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San jggip*
day
22.—Yester->
a heavy
wjas felt^the motion waa
)gt. The damage is con
^ lower part of the ciiy
onfgntfiery street, among the
DClUWr o
old buildings on made gronod. The
■" ' "■*—
jconaidered unsafe. The
house, 'which was badly
rby the earthquake of 1865,
:rapjpyed to the internal
jfflirigf Business in the
iwer pait of the city suspended. The
streets are thronged and there is great
sitement: the Parapet Hall and the
2 ieys.. of^ many builttinga fell
QmeTos8 of lite; the damage
■ 1,000,00. Tiie
OaklafcUdatnag-
|'.he earth opened
smelling sul-
at Sah
ling one
•y severe
f build-
Vt
phuroasly. The Wth
Landro was demolished, k
person. Tbe shoes was
-at San Jose, and a.ni^m
ings.were damaged. (
•New Yobk, Oct. 22—tl}<* steamer
Rising Scar, with $250,000 aiad Pana-
ma dates of the 14th, has arifeed.
Provisional Government established,
m Ghiriqni. - Military expedition
preparing in Panama.
Agr^eat tidal wave which£$tarted
from Peril, August 13, reacted Avis
Italia the next daytwith simajgfujeous
earthquakes*. Kp serious dan^e.
. Private dispatches irofH Sa^Fran-
cisco say the. earthquake damages do
ndtC®aS&eed $^K),Q00. ■ ^
Haeris^xjrg, Oct. 22—Offioffcl ma
jority foi- Hartzaup,t nine thousand six
Mindred %nd seventy-seven. ^
Central America. • ^ '
Panama Oct. 24.—The -p^tical
muddle' on the Isthmus is becoming
more complicated than'ever. Cpredo
Wis m>able%> send a force against
6hirij^u^becahse the steamer Mdl&ijo
te^dicfed ^ig^t thousand dollars dawn
foira cg'jirter. and the soldieF^ refold
to go without Gorreoso Went with
them. The-first difficulty Was almost
surmounted by foreing a loan from
pfoinirlent merchants, bat when t^s
was dooe, the Montejo raised Me
price of the charter to twelve thoaft
and'doKara, which Gorreoso could not
' piy- \ " ''
'All the po^ts of the State were de*
Tosed, and a clearance to the
for Costa Riea reftised-
An armed force t6ok possession of
the American newspaper, toe Ghron -
ichev^nd Was enppofted to^be Rooking
fowthe Spaniah editor.
Some 300 stand of American arms,
the ^property of a N'dw York
were seized by the authorities on the
ll^Paid carriedoff to the barracks.
The laws of the Colombian Congress
defining the rights and obligations of
foreigners, had been issuecHn the of
tin df Panama. -
ech.
it could not of itself
leaders of
Jariy in check. It
volutionary act so far
'power is concerned. A Democratic
'resident would stand in. the same
position as that held by Presi-
dent Johnson; - His vigorous na-
ture, his bold and resolute defense
of constitutional rights,' his able as-
sertions of the true principles of gov-
ernment, have not saved him even
from the violence of those opposed to
him, much less nas he been able to
inaugurate ajdy evasive measures Or
..
the executive office those Who would
stay the tide of corruption: those
who jcould save from farther injuries,
the systfem of eonstitntioBal govern-
ment, those who would prot&t bnr
people from legislative wrongs.
We.feel too, that our soece'sf would
be a rebuke by the American people,
of measures which have been con-r
demhed so strongly by many leading
Republican presses, as well*as by'our
selves. .If the candidates otf our
ticket should prove capable, honest,
and true to their trust; at another
election the people of .the United
States could go farther and mjake a
Democratic House of Representatives
and in due time the character of the
State jrontd be c&angeft.
I believe that the day is at hand when
the judgments and votes of the Ameji
can people will restore again power
to that time honored party under
whose influence onr country was m^de
great and prosperous. Nobe of 'tbese
changes woulu be made violently—
none could endanger pedce, but they
Would lead in the end to promote the
welfare and prosj^eif^y of the 0bRed
Sta'ea.
Washington, Oct 25 —San Fran
cisco dispatches say the earthquake
loss does not exceed half a million.
