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18 PÜBUBUBD TRI WEEKLY,
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays.
J.C. CHARROTTE, T. B. R. HATCH, G. A. PIKE.
T. b. B. HATCH, : : ;T: Editor.
BATONKOVCE:
TU EHDA Y,ADOUST 1. 1886.
Our A|«ntit in New Orlean«.
Mcurrs. G arpmbk A Co., Nnwnpspor Ad
vertising Ago» <», No. 5,Cornmoroift] Place,
Now Orloun are the duly anthomed
Agents in thut i*ity for the ifatett* aiul
Comtt.
tSf M r . W m . H enderson , Agent
at this place for steamer« Joseph.
Pierce and Fashion, will accept our
thanks for late Nev- Orleans pa
per»
HÖST We tender our thanks to Mr.
F rancis P hillips , of this city, lately
returned from the north and west,
for late western papers. Also to
Mr. A. A. T aquino , formerly of this
city, now of Memphis, for similar
attentions.
Xfcgr We have had the pleasure of
taking by the hand, our old friend and
former fellow-citizen, Maj. T om B ynum,
who has just arrived from northern
Texas, lie is looking in fine health
and as natural as he did while asso*
ciated with the Advocate newspaper
years ago.
. • —
D eath of an O ld C itizen of
E ast U *ton R ouge .—We publish
elsewhere a notice of the death of
Dr. J. P rrkins , which we take to
be Dr. J ehu P erkins , formerly of
our parish. The obituary was doubt
Jess written by his accomplished
daughter, Mrs. Linton . We find it
in the New Orleans Times of the
29th ult.
Dr. P erkins was a native of
Kentucky, and removed to this par
ish many years ago, where he re
sided up to a late period, pursuing
with eminent success his avocation
as planter. lie was a good and use
ful citizen, and his loss will be seri
ously lamented by a large circle of
Iiis old friends and acquaintances.
Government Sale .—-There is to
be a great public sale of 44 gunboats,
transports and 7 tugs ob the 17th of
this month at the U. S. Naval Station,
Mound City, (III.) Those vessels
lately composed a portion of the U. S.
Mississippi squadron. They are to
he sold with their engines, tackle,
furniture, &c. Five per cent, of the
purchase money will be required at
the time of sale and the balance to
bo paid within six days thereafter.
Bills of sale will be given by the
Commandant for the Navy Depart
ment.
The boats are many of them very
solid and substantial and of various
dimensions. Some enterprising in
dividual might find among the lot
one that would answer very well for
a Ferry Boat between East and West
Baton Rouge.
No M ore F ive C ent P ostage
S tamps to be I ssued .—The Secretary
of the Treasury has ordered that no
more five cent postage stamp currency
»hall be issued. We hope the five
cent silver "spondulies" will now take
the place of those sliinplasters.
G oing to A ustralia .—It is stated
that J. P. B enjamin , late Secretary of
State of the Confederacy, has arrived
safely at Paris by way of Nassau, and
intends going to Au&tralia to reside.
Barnum's New Museum .—Bar
ourn is rebuilding his museum on the
spot where the old one stood, and
has dispatched a special agent to
Europe to obtain unother supply of
curiosities. A Museum Association
with John Bauvard at its head has
also giveu notice to the public that
they intend constructing a large
building near Union Square for the
purposes of a museum. Banvard
and Baruuia are both well adapted
for the museum business and New
York city is fully able to sustain two
euch institutions.
Relic Worship.
