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c _A3. IOT1 R ONT BY M. G. DAVIS: .y. . , 'r, NS' FISmi FIO1R ALL." PUIBLISItER. VOL. III:. CITY OF C. LLTON, PARISH OF JEFFERSON, LA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31,1860. NO. 8. MISCELLANEOUS, Brother Giles and the Referees.-Tho Boston Cnmmercial Bulletin gives the following anecdote as having occurred at Charelemont, Mass., some years ago, ly way of illustrating the satisfac tion in which decisions in referee cases are often received One Mr. Giles, a man of strong na tural sense, and endowed with more than .a common share of wit and sarcasm, was frequently before the courts in matters of civil suit. The patience of the court 'ha'ving become exhausted, they turned 'Giles's cases over to referees. On the occasion to which we refer, the referees were Deacon White, Squire Taylor and Capt. Rudd-three of the most prominent men in town. The case was a perplexing one and occupied a considerable time, resulting at last in a decision adverse to Giles. When this decision was reached, and it became necessary to call in the parties, good Deacon White arose and said : -My friends, we are all aware of the impetuous character of brother GilesS and we must expect to hear much strong denunciation and personal abuse ; let us be contented with having done our 'duty and receive his abuse in a chris tian spirit.' The door was then opened and.bro-'' ther Giles was called for with the other :parties. Deacon W~VI to, .a u~ed the decision thus : t. :\ "Brother Giles, we have t long and !patiently on this 'case a 'we havq 'endeavored to b our,.d uty; id we have viewed the whole', matter---we trust prayerfully--and rgret tWhat our :-ebsoe of justice and ,i compels us to decide agaitlst.yo T'l'hu followixgthtl j i., ring of the papers, the biti of costs, ~c., and.l e ,refeei:'es reclined back in their chairs tv,'" i`\it the expected storm. Giles 'whýo, liheln occasion suited, coulltld lh the 'riimst polite of geiitlemilnc - stepl od 'back kwith 4l iet digiiity and ease, lifted Iris hat and bowed very graciously in utekioa hledg m-nt of the ardnoins ser vice Af the referees, aillI ri.tired to wards the door-they 14aanwhiile, feel ing an initenise inward satisfactioii tinhat the storm had blown over. But, alas! it was a calm hbefore a temmpest, and the returning form of old i ; iles reappeared through the half-closedl door. Placing his hat upon the table, he thus address *ed the referees: "Genltlemen, I have one duty to per f i, unipleasaunt, Ibut one which, its at pl ftathropist, I dleeim necessary. ¢'"eqtleimen, you hiave suffered thus fat irijtgh life "by not having any one to tell you your vu.l characters. I will do it, that you mnay hereafter benefit by it. "Fir-st-l)eacon White, you are a representative of thatclass of which the world is full, and .which the world des plise--you are a'hypocrite. You will kneol beside your brother in prayer, and, iii the act, rob himi of his wallet; you--I despis,. "You, Squire Taylor, belong to an other class, not so nmuInerous. Yiu are a professdl scovndrel ; you ciheat Ia man, and then laugh at him. I adm ire you, for I alwthys know where to find you; you are 'open and bold in ini quity. "And, as for you- g his fiin ger, and with a look - le dcourn) -Capt. RItdd, you are fool, to Ib rlsed about by two sial precinius scoundrels as Deacon Wc . and Squire I'oman cad .7)ress.