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THE DONALDSONVILLE CHIEF. AN IN'DEPENDENT, WIDE-AWAKE HOME NEWSPAPER,--'TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. VOLUME XII. DONALDSONVILLE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1883. NUMBER 32. - m u uum mn umun . . ......nnnn m n m uu m m mmmm u n m n mu r m nnw e m m m nunm Amicus Humani Generic. A Wide-Awake Home'Newspaper Published Every Saturday Morning at Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, La., -av L. E. BENTLEY, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One copy, one year, ..................... 00 Onecopy, six months,...... .. . 1.............12 iwelv copies, one year.................1 00 Payable in advance. ADVERTISING RATES: ,One inch of apace conitutes a "square." SQUARES. 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Address: TaE CRIEF, Donaldsonville. La. a i ( ti U-l o o 00 Dr. P. J. FriedricHiS, WITH DR. W. S CHANDLER, 14.'...........Carondelet street,.......... 142 New Orleans. Du. J. II. VANDEGRIFF, CORONER, OFFICE: Lafoureho street, between Attakapas and Opelousas streets, Donaldsonville. It. I. M. McGALLIARD OFFICE : Corner Honmas and Iberville streets, D soaldsonvlle. la. J I). IHANSON, M. D. OFFICu: Corner IHoumas and Iherville streets, near C. Kline's store, Donaldsonville, La. JJ. LECI-E, 1),RUGGIST, Corner Chetimaches and Mississippi Streets Donaldsonville, La. A complete stock of pure chemicals always on jand. Prescriptions carefully compiled at all )ours, day and night. M. REED MILLS, ATTORNYr AT LAW, No. 8 St. Charles Street, New Orleans, La. Practices in all the Courts of Louisiana, State nud FederaL -AWw AND NOTARIAL OEVICE. R. N. Siuns, ATTORNEY AT LAW, - )Donaldsontrille, La. Practices in Ascension, Assumption and . I. EARHART, ATTORNEY AT LAW, S ftice: Opposite the Court-HLouse, Dolnaldsouville, La. Practices in the Twenty-Second Judicial )istrict (comprising St. James and Ascon hion parishes). and in the Supreme and ,United States Courts. i. N. Slts. J. E. PocnE. IMs & POCHE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, St. James, Lna. Office at F. P. Poclh's. Address: Convent P. O. Mr. Sims will be in St. James every Monday. JOHN H. ILSLEY, ATTO RNEY AT LAW, Office: Iafburche street, near Ipayou Ferry. Donal4sonville, La. Pr..tices in the Ta-enty-Second Jndicial District (comprising tiia parishes St. James and Ascension), and in the Supreme and United States Courts. (HAS. A. BAQUIE, ATTOR.jTg AT LAW, • ilaanville, La. Practices id the 22ind and 2Gth Judicial pistrktes, EittpIising the parishes of Jeffer son; .. Charles, -St. John, St: James and Asce ion, daud bfiroe- the Federal and Sup rt Cotrts in New Orleanis. Speeittittention paid to the collection of commerdial claims. .".ddress: Hahuville P. O., St. Charles, La. 9: . . . . ..: , - ". . . DONALDSONVILLE BUSINESS DIRECTORY. DRY GOODS, GROCERIES. Etc. R LANDMAN, dealer in Dry Goods, " Groceries, Plantation Supplies,Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco, and General Merchandise, corner R. I. Avenue and Taylor Streets, one block from Railroad Depot. TNO. F. PARK, dealer in Staple and Fan cy Groceries, Provisions, Plantation and Steamboat Supplies, Canned Goods, Wines, Liquors, Bottled Beer, Ale, etc., Dry Goods and Notions, corner of Mississippi and Chet imaches streets, opp. River Ferry. A1). VEGA, Agent, dealer in Dry Goods, A Notions, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Groceries, Liquors, Furniture, Hard ware, Tobacco, Paints, Oils, Glass, Lumber, Bricks, Carts and Wagons; Loeb's corner, Railroad Avenue and Mississippi street. BERNARDI) LEMANN & BROTIIER. dealers in Western Produce, fancy and staple Groceries,. Liquors, Hardware, Iron, Paints, Oils, Carts, Plows, Saddlery, Stoves and Tinware, Furniture, Crockery, Wall Paper and House Furnishing Goods, Mis sissippi street, corner Crescent Place. JOS. GONDRAN & SONS, dealersin Dry Goods, Clothing, Notions, Hats, Gro ceries, Wines, Liquors, Boots, Shoes, Hard ware, Paints, Oils, Saddlery, Crockery, Fur niture and all kinds of House Furnishing Goods. Blue Store, Mississippi street. M / TOBIAS, dealer in Groceries, Dry M e Goods, Clothing, Notions, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Furniture. Hiardware, Crock ery, Trunks, etc., corner Mississippi and St. Patrick streets and No. 24 Railroad Avenue. Everything at lowest figures. (1 KLINE, corner Cro.cent Place and -o* 'Ionmas street, dealer in )Dry Goods, Notions, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Pro visions, Corn, Oats and Bran. M ISIRAEL & CO., dealers in l)ry Goods, * Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Saddlery, Bunggies, etc:, corner Mississippi