The fools are far from being all
dead yet. A wide field is presented
to the iconoclast, (if there be any
such Quixotic personage in exist
ence now-a-days), for the full in
dulgence of his moral beut in the
demolition of objects quite as ob
noxious to a sense of ordinary pro
priety as were those which in the
olden time were wont to excite his
exterminating ire. Relic worship
is fine of the notable weaknesses now
prevalent in the north, among certain
classes of the sensational gender, and
is, if anything, more reprehensible
than was the wide-spread practice of
image-worship iu medieval times—
the latter being coupled with a re
ligious sense of duty, which gave it
a sort of plausible pretext, whereas
the former is actuated solely by a
spirit of morbid vandalic curiosity,
unsustainable by sound reason or
common Bense
The extent to which the disgust
ing rapacity of curiosity mongers
and relic hunters is carried, may be
witnessed in the avidity with which
they seize upon every occasion which
may chance to minister to their dis
eased minds and perverted hearts.
A murderer condemned to the gal
lows, is no sooner launched into
eternity, than " they cast lots for his
raiment," or, not waiting for that,
rush forward and tear it into frag
ments to be sold or preserved as
memento mori. The rope with which
the unfortunate Mrs. Surratt was
hung, was seized upon, cut into small
pieces, and sold by the inch at good
prices on speculation. The theatrical
box in which President Lincoln was
seated at the time of his assassina
tion, has been shorn of much of its
fair proportions by the knives of
miscreant whittlers, and the carpet
that overlaid the stage on which
Booth landed after committing his
murderous deed, has been literilly
cut up into strips to grace the cabi
nets of Christian dames and gentle
men. Mount Vernon, with all the
hallowed associations that cluster
around it, has shared the common
doom, and everything portable in
arid around the Washington man
sion, has been spirited away or
feloniously appropriated in order to
subserve a mercenary speculation
and pander to the eager passions of
the relic worshippers. It was only
the other day that some vandal cut a
piece from Washington's bedstead,
and if not well watched that article
of furniture tnay disappear bodily
ere long, or be taken away by
piecemeal.
So rife has become this wretched
principle or instinct, that go where
you will, it is a rare thing not to find
some evidences of its barbarism.
From the gibbet to the tomb of the
famous or infamous ; from the public
monument to the
"(irovo Mftrred to soft rocens Hud gentle lov*»"
nothing escapes the blighting touch
of those vandals who seek to gratify
their paltry desires through the me
dium of wanton mutilation awl dese
cration.
Sbakspeare must have had such
creatures in his mind's eye when he
composed his epitaph :
•'Qood friead, for J whuk ' forbear.
To dipr the du«t interred here*.
Bl«*t be the man that spare? the«« stones,
And curst be be that moves my bones."
Thu Caddo Gazette —-This is the
oldest newspaper published at Shreve
port. It is in its 24th volume, and
since its late resumption, looks as
bright as a new silver dollar. Drury
Lacy , Esq., is the editor, and he pos
sesses the talents to restore his paper
to the high influential position it en
joyed before the war. We wish him
unbounded success.
Shrkveport Semi-Wekkly News.
We welcome with great pleasure
this excellent paper amoug our ex
changes. Jons Dickinson , Esq., the
editor and proprietor, is one of the
oldest and ablest attachés of the edi
torial corps in Northern Louisiana,
and is eminently worthy the esteem,
confidence and success which have
hitherto attended him. May he con
tinue to thrive and prosper.
Singular Circumstance *—Mr.
F. Fdnke , of this city, cabinet-ma
ker and undertaker, had shipped to
him from New Orleans last Sunday
per steamer Fashion, a lot of me
tallic burial cases, enclosed in wooden
boxes. On coming to open the boxes,
one of the cases was found to con
tain the embalmed corpse of a Fed
eral officer, attired in the uniform of
a captain. There was no inscription
or other clue perceptible by which
to designate who the mysterious
occupant of the case was, Baving the
initials "R. 0. D." roughly marked
on one of the sides of the wooden
box. The body was doubtless in
tended for shipmont to the home of
the deceased, wherever that is, but
by a strange oversight or neglect on
the part of the New Orleans house
from whom the cases were pur
chased, the one with the body got
mixed in with the others, and as
there was only the full complement
shipped, Mr. Funke , who came up
with them, did not discover the sin
gular mistake until he came to un
pack them. He forthwith repacked
the case iu its box for re-shipment
to New Orleans.
