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THALKWALDSONVILLE LUTIEL.JE1 wason rI' RICE, TIERyEL JNPLLA3S R! AlIRSJ. voLUE 2. I OALJDkONVILE, LA.. BATURDAY. JUNE 28, 1873.dJ Amtions~a gmani s. ftbýiked R Saw trdiy Vfvmag D-al arw lL t/ ItDE ft E. A (f4TlE V, FI~vTORt AND) i'ttOPR TOlto1. THRMB OF N UB5ORIPTIOff: g.e pyoney ,eI..,... ...... $3 00 ,!nsoopy, six x mn a I................ 1 50 W 1aple ... ........... ...,,... 10 Puy loavariab~ly mn advance. AD VE BTIMING BA TBS; [A square is the space of ten lines Agate.] space. I1 wt. I ai. m te. . d nem. I yr. , square- $1 0 t $i o y ngared. .. j "O5 $00 09 Ibe 26*000 Aaqts 4 8 16 00 2 35 ITO &t clhtII)... 4 `r 5i5 v on l 5i0 o .M *1 2 21 *. 0Ou'm 85 Bo `2Us o t 00 40 ( 00 70 00 oo 0o riet advertisents, $1 50 s sotgrpssmnan .1. RIo. 7 os of Alabama hailAevtehis I nthec$ pay to the poor "What are you doing for e s" aske a ealous cleg yman of a Wasb - .dIme mtuch. I isn on toh e pooredl ,now.', A Memphis jury, having con virted a man of murdeta, now finds that the supposed murdered man is living. The questionAs, whether the verdict shall be reseinded, or the man allowed to murder his victim. A small but clever exchange slyly advartiiac itself as follows: "Will the sabacriber, who sent us his re newal from St. Petersburg, please send us his name again. as in the hurry of lusii'ess, his letter was lost. Not only is barne's casinibal on strike, bat, his new gorilla is giving 1Phineas considerable trouble, bbecause the great showman insists that the autapal miust not swear when fleas bite .hime, espieially it' ministers or their :families are standing in frout of the ('age. ,A diaUonid enmil-box, valued at 5i,($$, was found; in a railway car in .Elnglap4t1,A e bile ago. It was ad txNrti5Epli1iiOII i4rwetions, but to no lpurposq, id nw t romainit an orna jlaent of the flp u irpoom, handed round " for the firectoratprefresh themselves with its coateto. - A young la ; in 'Conneautville en tered a sewer pi p twelve inches in Aiamteter a few anys ago to recover a lost ball. When;rte attempted to back ,out he found pit impossible, and he very pluckily shoved himself'through :the pipesie whole leggth, a distance .of seventy feet. It was a perilous aulveptae, bbut he saved the ball. Joip F;rpklin, a farmer of New York, dolissretoly threw a valuable plowshare .into.the river on account of his wife's :isassant scolding. Mr. Franklin, it might be well to add, was attached to {the weight by the rope; consequiently Mrs. F. has lost a husband, a plowshare, and three feet of good rope, just ithroagh a chronic propensity;to wpgther4tRpgne. The CuiEr iidlrses the following warning from the Homer Jikid: The publisherso -the Vlied advise the press and tIe~public'to beware of a certain combination calling itself the "Union Publishing Company," of Chicago, Ill. It sends out advertise ments which it never pays for; and this being the case, the presumption is fair that it will cheat those who send money to it for the purpose of pºrociIaing what it advertises. A young man becoming a little dis satisfied with the coquettish actions of his young lady while she was shop ping on Saturday, retired to another part of the store, and restinghis elbow 4On the dummy figure of a woman, gave himself up to gloomy redlec tipns,tfromwhich he wasrudelyaroused by a sharp push, while the dummy received a vigorous slap over the head from an indignapt lady's parasol. bThere is hardly enough of the Eng 'i h language to do justice to the scene that followed. STA~iAVu PROPHECY.-Last Mon day, on Prairie Oregg, we were ac ,,ioted by $ citizen with the question, : What about that baby that spoke I" Not co; pre1ey4ing his meaning, we asked for an explanation, when we were informed a rumor was current in that neighborhood that a baby bad ,eeently been born in Now Iberia which spoke immeoiateli after its ap pearance into this e) pjud dreary ,country, and astonished its attendants by telling them that the rains would cintinne forty days longpr, when the tires would descend from heaven and .*ensuimnie the earth. Foolish bab} l 11 that time the earth would be too jvet to) bEr1. La. Sugar I owi. We e a !