street and Rlailroad Avenue; M LEVY, dealer in Dry Goods, Cloth * ing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Groceries, Furniture, Hlardware and Plantation SIup plies, at Len'hun's old stand, Mississippi street. G. VEITEL, Agent. TNO. SOLOZANO, dealer in Groceries, .) Wines and Liquors, Crockery,T'linware, Notions, etc. No. 21 Railhroad Avenue, be tween Conway and St. Michael streets, I)onaldsonville. INSURANCE AGENCIES. V MAURIN, General Fire Insurance V Agent, Mississippi street. over For nallndezs barber shop. Represents first-class companies with over $50.000,000 of capital. Policies issued directly fronm agency with out delay. HOTELS AND BOARDING-HOUSES. ROR'T. E. LEE HOTEL. Crescent Place, near the Market-House, Jos. Laflargue, proprietor. Bar and billiard room attached. First-class entertainment and accommoda tions. CITY HOTEL, P. Lefevro, Proprietor, Railroad Avenue, cor. Iherville street. liar supplied with best Liquors. LIQ(UOR AND BILLIA.ID) SALOONS. T IIE PLACE;. Gus. Israel, manager, Corner Lessard and Mississippi streets. Bitliiales, -Lage l Ba-.Best Wines asel Liquors, Fine Cigars, etc. TINSMITH. T OUJS J. RACKE, Tinsmith, Mississippi _ street, at Lenrann's old stand. Orders attended to with dispatch and satisfaction insured. BIARBER SHOP. L L. FERNANDEZ, Barber Shop, Mis J sissippi Street, near corner Lessard. Shaving, hair-cutting, shampooing, etC., in most artistic style. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. FREDERICK l)UFFEL,Attorney at law and Notary Public, office on Cheti macles street. opposite the Court-HIouse. E )WARD N. PUGII, Attorney at Law, Attakapas street, opposite Louisiana Square. Visits Nanoleonville on Mondays. AAUL LFCHE, Attorney at Law and No I tary Public, Donaldsonville. Office: One block below the Court-House, on At takapas street. jo25 HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING. GINGRY, THE PAINTER, shop at Cheap Tony's Store, corner Mississippi street and Railroad Avenue. House, Sign and Or namental Painting in all their branches. Heat work at lowest prices. UNDERTAKER. SCHONBERG'S Undertaker's Establish ment, Railroad Avenue, between Iber ville and Attakapas streets. All kinds of burial cases, from the pine coffin to the me tallic or rosewood casket. DRIUGS AND MEDICINES. B RIYBISKI, Apothecary and Druggist, . Mississsippi street, between St. I'atriek and St. Vincent streets, adjoining Gondran's store. MILIANERIY. M RS. M. BLUM. Milliner, Mississippi street, between Lessard and St. Pat rick. Latest styles of Bonnets, Hats. French Flowers, etc.; also, all kinds of Ladies' Un derwear. SODA WATER MANUFACTORY. SODA WATER MANUFACTORY, It. IIether, proprietor. No. 11 Mississippi street. Soda. Mineral, Seltzer and all kinds of aerated waters manufactured, and sold at lowest prices. MATTRESS MAKER. PETER WAGNER, Spring and Moss 3Matttress Manufactory, Mississippi St. Repairing and cleaning furniture a special ty. All orders promptly attended to. lgRS. I. . PALMER, DRESSMAKER, Railroad Avenue. near Claiborne street, Donaldsonville. Plain and fancy sewing of all kinds done in best style and on reasonable terms. A trial solicited and satisfaction guaranteed. JOHN P. FORCHA, Cistern Maker, Railroad Avenue, opposite the Post-office, Donaidsonville. La. All work guaranteed and satisfaction warruanted. Prices lower than the lowest. R.H. DUNN, Carpenter and Builder, Shop on Iberville street near the corner of " Houmas. Donaldsonville, Lan. Orders received through the Post-office will meet with prompt atteutio,. ..· . • , . , " , . WRITE THEM A LETTER TO-NIGHT. Don't go to the theatre, lecture or ball, But stay in your room to-night; Deny yourself to the friends who call, And a good long letter write Write to the sad old folks at home, Who sit when the day is done With folded hands and downcast eyes, And think of the absent one. Don't selfishly scribble: "Excuse my haste, I've scarcely the time to write," Lest their brooding thoughts go wandering back To many a bygone night When they lost their needed sleep and rest, And every breath was a prayer That God would leave their delicate babe To their tender love and care. Don't let them feel that you've no more need Of their love and counsel wise: For the heart grows strongly sensitive When age has dimmed the eyes. It might be well to let them believe You never forgot them quite That you deem It a pleasure, when far away, Long letters home to write. Don't think that the young and giddy friends Who make your pastime gay, Have half the anxious thoughts for you That the old folks have to-day. The duty of writing do not put off, Let sleep or pleasure wait, Lest the letter for which they looked and longed Be a day or an hour