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P & AAx, Publishers. The Welfare of the People is the Supreme Law. ,TERMS, $3 per aLR. peL. ARIA I HE, PubOlishers. EM3.18 4. OL. I. NATCHITOCHES, LOUISIANA, NOVEMBER 14.1874. 'O22 VOL. L " · . il I I " I" AIRlVALd AND DIPARTufES. NEW ORL1ANS,: R'r :River Landing, Cheneyville Quarantieo, Alexandriai Cotile andLCloatierville,g Daily, at 7.?A. M. IHREVEPOBT, eachie,'Mansfield, Mar thaville, andf'leasant Hill--Daily at 10 A. M. NACOGDOCHES, Melrose, Chirino, Sun Augustine, Milam, Pendleton, Sabine town, Many and Ft. Josup--on Tuem day .Thursday and Saturday, at ROMER, Minden, Buckhotn, Rinugold, Conshatta and Campto--on Tues day and Friday, at 5 P. M. SWINNFIBLD, Atlanta, Sutton apd St. Maurice--o .Taesday and Friday, at 9 A.M. MAILS CLOSS At $ A. M.for New Orleans, Alearndria and Cloutierville. , At O A. M. for Shreveport, Keachi, Mns 4ield and Pleas nt Hil. .. At I P. M. for Nacogdoches, Texv, Mel rose and fan Augnstin. At 5 P. M. for Homer, La., Buckhcirr, Coushatta and Campte. At 10 A. . for Winnield, &c. Olice Hours-from 10 A. x. to 2 P. M; •and from Prx to 7 P M. J. F. DsVARG;As, PostMaster. Professional (Cards, W. a. JACK D. PI,SOI1. 3Jclr. Ab Pierohn, Aterueys and Ceosaers at Lazo, ATcaITOrrCES, .A. TC'IL[, practlie la the Coutt dNatatbltnches. V abie, DeSeto, Red River, Winn, Rapides, sad Grant, and in the Supreme Court of the State. Claims promptly attended to. Jae t0-Iy. B.M.A. K LRXY. Y. J. CUNNINGHAM Kearnuy & Cunningham, Attorepy a"d Conoselors at Law OBoe an St DeleStreet, June 20-ly. Neateitsek.c. La. Wimn. E. Iaovetr Attorey amd ECouuselor at Lato, Office eerner Ue~ed k Trudan streets, Jane .-1w Nat - itewes, La. Business Cards. M. I. CAIIT Ir W. TAYLOR. Carvzor ya 'aylor Whalsale and etail dealers In Dry Goods, Grocezies, nSADWARLU, BOOTS, .8HOES, HATS, CROCKEIYWARE, etc., etc. ,atlbhttebiee, La. ea haad, which-vsig beesehased on sean.k tbuh.asi losu t . ?l r eltm Idu e-. aeas to cush buor.ve Iighet ask pIlre paid ohr cedt and obter prea9, pad liberal advd~ces uade ln ma_ or membaudican eo aiislgai kt Jae l--ly. T. A.. DuaoAulu, FOREIGN & DOIESTIC DRY GOODS, NOT1bNS, S LOTIIING, " BOOTM, SHOBS and IBAT8.. •Corner of ProMts . -ii S .,treets. Jane 20-l1ito . J. . , O. . .. + C T l n,.L .. ,, (WalmIe~lsy'a Brick BaniidI,),, Dry Goo&G ries, .! d-, .: '. ++,;j++ ,- +,N '; i . sad Gembt . ERCI, ANDD1.E. ri ýr iaCa mm Jait. * LIQOi S. BALRAUisQU D $ P"YENEES, i nt i e r r ,i... . u. . or.at q s'le lW . , -.,t etati .t' " JsuW-' 8n. C. A. BULLARD. e. It. CAMPruaELL Bullard & Campbell, - DUALtsK Iý DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, 'HARDWARE, And General Merchanduise. Corner FRONT & LAFraYF.TE Street, .Natchitoce es, La. IGHEST cash price paid for cotton and country ptoduce in cash or imerchandise. June 20-ly. Willis E:olmes, Intersection Front, Washington & Lnfayette Sts Natchitoches, La. -DEALER IN DRY GOODS, Groceries, Hardware, Ciockery, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoos and Notions. ,Special induceinelnts offered to Oash purchasers. Cbttoni and comntry pro iluce, both at highest Cash rates. Junue20-1y. Boeverly iTu .oer, corner Front and St. Denis street, NATCrnITOPIIiS, ut. ETAIT dealer i i cliice Tuamily Groceries COFFEE, O WILES, Cigars and Tobacco, &c. LV" Cheaper than the Cheapest, June 2U6m. Theo. Sohlt'm3a3r, --DEIALER IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, and GENERAL MERCHANDISE. Cor. FRONT and ST. DENIS Streets, Natchitoches, La; June 20-ly. Alex. Chtarmaia, (The People's Favorite Grocery.) KEgCEPS constantly on band : 0 1CHOICE FLOUR, BAcoN. LARD, HAMS, And in fact a fdll line of fancy family sap plies. Give him a call. , Satisfaetiion uaran. teed. June -ly. -.0 nix r< .. pq4°g DR. 3.