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The Democrat. ALEXANDRIA, LA.: Wednesday, - - October 21, 1874. PARISH EXECU iIVE COMMI fTEE. J. A. WILLIAMS, J. L. WALKER, J. W. Pi ESCOT?, J. LEVIN, F. SEIP, R. L. LUcKETT, D. C. PAUL, R. P. HUNTER, W. C. MCGIMPSEY. " Nominees of the People's Party," For State Treasnrer HoN. J. C. MONCURE, of Caddo. FOR CONORESS, First District GEN. R. L. GIBSON, of Orleans. Second District, HoN. E. JOHN ELLIS, of Orleans. Third District, JOSEPH A. BREAUX, of Iberia. Fourth District, WFI. M. LEVY, of Natchitoches. Fifth District, W. B. SPENCER, of Concordia. Sixth District, JOSEPH M. MOORE, of St. Landry. Parish Tio et For the Legislatnre, GEORGE W. STAFFORD, JAMES JEFFRIES, R. L. LUCKETT. For Patish Judge. HENRY L. DAIGRE. For Sheriff, DAVID C. PAUL. For Coroner, NELSON TAYLOR. For Police Jnrors, JAMES R. ANDREWS, A. B. C. DEAN, JOHN A. WILLIAMS, B. F. LAMBRIGHT, J. H. SORRELL. Great! Grandl Gloriousl Crow, Dasher, Crow !! There h as a been thun'der, demo cratic thunder, along the whole line, in the grand central States of Ohio :an1 Indiana, Their s h outs and , e:hoes of victory, a great, grand sad g!orious victory, reverberate over the while Union, and Louisi:ana is or dered to take up the ref:rain, paus it around in November, and array her self vidle and side, with democratic Ohio and Indiana. The result in thoae States is worth recording as certain evidence of the tidal wave, which is now sweeping through the land, and engulphing everything in its path. We have gained in Ohio eight members of Congress, elected the whole State ticket by over 20,000 majority, and all on square, flat-footed democratic issues; in Indiana we have gained five members of Congress. carried the Legislature, and buried Radicalism thousands of feet out of sight; thus securing a U. S. Senator, in place of the present Radical. Courage, men of Louisiana, bright en up men of Rapides, stir your selves white yeomanry; co n se rv a tives, white men, good and decent colored men, now is your time, now your chance, to redouble your efforts in our pure and holy cause, an d strike the enemy the final blow, while he is now dispirited, demoralized and staggers under the blows from Ohio and Indiana! Ten BArT ABLE.-This fine and truly magnificent side-wheel steamer, will soon resume her place in our ttade, and again under the charge of our old friend and favorite, Captain Dick Sinnott. During her vacation and repose at Algiers, she has under & gone complete and full repairs, has been re-painted from jack-staff to rudder post, refurnished and carpet ed anew, and appears in such exquis ite disguise, that few of her many ad mirers will recognize her. But the competent management a n d thor ough mechanical skill of her officers. her usual fast time and punctuality, will soon remind everybody that she is yet, as of yore, the same grand and peerless steamyr. GRANT.-The Parish of Grant has a clean white majority of 200 votes, and is certain to elect the Conserva tive ticket out and out, the Radicals have nade no nominations yet. But as the bad negro Ward, Phillips, Ruie and Snow with sealed orders have just gone up expressly for and in the interest of Kellogg, we will now hear of some sport. The whole object of the recent trip is for the specialand avowed purpose of fixing the ele~ion for the Radicals in Grant and in Ur Parish. The thing is not only irfamous, but too shallow to deceive my one. The Age of Weaea. a - Assuredly no question piMsses more interest to all unmarabed wo men Ethan the momentous one of; when they will lose the power to charm? And it is beyond doubt that a dread of the advancing years is much more rooted in the minds of the gentler than of the sterner sex, op. pressing them, indeed, often at an absurdly early age. Only the other " day we heard a blooming maiden la-. menting the approach of her seven I teenth birthday, saying, with a mel ancholy shake of her pretty head, "I am growing so horribly old." In contrast to this was the remark " of a gentlemen, who, being asked his age, replied, frankly, "I am twenty seven; not that it matters much, for it has always seemed to me that a man's age was of the least conse quence between twenty-five and forty. I should not like to be less than twen ty nor more than forty; between these periods I am indifferent to the pro gress of time." It would be difficult, if not impos sible, to find a woman equally philo sophical in her estimate of the flight of the years, an exaggerated import ance being usually attributed to the desirableness of "youngness." And yet, despite all that has been said and sung of the loveliness of imma turity, we doubt if any woman of