the Mississippi
river. Its internal arrangements corres-
pond with its exterior. The rooms are
well furnished, and everything has been
provided to promote the comfort of guests.
The Proprietor embraces the occasion to
say, that neither pains nor expense will
he spairod to render it one of the very
best hotels in the State.
G. W. L. DAWSON.
Nov. 29, 1866. n26-tf.
coast, supposed with intention
to join the revolutionists. Many
arrested on suspicion Govern-
ment has chartered several steam-
ers, and is preparing some men of
war and light draught steam
launches to sail to Roman Keys to
prevent expected disembarcationof
an expedition from Nassau. When
to be a plant, because it was al-
ways in one place; but for other
reasons it is decidedly an animal
All through this mass is a reguar
circulation, like our blood and food.
It has been seen to absorb nutri-
tious matter—that is, to eat, or
rather to drink You see all over
its surface orfices or holes; these
•communicate with each other
-throughout. Into the largest of
J< ff. Davis speaks mildly, and
his face expands as he smiles. He
is naturally slow in expressing his
ideas in our language, which he
constantly mixes up with idioms
from his own tougue. He is quiet
in gesture and in recrimination;
but his phrases in the mother
tongue are well rounded, concise
and neat. Has experience, in the
failure of bet ter or stronger com-
binations, rendered him less posi-
tive? or does he always proceed, in
the expressions of his ideas, less
in an absolute than a dubious way?
It is true..he feels his way in eur
language.
He has remained true to the
principles of slavery, but modified,
as he admits. He concedes rights
to the negro race which can prove
that is born to enjoy them and
nade to understand them; but, at
bottom, he is convinced that the
African and the Caucasian races
Mr. Jef Davis ex-president of
the Confederate States of America,
is among us, with his wife, whose
heroism is'equal to the harshness
of her destiny. He come to see
Paris and seek a retreat to which
he can bring in a week his children
left temporarily in America. No-
thing can be more simple than
this man, who is experienced, like
our fathers of '73. and who, like
them, sent suddenly to all points
of the Southern States as many
armies as the French Republic op-
posed to the coalition in Europe.
Jeff Davis is very thin, but erect.
His chest is not hollow, and his
body supports an admirable head,
joined to broad shoulders by a ras
ther thin neck. His forehead is
ample, his hair is gray, his contour
rather bulging, in which are set
clear blue eyes, which are very soft
yet observing. His face is thin,
his cheek bones are prominent, and
consequently his checks appear
hollow. The nose is aquiline and
like an eagle's beak His mouth
is rather large and indicative of
goodness and resolution; his chin,
prominent. The ensemble of that as-
cetic face is now a mixture of med- <
A Singular Will.—The will of
James M. Brewer, of Troy, lately
deceased, has been submitted for
probate. His property amounts to
about three thousand dollars. He
divides it equally between his wife
and two children. It is dated
June, 1865, is very brief, and con-
taina the following provision,
which is said tosbe perfectly char-
aeteristic of the man:
‘I wish the guardians of my chil-
dren to see that they are brought
up in the Protestant Episcepal
Church, or in other words the Church
of-England; and I wish them to be
taught to despise that curse of our
country, Abo itionism."—Albany
Evening Journal.
the investiga ion of land titles.
Sept. 8, 1868. n43-ly
s. P. GREGG.
speech took the house away from
Butler. Colfax defended the rul-
ings of Wade and the action of the
Senate, Desperate efforts were
made in both Houses to complicate
Louisiana with collateral questions
but the presiding officers of both
Houses kept the question whether
the votes should be counted or not
in view, as directed by the Consti-
tution on joint rules of Congress.
Nothing but technical observances
of parliamentary proceedings saved
the vote of Louisiana from being-
ruled out, or at least having at-
tached to it a damaging proviso.
This action, it is thought, will clinch
recent Congressional elections in
Louisiana,
Washington Feb. 11. — President
recognized Carlos Pie, Consol of
Spain, at New Orleans.
A young woman named Mary
Anna, was arrested at the White
House, who said she was sent by
God to assasinate Mr. Johnson
She had a double barreled pistol,
not loaded, on her person. Eviden
tly crazy.