** CALVES, 804enDNtist, (CorierkAnalet aid leond Streets,) iAT cRtOnEs, LA. Ltdetde operallows wfrrante, , And l" e t the tut e. and after the" te most spproved methoed. ,b: Sba nath;j toot and Shoe Maker. (~IIHLLBEES thi world for neatnes And drsbiity of work. Satisfaction ii Sit and paterial guaranteed. ,, . . Shop on St. Denim St. Jine 2-1y.. /, im he© ; ii a l, er,' Cer. , Tlnuw api oe'te workers ..; .... -DRRIN Sto'i"e flawsre id Noie Farnlalhlg Wainta &.......Katcitothes, La. ole ;nut for the inriyalled Oo93l4r ?w**QggyrSag :-tter , Ppe, teapq roofitgand s. , k1i0d6of repoiriggone wr4l liqpqtdh., A liberal diecount e eountr3 trade. nds 0.y-. A Hot Bath. A couple of gelitlemten, whom we shall call John Smith and James I Bro~un, were seated in the ante-room c of a bath-house, awhiting their 'turns' a for a bath. After they got tired of twirling their thumibs, Sumth asked.: Brown whether heo preferred a hot or' a cold bath. Brown, who was remark- t ably fond of running a rig on any one, r said he was partial,to hot hbaths, and v enjoyed them so .frequently that he i didn't think there was <any other man t in creation that could remain in water c 4t the temperature lie ordinarily used. a Smith was one of those kind of men t who never permit themselves to be a outdone iii anything, and one word led to another, until at length Smith c proposed the following wager, to p which Brown agreed at once: Two baths, in rooms adjoining, e were to be prepared. Cold water, to the depth of six inches, to be let in. t They were to enter at the same in- 1 stunt-the hot water tap then to be h turned, and the one that first cried t "enough !" was to pay for a supper a and "tixins." Smith went honestly c to work, entered the bath, and turned 1 on the hot water, taking special good N care to draw up his legs as far as pos. % sible. Brown turned the hot water s tap, but instead of permitting the hot water to remain in the bath, he let it out by means ofa contrivance he man aged to rig up. The tap was to lie ,'turned," but there wis nothing said t about where the water should go. t Brown said to hinmsell : "If I don't boil that Smith, it will , not be my fault." 1 Presently Smith found the water too hot for comfort, and said, How is it with you. Brown I" "Hot enough," was the reply. "I ( shall have to give up right off, if ,youn don't," he continued, as lie lay cool enough at the bottom of the bath. I Smith was thinking about giving in i beat, but Brown's words encouraged t him to hold out a little longer. "I'm perfectly cool yet," said Smith, I as he writhed and twisted about, "and I can stand out two minutes longer, so I you'd better give up, Brown." "The water is 'tarnal hot, you a know ; but I shall hold out a few so- c conds longer," said Brown. Smith could not: With a half-sup pressed cry of pain lie sprang from I the hot water literally parboiled Has- I tily drawing on some of his clothing, I he entered Brown's room, and saw c him lying very comfortably at the bottom of the empty bath, smoking a cigar. He found that he had been º done brown as well as boiled, when Brown insisted that his tap was turn- 1 ed fairly, but as not a word was said about where the water should go, 1 lie preferred passing it through the I plug hole. Smith promises to pay for the supper as soon as he congeals which will not be just yet. THa MIssIssIPPI.--Mr. Brancroft re marks in the tenth volume of his His tory of the United States, just out : The Mississippi river is the guar dian and the pledge of the union of the States of hMaerica. Had they been confined to the eastern slope of t"ire Alleghenies there would have been no geographical unity between them, and the thread of connection between lands that merely fringed the Atlantic must soon have been Ssundered. The Father of Rivers gathersa'hlis waters from all the clouds that bretak betwveen the Allegheinies aadt4hnfurtheriranges of the Rocky Iopntaine. Theridges e f the eastern ehanin blow their beads at ..th North ihd at the South, so that long before science became the companion of mnii . nature herself pointed out to the bar r bsrou.s races how short portages join his tributary rivers