real attractions ever comes into the full glories of her kingdom until she has nearly reached that very age which seems to school girls the ultima thul of youth. It is difficult, perhaps to realize this, because so many of our theories and fancies are founded rather on the superstitions of the past than on the actualities of life. In former periods a maiden must be wedded as soon as 1 she reaches the age of womanhood; and as marriage implied complete subordination and seclusion, the hey day of life lay in the very brief pe riod between childhood and the ear ly bridal, and as a consequence an ex aggerated estimate of the attractions of girlhood pervades all literature. " But, on the other hand, if we turn to the pages of history, we find them full of the stories of the fascinations of women who were no longer young. Helen 'f Troy had been some years married when she perpetrated the most famous elopement on record; and, as the seiges of Troy lasted a decade, could not have been very ju venile when the fortunes of war res tored her husband, who appears to have received her with unquestion ing ardor and delight. AMpasia w:ts co!lsiderably past thir ty when she wedded l'Pericles, and she I wielded an undiminished infunence for twenty years or more. Cleopatra was about thirty when Anthony fell under her spell, which never lessen- c ed in power to the day of her death, nearly ten years later. Livia was nearly thirty when she won the hand of Augustus, over whom she main tained her ascendancy to the last. But turning to more modern histo ry, where it is possible to verify the dates more accurately, we have the extraordinary account of Daine de Poictiers, who was thirty-six when Hienry II, then the duke of Orleans, and just half her age, became attach ed to her, and she was held as the first lady, and most beautiful woman at court, up to the period of the king's death, twenty-four years after ward. Anne of Austria was thirty-eight when she was described as the hand somest queen in Europe. Ninon de l'Enclos, the most celebrated wit and beauty of her day, was the adored of three generations of "her golden youth" of France, and presents the ' most remarkable story in history of a the duration of the powers of fascina tion. In the instance of this lady, a rare combination of culture, talents and personal attractions endowed their possessor seemingly with the gifts of eternal youth. Bianca Capello was 35 when the Grand Duke Francisco, of Florence, fell captive to her charms, and made her his wife, though he was five years her junior. Catharine II was thirty three when she seized the Empire of Russia, and captivated the dashing young Gen. Gregory Orioff. Her ad vantages of person and mind made her attractive for many years longer, and she is thus described when at the age of 43: "Her eyes are blue, large and fine; her eyebrows and hair brown; her mouth well-proportioned; her chin round; her nose rather long; her forehead regular and open; her hands and arms round and white; her shape rather full; the air of her head full of grace and dignity." Up to the r time of her death, at sixty-seven, she seems to have retained the power of inspiring a sincere attachment in the hearts of her favorites, her soldiers a and her attendants; as when at length her splendid career closed, the lam entations were heartfelt among all t those who had ever knew her person- , ally. d Mademoiselle Mars, the celebrated French actress, was plain and unin tereating in her youth, her arms and hands being especially red and rough; I but after she was fully matured her beatty increased with every year, and a she was at the zenith of her attrac tions between thirty and forty-five, , at that period the loveliness of her hands and arms being celebrated in t Barope. a The famous Madame Recamier w*is e thirty eight when the, allied sove - reigns entered Paris, and she was, without dispute, declared to be the r lmst beautiful woman in Europe, a - rank which she had already held, - however, for fifteen years. . This list might be still further swelled, but enough has been given to prove that a woman need not lose her : ttractions though youth be gone, and above all, that if her mind be cultiva ted ald her heart kindly, she shall have a power of never-fading fascina tion.