too late. For the sad old folks at home. With locks fast turning white, Are longing to hear of the absent one Write them a letter to-night. WE ARE NOT MISSED. If you or I To-day should die. Thie birds would sing the same to-morrow, The vernal Spring Her flowers would bring, And few would think of us with sorrow. Yes, he is dead, Would then he said; And corn would floss, the grass yield hay, The cattle low, And Summer go, And few would heed us pass away. How soon we paUs! How few, alas! Remember those who turn to mould; Whose faces fade With Autumn's shade, Beneath the sodden church-yard cold! Yes, it is so We come and go; They hail our birth-they mourn us dead; A day or more, The Winter o'er, Another takes our place instead. -Erenin Star. -- __--.€..¢ .... SOMIEIBODY. BY PEARL EYTIEGE. Somebody thinks the world all wrong, And never has a word in its praiise; Somebody sings the whole day long, Likes the world and all its ways. Somebody says it's a queer old place, Where none of the pieople do as they should; Then somehbody thinks it is full of grace, And wouldn't change the folks if he could. Somebody calls it cruel and cold, Full of sorrow and sin and pain, Where life is but a search for gold, And .ouls are lost in selfish gain. Somebody merrily laughs-and cries, "Hurrah for such a (lear old earth, Success shall crown the man who tries To make his mark by honest worth." Somebody groans and shakes his heald, ('alls his lot a wretched one; Somebody wishes that he were dead, 'Cause somebody else has all the fun. But still 1 fancy you're sure to find, Through good or evil, or pain or care. One certain fact-so make up your mind That-somebody always gets his share. OUR NEW1 ORLEANS LETTER. Items of Interest from the Crescent City by Our Rsgular Correspondent. .------.w ORLEANs, April 3, 1883. EDITOR CHIEF: The compromise with crime made by the City government and the bunko men still exists, as in the days of Shakespeare's ad ministration. It is a nice reflection upon the imbecility of the present odious govern ment, that a combination of gamblers and black-legs can force it into their way of thinking under an agreement to divide the spoils of their illicit traffic. It appears that if a man can turn over $100 a month that he maiy violate the State law with impunity. Several houses, not being able to comply with this compounding of a felony, have been forcibly closed by the city's police, and the favored few who can pass the ordeal of the Mayorality can! proceed ad libilum to fleece all who may happen to foolishly enter their portals. State officers have tried in vain to enforce the statute against these offenders, but the Mayor's mantle was all sufficient for- their protection. Judge Lu zenburg endeavored for montihs to stop this infraction of the law, but the ring and the gamblers were too much for him, and he had to relapse into quiescence, and peace reigns. A large fire occurred at the stronghold of the Fitzpatrick Shovel Rangers, who have so well carried things lately. About 4 o'clock this morning Mullan's Grocery, at the corner of Perdido and Johnson streets, was discovered afire and although the faith ful turned out in full force, not a stick nor a stone remains as a sign of its former greatuess. It is said that at this corner all the plans were arranged, which resulted so successfully in robbing the people of their suffrages at the last municipal election. The people of the Mississippi Valley are just commencing to feel the effects of the neglect of the National government, and the resignation of Capt. Eads from the River Commission will be deplored by all. It is true that he has too much labor now on hand to give much attention to the Southern Valley, but lie personally feels the action of the last Congress as a slight, and could not longer be persuaded to remain. We trust, however, that soime able engineer will be named in his stead, and that more consid eration may be given to our inland sea when Congress again meets. In the mueantime the waters are rising to an extent that after the shed of the Tennessee and the Cumber land, the effects may be greater than were expected even by Capt. Eads. We believe that the flood of 1882 has been the greatest our lower valley will ever experience. The floods of the Platte. Upper Mississippi and Ohio, and the snows of the far West. will probably keep up the flood line to its present level and it may perhaps pass above that of 1874. Morris Marks and Special Agent Neuf statle are troubling us very much on ac count of turning over the Internal Revenue Office to the new Federal Official, Gee. Drury, and they are violating the rights of search. Truly yours, W. II. Y. High Authority. Dr. W. E. scoft, President of the College of Physicians, Montreal, writes: "I have recom mended Colden's Liebig's Liquid Extract of Beef and Tonic Invigqrator as the best pre plr ationl used for debility, iiuligestion, dyspep sia, ferer. tpue, (i.l loss of appetite." (Take to other.) OUR GOOSEIQUILL LETTER. An Old Correspondent Under a New Title -Lent and Easter in the Monumental City-Reminiseensea of the Author of "Home, Sweet home." BALTI*ORE, MD., March 26, 1883. E-DITOR CHIEF: , Lent is over. 