to those of tits -Atlantic coast. At the other side his mightiest arm interlocks with the arms of the Oregon and the Colorado, and by the conformation of the earth itself, marshals highways to the Paci fic. From his remotest springs ie Sreftees to suffer his waters to be di vided; but as he bears them all to the bosom of the ocean the myriads of flags that wave above his head are all the enligns of one great people. Statesarger than kingdoms flourish where he passes, andbeneath his steps cities start into being iore marvelous i their reality than fabled creations of enchantment. His magnificent vat ley, lying in the best part of the tem perate zane, salubrious, wonderfully fertile, is the chosen master ground of the most vari6ns of human nculture brought together by men salnmiondi frenrll the civilizedt nations of the eitb,.and joiued in the bonds of come .mon citizenship by the strong, invis . ible attracstin oe(republican fredoion. Now thatnienbehM come tob be household Stiend of trade and com metee and travel, and that nature has Slent to wealth and intellect': her con stant forces, the hills, once walls of division, are scaled or pierced or lev Seled;and the two oceaens, between which the republie has unassailably iotrenched iteetf against the outward world, are bound together across the continent by friendly links of iron, Said a man to th Mayor of New 4 Londop, whom. hl .met at the State al1 Fair, "I have seen beeits in Califor· niaasbin as am." "Lbegyourpar don," sa'id the Maylir, "but I think Sthat you deceive younrself.' Freedom of Speech. Jas 11H. Cosgrove, the bold and fear less Editor of the YIrldicator at Nat- St etitoches, has been arrestedt upon t some trntiped up hallrge and is now Ih "in durance vile." This is an out- m rage for which there is no parallel li since the dcays when Seward used to pi tinkle his little bell and order the :ur- o0 rest and coifinement of Editors and pi whom he.pleased in the North. Some at day a retributive Justice will over ritle all the Constitutional tights se- p4 cure l to the citizens of what was once fit a fre;, country. The bitter foe of i all t tyrdf1ts is a free precs and it is the ci one they most fear. We are not informed as to the spe. ti cific charge ;against our friend Cos- el grove, but we endorse any and every- hi thing he has ever said in the Vitdii- g: cater, and if the officer who holds the warrant for his arrest will have the ca kindness to inform us what partieci- ca lar articles in the lirdicator has fi; brought Cosgrove under the bann of s& the law, we will republish them upon our own responsibility, aild lie may hi conimc after us too. We want a free press and if we are not to have it we would like to know it right' now, so p1 we may understand just where we stand. If there is a censor of the re press in the person of every petty I'. st 8. Marshal whose venom s;eeks to shut to off free and outspoken expression of d opinion, we want [to know- it right hi now. We are in the same boat as a' the Vindicator, Mr. Marshal, anid if at you are paddling that canoe, paddle us along too. We dent like to be o0 loft behind.-Caucaiau. tt _____ ni- A young lady in the East End of 5 Cincinnati who has just returned from k completing her education in Boston, , wanted to kiss her old lover last III night, and her mother objected. The Ili daughter drew up her queenly form 1ia to its full height, and exclaimed : it "Mother, terrible, tragical and sub- n, limely retributive will be the course A pursued by me if you refuse to allow is him to place his alabbster lips to mine, and enrapture my immortal g soul by imprinting angelic sensations p of divine bliss upon the iudispensa- II ble members of my human physiog nomy, and then kindly allowing me q to takesa withdrawal from his bene- a ficent presence." The mother feebly p admitted that her objections were t overrauled. .1 He went.out. between the acts, andti returned vigorously chewing a clove. t His wife asked him