The Tribune says of . Western Vir-
ginia : uWe certainly carried two
members of Congress; with a fair
prospect for the third, also a.good
workin^majoiity in both branches of
the Iifjplatare, thus. securing a
United States Senator.
The World says: "We have con
tinaed assurances that the Democrats
have swept £he State—elected two, of
the Congressmen. ... ; v
Paris, Oct; 24—Prince Napoleon
writes to Pfim, urging tHe claims of
the house of Hanover and Duke of
Aosta to the Spanish throne.-
Hav Aka, Oct. 24—Volunteer com
panie* are forming in all the' ports of
the Island, and tendering' their ser-
vices toLarsundi. Order t irevails in
Puerto Prihctpe. > ©very body favors
any act to disturb public peace. (
hope is in this (election, to put i
.friends that all eneqiies to constitu-
tional government,- whether secret or
avoivedL will.not be spared, and that
their OTbitrary and unjust usurpa-
tions, together with their wasteful,
profligate and corrupt use of the peo-
ple's treasure will be signally exposed
and rebuked. r
The masses of the people should be
aroused and warned against the en-
croachments of despotic power, now
ready to enter the citadel of liberty.
P trust that you may ppeak with an
inspired tongue, and that your words
may penetrate every just and patri-
otic breast throughout the land. Let
the living principles of the vio'ated
Constitution be proclaimed and re"
stored to our divided and oppressed
nation. Andrew Johnson.
'San Francisco, Oct. 24.—Sub
Treasury shipped recently $500,000
gold to Washington.
New York, Oct. 24.—Three coaches
and two sjeeping cars were thrown
from the track on the Hudson River
Railroad by a broken rail. Six per-
sons weie seriously injured. No
Southerners were among them. The
stoves adhered to the fastenings,
whereby a burning was avoided.
The London Daily News pays, re-
ferring to the friendly meeting be-
tween^Johuson and Laird, who built
the Alabama, extends to Semmes who
•sailed her.;.
St. Lotri3^0c!ti .;24.—Reports have
reachfed here .that Hon. James Hinds,
member of Congress, and Hon. James
R. Brooks acconipanying him, were
'assassinated in lilontoe county, Ark.
Hinds was ^killed and Brooks won eld-
ed. The St. Louis Democrat has a
dispatch attributing 'the outrage to.
the Democrats. The St. Louis Re
publican hasf a dispatch representing
that Hinds had split the Radical
party and attributes his death to
Radical opponenraV If indeed the re-
port be true, it says further, efforts to
fix the assassin aiion on the Democrats
will be fruitleps, because they had
more to gain by Hinds living .than
dead.
The St. Louis Times says there are
10,000 stand iif small arms now in: St.
Louis, purchased for the Governor ;of
Arkansas, and it has been impossible
to ship them by any regular line ior to
charter a steamer especially tb take
therm * /, '. '
Washington, Oct.( 24 — Evarts Ras
been tendered a public dinner by
prominent New Yorkers. . /f
Seymour is at Buftato arguing the
failure of reconstruction, &nd con>
eludes that another great ol>jVct and
end was to lift np the African as far
and as fast as could be wisely done.
Humanity dictated this ; the interests
the white population of.the South
demanded it/as the two races wexe to
li ve upon - the same soil. * Common
interest called for harmony of purpose,
and of feeling under this s ,ate of facts
wise men would seek aid of the most
intelligent and influential men of that
section of the country, taking care to
guard agaihst any influences spring
iug from 1 their prejudices. Have
these obvious.; truths been regan
— ta^yA digs
regarded fhem ? The first step to-
ards restoring order and producing
kwaony between tfie races was
always to minister to the prosperity
of that section in which prosperity
would be shared alike by the white
man and the negro. The industry of
the South should be made profitable-;
unless the employer made a profit On
his cotton crop he could not pay the
laborer, and failiug to dd' tbia the dis>
asfctr brought not only poverty but
confusion and discontent. True,
statesmanship would have stretched
out a helping hand, but What was the
first act of the men in power. It was,
to put a;monstrous export tax of six
cents a pound upon the cotton raised
by the labor of the negro upon the
peace.
Washington,
Eon. Horatio Seymour r
I 869 it anndu
this mor
Presidential ca
trust it may be so,
sition of public
demands it.