-[Leslie's Lady's Journal. Grant and Williams. President Grant and his Bertrand Attorney-General Williams do not pull well together. Williams, grate ful to the hand which kept him in the Attorney-General's office after he had been invited by the United States Senate to walk out of it as a disrepu table person, is hard at work In Wash in g t on disseminating falsehoods about the condition of the South, ordering the United States Army, right and left, all over the Southern States, and doing his best to hell' Senator Morton keep alive "until after the election," the notion that we are in the thidst of a "new rebel lion" an d of a half-developed civil war. Meanwhile President Grant is junketing about the West- with his family, 'visiting cattle shows and horse-fairs, and keeping upon the prairies, if not what his new organ in New York has indiscreetly de scribed as a "Long Branch,intoxi cation," at least a "Long Branch" in difference to the public duties andl responsibilities of his station. Now, one of two things is perfectly clear. Either President Grant de serves impeachment for neglecting his duties, or Attorney-General Wil- t liams deserves indictment as a public s nuisance. Williams is the man who w was ignominiously rejected by the Senate as unfit for the seat of Chief t Justice Chase, yet who shamelessly clung and clings to the office of Alt torney-General after receiving that r public slap in. the face. . If Attorney- z General Williams has the slightest s warrant of truth for the stories he is daily promulgating about the "awful I condition of the South,", then Presi- T dent Grant is worthy of impeachment 1 for the brazen disregard of his duties t, and his resonsibilities which he.t shows by Ioungirig and "loafing" t (there is no other word which so ex- 1 actly describes his 'performances) all I over the West while these things are doing in th:Sdtth. The English'' people and the English press make it a charge, not unfrequently, aghinst Queen Victoria, that at times when there is nothing extraordinary going on either in the domestic or in the I foreign politics of Great Britain, Her Majesty insists upon removing herselfto her home in the Highlands, and so retarding the despatch of pub- 1 lic business. But what would be the feeling of the English people, and in a what language would the English press give utterance to that feeling, I if Queen Victoria were to remove toe Balmoral in the midst of an outbreak in Ireland. " The measures which President Grant's discredited and discreditable Attorney-General is daily taking in the South are such measures as no English Government has ever dared to venture upon in Ireland except with the direct and express sanction of Parliament, and in the face of r armed insurrection too flagrant to be questioned or doubted about. Mar tial law is practically proclaimed over a large part of the American Repub lio to-day by the simple fi.t of a low political adventurer whom nothinga but the perilWnal favor and the perso nal obstinacy of President Grant keep 1 in a position which makes it neces sary for men of character to tolerate occasional associatio n with him. I Domiciliary visits are made by this man's authority, conventions are bro ken up by armed men under his or ders. The Lieutenant-General of the 4 army is invited by him to strip the froantiers of the troops needed for their protection that he may be able to extend his incendiary operationse over a wide area of territory. And while all this is doing, President Grant is whisking about from town to town of the West, looking at fat cattle, eating good dinners, and gene rally amusing himself like a shoddy ipeculator on a railway picnic! One is tempted to ask whether the people of this country have absolute ly abdicated the first duties of free men and of good citizens when he I sees the public opinion of this coun try thus insolently, trifled with by the Executive of the nation and b' the vulgar and unprincipled tools to whom the Executive tosses over the discharge of the functions he has solemnly sworn to perform, as uncon cernedly as if he were a village bar keeper calling in a stable drudge toi "tend" for a season his bar.-[N. Y. Worl. r Senator Morton. AT the great Democratic Ratifica tion at St. Louis~ on the 7th inst., r the Hon. Bayles W. Hanna, Ex-At i torney General of Indiana, paid his respeets to Senator Morton in this striking manner: Morton made a speech the other day at Indianapolls. It was so cruel and unchristian that the Republican papers of Indiana have refused to publish it. Louisiana had been crushed. Her government had been overthrown by usurpation, aided by a corrupt and debauched judiciary. Her people rose in their might and broke the yoke. [Cheers.] Indiana would under like circumstances do the same thing to-morrow. Such thraldom an distress as has been put upon the people of Louisiana, if imposed upon the people Oliver P. Morton represents in the Senate of the United States, would fire the State with revolution in a single day. [Cheers.] But Morton thought there would be another war, and