where lie had been, and he said. "To see a friend." She calmly replied that she thought t his friend must be dead, as she could i smell his bier. A party of young men were out serenading a few nights since. They c sat on the pavement, which had been recently paged ,,With a tar solution. t SNext morning the rear of six pair of pants dotted`the walk, and music is leard no more afoibd that cottage. s f A young gentleman was frequently a f cautioned by his ,father to vote for e I "measures, not men," He promised t I to do so, and soon after received a t bribe to vote for a Mr. P'eck. His I father, astonished at his voting for a t i man whom he deemed objectionable. I Sinquired his reasons for so doing. S "Surely, fathlier," said the youth, "you c 5 told me to vote for measures, and if I I Peck is not a nimeasure, I don't know a I what it is.'" *'Qiin, dining one day at an ordina- 1 Sry, was seated next to a iperson of a -most! voracious disposition, and ob. I serving him to ept a very large piece 0 of bread, which hIalaid by his plate I against the bringiiig up of dinner 0 the wit took it au and prettadud to , cut piece off t. This was tflidklye ' noticed by the other who told him, k in a very abrupt manner, that it w e his bread. "I ask pardon," sai4 - Quio, in his usual deliberate way, '" 0 rdally took it for the loaf." 9 e Politicians who write to Kellogg hereafter will probably word their letters very carefully, and then.-burn 'em. If the business is preseing they 'Will probably go down and see him in person. .. : .." SNow, after a lUpse of mnety odd dyears it has been discovered that spli Sting on the bait doesn't help in the least to catch the fish, Is there any one in America who isn't as mad as e blases? SWon't it'sodi be timid foroGrant to g get up another Kellogg--to put down Sa rebellion in Ohio. The election re Sturns look a ifs a reconstruction was . opeded among the Buckeyes.'. * The "outrage" business is about an the liveliest branch of tradejust now ; ly but'even that kioner lags since ihe rd late elections. Bounce lis a very red nose. Du ring thbo late hot .wy tbier he coatead w ed that it was owing to a surcharge he of chloric, but as the frosty days apt ir proach and that- nose still glavws like r- a rooster's comb, he now says he has ik got the chilblains pretty bad 'ir his beak, Test 4f Affectlon. F Mr. Archibald Stanhope -a groggy sentimentalist, residing in Buckley In street,. Philadelphia-conceived the bi harrowing suspicion that his'wife was to not as passionately fond of him as a st lady of good taste should be and to Ct put the matter to a fair trial, Ihe hit I) on a little stratagem which he put in b: practice the other day with the re- of suits hereafter to be detailed. at Hle took a suit of clothes and com- at posed an eflligy of himself, by stuf fing the garments with a quantity of of straw, which had lately been dis- to charged frmhi an old bed. H-laving suspended this figure to a rafter in w the garret by means of 'a piece of of clothes-line, he ensconced himself be hind a pile of runbbish iii the same b( garret to watch the effect. After a while his little daughter at came up for a skipping-rope, and th cailght a glimpse of the suspended an figure. She tra down the stairs, dr screaming : p "Oh, mother, mother, daddy has hung himself!" sp "Now for it4" thought Archibald ; a "we shall have a touching scene bh presently." to ."Hung himself!" he heard Mrs. S. repent, as she walked leisurely up- or stairs; "he hasn't got spirit enough wi for such a thing, or he wouid have he done it long ago: Well, I believe lic ge has done it, however," she continued, sil as she came in view of Archibald's straw representative. or "Mloll," to the little girl, I think he in ought to be cut down. You had bet-. n ter go into the kitchen and get a knife, umy dear but don't go down too fast, ti; or yon might fall and hurt yourself. di Stay, I forgot-there's no knife in the Ila kitchen sharp enough. You