'ihe shadow of the Cross has faded; the glories of the Resurrection have passed from view anh-,Oh! bitter re flection, the mourning pevtle bhp9 ,iavo prayed and fasted thatt fled and strengthened against temptations, will soon be moad again over the attractions of the world. Sorrow (I) will be turned to joy and the gloom of Lent will be fbrgotten in the brightness of pleasures which society offers. Private theatritals, afternoons teas, receptions, germans and marriages will soon be the rage, and the rush for excitement will be all the greater after the weariness and the pent-up feeling one has had during the six weeks of Lent. Well, the human family is queer! The second snow storm of the week fell on Good Friday to the depth, I would say, of eight incites. It was a beautiful sight, and rendered the church services all the more solemn and impressive. The congregations were large but, as usual, the ladies were in the majority. They donued over-shoes and rubber circulars and defied the stormu. The Roman Catholics have no mass on Good Friday. The Psalmts and prayers are said, an(d the people with great reverence ap proach the a:ltar and kiss the Crucifix, held to their lips by the priests. Ieome of the Episcopal churches there is little or no change made in themode of rendering the service--the altar is uncovered and there is ttusic and sertmon as on ordinary days. In others there is the .jfle, spoken service, no sermon aind no rfusic. In others, again, wlhere an elaborate ritual is the custom, tile reredos, altar, cross and eucharistic candles are draped in black and choristers wear the black cassock. This was the case at Mount Calvary. The order of services there was morning prayers at 9 o'clock, Litany and sermon iat 11, and the seven serlnons at noon. The latter service consisted of a prayer, a hyIun and a sermon by rotation, seven in numuber. It was solemn and imtpressive. Has it ever occurred to you that Easteron March 25 is a coincidence that no living per son has seen ? Tile rule, according to the Council of Nice is, tlhat Easter shall be the first Sunday after the full moon which hap pens upon or next after March 21. It itay ome a as earlas _Marclh 22 or as late as April 25. It was as far back as 1665, 16/4, 1731 and 1742 that Easter came on the 25th of March. This is the first coincidence in our century and will not occur again until 1894. Easter in Baltimore was a perfectly lovely, bright day-in unison with the joyous faces that one met everywthere. The churches were well filled; the music was generally fine, and tile floral decorations exquisite. In solue of the Episcopal churches as well as the Roman Catholio,the altars were ablaze with lighted candles. It is certainly very beautiful in effect, particularly when tile lights form designs, such as pointed arches, circles and pyramiids. Potted plants of the rarest kinds were grouped about the chan cels: in the fonts were floral crosses and other artistio designs; on the altars were boquets of St. Joseph and Calla lilies, while the reredos panels were massed with ever greens, which gave a fine rich effect to the The profusion of flowers at Easter time awakens surprise and speaks for the energy and labor of the florists. Every thing has to be pushed, of course, in hot houses with constant watchfulness and care. Church decorations, however, are but a small part of the demand for Easter flowers. In fact, only a few of the churches spend much money for them. Individuals and amateur growers of plants and flowers are large lenders and contributors. Most of the rare flowers are used by gentlemen as Easter offerings to their lady friends. It is quite the style now in Baltimore. The offerings vary from a corsage boquet, costing from $3 to $5, to a placqqe mounted on an easel, costing from $50 to $100; or the designs may be eggs filled with flowers, fans, baskets, hampers and all kinds of fancy things. The roses are most in demand-Marshal Neil, Jacqueminot, Pearl of the Garden, Sofra nos, lion Silene, Niphctos and Carnelia Cook. The Good Friday service of Beauseant Comnmandery No. R, Maryland Knights Tem plar, was held at night in the Church of the Ascension, the Prelate of the Commaudery, Rev. Campbell Fair, formerly