Munificent Bequests .—The New
Bedford Mercury, states that the
late Mrs. Sylvia Ann Howland, of
that city made some noble bequests,
as follows :
"The sum of $20,000 is given to
to the Orphans' Home, au3 the fur
ther sum of $15,000, on the decease
of three persons, who are to receive
the income during their lives. To
the City Government of New Bed
ford, is given the sum of $100,000,
to be expended under the direction
of the City Government toward the
introduction of pure water into tho
city, and the encouragement of
manufactures requiring steam pow
er. To the city of New Bedford is
given a further sum of $160,000, to
he invested by the City Govern
ment, and the income Appropriated
to the encouragement of liberal edu
cation here and the enlargement of
the Free Public Library. To the
Trustees is given $50,0.00, to be in
vested by them, the income to be
divided among such aged and infirm
females of the city as may need re
lief The Trustees under the will
are George Howland, Jr., Dr. Wil
liarn A. Gordon and Edward D.
Mandel I, to each of whom is given
the sum of (150,000, and to I)r. Gor
don, as a mark of the testatrix's
personal esteem for his worth, a
further snm of $50,000. Thomas
Mandell, is the sol« executioner of
the will."
Of an estate, valued at two and
a half millions, about one million is
given away in legacies of various
amounts.
Better Feeling .—It is agreeable
to mark the daily softening of the
asperities created by the late terri
ble war. We do not think history
furnishes a parallel to the complete
ness and unreserve with which the
South has submitted to the awards
of the sword in this great political
and sectional duel. It really looks
as if, alter all a great many of the
people were not half so sorry at the
result as they either thought they
would be, or pretended they were.
The feeling here is answered at
the North, and the howls of even
tho blood-thirsty begiu to slacken.
The Nation is recovering from its
temporary paroyxsm of insanity,
and reason and fraternity are once
more regaining the helm of the pub
lic mind. This improved tone of
opinion bids fair to ripen into a
sweeping act of oblivion of the past,
and a friendly and cordial locking
of shields together for the battle of
National life in the future. Happy
will be the day and hour when the
President of the United States will
see his way clear to issue such a
proclamation of blessed peace.—
Nothing would tend more to hasten
him to such a conclusion than a
tnur through the Southern States.
Mobile Advertiser 23 d ulto.
—-#• ♦ • —*
An Old Lady's Desire .—Old
Madame Rothschild, mother of the
great capitalist, attained the age of
ninety-eight. Her wit, which was
remarkable, and her intellectual fac
ulties, which were of no common or
der, were preserved to the end. In
her last illness, when surrounded by
her family, her physician being pres
ent., she said in a suppliant tone to
the latter, " Dear doctor, try and do
something for me,"'• Madame, what
can I do ? I can't make you young
again." "No doctor, I don't want
to be young again, but I want to
continue to grow old."
1 Woman'» Sympathy lor Mri. Surrat.
Letter by Mrs. Jane G. Swiwhelm.
Bpei i»l Correspondence of Pittsburg Commercial
Washington , July 8.—-Long be
fore this reache« you, Mrs. Surrat,
will have suffered the extreme pen
alty of the law, and my pity for her
fate cannot add one drop to tbut
ocean of sympathy which thréateus
to wash away the laod-uiarks be
tween vice and virtue iu making
them equally safe; but when jus
tice is satisfied, we may profitably
couaider the extent of complicity
in that crime for which Mrs. Surrat
suffered. God only knows bow she
suffered !