It is hoped and
U
papers
eir ther
i and I
! %po-
and
by your
of the- white. Struggling
evils of poverty, wiUl the
, , of the new position and te •
lationshr^. the first feeble . efforts of
their peO||e to gain,the means of livli-
hood were blasted by an unwisb,
selfish and, vindictive act. I'say, un^
wise, bec&use it has much to db w^i
the futuire' of the Republicans to're-
store..order at the South.' The negro,
exa,sperated by - tlue. failure* o^ his
ruined pHijjJoyer, became hostile w
hto, £hd the employer,.lo^ng the*
.little credit that he had befqtev-in th'^
North, renewed his efforts under still
greater, difficulties than before. I say
it wa,s a selfish act, because il was
done in tli§ interest of the £a>tei'n
manufacturer. Already wealthy frorp
the fruits of the war, protected by
enormous tariffs, this tax of six cents",
a pound upon all cottdn exported
was simply imposed so that'he might
buy it for a pnci six cents l^ss than-
it was' worfh in the markets of the
world. I sky it was a vindictive act,
for if you will read the debate in Con-
gress when .this tax was levied to
cdver the selfish interests that
prompted it, you will fiud that it was
urged; upon the^membti-s from the
Western States who voted agaiust the
interests of their constituents, upon
the ground that it was- to be imposed
upon the South as a penalty ; and
thus we find thai the black and the
white man of the South were alifte
stripped of the market value of their
staples produced under circumstances
of such great difficulty, that they were
hindered and not helped on the road
to prosperity by the men in power.
(Applause.) I might go on and show
how, in addition to this wrong,
they were trampled upon by military
despotism, how they were placed
under' the unrestrained power of
vagrant men, who gained wealth and
official position by mimsteriug to the
passions of the public and keeping
alive disorder; these men who now in
the Senate of the United States with-
out constituents vote' down the Sena-
torial representatives of New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and In-
diana, and who gained their power
over the South and over us because
they, ministered to the passions in the
North and stirred up disorder in the
South. Who of the fair-minded,
thoughtful Republicans will calmly
sit down and look over this action
and not feel that the policy of his
party has been unwise and huiytful.
FBOH MEXICO.
We have received onr. files of
Brownsville-papera up to the K>th inst.
inclusive. We make the following
summary from thb. Ranchero :
On the 11th ult. Sr. Lerdo Ttjado
took charge of the office of Secretary
of State.
General Alatorre has returned to
Jalapa with the division under his
command, after having completed the
campaign of Puebla, where the most
perfect peace and harmony reigns. •
The Union Liberal says that the
number of offenders has increased in
Guadalajara. It appears that on the
19th a band of robbers were appre-
hended, and three of them were pub-
licly executed at the bridge of Tolo-
totlan.
Ex General Ygnacio GutiereZjWhose
sentence for capital punishment for
treason was commuted by President
Juarez to be confined in the Castle
Uloa, escaped from Orizaba while on
his way to prison.
A work entitled "Memorandams
and Corrections in the History of
Mexico,'" written by Don Lucas Ala-
man, is now being published in the
city of Mexico.
The Siglo XIX speaks of it as a
work of merit, having for its object to
fix the true history of Mexico without
regard to partiality or party feelings.
The entire Mexican press agitate
the murder of General Patoni, anc.
many comments are made upon the
general government for the delay in
bringing the murderers to justiQe.
The Diario Official has commenced
replying to tile attacks of the oppo6i>-
tion against, the treaties made be
tween Messrs. , Sewaid and Romero.
It thus refutes the objections made by
the (ilobe ajpginst the Consular treaty.
This treaty, it says, is an exact copy
of another treaty, of the same nature
just made between the United States
and the Kingdom of Italy, and it con-
tains the principles applied by the
North American Confederation—not
to savage nations, but to, the great
"powers of Europe. ,'. T , ,
from the Observer of the 11 tlx. -
Jrom what we can learn, there re-
us no longer anydoubt that Canto
is the murderer of General Patoni.
He endeavors to excuse himself upon
the ground that he ordered hiu>to be
shot because he feared General Pato
ni's presence in Durango would alter
the jjaeace and oirder, in case he chose
to conspire against the Government
within the State of Durango.