<'e ftile Jel aghear Newu the following artiele: 9 1'he movement spoken of in our last issue has taken a forward step, and may now he said to be fairly before the people. A meeting was held on Monday night, in New -Orleans, at which the most promhtent teen of either race assembled and joined in an action which, if rightly carried )0 out, intost ulnquestionably lead to a m0 permatenttanderstanlding and certain 10 prosperity. Those who represented the white people were the very best and most eminent citizens of New Orlenns Men like Dr. (hlaoppin, Gen ral Bp arrd, .Thomas A. Adams, ColnelJ. . Hlland 1. 5l. Marhe, are not to be charged with any but th 1iitOinrest moetive. They would not 0 have an oilee, and ,heir past histoa pleaves no ground fora single reproach that may touch the privateer pub.ie e charadter of any one of them. The -o red uien ret'* represented by Colonel James Lewis, J. Henri Burch, Aristide Hary, Dr. lioudanes, Liout h enant Governor C. C. Altoihe, and others. sat the proceedings develop some nspous ietp.. Well worthy the con Alderation of all. So far from calling for any new legislation in favor of the i colord people,-heheffect ofthis move r mont will beto puts stop to it finally. At irst glance tis seenas strange, but it merely proves-and the colored ,, peoplehitpaftititkt dttilfntder it- that while all necessary laws have been made, It still remains with the whites to effectually nullify or confirm t them. It proves that though the Hepublican party wields the power, and the colored people are in a posi tion to obtain such legislation as they desire, there must be a perfect a mn pathy and harmony between t mn Sand the whites before any fruits of Itinit powor may be enjoyed. It demon strates that if we- need the colored people to secure our own prosperity, they also need ns to plrfect their privileges. We. are mutually necessary, to each other in the achleveient ofra common destiny. The white man has found it out by experienee of defeat and ep p,prpe inn ; .then colored esaes. throughy a Tong period of unsatisfled hole1 and iunredeeimed prothise. Eight years have peed since the new era dawned, and to-day the races equally find themselves without the advantages they exiected. They see that discord ionly aggravats the tro,,Ile, lend that their advancement can not be acon pliahed save .thlrouglh nautual ander stanrdin and mutual assistance. .Such is the coh lusion reached by the representative men of both sides in New Orleans, and we may fairly 1 assume, from the character of those n10w riromiinlent ill the mIovemeint, that 1 it is an honest conclusion, and meat s in time, embrace within its fold all the thinking people of Louisiana. We 4f the country are bound to take the matter into consideration. If the results in view will afect New I Orleans, how much more gravely will they touch the most vital interests of the agricultural district ? Let any man look fairly at the case as existing t on Bayou Teche, and deny that pro s sperity or failure can in every instance be associatexl with the feeling existing between the employer and the hired man i Does any one so far deceive lhimself as to think that all the ex perience, all the judgment, all the skill in the world will avail against the distrust, the indifference or open enmity of the laborer ? We must ask ourselves these ques Lions now, for New Orleans is in earnest, and the crisis will be upon us in our turn. Plainly the colored people ask for nothing but our cordial recognition of what they legally pos sess. They ask to be accorded wil lingly the right they may at any time demand and obtain in court. Only six or seven days ago, Judge Culloum, a Fusion nominee, elected by I the white people of New Orleans, and a jurist and gentleman of high stand ing decided that the colored people had the right to demand and receive 1 first-class passage on steamboats, 1 (and, by inference, on every other public conveyance.) Suit was brought 1 by a colored woman, Mrs. Josephine ý Decuir, against the steamer Governor Allen, claiming damages on account of having been refused cabin passage. Judge Cullom awarded the damages and showed, in alengthy and masterly ] decision, that the law of the land left 1 him no alternative. Now the colored people can demand I these things and got them. We have 4 no recourse. But they ask ns to ac- 1 cord them frankly and in a spirit