can go fe round to Mr. Homes, the shoemaker; bi lies' only two squares off, and ask in him to lend us his paring knife ; tell him to whet it a little before oe sendk gi it. And, Molly, while you are in the ti neighborhood, you can call at your tI Aunt Snkeyts and ask how the baby to is. And, Molly, 3oucan stop at the ti grocery shop as you come back and get a pound of best moist sugar. , Poor Archy!" sighed Mrs. S., when at her daughter had departed, "I hope t1 we'll get him. down before the vital cA spark's extinct--for these buryings are very troublesiome, and cost money., He wanted to put an end to himself, too; and I think I ought to let him have his own way for once in his life ; le used to say that I was always a to crossing him. I wish he hadn't spoiled tl that new clothes-line-an old rope d might have answered his purpose." Here a voice, which sounded like y that of the supposed suicide, broke a in on Mrs. Stanhope's soliloquiy with, #j "You confounded Jezebel, I'll be the ' death of you!" Mrs.. S, thinking this mnut, of i course, be a ghostly exclamation, at- cl tered a wild scream, and attempted to escape down the narrow staircase. t Archibald, starting from his plaice of concealment, gave chase. MIrs. S. a stumbled midway on,,the flight of stairs, and Mr. S. having jtst teached her, and made a grit~p at li r dishev elled hair as it streambd backward, d I the amiable partners.were precipita- g ted tothe bottom together. Both were rather'badly bruised, Andu I the cries of the lady raised the neigh- t borhood. ;Archibald was arrested for -making a disturbance, and practicing t 1 on tife tender sensibit4es of his wife.; f He was bound over to keep the ~*ece I Son a penalty of two hunodred and fitry dollars, when he jocularly propose; , his suspended effigy' as his surety; - but he found, to his sorrow, '~straw a bail" was hot acceptable in that court. While Ben Butler was nrging his i Gloucester, constitnents to return i him tq Congrap some irreverent I rowdy attached a spoon to a string I and lowered it through the ceiling, I permitting it to dangle abojlt the ora- I tor's head. Ben oberved the bait, 1 Sand didn't bite,. It was a ;pewter 1 Ispoon. " "Pantaloons cut a la~ D)r.. Mary r Walket," ik annanoucenent posted n by ann up-city taylor. The Doctor haisk y been pa.ntineg after hotoriety a Ibng n while, and now she c(or is it he ?) has got it. It is said that Ben Thiler drinks - whisky "straight, thougih how' he e ca see. to do so is a puzzle to the or y dinary mind. Daddies Longlegs or Daddy Long legases-which t This is the greal t rammatical problem' d' 6f'thei"da. n Not more than a column of argument * on either side will be tolerated. iately a Western yoltng lady had occasion to inform a -oung gentle it mnan'ihat h'ier hand was not a lemon? Vi He winted a punch and bad the other he "iugrediencea." -----ee, -- When a widow in any neighbor hood sets her cap for a young man, there isn't one chance in a million go for any young woman to win, even if shdle holds the four aces. is The back log of the Republicans IKclog,. Farm and tHouseholdl Column. CAE: or" TEAl Hloursi.--The fd lowilig gooud advice' to 'A:amsters hIa been published in the; form of a p') ter, and sent out by the Massaachu setts Society for the Prevention Ilif' Cruelty to unimals. It is signed by I)aniel IN. Blanchard, and indorsed by several veterinary surgeons,',ngenfs of railway and express companies, and by Charles A. Currier, special agent of the Society : Potatoes or carrots may be given ontce or twice a week to good advan tage. See that your horse is kept clean, warm and comfortable, with plenty of beddiug. A piece of rock salt should always be left in the manger. See that his harness is kept soft and clean,, particularly the inside of the cllar, which ought always to be smooth, as the perspiration, when dry, causes irritation, .and is liable to produce galls oh thle shoulder. The collar sliould fit closely, withl space enough at