of Christ Church, New Orleans, conducting services. The church was handsomely decorated with banners of the Order and the officers wore their jewels. About seventy-five Knights proceeded up the aisle while the organ pealed forth the " Dead March from Saul." Sir ilarry Barry, Eminent Com mander, proceeded to the chancel under the glittering swords of four Knights, held crossed above their heads. After a few momeents of silent prayer-the Knights kneeling, with heads resting on their sword hilts-the Eminent Commander recited his charge to the Knights and then the usual beautiful service. Two addresses were given-one by the assistant Rector of Ascen sion Church, Rev. Lewis De Lew. His sor mon was very good. lie urged the Knights to follow the teachings of the Order, and showed that the great principles of both natural and revealed religion were incul cated ill its tenets. Tihe services were cou eluded by an offertory takeft up for the poor. The remains of John Howard Payne, the author of " Home, Sweet Home," now rest in the lovely Oak Hill cemetery, Washing ton City. The expense of their removal from Tunis, where Mr. Payne died in 1852, and the re-interment has been borne by Mr. W. W. Corcoran, the great philanthropist, lie has also provided for a monument, whiich will be erected over the grave, and at its completion in June there will be appropriate ceremonies. This deed excites no surprise, for Mir. Corcoran's name is synonymous with goodness and generosity. Hie was at tracted toward the young poet and actor when he was himself a student in George town College, and all the spare money lie got was spent at the theatre where his young . favorite acted. It was years after that they becai e acquainted and the intense admira tion ripened into a warm friendship. Mosl fitting way this to express that affectionate regard, and only proves that real, true friendship is not a myth, but is undying and faithful to the end. Mr. Payne was a native of New York, and the Empire State should have thus honored her gifted child. It was in New York that success first crowned his efforts. Payne was a natural wonder-a chilsfi)ºeonienon. At thirteen years of age he was teiting a weekly paper, the Thespieen Mirror, and a, $tleJ-me r, while a student at Union College, he edited the Pastime. His histrionic talent was remarkable, and poetry was so really a part of his nature that he wrote verses without an effort. Of the plays which he wrote, the best is "Brutus," which Edmund Kean played so well in 1818, and which McCullough plays so grandly now. Payne was only about twenty-one years of age when lie went to England and filled an engagement successfully at Drury Lane Theatre. lie passed twenty years in Europe subject to sunny trials-at times prosperous and again distressingly poor. lie had the brains and the popularity to have made himself rich, but knew not how to demand his rights or to take care of his money after lie got it. Through the influ ence of friends he was appointed to the con sularship of Tunis, in Tyler's administration, and was afterward re-appointed by Fillmore in 1851. The sweetest of all songs, " Iome, Sweet Home," appeared in "Clari," an opera, in 1823. Different stories have been told as to the circumstances under which this song was composed, but it is sweetest to think that it was the outburst of a groan ing, sad lieart-theu inspiration of a moment -when, bowed down by. a sense of utter loneliness, he longed for the horme where clustered his sweetest memories and where loving ones were weeping over the cruel fate that exiled him in a foreign land.. The late honors paid to this child of genius will draw fresh attention to his history. Who John IHoward Paynlle was, had escaped nmany. Many never knew who was the author of the song that has made him immortal, of the song that, of all others, not excepting the charming Scotch, Irishl and English ballads, is the most popular. Many, too, sang it and loved it, perfectly indifferent as to its au thorship, but there will be few now who will not see a deeper meaning in its words and sing it with a warmth of feeling greater than ever before; a new interest will be aroused in contemplating his checkered ca reer, and the sight of his genial, trusting, poetically handsome face will draw from every heart the tenderest sympathy. In Prospect Park. Brooklyn. is a monu nent which was erected by the Faust Club, of Brooklyn. It consists of a shaft of gray marble surmounted by a colossal bronze buest of Payne. The unveiling of the bust, September, 1873, was accompanied by most imposing ceremonies, the most significant of which was the singing of "lHome, Sweet HIomni" by one thousand publie school children, assisted.hl9le