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TD DON ALDSONVILLE CH. A , WItEAWAKE li@MiE E PA I.ulmcMmfPTI CF, T'nEE DOLLARM PER AX'I UX. . VOLUME . DONALDSONVILLE, LA., SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1873 " 4 3 u.R...#l UT3.T- .* la Tqurs.O fI at l. I 1 W All *:*: u 81 4 5 65. 5 A egsrel 1~ bumpesee pe!equee each aer tesi. t.es." ar. hpet itor aid- prop I o3 per n a ry. Fa~siuto tnm tie ~ade of th. ladies buse-bali clib are labelled "poison," they are ch a striet nine. .....t as the editof a Oo patent.. ins'ier sneceeded in working up a ice suberiptio t be paid for in hoop-ole he mtnded . la h.paper for a hg dogl with an lower teeth. BAetter to ar a $lre deses with o atluna i be re for, than to owe tfor the -ost The code d nen .tebe la mueh favor with edmltts oss 1Dl s..e of them the sther ds i e. sa by he ad t him do a ad pat off his ar. And still the chap ir dis iftor altn they sare so much an Betior tou sd.amsadr iee th ioyed ak rem d fle that sprinkle ofgdn sa tea, ater Mr. Qelehaattnobe, an Apache sa~-em, recently commenced his pro paratiton for embracing Christiaty y killing his Ave ed quas. T bh sail it try proposed to bang him, bet Osa. Crook interposed, ani sea am to a o f Phtatisne fort, to e shut up idr peer. A.family in Vermont, on resuming intecoursme with the external world after the winter'd seclusion amid im enetrable snowdrifts, are horrified to iad tAt they have for several weeks been ~ilsing the Sabbath in secular pursute od keeping Monday tholy) C sreokc4tr da t"o ,wets~~sd, ail rD limt TwoY aored Coegresme have sent ; cadets to West Point. They bheld a competitive examination and the white bos won. They were not obliged toas tide -could have s>nt whon ti.hey chose. 'this exam pie of liberaoty aghbt to cure some of tihe extremists of negrophobia. Miss Alice JobnePs ~ o attractive young woman, s i_ oj. l ai op the wives in tows' seews moved by a common Aipidse to presept their husbands with agwe little Jyve-token, By a rewarkable coilci4Arwe they all selecteod rors a.d brushes and iugs. A Wlisoari Jaudge sW 4.Wly ved a ani ue death sensbee. lie said to the 1ca idate for the gallows " If guilty, you riAbly deserve the fate which awaits you; if inooeeA, it whll be a gratiftieoin foe jou to feel that you were bagged witioutn'sch a crime on ronrconrsciecei iusithserasE.yoe will be delive ed from a world of care." The reputationa ebabers of the Legislature for sobriety seems to be rather bad in Kentacky. Two of them werp rather noisily drunk on a railroad train the other day, and when the onedector remonstrated, one of them pompously nakedc "Do yu not know, sir, that I am a mem of the Iegislature ?" The co, ductor quietly replied, 'IYou've got the symptoms.". Persevere against discouragoments. Keep your temper. Employ leisure study, and always have. some work in hand. Be punct~al and methodieal in business, and ever procrastinate. Never be in a hberry, Prservy self possession, and do not be talked out of conviction. Rise early, and be an kconoimist of time. Maintain dignity withort pride; a" Per is so.enAi.g with everybody, and everything with some. Be guarded in discourse, at tentive and slow to speak. Never ac quiuiesce in imjporal or pernicious opinions lie not forward to assign reasons to those who have no right to ask. Think nothing in conduct un important or indifferent. I:tthser set than follow e:amtples. m I st the Recent e al tie ileeowae. The fSllwoing statements ar made Ita eetesd t from eeta; . At ey, f tee mite fnrom Sethe atet was observed, asecr alto the d pe.w 4deese. of opinion sheart 3 dtk the afternoon. Hail feil hea#Ulti sh kail as has sot been sen aine the1~Jasa of Egypt, cane down thiku n ismf 4a a&y line, t$e ast ber altj se east jly onot ide the ai initee of the tornado, which was some tea miles away. The eize of the hall will test e ereduleas powers of many, and, weret tese to ceneurrence of testi ao.u I would besitate to mention It. Mr. ,J N, a condustor on the ek sland lad, a man of intel igence, tlated, tat he was in a drug store when several were picked up, weighed, and measured. One of them Weighed seven and a half ounces, and was ten inches in eircunference. A gentleman had one weighing eight ounces, and so large and solid were they that it took three hours for the largest to telt. They resemble large lumps of elear, transparent ice. Some were round as a cannon ball; some lightly oblong like an