-Alphouise Karr writes of the ladies less poe(tically than Michelet ; hatl sieem to) Imdelrstfiuml the "sex l'ret'y well, hit their exlperienee-s mlay have been diff-erent. Karr says: uIn a womamn's life, everythlinO lIads to a 'mew dress; everything ends with a new 'dress; every circumstance is markod by a new dress, and the dress is the iist ilmportat point. A girl is going" o,, Ihe m'arried(l-a dress. For a mo nwnt ie-r heart filled with love, thoughts of anll eintirely new existence, and of a Jnmg separation from hir plarlents. Everythiing disaplpears beftrce the all absorbing que(stiiin of the weddling dress. A relation dibs. Thle grief of thle ladies is violent: bnt it is. soon chceketd, for thle nmourning has to be thoughlt of. WVhat are people wearing? \Vlhat is the most fashionahile mode of ti-stifviinmg one's sorrow ? It is necces sarV tl, g,~ to thle lineni-drnapr's, to the dress-niker's, to the milliner's. nual il a little while tllhey are s,) thorougrhly o.FGuitd thlat there is qilite an ind to lam@4tktions, unlhss, }howe,'vtr, hli(t dr.ssI do inot bapp.en ti fit, or thel I ,ornat Ib,. too muckldr too littl ,tftif l-h hei1. Bt: if the dress is made ,f :,-, nlow :,l.- rial. if the io nnit is ,,-c , ini._. ti,: ,they ixjiiri-iec n, ih ve.h]- t ,lr , g rl ,.\ thb u ir trmrun.ihit. the v : Picture DealTij. The Porte C'rayon in a recent nt rnr .discourseth as (ol lows upon the art and trickery of pic ture dealing : It is nota n tter of serprise that the European p dealer's craft should have been i ilto tlMs country along with ean art. Wherever genuinie wq , ounterfeit4work is sare to r of es by forpig have rece re, gross countc t a tours should ive t he risk they run in ur works of art. Beside s, we heard of two Moiseooer in sold in this county, oce w been seen by a good~ of the works o odei ý go Te-. ports to us that the work enuine; the price paid for iVtas $1000. Other pictures b : names of artists less famous, disposed of at various piies,, g out from $20 4o $1000 ty of which may be q e. Picture deales qf ateurs know bitt to dealers can a and the works aniy ether mor 1cst genteel dealer, isa piee e. e e ars like g. n.ai ; encew and cotint ohriers tect e1 ers from t ing,.can al ae yoifbe his pursu; solely th .it. This sor odeoae nishes spdcio the paraphernali and manages to sense of the dign man of taste. To ing to exechaig an exanille of s n:av (hlsire to o aeross one ; thl but he can proc you will only gi can say is look The Zourav s' ast of what is said of the Z thentic, they are the mosts of men in Christendom. ,heir: pensity for the whimsical was well illustrated on the last fcto Napoleon. During the march of the troops along the old Boulevards and on the Place Venidome, publiq attention was fixed on an elegantly equipped little dog, strut tilng jaunitily along at the head of the Ilnpllerial (- uard. From each side of his tiny saddle a box in the shape of a canteell was suspended, thus present ing the appearance ofa mule laden with pnminiers-and on each side f tihe boxes was written. 'The Zouaves' Treasury.' But these words were tlo every ,ioneit themselves an enigma, which they solv ed by relating the following story : The dog was called 'lMagelntar," be cni us(, oi1 tlhe day of terrible battle of that iaene, hIe was foaund ill a hourse from wuiehl I he all'righted owners t'el, and whi('h Iiad been destroyed )Iby l"renech lirnojctiles. One of the party, out of pity, andl Ieecause of the crea ture's gelltiilelnei , adopted him. The ,log's lidhlit I, naecollnyling theni on the l;areh, t,, the livo(ac) , ,and evell to the field (,f Iattle, insured himr kin'l treaitlll'llt frui his new masters. .anld, after ihaving partaken thieir ]perils, it was nlatitral that he should shlar( inl their triumlphs. Nay, more to aiinali f.st their kindness for their ,prottý' . they attachied to his head se'veral oftl&e Iholui.ts that were showered on thellm solves during the inornig. Amnd this chiar;cteristic illterprcetation was gi\.