he might get a new lease of power. The-abuse and misrepresentation of the South is his trade. A confessed, condemned and shunned political le per himself, he loses no opportunity, he goes far and near, when it rains and. when it shines, and even then, being unable to stand upright on his feet-like a true nian, :created in the image of his God, with his insane vo taries about him, he perches himself upon a stool, [laughi;er] and, like some weird creation of .sepulchral as pect summoned up from the hell of lies and slander, he hoots and howls about the sins of the Democratic party, and the crimes of the bruised, broken and crushed communities of the South. [Great cheering.] Oli ver' P. Morton lectures the country on morals, religion and good govern ment! A constitutional shirk him self, he breathes forth threatenings of war, rapine and death for every body else. He c u' I lo ,k complacently upon the smoke ascending from a great re servoir of human blood, if it was the assurance of a continuation of his own power. [Cheers.] It does seem to met that if there is any one politi cal'sinner, more than all others, who ought to sit patiently upon the porch of the pool of Bethesda, awaiting the moving of the waters that his lepro sy might he cleansed, that man is Oliver P. Morton. [Great, cheers.] My fellow-ritizens, I have long had mtehh vexation and doubt, in my own mind about the savlage old Scotch dogma of total depre vity. [Langh t'er.] My father's co ning down from the old covenanters had tried to in doctrinate me with the dogma. But I could not take it in. [Laughter.] My readiing and reflection had left me in doubt about it. Cain, Annanias and J,,las had left me in sore doubt, but Oliver P. Mor'on has dissipated them all. [Great laughter and cheers.] LONGSTREF I' A ND' KELLOGG! These two men are now bosom cronies, smoke the same pipe and, hand in hand, work for our degreda tion and ruin! We have just come across the following document, which will serve to prove that poor 'old Longstreet was not always what he is now: LHEADQUARTERS RIGHT WIO, ) AarY BE ORE RICHMHD, June 17. 1872. BOLDIERs-You have marched out to fight the battles of your country, and by those battles you must be rescued from the shame of s:avery. Your foes have declared their purpose of bringing you to beggary; and avarice, their na ti onal characteristic, Inctted ihem to re doublled efforts for the conquest of the South, in order that they may seize her sunny fihls and happy homes. Al ready has the hatrdtl of one of their grsat leadters attempted to make the ne gro your equal by declariug his fre dom. They care nothing for the blood of babes, nor carnage of innocent wo men, which servile insurrection titus, stirred up may bring upon their heads. Wors, than n thl the North has sent forth another intamous chief, encour aging the lust of his hirelings to the dishonor and violation of those South· ern women who have so untiringly la bored to clothe our soltiers in the field. anl nurse our sick and wounded. If ever mene were called upon to defend the beloved daughters of their country, that now is our duty. Let sucth thoughts nerve you to the most dread ful shock ot battle. Were it certain death, death would be better than the fate that defeat would entail upon us all. But, remnember though the noise of battle is ildleed most terrifying, and seems to threaten universal ruin, it is not so destructlvt as it seems, and few sotliers after all are slain. This the Commanding General dlesires. particu larly to impress upon the fresh and in exptrienced troops who constitute a part of this command. Let officers and men, even undler th'e most formidable tire, preserve quiet demeanor and self possessed temper. Keep cool, obey or drers, aimn low. Remember while you are doing this, and driving the enemy before you, your comrades may be re lied oiu to support you on. either side, and are in turn relying upon you.- Stand well to your duty. and When these clouds break away, as they sure ly wil1, the bright sunlight of peace, f~alling upon our free, virtuous and happy landt, will be a suflicient reward for the sacrifices which we are now called upon to make. JAMES LONGSTREfr, IMajor General Commanding. MoRToN.