egg; others were tiattened likedoor-knobs. Down they ceme with a detonating sound illethe report of a pistol. No one was in the streets. It was as much as life was worth to be struck by one of these curious celestial missiles. Horses tried to dodge them, and in doing so broke away from their hitch inug-posts, and dashed wildly through the terrifed town. More than one vehicle met die fate of the " one-hoss shay." Windows were broken and much small injury done in various ways. The only indication. Sigourney had of the work of destruction going on in the distance was a low rumbliug sound, like far-away thunder, or the noise of a train of cars moving rap idly overabrklge. The tornadostarted on its nmision of death from the vicin ity of Haysville, in Lancaster Town ship, Keokuk County, not far from the town of Lancaster. Mr. James Craig, an old citisen of that place, states that two clonds seemed to come together, unite and move rapidly In a northeasterly direction. The first obstacle it eneoontered was the Jones School-house in the vicinity of Lan caster. School was in session. The teacher and scholars barely noticed the darkening sky when hadl began to fall, and the sound of the approaching cyclone smoute their ears like a meaa sengerof death. They were frightened bnt did. not asiuolte serious danger. Suddenly the building was lifted from the ground, turned around and car ried twenty feet away, where it was laid down right side up with care as if the Storm King felt there were withir. predous, innocent lives that should not he sacriticed. The inhab itants 9f the building hardly knew what happenen before the destroyer passed in search of other victims. The children were bruised and cut by the falling desks and seats, but none were seriously injured. On swept the irresistible column, announcing its approach by the same loud roar, which brought the people of Lancaster to the doors. They saw it in the distance-a dark, cone-like, opaque mass, moving with appalling swiftness. It was coming directly toward them. It struck terror into their hearts; women swooned and brave men held their breath. It lifted one house from over the cellar where the family were crouching in fear, and the roof was raised from another build ing. The outskirts of the village suf fered most, probably because the houses, being isolated, had .nothing but the foundationus to hold them to the earth. The smoke-house and gra naries of B. C. Moore, one mile from Lancaster, wert utterly demolished, and Jacobson's log house was caught up and the logs of which it was con structed distributed far and wide. Jacobson was hurt, but not fatally. Louis Bennett's home and fences went to the four winds, his loss being per baps $1000. Mr. Low, an aged in valjd, was seriously wounded by fly ing timbers. Having dceated conft sion and alarm in Lancaster, the storm swept proudly by until it reached the barn, out,-booAses and fences of Mrs. Paggett, which were broken up into kindling-w ood nd carried off on the current, Near Slkuk Ifiver woods a fl6ck of J,500 sheep were quietly grazing when the storm arose. With an instinctive dread they gStbered in a circle, that cowptionsbip might alleviate the sense of danger, Thb.y congregated directly in the line of the storm, and when it came it elbvated them until, as an eye witness expressed it, "they looked like a flock of birds." They circled round and round, the velocity of the inner current overcoming the attraction of gravitation, until the Icntrifugal motion moved them to the edge of the cyclone, where, the vel oeity being diminished," they fell to the earth, Of the 1,500, only 40 were found alive up to this afternoon, and it is believed that the remainder were killed. Their remains are found hang ing on the trees.id bushes, and strew ing the ground. Mr. Ash was the next victim, if there is any such thing as consecutiveness in a disaster so sweeping. His house, barn and fences were leveled; he was severely wounded, and his wife's arm was s broken. • The Doggett grave-yard, not far from Lancaster, was swept as if with i bhsom. The tonbstounrs were thrown down, sad, accerding to some, several were caried away. Tihe storm uaintained its northeast Course, earrying everything before it fotr awidth of tker 100 yards to a quarter,of a mile. Fences were laid flat. Houses were of no account. Men, women, and children, and all kinds of animals were mingled ia the moving mass of air at a height of from forty to. sixty feet. 