Minister. Iglfe'sias- has taken charge
of the Portfolio of the Interior. This
is hai,led as an event. .(Calculated to re
store confidence and to give gnaran
ties for the future, as well as for pro-
bity aad moral: standing of the Gov-
ernment.
By letters, from San Fernando re-
ceived here, we learn that the forces
which left Matamoros on the 8th ibst.,
under the command of Col. Tomas
Garcia, had arrived safely at Cruillas,
where they Were joined by aeycrajjMrs*
~ armed who Had started
Fernando on the 7th inst.,
fortning together quite a respectable
force. V -*'%
„•* Braulio Vargas, after the defeat he
sustained, in the Rancho del Muerto,
retired into the thickets and divided
his men into small bands, who are now
engaged solely in highway robbing
and stopping of the mail riders.
The people are in the best of
spirits and entirely indifferent.to the
repeated-calls of the Rebel Chief, pre-
ferring to abandon their houses rather
thasn to be exposed to the importuni-
ties and vexations of the agents of the
rebels, who, without regard or con-
sideration, insult tneir families and
rob them of ail they possess, withuut
even leaving the necessary articles
of subsistence. . ^ <
Fromthe S^lo XIX, of t^e 26th, nit.
Th| Siglo has published a statement
showing that the revenue of Mexico
for the fisiial year ending in June,
reached, the sdm of $12,987,647 14.
which would.involve a deficit, in ac-
cordance with last year's expenses of
the Government, of over six millions
.of dollars, the expenses for that year
having been oyer eighteen millions of
^ •.' 'AC - '■>
The Faro of Acapulco, of the 5th
inst., eayk that on .the Saturday pre-
••vaou's, as Mr. Jdhb Butter was .passing
qn the mole, about 10 o'clock at flight,
he was dealt a terrible blow on the
head, and others on the face. The
police were unable to discover the
guilty parties.
The papers from Mexico are filled
with accounts of depredations comf
mitted by robbers and murderers, who
now appear to be in the ascendant in
that unfortunate country:
The Comercio say3 that the roads
around Tauipico are unsafe for tra-
veling. A merchant who was coming
from Linares to Tampico, was robbed
by the bandits of all he possessed,
and that the e>ame happens to all
travelers in that direction.
Candelario Soto entered1 into Santa
Barbara and committed many depre-
dations, sacking some houses. Another
bandit named Loperena committed a
like depredation in the village of
Escandon, besides carrying off with
him the son of Mr. Zeferino Morales
We might occupy a column with
extracts^similar to the above.
The Mexican Government decreed
an order in favor of the State of
Yucatan, permitting that State to
import corn free of duties, and also
three barrels of flour for each 10,000
pounds of corn introduced to be free
of any duties. The concession is to
last four months, after which the
exportation of corn' and flour from
Y ucatan will be prohibited, to any
other port of the Republic.
discovert OP a revolutionary
PI. an.
Colonel Palacios has written to
Governor Trevino, of Nuevo, Leon,
and the latter dispatched couriers to
General Escobedo and to the Presi-
dent, regarding a discovery made of a
revolutionary plan discovered on the
Rio Grande.
Palacioa says in his letter to Tre-
vino, that Quiroga is at the head of it
—that he has plenty of means, and
that while UDder the guise of getting
building material for his house from
San Antonio, he has been getting sup-
plies of arms and ammunition for an
invasion into Mexico. He further
states that Quiroga counts upon sev*
eral towns in Tamaulipas and upon
the rebels now in existence there, as
alsoupon Canales—all are expected
to co-operate in tbe plan of proclaim
ing Ortega President, by which means
the Government would either have to
make sure of Ortega or put him out
of the way ; but should they suc-seed
in proclaiming him President, then
the next object is to declare him in-
sane and to establish a regency under
Sailta Anna. Governor Trevino ur-
ges on Escobedo the necessity of ta-
king steps at once to frustrate this
plan.
The Gaceta of Nicaragua thus
speaks of ihe unsettled condition of
Mexico:
''Apart from the disturbances trans-
piring witMn that unfortunate coun-
try, it is added that an invasion by
the way of Brownsville and Matamo-
ros has just taken place. The move-
ment is claimed to be in favor of
Santa Anna, who has not given up the
idea of governing Mexico. The in-
vaders uumbei 400 men, well armed
and mounted, who design attacking
Monterey, on a signal from Negrete or
Ortega. The State of Queretero is in
rebepion, also Guerrero, Puebla and
Guanajuato. General Rivera is still
in arms: A fight took place between
his troops and those of the Govern-
ment, in which the General command«•
ing the latter was killed. The roads
are infested with bandits, the cities
with assassins, finally, poor Mexico !