(. 1(4i the ins-riltion oin the 4big: "la gl'lta, to liiik4' hinself Isfuil,"' said oe(' of tl (. shlhrs, ''.ul t cnrri 5'n(w hini4 I .' 'TI: ' tIne,' said nnotiher: 'lut a hii's i~ t 1tr4n1g, e.u mu11t 141 ih h lui l.h;( whichl is lightest for hiin to hea( r." "Th11,i let us elitraist to 1m oiir mole v.V' added a third-- Lthi- the 4iriihl iif the fselltence'', "Th'' (ie 1i( IVte- , T/reasur." 1Fishbris on Vte f'ou/t' n 4 'i/f . w ith fi:h, has h,,.,, . s,, tl,. . , A St range ])ream.--The followingis in the aplpendix to I)r. B3inn's Anatomy of Sleep. It was conuiuntiicatted to tie, author by lion. .Ir. Talot, father or the present Countess of Shrewsbury, and is given in his own words and over his own signature: In the 'year 17t8, my father, Mat thew Talbot, of Castle Talbot, county of Wexford, was much surprised at the recurrence of a dream three several times during the same night, which caused himu to repeat the whole circum stance to his lady the next morning. IIe dreamnied that he had arisen as usaual descended to his library, the morn ing being hazy. lie then seated hint self at his secretaire to write, w happening to look up a long aven trees, opposite the window, he ceived a man in a bluejacket, monnli on a white horse, coming towards the house. My father arose and opened the window, tMe man a n ng presented him with a roll of pa rs, and told him they were the invo a vessel that had been wrecked, drifted in durin the k ht son-in-laws' (Lor e, hard by, and tephenson." My ..y scallad to the d eao ':its frequent recur rence , h ftid hhimself seat it the misty morning, b entical person whqm is dream, in the bi' g bray horse, he 1. t and,. pening the win , t e mainn's approach. He im l eup, and drawing from p . pgcket of papers, gave e 3~,tbhe, stating that they es belounginmg to an Ameri which had been Wrecket d ' upop his lordship's es e;e thkt was no person on bo to' Sthe wreck, but that te'e In ere signed "hell and St ehen assur my dear at ve ab curre is thfully -but it more arinry tt a ther examphes of prophetic powers of the mind or during sleep, which I have fre tly heard related. e New 4:England Census.- A _r in ]oo; for HIlarper's Weekly, us contradicts a statement made in that journal4 the effect that, in the census of 1860; New England would show no increase over that of 1850, and that its seaboard cities will probably show a falling off. From returns puhlished in the papers there is reason to believe that "no sea hoard city," on any other city, in New Englitd, has fallen oil' in population. O)n the contrary. mauny it' theam have largely increased, lh',1,sm hts, by re tu'rns, about 40,001) molre ilihal,itantls than in 1850, the numnber now being over 177,000; and thle (omtigiuous (.it it.' '1"oxiury, ('Cambridge, ( harlstowun aIld (.'htelsea, ltave increoasds in lih, like ratio. Excepting in very 1'fw 'liutll agri culillural towns in th; westi-'n 1a p rt ,,f thie Stat', it is helievei that thi re ha.s in0-1 no tfalling tfl'. (On tile cont rary, there is sutli.ilt evid lt,',' atlrutmiv p bliCic thlat thi cm( Isus of tlhe Sita. wvill t'xt'e tt I ,20(j),tn l a---;t guit ttf tmre tll h nu 200,000 in the tin y(t"urs. Maine' hal incre:tsed at htlst i'l,0)00, ail ('] t n necticut (;0,(100; ihodN Islanm 20,(1110. The census of New 11,nlmlp-hire has b..enm mtit-de itp, 1t1td shol'tsV ii - ,iill -aill. Ver imoint hias pruobaily 4,d no 'n V w 'rse thln thiau \tw ! tnnlp.hire. Upo'n tllie whthl', it ilmav he s'lf'ly statedi thilat New I;iii tlt l bt.t ot gi . :in i less th iu t00,000 since fij; (lh,; .it - of 18.30!, of which o,,it.ial ( vish.,nc,, will shortly eit t 'llfor tl miinii. T' e "#',',,,i ,/,'.s ,, #,e/ ,' ,,1 J, c ,r, , I ( tti r: from ill( -01n .1(, (t thm, Jlemm i insurrt.' ti ii in 'loruial, - ,tt th:,t fh, ir, ublel- ailN oveir, ;tl thati pl(,ilct agin/tl ri gns~l, in tli ,i.t- hi,,l,, ,i-tri,.t. Tl'h, "l~r.c iimacyv of th," l;w 1,'; L,,,.n visli I - .II p rt m- J rdi thinif, sublimitl'te t,, the, en' hri t~~ i, - Ji~ i ,l,, ,il ttl K i e"' 'Tho Ladies' tas.tiiington Na tionnal Altnillinet Society appeal in earniest terms to the judges iil inspec tors , f elections of the towns, wards, precincts and election districts in the Uiiited States, as well its the whole peoplo, to aid ih carrying out the plan which will enable them to comp)lete the monunment of Georgeo WVasin on ill t he capital of the relublic h1 foudtld. " nIr. Frederick Auguslus l)avies. whose oetraor¶dinary forgeriies utioI the bank of England will be rmetnleretld, has been scittenceId to six 3 ears' jpieal servitude. The learned judge said it. was no mitigation of tihe otffnce that the prisomier intended to have taken up the forged bills. u-irNow York has another schooner _mystery. A Westchester schooner sunk near Hoboken without itny apparent cause in New York harbor, a few days since. The body of the captain has beeon found, having evidently been mur dered. The yawl boat of the schooner is lmiiissig, as is also a dook hand citi plyed on board. The mystery is being investigated. OTr A correspondent asks why it is that, wheii hushiunds and wiVOe are di vorced the children are generally as signed to the husband. We don't know. In our opinion a wo0nhan is its It general rule entitled to the proceeds of her own labor.--Louisville Joufnal. 0 F ICI A L. ] OARROLLTON COUNCIL. WRnEDNESDAY, Oct. 24, 18(i). The Council met pursuant to ad journment on the 17th iinst.,at 5 1'. A., at est: DItoh. A. S. . Ftrth, Mayor: Messrs. Williamun ayo, F. Fischer, Charles Engloman, F. Schuler, George Iet'rle and F. C. Zeller. Absent: Mfessrs. .'cte.r Stlllig [i,t J,lin I )avoenlrt. 'The M inutes ,tf ()ctolbe :t'Ird, 5th, i 0th and 17th we.re r.eat [nd arl ,rovet.d. I'celnding the reading of thl1 Miuittes, Mr. Stoulig appecured and t44ok his sent. Treasurer KJtii's l'eport for the t.wo weeks ending Oi o)ber 17, Jl ;il, wits read showimag it bailance of 1, 1~2 7 I cash on hinid. Commlliisstry Deibehl's IReport of work done on the Lovee and Streets in Se1, teminer was read, received anl( ordered filed. A report Was read from1 Surveyorn \Williams iin relation to Mr. Coulranai Bill for Shells which was ref'rre.d to, him, suggesting that there was pIroilbl ly sorne mistake in the matter andll thlit it Commnittee of the Couneil would better determine it. On mnoti'oi, it was rfoeri.t. to, t th Finalce iContinittto. A rteport was read front At lrny -Preston adverse to tie .luis of 1Nl r. alornon Cohn that 1the Council .[Iouul cancel the privileges recorthiI against his property for taxes itt thllir t.4't. Oin motion, lthe report was recived :wl ortehrecd filed. ( ;non,, c', o ,ns were ] at,/: 1. [lr,,m S. 11. Ii ro,.wn & ',,.., as.king erliiissiii Iil y :t I n4ilra4 I I rack a .r'I S the i'1pier ,idi e ,f I'1,pp 'r hinti,, st, t, : It l. oint l lpi tit . f I'ln. 'I tr It. (º, ,,oti,i, it was r, t', r ,e.I to the Stre.t,,s m11l l.an4 t in .