'trees a foot in diameter Were snapped in twain, and the forests seemed as if an nmdhmse scythe, pro polled by an invrisble giant, had eat all that dared to be in its track. The swath marked the path ofthe destroyer. Over hill and valley it moved, leav ing wee ints track. For a few miles from Lancaster the country is rather thinly settled, but it left its marks upon the face of nature. It has reached Clear Creek Town ship, three or four miles from this place, where there are many houses, and where its fury was most sadly felt. It cane down on the house of Mr. Nicholas Engledingle, whose wife was lying sick, her husband being absent. She was alone with her child. The housearas carried away and torn to atoms, and the unfortunate woman and child went with it to destruction. Her fate is very and. She was liter ally rent asunder. The trunk from the neck to the abdomen was found in one place, the arms in another, andm the head and neck further away. One limb stuck in the sand where it fell. Probably she was instantly killed. Her child was killed, the top of the head being blown off, giving the ap pearance of scalping. Michael Puhs was sitting in the house with his wife and child, when it was raised from over their headi, the child being killed. This happened about live miles from Harper's Station, six miles west of here. 1 met Mr. Stowne, living seven miles from Harper, as he and hiL hands were at work repairing the damage. lie believed the storm passed his farm at 3 o'clock. He likenedit to an immense funnel,reaching from earth to heaven, and coining from the southwest. It was black. He could not see through it. He lost seventeen head of cattle, and had from eight to twelve crippled. He could see the funnel - for fifteen minutes before it disappeared. lie understood three horses belonging to Mr. Yomas were killed, and six be longing to Mr. Comitze, beside 100 hogs and a doewn hogs of ltiddolphis'. Nicholas Lake lost two cows. Fred Letae's barn was thrown down and three of his horses wouinded. The loss of stock will never be known. Mr. Snarr was working cheerfully in the ruins. His tinber near was cut anid benout, and would never grow again. His fences were undergoing repair. Over in his field lay a dead beef just skinned, and dead hogs and sheep were scattered here and there, Fence posts were stuck firmly in the ground where they stood, and the ter rifle strength of the storm was visible on every hand. In another place a pump w.ts drawn out of the ground and deposited in the soil half a mile away, where it could he pumped, though pumping would fetch no wa ter. The horse-power of a threshing ma chine, weighing 2,340 pounds, was raised as if it were a feather, and dropped a quarter of a miile fromn home. 'lThe houseof Peter Marsh was blown down qud one child killed. It is sta ted that alLthe rest of the family, in cluding seven children, were stripped of every vestige of clothing. The dead child was found eighty yards froim the site of the dwelling. MA. Campbell lost his wife. His two children were badly hurt. Mr. Bcvins, of Gertnantown, lost his barns and fences, and Mr. Lentz a new barn just finished. The town stood in imminent danger. Citizens saw the column approaching, and one gentleman had calculated that it would strike the post-offlice first. So it would, had it come dlirect ly, but fortunately it did not. Three miles from here it seemed to jump over the town, and the next heard of it was six miles to the northwest, where it seemed to land and continue its apalling progress. It is calculated that it jumpedl ten miles, leaving all of that length of its course fronm here through Washington County, untilit disappeared somewhere in the Missis sippi Valley. A wide diversity of opinion exists as to the rate at which the storm trav elled. Twenty miles an hour is the opinion of a majority, but probablyjt moved much faster, as at nearly every point three o'clock is given as the hour at which it passed. It traversed a region of remarkable fertility, over a rolling country.. Some of the hills, being quite.steep, retarded its speed, but it probably moved with more ra pidity than is generally supposed. It dealt death and destruction wherever it went. There is sorrow in nearly every household, and the entire conntry is in active sympathy with those who mourn. They know not how soon they themselves may be visited by a similar calamity. The event will not soon