multitude-at the least, twenty-five thousand voices. GOOSEQUILL. .. . - 41- . SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. Prof. E. Wollny concludes that a layer of Ltiariyard manure spread upon land protects the soil from excessive alternations of tenm perature, but acts injuriously upon wet soils by checking evaporation. MIods. LeBel nas discovered a small or ganism in the urine of persons having measles, and peculiar to that disease. Herr T'sehamer had pririonsly found an organism which he believed to belong not only to measles but to scearlatina and diphtheria also. Sir William Thomson finds that sunlight has about 70,000 times the intensity of the light of the full moon at any place on the earth, and about 53,000 times that of candle flame. The latter result differs widely from that obtained by Arago, who found the light of the sun to have about 15,000 times the intensity of candle-flame. A remarkable botanical specimen is re ported to exist in Pedur, India, in the form of a date palm which changes its position morning and evening. The tree is eleven feet in height, and in the afternoon is in clined so near the ground that children may pluck its fruit from branches which in the morning are far above their reach. Mons. Blacle's investigations have eoll vinced him that changes of temperature have little effect upon the strength of rail way tires. If accidents to tires are more frequent in cold weather than at other times, it is due probably to the increase of rigidity and irregularity of the road, which adds to the violence of the shocks received by the tires. If the assumption that pitcher plants eat the insects caught by their leaves is correct, there is no reason why the plants should not, like umeateating animals, experience ill effects from over-gorging themselves; and by an exhibition of Sarracenias before the London Royal Hlorticultural Society, Mr. Veitch has shown that moderate eating seemed to benefit them, while injury resulted when dead insects accumulated on the leaves. SIous. Vallin has made some experiments upon the virus of tuberculosis to determine the action of various disinfectants. With the tubercular substance Ihe obtained, dis ease could be readily produced in animals, but exposure to sulphur fumes, boiling water or a solution of corrosive sublimate destroyed the power of the virus to produce suelh an effect. The result of the experi ment prompts 3Ions. Vallin to suggest that it would be a wise precaution to give pri sons. barracks, hospitals and schools a yearly purifying by sulphurous fumigationu. The advantage of planting trees in the .streets and open spaces of towns has been a recent topic of discussion among Swiss scientists. In the spinion ofDr. Piachand, the trees impede the circulation of the air to such an injurious extent as to more than counterbalance any good effects they may produce. To this view Prof. Goret replies that trees temper the heat and serve as a protection from dust, while the evaporation from their leaves helps to keep the air cool and moist. He contends also that the roots of trees absorb much filth which would otherwise render the subsoil of streets dau Serous breeding-places of disease. OUR SCH(L SYSTEM. Tnitlon, EdueatIofh Attraction, Repul sion, Expulsion. DOW.ýDSONVILLE, April 104883. EDITOR CHIEF: The terms above written are very im portant, but very imperfectly understood, at least, the daily practice of many conveys the impression that they have a very in distinct idea of the meaning attached to them. EDUcATION is a word of pure Latin origin. The verb educe, from which the noun educa tio is derived, is compounded of the prepo sition e, "out," and the verb duco, "to lead," and consequently means literally, " one who leads out." ATTRACTION very closely resembles edu cation in meaning, and also in origin. The verb attraho, from which the noun attractio is derived, is compounded of the preposi tion ad, " to," and traho," to draw," conse quently signifies, "to draw out." The word attractor means literally, "one who draws out." REPULSION, like the words already ex amined, is purely Latin, but has a meaning directly opposed, being composed of the preposition re, " back," and the verb pello. " to drive." ExcPULsbON is derived from the Latin word expello, " to drive," and signifies, "to drive out of." I have now given a brief account of the origin of the words, Education, Attraction, Repulsion and Expulsion, and perhaps, reader, you are beginning to wonder whatit all means. Well, I said that these terms were imperfectly understood, at least the practice of many indicates as much-and now for elucidation. Education and attraction go together. If you wish to educate you must