It is customary to represent her as
a woman with an unlimited amount
of cunning and cruelty in her face
but she is simply a representative
Southern woman, no better or
worse than the majority of South
ern women. I know those who
have known her as the belle ami
beauty of her county, the petted,
spoiled favorite of friends, the idol
of pareots, husband and children.—
Her face, and indeed her whole fig
ure, while on trial, was poft, roun
ded, tender and motherly. Her
large gray eyes alone gave indica
tion of reserved Btrength, Her be
bavior, during that long and terri
ble ordeal, was full of delicacy and
dignity. She made no scenes, as a
weak or vain woman would have
done. When her daughter came
into court, and, with quiveriug lip,
and streaming eye, appeared on the
point of breaking down, with a geS
ture of command and entreaty, she
restrained her. All the long, hot
days she sat with her heavy mourn
ing veil down, and a large, palm
leaf fan held between her face And
the crowds who gathered and crush
ed and struggled to gaze at her, as
if she had been an alligator—hun
dreds of persons in these crowds
making the most insulting remarks
in her hearing.
Your readers are no doubt famil
iar with the form of the Court room
and know that her position was in
the southwest corner facing the
east, and that a door leads in from
an ante-room on the south, about
four feet from the railing behind
which she eat. On my one visit I
had a chair close to the wall behind
this door arid the railing, ho that I
was within less than two feet of the
rail, with orders to keep that space
clear, but tho press at the door for
entrance was so great that I gradu
ally moved my chair until it was
closo to the rail, and sot there an
hour before being discovered.
During all that time she leaned
her head wearily, against the wall,
and by changing hands kept her
haLds steadily before her face, and
every few , minutes a low, stilled
moan, escaped her. Men and wo
men stood a tiptoe, and stretched
and strained ; or, having gained
entrance, stood coolly and made
such remarks as ''Where's Mrs. Sur
rat ?" "I want to see her !" "Oh,
goodness, just look if she isn't pre
tending to be modest I" "Isn't she
a devil ?" "She looks like a devil !' ;
"Hasn't she a horrid face?" "I
hope they'll hang her—tee, hee,
heel" All these remarks and more
such, some of them airain and again
and often accompanied by coarse
laughter, I heard during the two
hours and a half I sat near her, and
she must have heard them as dis
tinctly as I did. They were evi
dently meant for her.
It appears to me so cruel and
cowardly thus to insult a prisoner
in chains, that 1 could not refrain
from answering, and several times
said: '"She has not a bad face.—
She has a good face, and if she had
not, it is cowardly to insult her!"
Sbe dropped her fan and looked
at me with such an expression of
gratitude a» I shall never forget.—
I looked full into her eyes ; mine
were not dry, while hers filled with
heavy tears. Several asked me if
"I was a fiiend of Mrs. Surrat," so
strange did any pity for her ap
pear.
"Once she arose and made an ef
fort to touch her counsel with her
fan as he passed out of the door.—
I asked her if she wished to speak
to him, and on offering to hsve him
called she thanked, me in a low,
sad, sweet tone. I became a sus
piçious character, and an officer
came and planted himself between
us to see that there was no commu
nication. I afterwards applied to
the authorities for leave to visit her
but it could not be granted. Per
haps It was best she should be thus
isolated from human sympathy,
but I thought and still think it a
grave mistake.
UST" The Scotch Kirk, in convoca
tion has decided, by a handsome ma
jority, that no musical instrument
most be used in a kiik ; that people
must stand, and not kneel in prayer ;
that there shall be no form of prayer
and no communion out of the kirk.
N. 0. ADVERTISEMENTS.
MAVJBR BROTHERS,
Crescent City Steam Tubacco Works
Nos. 49 and 61 LAVAYRiTE 8TRSKT,
Sal«« Room—No. Iii Trhouplteulai St.
MAYER BROTHERS,
No. »I TCHOfJPJTOULAS STREET,
BETWEEN POYDRAS AND NATCHEZ,
Hew Orlrana, I,».
DUUM» ID
J^KA? à CHKWINU, A MANUFACTURERS OF
Smoking Tobacco and Cigara.
• *., A henyj wt»ll neiectid stock cnn«tMïtly
on hand. Jgy2 9-tf
tfartih. t,, h. mat.archik.