Written for tbe Telegraph.
^14 Plea for Texas Orphans.
BY MRS. a. H. MOHL. # .
jf* -
I have bBen asked to write an. ap-
peal to tbe people in behalf of the
Bavliapd Orphans' Home. Certainly
if any appeal can meet with a success-
ful response, this one ought. There
isS#o que8ti6n that the object is a de
serving one; there is no fear that
money given for this object will be
used for any other, or not used judi-
ciously for this; the names of the
trustees are sufficient guarantee for
this, and the Principal of the school,
Mr. Hjjory Gillett, proved his faith by
his w&rks during our four years strug
gle, in taking care of the destitute;
s.o what we can give we may give with
the every assurance that it will be
well and faithfully used. Notwith-
standing all this, I set myself to thi's
task with a heavy, hopeless heart.
I am to appeal to my people in be
half qf orphan children,—helpless,
dependent, impoverished children!
What appeal can I possibly urge more
powerful than the simple, anuohnce
ment ^t^^se-f^sac^^hildren
our State ?^It seem? as if it should be
only necessary for the various papers
in^Texas to say : "People of Texas!
there are orphan children in our State,
some of whom lost their fathers in the
war, and all of whom look to us for
food and clothing and educatiob," and
that, knoving this, the last dollar
would be.divided between ourselves
and them.
Shall I tell you that unless these
children are fed and clothed tbey will
die and their blood will be upon our
heads? You know this already.
Shall I urge that even if some of
them manage to scramble somehow
into man and womanhood, they will
be ignorant, debassed and wicked,
and their soul's loss will be reckoned
against oe in the great day ? This
fact is just- as patent, and far more
terrible, than the other. Yet, know-
ing all this, we go daily about bur
business and pleasurs, and the faint
childish voices that call to. us are.,
drpwnediin the tumult of life, and we'
forget tliat the "pinching time" is
drawing near for them as well as for
us, who are providing ourselves^
against it with warm clothing and
stimulating food, while even. thos'b'
few orphans who have shelter down
at Bay land are lacking both.
It is just like getting religion.
When in the solemn, thoughtful
hours of night, we ''commune with
our pillows aad are still," the
necessity of eeeking for the pearl of
price comes so vividly before us that
we wonder we have ever sought for
anything else. When we begin to
calculate that awful sum of profit and
lottef -which it wilt take eternity to
balance, '"What will it profit a man
if he should gain the whole world and
-lose his own soul we can not com-
prehend how any other question could
ever have occupied our ininds^ We
cannot understand why the whole,
world is not eagetly seeking an
answer to the great question "What
shall I do to be saved." Yet
Yet thqse meditations and the reso-
lutions consequent thereupon vanish
like ghosts at the first dawn of busy
day, and w* are like one who has
viewed himself in a mirror, and who
turning away, "straightway forgetteh
what manner Of man he is."
> But this, you may1 say, is no "ap
peal." I tell you, it is an insult to
your reason, your good sense, your
humanity, to adduce one single argu-
ment in favor of rearing and educat-
ing tbe orphans^of our State ! But a
practical "appeal" will be made to
you before many days. Maj. Miller,
whose delightful violin music has been
cearming all hearers for some time
past, proposes to give the Bayland
Orphan b' Homb a benefit, assisted by
some amateur vocalists and pinaists.
Oneshalf the nett proceeds of this
concert will go to Bayland, and, if it
is well attended, the ladies of Houston
will give a series of concerts, of which
(of course) all the nett proceeds will
go to Bayland. We cannot expect
professional artists, however, to give
us entire benefits, unless we patronise
them better than we have done Major
Miller.
I may as well say here, that the
Bayland concert was originally set
for Tuesday, but the Episcopal ladies
- V.
of the city had, by an nnforttmate co-
incidence, also appointed Tuesday for
a concert for the benefit of. their
church. ".Place ajix Dames," you
know, so the Bayland boncert is post-
poned and will probably come off
Thursday. I beg the people will not
give all their money to the Episcopal
Church, (which is by no means an
orphan, but claims, on the contrary,
a long line of Apostical Fathers), but
keep some for the desolate little ones
down at Bayland whose feeble, pit-
eous voices must stir our sympathies
to their "deepest depths."