of, kindness. They ask us to put away our prejudices and give themp a fair 1 chance to work out their destiny. In return they pledge themselves 1 to make common cause with uneagainst 4 evil legislation, and every other gov errnmental ill whose burden now I weighs us down and crushes all our *ggergies. hle question presents no attrac- 4 tions to the professional politician. I No agce, present or prospective, I starts out from the camera and beck- 1 ons hint with alluring smiles. On the I con.trairy, h4e sees in its consummation i I the period .of his ocoupation, and the 1 dawning of an era, in which his fa- t vovite instirmWents of passion and 1 prejudice will be cast *side forever. But we who have legitimate occuppa tions, who, either in business, agri- 1 cultural, or profesional life, But our i egreest comfort in harnisewO; who have noting, to lose but every thing to gain by mutual uude'standiagg aid established concord; we see in it, whenever realised, a salatibn of the problem in which our gravest inter eats are involved, and it must occur to everv- man who has any thing at stake, that eis decision should only be given after serious thought and conscientious self examiuation. Is there anything in it L Will we be any better off? Shall we resign our illst remaining privilege? Gentleanen, that privilege is hollow to thin core, and the eaxeriinent, we candidly believe, ic worth a trial. The St. Louis (Oobc under the head ing " An Ex-Confederate New 1) parture," says: A significant document is the series of resodutions passed at a meeting of white and colored citizens in New Orleans on last Monday evening. They are at expression of ex-Confederates, represented by General P.G. T. Ieaii regard, joining with the colored eiti zeus in a genuine and unreserved re cognition of the equal rights of all citizens, irrespective of race or color. No one can tend the resolutions with out being impressed with the sincerity which breatits in them, and manli ness which inspires them. How pre valent the spirit of them may he among native Southern white men we can not tell. The strain sounds like 'the voice of one crying in the wilderness," the glad promise of a too distant future. But no such utterence can belost. It is itself an illustration of the might of truth and r obleiiess in leading Southern-horn wiite men to seek in the genius of christiAnity, and the generotedictatesof hutmainity, thtesolution of the race problem. Such truths so proclaimed, will add to the victories they have won. They will fall noiselessly into multitnd's of Seouther hearts, and will prove to have mysteriously germinated ant taken root, to surprise the world with lharveets of good s eers hereafter. A.to the immediate practical im portance of this latest and bent of new departures, we can not indalge san guine anticipations. But we shall hpe to he disappointed in the fetr that Generalleawpgard will not soon have the ex-Confederate following he should have in this matter. The col ored citizens of Lotistinr , forming one-half of the citizens of the State, and securely entitled-by every con ceivable interest of every citizen--to the cordial recognition now profmreid them, will not be deceived, and ought to be wary. Theiv csnfidence can be g:ited by a practical carrying out of the principles now freshly ,mirerated. even if demagogtes should endeavor to prevent theta from giving con fidence where it is deserved. And it in equally trite that ill fair-seeming or political strategy can unceessfully impose upon them. When the Union flag was fired upon, the national sentiment blazed in a re sistless war in its defense. The nuin bers and wealth and patriotism of the country achieved a great victory. But a grander victory is to be achieved . country acnaleveu a greai vicory. f liut a grander victory is to be achieved by out Southern brethren in the niove ment just begun in New Orleans. ' They propose to take the colored e man by the hand as their fellow-citi zen, which too many who fought thein are searcely willing to do. It was a e military and political triumph to put - the new amendments in the constitu e tion. It will be a sublime moral tri t umph for the South to adopt them in a the spirit of them. The ex-Confederate pioneers in this work, who have not - only the sagacity to see its necessity, r but the conscience to feel its justice, and the courage to proclaim both its I noessity and its justice, will one day I be ranked among the illustrious bene - factors of their country. a Coornmxo ON FIRE.