be forgotten. Those who have lost friends will remember it while they live, and so will those who have witnessed the destruction of property and the ruin spread over a wide strip of our common country. More, hor rors, than have been enumerated might be told, but nothing more need he added to the lamentations that rise from many a broken heart. T. W. DeKline. JFrom tre Iberville Pioneer and News.j Tihe name of this gentleman appeare so often in print and especially when ever a symlpton of the old rebellion reveals itself in Louisiann, that we believe the readers of the Pioneer and Kews will be pleased to know more concerning him. The Chief Deputy Marshal of the United States for the State of Louisiana, he is just the man for the post and an unconscious wit ness therein to the critical judgment of men, for which the Warwick of Louisiana, Marshal Packard, is some what distinguished. As a Lieutenant Colonel on the Militia Staff of Gen. Longstreet, Mr. I)eKlyne was dis patched, some weeks ago, to Grant parish, to report the circumstances of the late massacre there, and so well and dispassionately did he perform his duty in connection with an associate officer, as to have commanded for his report not only general confidence but its general reproduction through the public prints of the nation. More re cently he was called upon as a Federal officer to proceed to St. Martin's par ish, where DeBlane and his armed combinations had precipitated an insur rection in contravention of the laws of tie United States. The result of his pursuit appears in his landing in New Orleans his dozen or more pris oners after ferretting them out from forests and thickets. Impeded in every possible manner, he surmounted all discouragements and did not relent in the chase until his hand grasped his prisoners. The late Governor (Warinoth) still rememmnlers an occasion when amidst his array of armed police and while arrogating immunity for his misde imeanors, Mr. I)eKlyne stalked into tihe Executive office and made him prisoner. The Deputy Marshal is scarcely more than thirty years of age and carries over six feet above his soles, a well-balanced head. He evi dently confides thoroughly in himself and the zeal and fidelity that signalize his official service, seem fully to jus tify such faith in the first numeral. Tlhat the public at large share that fiiith is abundantly denoted. During the war an officer in the navy, lie evi dently did hot then exhaust his coim bative energy--he teems with it still, but so holds it under discipline that it is only when he is resisted in the executive process that a possibility for its display can well occur. A na tive of the city of Brotherly Love, he is fraternal to his friends and cordial to all with whom he is bronught in con tact. Totally different in tempera meat from Marshal Packard, he is in every wise the latter's right hand, alert for instruction, prompt and res olute at execution. Whether in his immediate superintendence of the office of the Marshalship or in his ad venturous pursuits outside he thor oughly suffices the need. There is a perc..ussive power latent in him, part of which, indeed, may be imputed to his comparative youth, but the greater uart is owing to a normal proclivity to self assertion. Strong-limbed and strong-minded, his vigor is impatient for expression ; and we conceive that the more difficult the service required him the more readily he would greet the summons. A nnan who passion ately believes in his country, lie is justly intolerant toward men who grounded their guns in '65 amid skulk into ambuscades now to wreak their chagrin. This is the sort of man to button into ia United States Deputy Marshal's jacket and his superior evi dently knows it. Mr. l)eKlyne is also Secretary of the Republican State Central Commit tee anmd as such has rendered invalua ble service to the State. A scrupulous citizen and honest officer, he has in sensibly to himself foreclosed a large mortgage omn the public faith of Louis imimn.. View of Mississippi River. At Quincy I got my first view of the Mississippi river. I believe there is not an American but has some sort of an idea what the Mississippi river looks like, and has a vague impres sion that some time or other before lie dies he will be permitted to see it. The Mississippi-what a word it it is to chew up in ink-is an institution by itself. It is full of associations, both tragical and comic, and is also