Washington, Feb. 11. — In the
House, Senate joint resolution re-
ported, consenting to to a .bridge
between Cincinnati and Newport,
with not less than four hundred
feet span. Judiciary committee
asked to be discharged from fur-
ther consideration of the practica-
bility of sustaining Judge Under-
wood, of Virginia, from nullifying
tha action of the Virginia courts.
Reconstruction committee consider-
ing Mississippi affairs. Majority
report will oppose admission as
urged by the Eggleston party.
There will be a minority report.
Election Committee considered
Louisiana election contest. They
will report Simon Jones not elected
and neither Col. Hunt nor Menard
[colored] entitled to the seat, be-
cause the election was invalidated
by intimidation and fraud.
Grant and Colfax will be official-
ly informed of their election Sat-
urday.
Reconstruction committee's vote
on admitting Mississippi—ayes,
Bingham, Norris, Payne; nays.
Boutwell, Brooks, Boman, Farns-
worth. Confidently asserted the
Senate Judiciary Committee will
report to morrow on Virginia.
Washington, Feb. 11.—Senate-
Bill for a bridge between New
in the midst of our modern civiliza, lies there with blooming face and
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7,
J. F. WILLIAMS. G. H. HILL. T. H. LANGLEY.
WILL AMS, HILL, & LANGLEY,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
KKTILL give prompt attention to all
VV business with which we may be en-
trusted in the Courts of the 6th Judicial
District, in Marion county in the 8th Dis-
trict, and in the Supreme and Federal
to approach it. This story is now
universally believed among Mos-
lems.
Outside of the curtain, leaving
a narrow space between is an iron
filagree railing, which serves to
keep the crowd from close coutact
with the* tomb. After many
prayers and prostrations the pil-
grim is made to approach a small
window in the railing, through
which he catches a glimpse of the
curtain. The exact Dlace of Mo-
hammed’s tomb is distinguished
by a large pearl rosary, and a pe-
culiar ornament suspended to the
curtain, which the vulgar believe
to be a "jewel of the jewels of
Paradise.’'’ Lieut. Burton, however,
saya. to his eyes,it resembled the
ground stoppers of glass, used for
the humbler soft of decanters
Through the window in the railing
the pilgrims are expected to throw
currency bill. Conkling felt,
satisfied the country must wait for
extrication from the financial diffi-
culties until the advent of a new
secretary of Treasury. Several
long sp eches. Bill allowing ma-
chinery imported free of duty pass;
ed. . .
House—All day devoted to But-
ler’s resolution censuring Wade
and Senate, Bingham denounced
Butler's conduct and resolution
fiercely. House meets to night to
consider nvalids and pensions, and
resume Butler's resolution in the
morning,
The Prediction of John C Cal-
houn Verified—In 1837, John C.
Calhoun, whose perspicacity was
so wonderful that his prophecies
have become history, thus address-
ed the Senate of the United States:
“Be assured that emancipation
itself would not satisfy these fa-
natics; that gained, the next step
would be to raise the negroes to a
social and political equality.; and
that being effected, we would soon
find the present condition of the
two races reversed.’ ‘I speak with
n ।
full knowledge and a thorough ex-
. “What is sponge made of?” said
George, gasping, snuffing and wink-
ing under his Croton bath. No
one near could tell him, and the
maid suggested that he “needn’t
be askin' such foolish question,
but just keep still and get washi;”
and so the' matter ended
.Now listen, Georgie, and I will
tel you what a sponge is
The sponge which washes your
lace was brought up from the bot-
tom of the ocean, and was a part
of a living animal. Fora long
time sponges were supposed to be
plants, but later observations have
decided them to be. animals, and
they are placed in the class Proto-
zoa, the class most resembling
plants.
When first found in the water
their appearance is very different
from this which you now see
This is the skelleton only—tho
part corresponding to our bones.
When this was a complete living
thing, deep down under the ocean,
it was covered all over the outside,
and filled in every one of these lit1
tie holes with a soft substance
something like the white of an egg
and this was like our flesh. It
was fastened tightly to a rock, and ,
its color wax a dull bluish black on ,
the upper side, and a dirty white
JOHN 1. WILLIAMS.
The following incidents occurred
in Charleston South Carolina.
A little girl had lost her brother
and on going to school the next
day, a little playmate had niticed
her grief, and asked the cause.
This was soon told, with the addi-
tion that little Willie had gone to
heaven, and she could not see him.