-The frequent terrible deaths from clothes taken tire a should lead all persons to remember the following method of extinguishing I such fires, as given by the Scientific - American: T Three persons out of four would a rush right up to the burning individ ual and begin to paw With their hands r without any definite aim. It is use t less to tell the victim to do this or 3 that, or call for water. In fact, it is r generally best not to say a word, but t seize a blanket from a bed or any woolen material, hold the corners as s far apart as you can; stretch it out lhiiher than your lead, and running t boldly to the person, make a motion of clasping in his arms, mostly about I the shoulders. This instantly smoth ers the fire and saves the face. The - next instant throw the person on the f floor. This is additional safety to the face and breath, and any remnant of r flame can be put out more leisurely. The next place immerse the burnt a part in cold water, and all pain will t cease with the rapidity of lightning. Neot get sonme conmnton flour, remove from the water, and cover the burnt parts witb an inch thickness of flour. If possible pat the patient to bed, and - do all that is possible to soothe until the piay sician arrives. Let the flour remain until it falls off itself, when a beautiful new skin can le found. Un less the burns are deep no application is peeded. Dry dlour for burns is the nmost admirable remedy ever proposed, and the information ought to be im I parted to all. The prumeiple of its action is that like water, it causes in staut mtnu perfect relief front pain by - totally" excluding all the air I eun the liri i -nj parts. Pfpsy Potts on Hobbies. I &'#at people who have hoibbies worse skan those who have contagious Odiseases. There's old Byron Fisher and his w ife,`Wlho live over on the ridge. Now they think that an ointment they call `Newton's grease," will cure every thing, no matter what it is. Why, I heard old brother Fisher say once, right in convernint meeting, that he owed his life to Newton's grease and the Lord 1 I went over there the other evening to get some pink- roots, and they asked me how my eatarrh was; I told them it was alotut the same, sonetimes very bad, then again I hardly felt it; that I experienced the most trouble from imy usthmy. Even then I was wheez ing like a dilapidated old bellows, friom lly walk ifl hil. " You can be eared of both, and it won't cost more'n a quarter," said lie, sitting down, leaning back and stick ing his feet upon a line with our faces. Positively, I would have given our last rear's files of the Baptist Banner to have seen the hind legs of, his chair slip anid let him down suddenly, the low-bred old backslider! " All you have to do," said he, "is to take about three spoonfuls of New ton's grease, melt it, and snnif it up iour nose as hot as you can bear it. For the sake of gettin' well Yon could stand it pretty hot, you know; and for the asthma I would advise you to rub it on well all over your breast and throat, and up under your ears, and take nhout a table-spoonful in wardly three timges a day." That riled ine up, and I said: "Bro tlter Fisher, do you suppose I have no feelings at all~? Pd hug my entarth, and rejoice and gloat over my asthma, and feel rich in their possession before I'd trent my sensitive mortal framne with sinh indignity! I. a woman in good standing in the church I Never!' "I dinit insist on it," said he; "its none of my business; but here it In before you, life and health and st ricgth, or a poIri patched-up old frame, nvt able to stand any thing, a-wheezin' arnnd this way!" I smilel, and turned the subject, though I felt as it my eyes snapped fire. Sister Fisher sat combing her hair; it was knig and even, and I couldn't help admiring it. I said, ' Your hair is Very lea5tiful hfr a wonian of your age. I don't seE how roui keep it look ing so bright ant glossy." ,he langhiit a little embarrassed mill, and said she took good care of it. "Well, tell the whole truth," said he, looking as though I were his