attract, or in other words, in order to draw an object you must attract it. And especially is this the case when the object to be led out is a free agent. An educator is a person who is professedly engaged in leading out the mind, and in order to be successful lie must be an attractor. If the mind shrinks from him lie can not lead it out, and becomes ia relpulsor and drives it back. How many persons there may be who are professedly educators, but are repulsors instead of attractors, I will not tako upon myself to say. I f'eel disposed to say, low ever, that the number practicing upon that plan which repels instead of attracts, is by no mleans small. Let it be received as a fixed principle, that successful education depends upon the anmount of attractive influence possessed over the pupils by the educator, and I have all I desire for the pre.nt. This being ad mitted, I will ask, hoW :is this influence to be obtained? and I conceive this to be a question of some importance to every edu cator. If we wi4h to gain a point with a follow man, do we abuse him by nual-naming and flogging him? Would any one take this as tie best meth o f,secouring that isa. ftence LMch would t`tract a fellow w insg Certainly not. Now, why do educators pursue that course with children when desiring to attract their attention, which they know would prove repulsive with them. Taking every thing into consideration, it is not strange that so many children play truant and love to remain at home-their educator is not attractive, but rather repul sive. Frost will nip the tender bud. Edu cators must be attractive in order to draw their pupils to school. They must bo at tractive to keep them at school, and they must make the studies attractive to make thenr diligent. Many parents and teachtors attempt conm pulsion, which produces repulsion. It is impossible to drive the mind. It may be attracted and led out, but not expelled. Pupils that love their teacher will yield, if yield they will, with reluctance. The same may be said of study. Pupils which love their studies will attend to them, not only while under the teacher's eye, tmt when at home, or it matters not where. The first thing to be accomplished in education is that of gaining tihe affections of the pupils and, as the professors of mesmerism say, place themn in connection with the studies. Thlis alone, tihe work of education has a promising ceommencelsment. But how are these affections to be won I This may make a deep draft upon the teacher's ingenuity, hut what is his ingenuity for if he can not afford to make the draft upon it 1 Of one thing I feel convinced: no one will secure that love which generates that fear and respect which every pupil should have for his or her teacher, by cross words, hard epithets and cruel treatment. I never could see any analogy between the slapping of the hand, the plhling of the ear and hair, and the striking of the head, and the leading out of the mind; yet, I have seen teachers pull the hair and ears, slap the hand and strike the side of the head with a book, be cause the mild did not comle out as fast as they desired. Attraction will accomplish education, but expulsion will produlce repulsion. Those who employ attraction as their agent act wisely, and show it by their success: while those who use compulsion are foolish and display it by failing. C. The Desert of Sahara, according to an address by Prof. Guido Cora to the Italian Geographical Society, has a total area of 3,700,000 squre miles, not more than one fifth of which is coveredl by sand. The mean elevation of the desert is from 1300 to 16.30 above sea-level, but its mountain chains attain a height of from G6550 to 8200 feet. Inu some parts rains occur only once in some twenty years, while in others there is a regular rainy season. While the temipera ture rises to 122 degrees, it sometimes falls below 20 degrees, and snow and ice cover the highest mountain summits during several months of the year. The animals and plants are of much interest and impor tance. The human population numbers some 3,000,000. and the desert contains towns of from 5000 to 10,000 inhlalitants. Mr. Joseph Larguier, one of Baton Rouge's oldest and best citizens, died last week. Joe McKnight stole Mr. 1I. Braumm'sao horse at Blaton iouge a:ld was promptly ar a rested. GENERAL NEWS SUMBMARIY, Domestic. California has a silk growing society. Tennessee has a female Notary Publie. A woman was hanged in Vermont, Friday before last. The President has refused to pardon Sergeant Mason. A baby camel was born in Central Park, New York, recently. Peter Cooper died at New York of pon ouonia at 3:30 A. M., April 4. The California mint is to do ait the coin ing for the King of Hawaii. Buffalo capitalist$ propose to construct, tunnel under the Nihgara River. Shomakin, Pittsburg and Philbºdelphia, are the scene of immense strikes. A couple aged respectively 15 and 13, were married at Covington, Ky., recently. The leather-beard mills at Lominstea, 3Mass., were burned April 2. Loss $100,000. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher attended a performance of the opera recently for the first time. A lot of newspaper correspondents intend keeping close to the President on his Southern trip. New York boasts of na young Chinaman, who reports news in both the Chinese and English languages. Salmi Morse has succeeded at last in giv ing a full dress rehearsal of the "Passion Play"' in New York City. New York hap an incorporatel company which gathors the names of persons who do not pay their honest debts. Gov. Butler says lie can prove the bodies missing from the Tewksbnry, Mass., Alms house, were sold to be skinned and tanuedl. The Houston Hook and Ladder Company are soliciting subscriptions to rebuild their truck-house, which was burned while they were answering a false fire alarm. Another cave in the Diamond mines at Braidmood, Ill., imprisoned a party of searchers at almost the exact spot where the bodies from the former disaster were lying. All wore rescued. A colored soldier who attgmpted to com mit suicide att Fort Elliott, was senteneed.tp imprisonment at hard labor for threa montlhs, with loss of pay for " making him self ill in order to escapo the performaanat of duty." Foreizn. The Vistula has overflowed its banks. Mr. Gladstone has retbrned to England. The ox-Khedive Ismail is about to return to Egypt. All Albanian tribes are arming against Mon tenegro. Russians are preparing to occupy Amer( can territory. Louise Michel has surrendered to the French authorities. Mexico is preparing to compete with Cali fuoruia in wine making. Dr. Schlliemann has completed the exca All the pullic buildings in London are kept under constant police surveillance. Three Constablcs from Balla, Ireland, have gone to America in quest of Fenians. An elaborate system of subterranean tele graphy has just been completed in Ger many. Parnell will consult thae Dublin Natiojpl League respecting his movements while in America. The port of Guayaquil. in Ecnador, is closed, in consequence of a revolution in the interior. Russians who extended courtesies to the Jeannette survivors have been decorated by the Czar. The principal pier of the great bridge at Nice was destroyed ba fire April 4. Loss, $1,000,000. King Alfonso has conferred the order of the Golden Fleece upon Crown Prince Fred crick William. At the Czar's coronation every one will receive an enameled- mug decorated with the imperial eagle. Onue hundred and fifty persons have left the county Mayo, Ireland, being drivel. from their homes by famine. The Berlin Reichstag has given a vote of thanks to America for the relief afforded thp flood sufferers along the Rhine. During a police raid on a dynamite fac tory in Russia, a Nihilist, fearing capturp. committed suicide on the spot. John Brown, well known personal attend ant of Queen Victoria, died at Windsor Castle and has been succeeded by hi' brother. Fenians threaten that the central tile. graph office in London will be blown up iumless the Plhtaix Park murderers are released. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh will he the only members of the royal family of England attending the coronation of the Russian Czar. The editor. the proprietor and the printers of the London Freethinker have been sen tenced to tec;ms of imprisonment for ridicul ing the Trinity. The ma~rriage of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Bavaria, to Infanta Maria Della Paz wa celebrated in the chapel of the royal palace ' at Madrid, April 2. An anonymous letter has been received asserting that Fenians are engaged in send ing packages infested with small-pox to persons who are obnoxious to the Irish Na tional party. The revolutionary party in Russia ha{ issued a proclamation announcing that they have completed arrangements to frustrate the coronation of the Czar. Noticing that the little spiders which livg in flowers and prey upon various insects ar sometimes yellow and somuetimes white. Mr. James Angus suslmeoted that their colon changes to correspond with that of the flower in which they may be making their home. Experiment proved this to be on, white spiders being found to turn yellow in two or three days after being placed on a sunflower. This change it oddor ofeourse adds to the facility of these creatures in concealing themselves from their igteude4 prey. 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