ST. MARTIN & MALARCHER,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
And Dealer« In
GROCERIES AND BOAT STORES,
No*. 20 and 3 » PÔYDRA8 8TREKT,
*w July, 1865.
To Planters, Mwctiant* and otktr» ;
Iii« believed that, with th« opetiln* of the South
ern fori» to Foreign C' linncrce and unMetricted
trade 'itid Intercourse with tha Interior, and with
gradual I crease In the consumption which mum
necessarily take place an the Cotton and other
Southern Producta can be converted into mooej,
that New Orleans wäll boo» letuna her Former
position ai the Depot for the Product» of the
mdu" d furn,Bh be,t U ""' ket '° r
Now as there is an immédiat« prospect of a re
aumption of trade In thla o ( ty, wo liec lea*«- to in
form jot» that, having completed all necefaary
arrangement« for trannaotlng a Oer eral Gommla
»Ion und Forwarding Busineiii, we have opened
a houM, Nos. üti and '.'H l'oydra* street, and we
are ready to receive connlgnnient« from <ar frlenda.
We have ai»o on lined a full and fine a wort merit
of ORUOKRIES. BOAT STORES. WlNfcS, LIQ
UOR1, TOBA'OO, CIO t .RU , An «rderr from
Plantntiuna and the Country will bo promptly
attended to.
An our House la j jfflc'cntly large we will take
storage a., low rat«*. Rospectfnliy «eliciting a
nhare of public patronage,
We rt-tivun.
Very rMpeHfulta,
JulyM-I-a ST. MAKTIM à MALARCUF.il.
J.J. WARREN.
t. w. ukawfoud.
WARKEN & «1MWF0RD,
(8aoce«»orn to Wtrren, Kill innre fc Co.,)
COTTON FACTORS
—AND— ' ' •,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 29 CA RONDELET STREET,
julyll-flto*, SEW ORI,EA \S, I,».
;
S* Jfl. .Usher,
ESI'KCTKULi/Y Informa bia fr ends and fbrroer
putron*. that he baa r«rDm»4 huslne»*
Theodore Ooldmann's Jewelry store, w iere will
be fonnil a large and general amor'merit of Staple
and Fancy Dry Ooud«, Khne«, Hat«, and a variety
of Notion«, milted to the ladlea of Kant and West
Baton Rouge. july'.9-lm
BARGAINS! BARGAINS!!
THE PEOPLE'S STORE.
I).
DAVIDSON notifie* hl» fr!«f)1* that h* has
just received a Urge and general niwort
UNJOt of
DRY GOODS.
SHOES, BOOTS, HATS,
And nli th* NnlV of the aj?e. nnd to which he
r*»*p»?cttullj invit»* attention, before purchasing
eluowhere.
Th® people's friend. Mr H. M ABHRR. will
found *s lively and accommodating a* ev#ir, "be
hind tho count »r."
!>• DAVIDSON,
juljr29-lm Lafayette utreet.
CORJV AND OATS.
j^NOTHKR arrival just stored, and at a r*duc*
tion in pricen.
July'«
joshua bkal.
CHOICE EXTRA FLOUR.
A KKW more barrels of the be»t in market, ju«t
stored and for sale by
JulyiT JOSHUA BKAL.
Butchers' and ( ouiiier Scales
THE BESTIN MAltKET.
BcTCIIEP.8 SAW« and KM YEP.
STfcKLa and CLEAVERS.
Juat received, anil for sale by
julylî-tf JAMES McVAY.
POT-WARE.
0 VKN8, POT8 and SKILL EM.
ODD LIDS, of all sizes—a tine «»»ortroent.
Ju"it received, and foi sale by
July22-tf JAM KS MeVAY.
SAWS AND AXES.
T —
1 UTTLK'S A ROWLA.' D'S CR08F-"UT BAWS
WOOD SAWS and SAW BUCKS.