vic tim; "she never elves her hair, just u't.s Newton's grease pretty freely; thati answers the sanm as a dye, with none of it., hbalh effects, and perfumes it iigreenhly, besides," and he looked at my thin, scraggy hair. .Jist as we caiie out of the garden with the pink-roots, Dick and (huh came home from school. '-Our Chub was sick in school, to day." said Dick. "What 'peered to be the matter'" said old Byron, brightening up with the prospect of a case. "Oh, mjua sick, and didn't want to play, nor nothin'." lihe father laid his hand roughly on the child's foretop, and turned his head back, bringing the little wan, pinched thee up into full view, and said, " Oh it's wor-rums, I know by the white about his mouth-uothiug but wor-rums; come in, son, I'll cure you in no tiue." The child put up his lip pitifully, and clung to the mother's skirts. "Come right along; none o' your snifflin', or I'll 'tend to you in a way that'll quicken yer paces," said old liue Beard. " Oh, I don't want to take any more o' Newton's grense. I don't want to, father; oh---oh !" fYes, you will, too! Chnlbuck! corne here this minute, or I'll whale von like a sack!" said the inhuman fa ther. I hurried awa}v. As I closed the t gate it creaked on its rude wooden i hinges with a doleful squall. I couldn't h help it, really-; T hailed out, "Dlrother Fisher; he! Brother Fisher! yo'ii gato needs a dose of Newton's grease!" t Oh, but the old fellow did cast a vengeful black glance at nme! lie looked as if-had he not been a menu her of the Pottsville church, he would have told me with infinite relish, togo to some plice not half so conifor table r as home. It is strange to what extremes some people do go with their particular whims. --Aututr's Home Magazine. Polar Pigmies. Dr. Hayes, the great Arctic ex- f plorer, has been lecturing on what he a knows about those cold regions and gives some of the facts as follows: In < 1853, he first sailed into the frozen regions of the North, returned after an absence of two and a half years without any great ineed of success. Dr. Kane subsequently niade an effort to penetrate to the open Polar Sea. He failed. But some of his party I traveled over the ice on sleighs, and say they saw it. Following in the footsteps of Dr. Kane, Dr. Hayes in 1860 led another expedition toward r the Nortb Pole, passed a winter where . Kane had stopped lIvors, and looked i out upon the open 0 P4tr 8K4 horn the c most noteworthy pc -1it yet teached 1 by any explorer 'un ess" added the C et:i ii. 1 Captain Hal haIs picked Nil 1 U Itie ilig I j'pIItinted t WsA. and bore it on wtid tu1t * dtth Pole, s I sincerelyttope he Irate' Dr. Maya maxt .eauht .e green of iin i>< l Jas~walty ,JA.. land, D~entmat and .other portions of NorthdirnEarope, Where the gody King Otanf had worked brav.Jlyuia e cause of religion Chrietiaisng .ate beneath his sway i~y the simple.mneth od of a decapitating the heathen. "The mnrwuf thii 'Arctih regions " said Dr. Hays,, "stand for the eat part about 41 feet high, and inrcole closely resemble an unwashed North American Indian. Their dross Is com posed of bear and seal sldus. 4'here is liIstle difference between the cos tnimes of the sexes, but the heal-drese of the wotelen is sufficiently strfking to distingflsh them from the men. The hair is twisted. up on the top of the head in the form of- horn, several inches in length, its size being er haneell by interlacing with it stripsof seal skin, which also serve to keep it in its place. Though the ladies of as tions-less far north resort to artifices 1 somewhat similar, they cannot be said to be equally successful, for their sisters of the Arctic region- heawIg once done up their hair du not fio4 it necessary to touch it again for several ; months, until, in fact, the irnterlaced seal skin fall to pieces froin dmaes- 1 and the carefully built cone tumbles 1 at last." A plurality of wives is almost fn variably indulged in, and little jeal ounsy is manifested by the.lair sex. The lecturer related an instance of a man who came under his observation 1 whohad three wives. Those women were perfectly content except in one ] particular - they considered it. no snuill grievance that their :husband i obstinately refused to take a fourth 1 wife, and'thns lighten the household .i labors of the other three. In this in- I tei-resting family there had originally I been seven cfmildren. Two had dedwL from eaunses incidental to childhood, and a third having been born with a clubbed foot, the father mournfolly informed Dr. Hayes that he thought it best to place it in a hale in the snow I and cover it up. The idea of a supreme being and s thoughts regarding a future existence s entertainel by these people are very' peculiar. Their God is enthroned jn1 I a rock, with his head piercing the I heavens, on a great island, and over looks all the world-that is, all that is worth overlooking-the land of the i Esquimnaux. On this island are five i steps leading to paradise, and on each I of these are dishes containing food, ] varying in 9 nality in proportion to 1 the height 6t the steps on which they are phlced. To thisisland the spirits i of good Esquimnaux are transplanted, and deposited according to their de- r gree of merit on the steps of the rocks, where they regale theinselves through I all eternity on the food contained in I the dishes. As for the spirits of the uiifortunate Esquomaux who have not merited salvation, they are esrt into a region of intense, unimaginable ] cold, where no such thing as food is ever seen. Their evil ppirit is a woman, dwel ling at the bottom of the sea, and oe casionally wreaking her spite upon them by keeping the fish from rising to the surface, and thus creating a famine. The most curious ceremony known, to the Esquitsaux is perhaps that of marriage. It is done thus: when a boy kills a polar hear it is considered siuficient proof of his abili ty to maintain a family; he is there fore told " to go and catch a wife." Watching his opportunity at night time, he pounces upon a victim and attempts to carry her off; she how ever, struggles and shrieks until she has collected around her a group of I sympathizers. She shen turns upon her captor, and bites and scratches him till he is compelled to refuse her; then she darts into the crowd and at- i tempts to escape ; he follows, but not unmolested. All the old women take scourges of dried seal skin and flagel late him unmercifully as he passes, making at the same time every effort to arrest his course. If, despite these f little impediments to matrimonial 1 bliss he should catch his victim, the biting and scratching is renewed, and i iii all probability lie is again compelled to release her, and the chase, with its attendant discomforts, is resumed. Should he overcome all obstacles, the 1 third capture usually proves effectual, and the victim, ceasing her struggles. is led away amid the acclamation and rejoicings of the assembled multitude. The extremely simple manner of administering *justice is worthy of t imitation. .ludges are not necessary, and the impanelling of a jury is nt known. A large crowd of people as scmble, and both plaintiff and d( fendtant in turn relate anecdote, and 1 other jokes for several hours; judg maent being ultimately given in favor of the man who has best succeeded in amusing the multitude. Newspaper publishers are beginningi to prepare for the changes which the 1 recently enacted law of Congress hasi mtade concerning exchanges and pos tage. The law says that "al l aws and parts of laws permitting ille trans mission by mail of say free smatter whatever be and the aame is heerely repealed from and afterJume30, 1873." After that time, postage on weekly newspapers will be five cents per quarter, and ou dhtily newspapers, thigth cents per quarter. The pos taze mamy be paid quarterly in advance. tither at the office where mailed, or ;t tits otlice wirta a ulci ewd, Every y hi Cli .1.