THE CASE BROUGHT HOME.
A very large portion of the North-
ern people are reflecting, epeoulating
and theorizing upon the condition ot
things at the South, and deducing
from their existence in this section
probabilities it not certainties, of what
may come to be forced upon them at
home, by the same power and means
used to force them upon the people
of the Southern States. Their deduc-
tions are plausible and the supposed
happenings wilhin the bounds of
probability. These political specula'
tions, amounting to fears of coming
events, are not corifined entirely to
the Democratic party of the Nortbj
but are participated in by large num-
bers of the Republican* party, as we
are'justified in believing by the very
large majorities given in former elec
tiona against negro suffrage. They
evidently dread and foresee under ex-
isting political management, a negro
power in the government, which,may
be made by the Union of the New
England States with the ten States of
the South, if these States ca^iV: be
brought under negrq control, the
ruling power iff the land< We gjfrei
from the Pittsburg Post the following,
article appropos to the foregoing
ideas. It is a matter of great interest
to us of the South that tliinking men
and journals of the North are seriously
discussing this question as vitally af->
fecting their ownYutUrer: " ' ^
"Suppose we had iff Pennsylvania
fpur hundred thousand negroes, made
voters by the arbitrary .Will of Con-
gress, exercised outside of the Consti-
tution, ahd carried out at the pointpf
the bayonet; and that, by the sarffe
arbitrary will, three htfcd'rbd thousand
of the white voters should be disfran-
chised and allowed to take no part in.
the choice of rulers, or the manager;
ment of public affairs. If the troops
sent into the State by Congress to
thus degrade and destroy the dearest;
rights of intelligent citizens were to
be withdrawn, how long before the
eople? wo'aleUrea'ssgrt- their constitu-/
^ffeSyi put the 1
ramtd on its rraturSi "Daae, and spurn
from their borders the Entire nsurpa*
tions of the Jacobin cabal? It wou'
be doito tbe moment
yoke was removed from their necks.
A standing army distributed through-
out the State would be the only means
by which sueh revolting abnses.fsottld
be sustained a day. " , ; , ' >
" In this supposition we but mildly
present the cases ot the Southern
States under the malevolent policy
called reconstruction. The propor-
tions are about those of Tennessee,
where sixty thousand intelligent citi-
zens are forcibly excluded from the
right of self-government, and are
handed ovqr to the rule of African
savages! Of, course, violence, arms,
troops, are the sole reliance' of those
who sustain such insolent aBd exas-
perating despotism If this horrible
tyranny is to be continued there'«sen
be>no reduction of the army, no re-
duction of taxes, no restoration of
the Union, no return to constitutional
government. It is a despotism as it
now stands; forc^,, gunpowder* and
steel form the buttresses upon which
it leans; should these be withdrawn
it^will fall ^to pieceis—into bated ruihs.
■"Then comes the vital question—^
how can a free-government endure in-
a part of the States, whilst the others,
•are held by the sword in subjection to
black heathens? If this barbarous
and detestable, polfey is not con*
demned and overthrown by the elec-
tions, it wiRbe continued, ^and .will'
not merely achieve a permanent des-
potism over the South, but the downs-
fall of free government' in all the
States. Rome lost her liberties by-the
standing aimies with which she held
conquered provinces in subjugation.
We must have eithr entire despotism
or an- entire free government- Both'
cannot exist in our States at the same
time. Despotism is the grand aim of
the leaders in Congress. Let them
and their decoy candidate be defeat-
ed."
wlke by the pikenix express —
Capt. S. N- Holbert, of Long Point,
Washington county, as a sample of
wine made by the process published
in this paper some time since, has
sent us a bottle of his own make, and
we must say that we have never seen
any old port that could surpass it,
and we do not believe that the best
judges could distinguish it from the
best of port. We give the Captain
for the gift, and the Phoenix Express
for bringing it, our sincere thanks.'