-Some very intelligent people are saying 'that Senator Mor ton, in his recent speech, gave signs of approaching or alrearly arrived old age. His memory is lastly fail ing him. He forgets thethings that did happen, and remembers those that didn't. }a e hates or a senater's oinogs. On theing hba oem-i e penter, being in New Orleans as a mem ber or the Louisiana Investigating Com mittee, addressed a public meeting of citizens. In the course of Titsremharks he took occasion to say that there was no doubt in his mind that McEnery had been legally elected, but he advised the citizens to be patient and vwait till Con gross ordered a new election. On the 19th of May, 1873, Kellogg's check book shows a record of $500 paid Matt. H. Carpenter, and two days later another for the same amount. On the 24th of July of that year, Mr. Carpenter was v ry conspicuous on the Long Branch boat and at Long Branch, and waHs turned away from the West End Hotel for well known reasons. On the 1st of August following, he wrote to "Dear Kellogg," who was holding the office of Governor to which he was not elected, saying: "1 am desperately short. Can't you send $10009 If so it would be a godsend." On the 15th of December the Committee on Privileges and Elec tions reported a disagreement in the Pinchback case, there being a tie vote in the committee, and Mr. Carpenter voted against iPlnchbeck, anfti conse quently against recognizing'theKellogg Legislature. The consideration of the case was postponed. On the 20th of December, five days later, the stubs in Kellogg's check book show the payment to Mr. Carpenter of $1000. The case was never acted upon; the question is still open. Kellogg is in office, the validity or legality of the Legislature which was counted in with him has never been pronounced upon, and the side which Mr. Carpenter has received $4500 oats in power, while the persons whom he declared legally elected and whom he favored in the Senate are waiting outside. Mr. Carpenter is much' more fortunate as an advocate than as a statesman. hates are sometimes very suggestive. Of course it will not occur to any well disposed person to connect the transac tions above cited in any way derogatory to the character of the good man to whom they relate. And yet how singu lar a coincidence it is thatone week .af .etr the Long Branch excursion he should be so "desperately short" that $1000 "would bSi:godsend." And this statesman. If we rightly recall his cele brated defence of the back pay grab, is one of your rollicking fellows who sheds his money "as the dew falls, on the just and on the unjust." Good, easy, brilliant man-he doesn't care how he gets it or where it goes.-[New York Tribune. MULE A LA MoDEa.--"The Society for the Promotion of the Consumptivrv of Horseflesh" still flourishes in Pamir" It is gratifying to know that choice ents aln eheval continne to advance in public ,eseem, and that the numbers of q'adrnperlal ecarecrows gathered fra, omnihuse anitd other equine cem reteries on wheels, and slaughtered for the restaurants of the Boulevards, in Au~ust, exceeded by over five hun. dred those killed in the same month of last .ear. The science of living to eat is, however, not confined solely to horseflesh with these gourmands of the new school. The flesh o thejack ass is growing in popular applause, as may he seen from the fact that 108 of these Jernsalemn ponies were sacrificed 1 on the gridirons of society in July, but itralmoat provokes the flow of the emo tional tear to learn that the mule did not reach a higher culinary demand than five for the same time. When we think of the chronic ten- I derness, not to say juacyness of that noble animal, viewed as a govermirent mule and piesided over by a govern. mnent teamster, we blush for the boast ed taste of the Parisians who could stoop from mdle to jackass as an arti. cle ofdaily nutritiones diet. Five mules to one hundred and eight jackasses is a moral indigni y and a gross injustice to the great American hlauler, which not even the reputation of the hiblical talking jackass can reconcile with com mon justice. However, there is no dlispunting about taste. J.ekasses seem, to "arry the day an. how, and while we may bow to the superiority of the horse tor a good square meal of hash I we shall cease from this moment to number among the great reformers of the nineteenth century, the society for the promotion of the consumption ofI jackasses.--[St. Louis Republican. AICAttrUL GItRL.-A blooming coun I try damsel, dressed in.. the height of fashion, came tripping blong in compa ny with her beat', and, while crossing a street, turned suddenly around to look at a passing object, just as the tip of her daintr shoe rested on the curb stone of the gutter. As she threw the I weight of her body on th6 innsufficient foothold, her toe slipped, and plumb into the dirt went her little foot, and plashing over her stockings and gar ments went the mud. Her gallant speedily helped her on to the sidewalk, where silhe presented a pitiable appear ance, and then endeavored to fee her from her sudden acquisition of soil with his handkerchief. "It's no use, Charley," sobbed the rural beauty, "it won't coine clesan ane-and-my atto-atstockings are ruined." '"Never mind the stockings," conso tiagly respoaided her swain; "Icn buty yoU a new pair." "Buy me a new pair;, where would I put them on' said she, "Why, we can go to the hotel for thlat matter," replied Charley. "Never !" almost screamed the fright ened girl; "I'd sooner jamp in the riv er than go to a hotel with a man that PI'm not married to." Charley seemed conscience-stricken as the enormity of his proposition flashb ed upon his mind, and wlhen last we saw the pair they were in quest of a clean pair of hase and a proper place to pat them on.