-m ('. nl i ,.,ft t-. f2. From ,. I' \\. i, asl; ig the Pl,,intnent ,f ta (",n11 it .,- t" invte..ti (Iil 1,,otio11, it cwaits . r f ,r l ,,I tl, t, :i. 1 rmf , h., . It1 . i ' .. :,1. , I 1 ,,n b ie h , t, , :il il ,rr . 1 ,f w eat- , , it wi , ry f4,1, t, :.,,o t, is I'inii 4t4 ( uu t Ite . ir,. r :t it) .. .. 4.1 4 . t ,, st e[ lo,, . " In,. 1. 4t 1 t 14.,1 I iioi alt e rity ' i f -t r 1t 4 (i. lromn A. S. Forth, 1Mayor, asking hleave of albsence for the oensuing two or three weeks. On motion, it was grinLt ed. 'l'ht folluwing resolution oftltred. by Mr. ialyo was adoptetd after suspending the rules. RI ,/Ir'1d, 'l'hnt the Surveyor is li reteled to adv'ertise foir proposals for the digaing, c(rbing and constructing 'If l ul,blic wells in this city. Ei"ach of said WVells to be dtug 12 feet deep end 10 foo(lt wide, curbed with a 9 ilnch lako brick ivall, arched iandl covered with a cast iron cover and loctated in such 1pl1ace asmay e selected. Saidry bills were road. On motion, lthe rules. were suslpended ; the bill of 1 )iegrabcr was reduced by striking out thei itemlil "shalrpeling 41spades $010 75,"'' mld the M1ayor was Iauthorized to draw warrlltruts forr lhe following persons andi amonults, I'. C. Ierret, for 45714 barrels brickbats--------------.............. $105 1'. C. 'erret, for 543 barrels brickats -------------.............. 121 89 Pholps, Parke & Co., 15 S(oup urrows---------------............... 45 ( C. l)iegruber, repairing tools, t--., .................. I(; 40 F. Mottle, glazing at School ottses................ ----------------7 40 C. (weir, carpenter work at Central School.......... 20 00 If. RIhfling, refreshmelnnts at Electionii It October.... 15 00 H. 'rihumnt, salary ais Assist n"t Assessor 18t;)0------...... :10 (00 C. P. lleidnlui, 14 oz. Strych inl .................. -------- 5 25 S. ]'Brown, haluling sundries.. 5 55 1'. 1nlrdzhif, 1levelbcoard and straight edgo. ---.....-... -2 ;35 E]. 'I'roendle, Stsovolilpo in (r:11'i il Ilull-- -..... ..-- 2 '15 E. Wiiicox, one night watchtlling .the lir--------------............. 5 11. NeiM , hauling---------........ 2 85 Elii.ha Bhll, (tllicer at a IBall. 2 (I Coroner Youngll, Ilnquet on Mathew MIaGraw ....... 13 12 On motion the above action of the Council oi, the bill of Co'roner Youngl was Iseci1sidered, an1d the bill was referred to tih' lu inicC' Commnittee. A/l,,licrrl/i,)s fJr (.fficre wcrc re'ad: l'or ( Compt roller nlt] Necretilrv, J. G. I).;dnx nisl C. C. PI,rter; for TreanIuer land (c,lle.ctor, 1' Kern : fr Crnmmissary :atn SNexton, II. I)eilel, F. llrunk, A. ]la lin iuid .Il. IIt. tiwsni ; fof r Attorney, N. (Cornsnanfetur and I. L. Preston ; for Snr vey,'r, W . 11 WVilli:,lns and 1. A. Ilea ton ; for lPrinter, M. C. I)avis ; fthr A-si tant As .esFors, II. 'l'rtthant, F. iahiin andr 1.. A. I Iaton ; for Pound Keeper, II. Bierlver nll. A mlotion 1h:1t the Concil proceed to the olectiln of (ITicers was carrie'd. The President ,named Messrs. DI)ven ort and Mayo as Tellers. I st Iallot, for Comptroller ndl Secro aty :--Mr C. C. Porter received I; vIte', nd .1. . (; 1)reulx ,reevivI 3 votes. The Pr, silent de lared Mr. 'Porter duly bhl'IcteI '2,1 Itldlit, for TLsraM rer alnd lh ('11,11 r : -1". Korn received 9 Vot', and the i'r, sidlint declared Mr. Kern duly cli.ctedl. 3.i lT1illot, for Surveyor :- r. W. II. William;r rec,'ivwId 9 Vortes, and the lPres' denlt deIclaredl r. W\ illiamts uilly c'releC l. 4th itlltot, for Attorney:-Mr. II. .. IPrs ~1 re '.iv,.ld (' vt,,es, Mr. N. (C n ntllllell . r r ,'c'iv,'d 2 vow , alird vt.ots :.,: ; I,hl k. 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