Her friend asked her if she was cer-
tain he had gone to heaven, and
was assured that there was no
doubt of that fact for mamma had
said so. “Then,” was the instant
rejoinder. “I know where heaven
is, for I saw where they put him,
and know the way.” The little
mourner had seen the place too,
and not knowing the way she
started with her guide as soon as
the infant school was dismissed. It
was late at night, and the earth
was wet with, those angel tears,
the dew drops, when the two friends
were found crying at the grave—
because as the sister said, "They
had come to the door of heaven, and
Willie would not let them in, nor
even answer."
Love and Luck.—A gentleman in
London fell in love with a portrait
of a beautiful girl which he saw in
a photograph- r's saloon, and de-
clared he would make the original
his wife. “You cannot do so," re-
plied the photographer, "for she is
only a servant." He vowed that
this should make no difference. At
last it was agreed that the gentle-
man should dine at the photo-
The press, from time immemorial,
have been in the habit of ridiculing
what they vulgarly consider the
absurd fashions of ladies’ toilets.
In our younger days when on the
tripod we, too, were guilty of this
useless expenditure of time
and talent. Age has brought wis-
dom in this respect, if no other.
We| now Calmly and serenely look
upon the most grotesque disfigure-
ment of a form divine with as
much nonchalance as the old Turk
who smoking his hookah listlessly
watches the sacking of half dozen
of his wives in the Bosphorus. The
Grecian Bend and panniers are now
the object of fierce assault, the for-
mer giving, it is said, a colickly
appearance to the patient and the
latter the semblance of an unnat»
ural hump on the back. We can
only say that the fair ones have
our permission to dress as their
superior taste suggests—so, ladies,
hump yourselves! — Caddo Gazette.
Silent Influence — Al bert Barnes
says: “It is a bubling stream that
flows gently; the rivulet which
runs day and night by the farm
house, that is useful, rather than
i he swolenfood or roaring cataract,
Niagra excites our wonder, and
we stand amazed at the power and
greatness of God there, as he pours
it from the ^hollow of his hand;
but one Niagra is enough for the
continent or the world, while the
same world requires thousands and
ten thousands of silver fountains
and gently flowing rivulets that
water every farm and meadow, and
every garden, and shall flow on
every day and night, with their
gentle, quiet beauty. So with the
acts of our lives. It is not by
great needs, like those of the mar.
yrs, that good is to be done but by
he daily and quiet virtues of life,
'he Christian temper, the good qual-
ities of relatives and friends.
“Billings, the celebrated musical
composer boasted that there was
no point connected with the sci-
ence of music that he did not un-
derstand. A wag sent him a note,
requesting av interview with him,
on a particular day, to consult
about a difficult question in music,
which he said no other man could
answer Billings promptly met
him, and said to him: “Whatever
your question may be, I pledge my-
self to answer it, as there is noth-
ing connected witb the science that
I have not mastered.”- “My qnes-
tion is an important one,’’ replied
the wag, with the most serious face
imaginable, “indeed it affects the
whole world, and has never yet
been answered.” "Let me hear it,”
below. It was formerly supposed
A. POPE. WM. STEDMAN. J. W. POPE.
neglect the nose. Why should we
not grow flowers for their odors as
for their colors? And we may add
that ladies may utilize some of our
own waste garden perfumes very
easily and with pecuniary advans
tage to themselves. Heliotrope,
the lily of the valley, honeysuckle,
myrtle, clove, pink and wall flower
perfumes, such as we get in the
shops, are made-up odors cunning-
ly contrived from other flowers.—
Yet they may be made pnre°with a-
little trouble. . "I want heliotrope
pomade,’ says Mr. Piesse in de-
spair; “I would buy any amount
that I could get.’’ And the way to
get it is very simple. If there is
glue pot in the house, and it hap-
pens to be clean, fill it with clarified
fat, set it near the hot house fire,
or any other fire, just to make the
fat liquid, and throw in as many
heliotrope flowers as possible; let
them remain for twenty four hours,
strain off the fat, ane add fresh
ones ; repeat this process for a
week, and the fat will have become
a pomade a la heliotrope. The
same process may be gone through
with all the fowers men-
tioned. . A la in this m
ner make her e fum nd we
may add in the : rd ( r. Pi
esse, "one that she cau not obtain
for love or money at the perfum-
ers,”—Rural American.
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