--(inciauati Eaquirer ''he Letter That Caused a Deser. tion. At a recent political gathering fa Tuscnmbia, Alabama, General Culler A. Battle related the following very 'tonching story in the course of his speech: During the winter-of 1803-64 it was my fortune to be president of one of the courts-martial of the Army of Northern Virginia. One blik Decem her morning, while the snow covered the ground a n d the winds howled around our camp; I left my bivouac fire to attend the session of the court. Winding for miles along auncertain paths. I at length arrived at the court ground at Rutid Oall Church. Day after day it had been our, duty to try the gallant soldiers of that army, charged with violations of military law bhut never had I on any previous occasion been greeted by such anxious spectators as on that morning awaited thle opening of the court. Case after case was disposed of, and at'length the case of "the Confederate States vas Edward Coolner"'was called-the charge desertion. A low murmur rose spon taneously from the battle-scarred spec tators,'ise a young artilleryman rose from the prisoners' bench, and, in re sponse to 'the question, "Guilty or not gunilty" answered, "Not guilty." The judge advocate was proceeding to open the prosecution, when the court, observing that the prisoner was unattended by counsel, interposed and inquired of the accused, "Who is your couanself" He replied, "I have no counsel." Supposing that it was his purpose to represent himself before the court, thejudge advocate was instrue ted to proceed. Every charge and spe cification against the prisoner was sustained. The prisoner was then told to introduce his witnesses. He replied, "I have no witnesses." As. tonished at the calmness with which he seemed to be submitting to what he regarded as inevitable fite, I said to him, "Have you no defense? Is it pos sible that you abandoned your com radenddes and deserted your' colo s in the presence of the enemy without any reason I" He replied, "There was a reason, but it will not avail me before a military court." I said: "Perhaps you are mistaken; you are charged with the highest'crime known to mili tary law, and it is your duty to make known thticauses that influenced your actions." For the first time his manly fo in trembled, and Ihis blue eyes swam in_ tears. Approaching the president of tie court he presented a letter, say ing as le did so, "There, Ge.e'ral, is what did it n I opener the letter, and in a moment my eyes filled with tears. It was passed from :tie to another of the court until all had seen it, and those stern warriors who had passed with Stonewall Jackson through.a hundred battles wept' like little chii. dren. 'Soon as I sufficiently recovered my self-possession, I read the letter as the defence of the prisoner. It was in these words: MY DAR EDWAiw--.I:have dlways been prolud of:.yoU, and since ydur con aeetion with the Confederate army I have been prouder of you than ever be rore. I would not have you do any thizg wrong for the world; but before "od, Edward, unless your come home. we must dlie I Lastnight iwas aroused by little Eddie's crying, I called andi jaid, "What's the matter, Eddie?" and be said, "Oh, malaes, I'm so hungry!" And Lucy, Edward, your darling Lucy, mhe never.complains, but she is grow ng thinnet- and thinner every day. And before God, Edward, unless you :ome home we must die. YOUR MARY. Turning to the prisonmer, I asked: 'What did yvntlo *rhen you received ;his letter?" He rephled a: "I made ap iication for furlough; and it was re ected; again I made aplitication and t was rejected;ai tdird time I made application, and it was rejected, and 'hat night, as I wandered backward md forward in the camp, thinking of ny home, with the mdd eyes of Lqey ooking up to me, and the burning -ords of Mary sinking in my brain, I was no longer the Confederate soldier, )ut I was the father of Lucy and the musband of Mary, and I would have ssAed those lines if everyr gun iln the Jattery had fired upon me. I went to ny home.. Mary