— -—+•—"
Acoustics.—A good deal has been
said of the relative swiftness of
sounds. Here is the result of one ex-
perimenter: . - ,
The sound of a word of no particu-
lar meaning moves at the. rate per
second of 340 yards; praise at the rate
of 1500; flattery, more rapid still, at
1800 yards; good counsels only IS
yards;bad counsels at 1250 yards;
Calumny outstrips ihe wind, 2000
yards; truth scarcely exceeds 2 yards;
an appeal to charity is also yery slow,
3 yards.
EXTRACT OF BUCHU!
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Femalep, owing to the peculiat
lations which th-y sustain, their
tion, and th« offices they perforx, I
sufferings. Freedom from these
small degree to their hapjinesB and
can be happy wAo are ill. Mot only
these various
FEMALE COMPLAINTS
ate ill .no
nor s it plensantto consult a physicirn for the relief
of these various delicate affections, ond only upon the
most urgent^necessity will a true woman ro far sacri-
fice her greatest charm. to do this. The ser will
tben thank us for pltcing in their hands simple spe-
cific* which will be found efficaeteus in relieving and
curing almost every one of'those troublesome com-
plaints peculiar to the svx.
Hundreds suffer on in silence, and hundred? of
others apply vainly to amggists and doctors, who
either merely tantalize them-Tvi'h the hope df a
cure, orajiply remedies which make them worse. I
would not wM to assert anything ihat would do in-
justice to the afflicted, but I am obliged to say that
although it way be produced from' excessive ei bius-
,tion of th* powers of life, by laborious employment,
unwholesome air i^nd fpod.1>rofuse men-truation, the
.use of tea and coffee. and frequent childbirth, it is far
Oftener caused by ain ct irritation, applied to the
mucons membrane of the valine itpell. :
Wh-n reviewing the causes of tht?se. distressing
compl:.ints, it is most pilnfu.1 to C nlemplate the
attendant evils consequent upoil them, "tt'is but
simple Justice to the subject to «nnmerate a few of.the
inan« additioi al causes which so largely affect 'he
li e."health and happiness of woman in all classes of
society, and which, consequently, affect more or less
directly, the welfareof the entire uuman iamiiy The
mania hat exists, fur precocious'education and mar-
riage, causes the years tha^ nature designed for cor-
poreal development to jbe waste,! nd perverted in the
restraints of iress the early contiremen! of (.chool.
J®ost Perfect
und al y exci^d oy pleasu -.. x . . _
nig:ht revel the honrs desieneti by nature for sleep and
rest, the vorK of destructionis halt accomfj}i«bed.
In conseqtieiceof this early strainupoiri)er sys-
tem, uonec-i>-sary effort is reqidied by the delicate
votary to retain h-r situation in Sclinol /1 a later ray,
thus aggravating th# evil. When one.exc.tement is
ovet another in1" pr< sp6otive Keeps the mind mor*
bidly sensiuva.to impression, Tfrhile the now constant
restraint of fashiodable dfees. absoi'ite^* forbidding
the exercise icdispensable to the attainment and re-
tention of organic healvti ind strength: the exposure
to night air; the sudden change of temperature; the
complete prostration produced by exct^Bivedancing,
m ust, of nec ^ssity, produce fhelr legitiinate. enect. At
last «n «ar y marriage caDS the climax ofanisgTy, and
the unfortunate < ne. hitherto, sovT^gardless of taie
plain dictates and remonstrances ot her delicate
nature, becomes an unwilling subject of Jnedical
^treatment. 'J his is but a iruthtul picture of the expe-
rie'nee of thousands of our young wo -en. _
Long tefore the ability vto exercise thfe functions of
the gene ative organs, uiej require an eduction of
their peculiar nerVous"sy*teB^ co npo'7ed of what is
Called the tissue, which is >in common wit hthe female
breast "and lips, evidently under \ he control of mental
emotions aod associations at an early period of life ;
and, as we shall subsequently .see/thw onto. Ions,
FEMALE WEAKNESS AND KBH.ITY,
• • . - .
Whithes or Leucorrhaea, , ^
Tob Profuse Menstruation,
Exhaustion, < ' ■*
Too Long Continued Periods,
Prolapsus pd >
Beariag JPOwb, or PrdlajstisCteri
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Webb, W. G. Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 1868, newspaper, October 29, 1868; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth236660/m1/3/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.