*5, 'I ought to know, or ate ows of, Colounel Andre* Jft4* flambill, familiarly edihed by ` einbeua friends "Jack Gambill,n 4,g : t early times a pioneer packer in Trini ti aWlkiies. Awara t t ,efat tat the Colonelbaditt rhtt r fA 'he respeut~e psiti io ie in Alah ,ma Tu Te f once asked him if he had ewva sei Land Admiral Reeside. "Know old Reeide,Judgei Why t aser iew lief! nHavinstrueck at Vt~tlt teme, he t amheed : " I, d ýr ve Ad airal out of oagry winter, and it was alg )rogh, tell you. Thar had been a power of rait, equal to Cal for , ,the roads were awful heavyr n fs4 *)ome placessiid@Wisl Loss team could do to pull air - piy ata . Will, in addities to the rear nail under lock and key in thaather bags, there was always a ot-tcan ass sacks filled with about a tth of dpcuments and amd* ybtita ter, franked by m'a i sof COi I'd start out about two o'cloc in Ohe 1uolninig With.. i tlejadI. ~ k 1n thinigs awful heavy,. twould be about startin' the Ot ifhtfwouf take e en. ade ess'wonfiedtIdy remnarkt ' Jak,yeJeg a :leag }f of passengers and. treme 1 cs urg mail; you'd better.diarihlite the con gressio It- atter es.en Ae you e a n." "All right," sayaL; ana elsi's you're hurn, about a .mile out of town, in crossing over a' creek swelled by the late raim, overboard went eaery ran vas bag. They floated down stream asndlodged in a pile of driftwood on .a sand bar about three-quartm of a mile below. The water instie branch fell early in the spring, leaving a large pile of loam about flee drift pile, and as the warm weather' eum on them Cangressen's seeiAsbegan t. sprout, and by the mi dle of sumueer you ought to have seen my trct; patch. Thar was punkins aird ishek by the million; pasunips, careats, and all kinds of beets; ruty beggars. and other sorts of turnips. And goarda runnin' all over the drift-wooii and up into the trees; you'd ought to have seen them gourds! The niggers from all the plantatione tharabents was in cover. They cam from all quarter and gethered gourds until they couldn't rest. I s'pose .nh re member the old saying. " Afool for luck, a poor man for children, a Frenchman for dogs, and a nigger for gourds." Well, Judge, use seels they gathered from that era truck patch of mine that fall was scattered all over Northern Alabama, and although msy mode of distributin' them thar Con gressional docunments may not hive been exactly a*wording to Grntter, yet I consider it did the country at large a powerful sight iaye good." There has b1eenta gun standing be hind a cupbaahem Pine.-tst resm dence for the p* #ht yeass. It lw longed to the occupant s father and was set up thwedsinc ob4 h ftbii. Its presenee was always rn ey7ere to the occupan.k wife, who abased fully with the sex their fear of ire arms. So rthe other day, Friday, we think, she intluced her husband to take it down and fire it of' He 'had I never fired, el a gan thati had been loaded eight ywara: in f ct, he ayver fired off a ngm at all, so he pofid it out of a window and took nim- Into the garden, withoet the faintest hm (low of fear. His wife being afraid Of fire-arms, stood behind his back and looked ovef his shoulder with her eyes tight shut. He shut bIl eyes, too, and then he pulled the trigger. What immediately followed neitlwr appears to have any nettled idea. Do says he can vaguely remember hear ing a noise of some kind, and has an indistinct impression of passing over something which must have been his wife, as she was found between hint and the window by the neighbors who drew him outsof that tire-place. The fact that one of his shoulders was set back about two indhes, and that three of her teeth were iimbedded in his scalp, seemed to indicate thatia step ping back from the window ihe bur done so abruptly, and this conclusion, we are glad to say, Seas verified by lioth on being restored to conscious ness.--I)anbury Nisa. - TiitED or PoLriics. - The mer chants of New Orleans are thoroughly tired of politics. The disturbed con dition of affairs here has dmnaged their business and they are anxious for relief from the excitement and tin - certainty which have s long existed. They propose to d#yvte theujeolves to, business, and to repudiate the politi cians under whatever guise they umat appear and for whatever , gnawed ~u rpose. Louisiana cannot affwd l 4'ua, rt, political agitators. Her people vat railroad and steamship .conwestions that will extend our commerce and enlarge onw trade area. They want the Fort st. Philip Cau-amd for a deep water outlet, and a riet of towbotats that will reduce fuights by ehcatpen ing towage charges. There me tot twenty respectable wholesale mner chants in New Orleans who will liot declare that they are tired of the sound of politics and desire to have the politicians of all stripes and grades retire. The merchants have resolved to 1uit politics. attend to business and oce New Orleans to proswr.- C(rescenL 'it:,.