rah out to meet me, er angel arms embraced me, and she whispered. '0! Edward, I am so brsp )y! I am so glad you got youear fur onugh !' She must have felt me shed Ier, for she tuned pale as detth, and jttehin t her breath at every word, she aid, 'Have you come home without rour furloaght Oh I Edward, Edward, to back, go back LLet me and my :hildren go down together to the grave, )ut O, for heaven's sake, save the hon 'r of your name I' And here I am, tentlemen, not brought hereby mmli ary power, but in obedience to ith ommand of Mary, to abide theren-s ence of your court." Every officer of that eourtmartial 'elt the force of the prisoner's words. Before them stood, in beatific vision, he eloquent pleader for a Iusband', and a ftsher's wrongs; but they had been trained by their great leader, Robert E. I , to tread tile path of duty, thonu.gh the lightning's flash scorchled th6 Around beneath their ceet, and each ninhis turn pronounced the verdict--guilty. Fortunately for hamanity, fortunately fr the Confede racy, tjpegproeeedings of tile coutt were reviewed by the ~ommanding generai; and opon the reqqrd was written.: '"The finding ofthe court is app'roved. The prisoner 4'pardoned and will re port to hlis coiaPny. Dnuring the second battle of Cold Harbor when shot and shell were falling "like torrents from the moalu tale cloud," my attemtiou was direeted to thli fact that one of our batteriee was being silenced by the concentrated fre of the enemy. When I reached se battery every goP n- l.qa j ,. been dismantled, and by itatood a 4qL itary Confederate soldler', with "T e bloodetreaming from his side. As he. recognised me be elevgte&,hjs vihee above the soar of battle and :said, "General, I have one shell idflt Tell me, have I saved the honor of Mary and Lucy I I raised my bat, OQee more a Confederate sbell went ceash ing through the ranks of the enemy, and the hero sank by hib gun to rise no more. A PITIABLC SPECTACLE.-;. womtn was arrested in the, vicinity of Belair Mariket in a drunken condition. : a arresting her she screamed violently, ueing the most fearful language, lend attracting hundreds of persons to a., as she passed along in chirge oeftle officer. She was taken to the Middle Distrct Station, when it required four or five policemen to convey her to th@ cells. At tile time of her arrest abW had with her a bright-looking child, about fours of age, which was kindly picked up:by.a lady and carried to.tbe Middle District Station, where, shddek ing to relate, it was daisidvered lthat the child was alpo druank. .The sight of the drunken infant was acknowledged at the station-house to have been the most pitiable spectacle ever seen with in its walls. The frenzied mother kept up her acratms fora long time, and yelled in the wildest manner for her child, but the infant was placed in charge of a lady in the neighborhood, and was taken care of for the ;night. -[Baltimore Gazette. TEW THIS DAY. TEMPER&ATIUR AS RNPOIFTED BY FERGUSON & sCUNACK Date. Morn. Noon. Night. 138. '48° 700 64° Clear 14. 400 680 640 Clear 15, 520o 680 640 Clear 16. 64° 7o 680 Clear 17. 60° 730 70°Clear 18. 62o 760 90o Clear 19. 50° 680 626 Clear NEW ORE.,LL ANS -sad- .,. Grand Ecore Weekly Packet FQI1 G4?ND ECORE, MO0NTGO .* " Y, AIbEXAND!44 PINE-. VILLE, NORMAN'8, BABBIN8S . and ALL WAY LA DIAYGS The Al Magnificent and Fast Run Sling Passenger Steamer SAB.INE: GEO. C. HA¶ILTON........'..Master F. C. FINDREN,.............. .lrk r EAVES NEW ORLEANS EKV~R .'Sarurday at 5 P. M. Returning leaves Grand Ecnre every TUESDAY evening, and Alexandria everyiWED NESDAY at 4I M. For Freight or Passage APPLY ON BOARD. PEOPLE'S 1EW O iLEANS -and Grand Ecore Packet:Comp'y.; THE FINE AND. FAST PASSENGER STEAMER +ra ry Owenu aJOHNHENN,................Mas er WM. CULBERSON,... ..... ,Clerk tt ILtLM' E REGULAR TRIPS VV taking freight for Fort DeRaosqy, Barbi'es, ,ormap',, Pineyille, Alexan dria, Girad Ecor and all Intermediate landings. For freighter passage, hav ing superior acoonmodations, APPLY ON BOARD. OSCAR HoprIN 'otton Factor : -ad Commission Merohant, $5 * Calreadelet Street, .* 5 NEW ORLEANS. C artr dg e -FOR- ' ALL AUMS! eipgon and Schuack Notice, : rl E TAX ROLLS FOR THE COR I ratiotn ,of Aleaandrla having been completed in saeordance with In. Sstrueatgas from the Town aqracil, e , ow ipt~ad for inspectld 44 thee i ; ! s or's o8ee, and all parties Indebrted a' Corporation Tax are hereby notiid to come forward and pay the same with- ' in t.irty day!, or hit~.y will be 4ealt . teh crdlng to 1 .w. i" ,. 1; -di + SATTORNEY AiOUN8sELLORA , W L RACTICE IN P|+ tearishes of i+ . toobas, Wino, Sabine and Gnt, ad ini C the Supreme Court at, New Orleans, la,