the bottom to admit a man's hand. If too large it has the bad effect of drawing the. shoulldcs together. On no consideration should a tars: or any worik-horse be 'omnpelled to wear a martingale, nH it draws til, head down and prevents him fronm getting into an easy and natural po sition. The check-rein may be used, but only tight enough, to keep the head in a natural position, and it should never be wouu1d aound tihe lHaes. See that the hatuesare buckled tight enough at the top to .hring the draf-iron near the center of the col lar. If too loti it not only inter feres with the action of the shouhlder, but gives the collar is uleven'bear ing. Caution should be taken that the girth is not buckled too tight, par ticularly on strisii, teams, for when the traces tsi' dtraightened it has the tendency to: draw the, girth against the belly and distress the horse. See that the horse is kept well shod, with ia good, stiff" shoe, always calkedt at toe and heel on hind feet, as it is there where all the propelling power comnes from when heavily' loaded. Keep the feet good and strong, b, not allowing'them to be cut away too ift~eh by the blackmith. T!iebest ijndgmefit sholid be used in loading, taking into consideration the condition of.,the street and the distance to be traveled. . Never everload, .for by so doing you only: distress, strain and discour age your horsq and do him more in jaury than yout cai posfibly gain by carrying the extra loid. ' When your load is hard to pull, , stbo often and' give your: horse a chance to breathe...', Remember the horse. is a very in telligept, proud, sensitive, ,noble an imal, the most useful ýnown to man, and is deserrviigof the Vreatest kind aces. . .. ,W rka'g "Nd litkres- As ,tere is a diversity of opinion eiisting among itpiarians on this siulject, and as I I have found no way- better than win tering ib: the' open' air--for 'this see tio, St, Lois,, Miesonri-.-I will here rgive my, mode, ofwi~pteripg bees in the lopen "~ir': "First, see that they have at leiit 'twenhty-five pound of Shoney, also uafleienat amount of emp ty combr in pegter of hive for bees to clueter in. Bemove the honey boxes plnd place on tbh of the honey board -if such yoU heas,' If 'not place two stript aceross 'the frames-a woolen Scloth or a' piece of carpet ianflicienfly 5 large to cover the tqp Flrmee; theu n fill the capl with cut straw.or sh~avings t to keep th hibees warm'nif~atbsorb the g moisture; then arrange"ouota bees in , awrow abtoaope footapart,then drive Ssmall posts ,in the gronutd .:C4 dis tance of twelve feet iaart, ,oumnd r the ncith and west .iitlh' lii nail strips about tke.to' oeaCt' post, one abovethe'other; tBh postestnastrips should,be no, higher: than the, ohies, and the hives sliould not be higher than ~ight inches ,fr'stm tlgronund. ' Now pack Btween-thk hire, also be g tweeon back of bives and rack, clean a dry straw, open ll p. epti~lstors, and close tIhe entrance to bout.pnq or two inches, thed cover the hiirese with is plank or boards to prpteet, them from se snow and rain. The above plapi as r- been praetitid' ~yb:ime fif the jast five years!with .pett i ieta*eres, aina if followed as laid dosa here, it will bo Sfound one of the surest and bes· plans Sof wintering hnes.-T. II. B. Woody. SC AAP Vis.oAi.-Tlake a quantity ot of common iaris poCttoes wash thent until they are thorouhly ilean,.place them in a lirge res and Iboil tlhem idittitl done: Drain off cafeftul 'the e- water t at 'they wer 'ebolr i in, s." straining it If 'eeceuaryt is-oqrdeir to er remoe eve!ry partice of the lpttae. Then put 'this potato water in,cjuJg or keg, which set near the strve, or tr- n some place where it will li kept in, warm, and add one pound of sugar to about tio and one-half gAlou s of en the water, some hop': yeift. or a small portion of whiskey. Let it stanI, three or four weeks, an: yu, will have excellento vinegar at a copy -of six or seven cents per ,TalloUn.- Journ~,al of' Chemistry.