full of mud. It has no banks to speak of. It is full of bars, and has a nar row and very uncertain channel. These are matters we all hear at school, and see repeated in the papers, but we don't realize them until we get upon the river itself. T'he steamboats are flat-bottomed, and many of them carry the wheel at the stern. I think it is the stern. It is that part of the boat where, if it was a house, the slops would be thrown. The wheel is a cumbersome looking article, and to the casual ob servor the boat appears to have just climbed over it. I would give you a picture of the two were I not engaged in painting a view of the Rocky mountains at suntise. The river is much broader at this point than I expected to see it, but we can not always have things our own way in this world. The channel is about three feet deep opposite this place, I don't know the exact width of the river, but there is no doubt the. water is as thick as it is broad. The traveler should turn it over with his foot, and so look aL both sides of it. All was bustle at the dock when I got there. The boat was taking on its freight, andabo tthttg 3zgag r sad one very exicted avf lrfi white man were dgig`te bufes. That white man- wa asm dy, A *wms the mate of t h es. and t at he didn't know about esetl be hold on the point of a -blae by a ' nortons man. 'The tinb t sat1Md all they coullkwellatntea tai. apke with his new oaths and r el the casks. Without any 0 oy bobbed from the boat to te 't. saaEo tthe shore ba k tehMe Veat, anda all the th theai iMdedpt theE cutionist danced arNu.4 sad swore. When I got on the boat I sat down on my baggage and watched that wtan. Being a resident of New Englad, I thought I knew something of wiseld ness, but I was mistaken. The .e. groes were uniformly driseip in pItae, shirts and hat. Some of the bats weiw ornamente&d with dtifferent deleted ribbons; others again contaioee buta simple brass plate-the trade mark of a retired fruit can. Beauty unadorned { is adorned the most. They woee driven like sheep, first to the shore, then back to the boat. The leat bIe itation, the alightest nlstep, was hot ed by the orator and promptly inacer porated into his discourse. e eoulda't hawv been more familiar were they his own fathers, which it is not likely they were. After getting through at the dock the boat moved up to the co yard. The coal was brought on In boxes with handles at each end. Eadh box contained two and one-half bushels and was carried by two men. Six hundred bushels wdre thus taken on. The same amount bf bustle and vehe mnence occurred in this transaetion. The men sweat like April, and ap. peared to be ready to drop at every trlip, but the mate hurried tonics at them and kept them up. When his lips got tired he used his boot, and used it in that whole-seoed way pe culiar to Mississippi boatmen. The negroes ieceived one dollar a day and their victuals. I Abdsld think they would go to some city and get Iuto a store. Through the courtesy of the clerk I helped to occupy the pilothueese, and in this lofty perch got srpleadid view of the river and einder*. The shores were fiat and covered with forests. When I grew tired of looking at them I looked at the pilot. There was a boat ahead of as which the eapttin was bound to overtake, The plot dida4& believe it could be done, ibcause the boilers on our boat were old and weak, and could not pesiibly stand the pres sure. This made seed*k M lhoetee ac.b, and so I climbed 4~wa oat of the pilot-house, and' iimmneiately placed between mee and thois boilelr all the territory I could get together. ";Remarkable instances of canine sagacity " are generally too much for us, but here is one related by an East ern newspaper (which mst, therefore, be true), and which has the appear ance of probability. "The otherday," so begins the newspaper, "a gentle man transacting business in this vil lage, left his horse attached to a chaise tied under a shed. Remaining with the horse was a coach-dog, who took advantage of his master's absence to enjoy a hasty nap in the vehicle. In the meantime, the horse somehow broke from his fastening, and set off at a furious gallop. This awakened the dog, who at once realizing the state of affairs, attempted to seize the reins with his teeth, but could not do'so owing to their being covered by an overcoat. Fortunately, however, the reins fell from the carriage on to the ground, when the dog, with sin gular presence of mind leaped nimbly after them, caught them in his mouth, reined the horse to a stand still, (Lnd heli the reins firmly until he deliv eredc them with a graceful wag of the tail, to a stranger, whom, under ordi nary circumstances, he would not have allowed to approach his mastet s prop erty." Langqage of Animals.--It has long been known that animals and insects have a language that is understood by others of thie same group. But Af. tIoureau maintains that they can and do learnt to understand the language of other groups. His dogs, for in stance, perfectly understood his poultry. Cocks and hens have one danger-signal for the approach of a bird of prey, another for that of a terrestrial animal or for a Lan. When the latter was sounded the dogs would rush out and bark, while to the for mier they paid no attention whatever. lie therefore concludes that fowls have the power of expressing slightly differ ent but closely allied ideas, and dogs can learn to undeiptand these differ ences. A Boston watch-repairer named Hughes ate an eight hundred dollar dinner at New Haven, Wednesday. While he was eating it some thief made off with his case, containing thirty watches, leaving no clue. Bushyhead is the name of one of the editors of a California paper. Faney the feeling with which Captain Jack would toy with his scalping knife if Bushyhead went to interview him. There is something interestfng in observing two women looking disdain fully at each other, but when two old ladies whose front teeth are gone curl the lips of scorn, tle effect is very de pressing. no longera ani a ad l-meenm u aeo. Btt . Iet . Bure w base h eMb m s s asth a..anle app o tem per--a a " in (rantp jmviab, whti eves os evwny heue ho, some eep i a whcht dieted he weeld ra d A to lendan ear. That et iits no dupe in hbs ~ " AQgood eitheal ds etizenso, who exults over the_ sama Sla innocent eeaeb dm nmd.ermabes even his own Illb e - t ra tyhat OWE d oa the te hel wo m s the people and Bs is tt- i -pinst esuch men ian t 'tatme. u e nqp w .ar, have asmad ntOW hentw. r to ha.too o bee v le, I-bartes all a er or no dupe wn ahaveisa garbe; aiti eawnid 1 in 9 fontempf of .hIees °hen ' couo is agyk1itr n atize. rInho exlts over.S.' Delane at the resid l ies tr las gent elew, e newe. 4 lsnemadsg ~at faet. rNetba, glmd pnt anras their armed rabbe say hi jot. This wescee t i abite aldl the frivolod lll#esde lsr igai fit te Oovernor, not sel of ths, en ticements. Neither a nutineern can bit ronbed tbe £ eimne f hia attitude as f n eeleutive. Ot sde of thWi s spmall, antrw ar4alteo.s ty and intent fully tr o conserve Lo nd barte. d aia for anre othe man ofe marnee; cand bucnhacdiederaun hi noblie prno las in . oI4f . ]ut inot. That he is atmbLets fn eases service be -srender ed her is U. Lkeiny and dthe resliue o onf seur-e Snate. The Tern Paelle lailhoae of which New Orleans is tue inatel terminns; the Mexican Pobtal Sub sidy Bill, by which New Orleanesho sld sidy B~ill, by which Newf Orlreansshould be the commercial Queen of the Mex ican and 4anish-Amerlean. waiters; the millions of national mouniesappe priated to open Lsmiuiana's bayom: the erection of Shreveport into a prt of custompis the Supplemental Electiou Law, and dive~s other vital sesaltres, all constituteeommeaudiamWtlUUsal s the gratitMde of Lo..siisa. Gov. Kellogg is a aa a.o Av. feet foao inches in height, Wrib. a black haii and eyes andwith a blMs cheery face, fringem with asmadst whisker. Fertile ilssges, hea . !I~e alivays sanguine in the face of a ta 'verse--and this trait ws MI*iIW in a marked degree lea iuevsadaVser push to a successful ieuoe Bill in the Senate. Twice during the session, he retaried and undismayed tuthe coategits the very eve of adieo his triumph. Heartily eswaewm y his associates is that bodyal..b£hp - administration, we are a, it ie that McEner"sn pretensdos to power should bare been dismisd hfrom con sideration. Gov. Kellogg stadls with Ja)- e majority of the people of tJ e at his back-let him, as we U el. will, continue to bold the ~lt' 'ich that majority, Congrmes, the Pmid*t and the nation at large >er epeso in him, and he will not aonl earn heir laurels for himself but is 1eeustfy rescue our usha l ty Sat iear the slough to which Woaraot oais her. Wno DosBTs I- t-The msa who I would take a newspaper fr a length of time and then send it back refsed,. unpaid for, would swallow a blind dog's dinner, and then ,time the .log for being blind..