COLLINS'AXES.
.SHINGLING and LATHING HATCHETS.
Just received, and for sale by
July22-tf JAMES MrVAÏ.
LOST.—The files of the Dat n Rmnjt
Advocate for the year» 1800 1881 and ti M»>
1R62. AI»o, the DA Y BOi>K and JOURNAL BO'iK
containing office account* tor the latter period.
It is believed the above books were trken Charge
Of by nom» friend of the proprietors for safe
keeping.
By returning them to the undurslfrned at Col.
Matta'» old stand, the favor will be both appre
ciated and rewarded.
julylS-8t J. M. TAYLOR,
To Rent.
A COMMODIOUS "Cottage House," m
p UaiurM 'j tsilualfd, oor uining 4 room* fiik
and kltcben, newiy pla tered and painted, with a
plentiful »upply of pure «Istern and well water.
PoeaoMlon giveu immeliately.
ALSO,
AVERY desirable "Cottage House,"
containing % room» and kltcben, A4.,Jul
with au excellent well of water. Po »»e »sion given
on the 1st of Auguit next. Apply to
MES I
juljrlg
JAM
M c V ay.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
JVotice !
B aton Hon»*, La., June !8th, 1805.
rjEORGE A. P1KK, is fully authorize!
V-* and empowered to act or me and In my »tend,
in all baslm*» matters la wl.ich I have an Inter*
eat in Da on Kooge.
julyl -3 »n WM. 8. PUCK.
Jtdvances!. ■ .Jldvancea ! !
I WILL MARK LIBERAL t'ASII ADVANCES OX
COTTON ÜON8IO .ED TO MY FRIENDS,
HOW 15IU, GARONKU & IIAIIR1SO!),
julyl-lm WILLIAM BOGEL.
J. C. KTAFFORD,
ATTORNEY AT I.AW,
OfflCX ON LA ÜRKL &VRKKT,
OATOA rodqg, Lit.
tlTlLL practice in the Parities of East
»• tiaton UuMge, Went Batod Ritfe m' Fust
Fe.ki.na. Julj/4-tln,*
THIRD STREET VABIETY STORE.
One door North of Theatre Building.
A COMPLETE ASSORTMENTO'F
Fancy Goodsp
STATIONERY, PERFUMERY,
CROCKERY AND TIN WARE,
BHOEB, HATS, HOSIERY, TOYS, *1 C.
julyS9-t!
D'tVIU V. UKY.HO KD.
M. BLOCK,
Dealer In
FANCY AM) STAPLE DRY GU0DS,
BOOTS, SHOES AND IIAT8,
Corner or St. Ferdinand nnd A Tri «a S«».
HA TON no VOS, LA .
TUR HUhaerlher bi<g« leave» respectful ly to call
tho attention ef ble old filende, anil c u.-t' niera
th it he ha« taken th- «tore formerly oet upted by
Hr. V. Heui'aaa a DRY OOtlDs STi'iRK, f. r many
year*, and morerecent'y occupied by Mr . II Cuar
linakl, Ourt Hume l-t|u*re, corner »I i t. Ceriii
nand and AMc« atreeia, where I «hull be happy
for my friend* to give me a ell.
Jut 2P-lm
M BIjpCK,
Court Ho in«' fquare.
mOIlE BUTTER.
JUST received h not 1 ' er lot of New lia j Butter—
I »till price only 45 centa.
jnly97 JOSI IB.4 BKAL.
AT BEAIV8.
J VST ARHIYKD
SOAP— 40 boxen Cincinnati Oei'ma n.
LABI)—15 kegn Leaf
OOPPF.K bag* Rio and Havuni .
IfLOlilt—40 barrela Superfine.
BAOON— Ham», Shoulder« and S'idM.
PURK — Iß barrel« fall Me»».
CORN—100 bag» Wnlte.
HAY—26bitle» W«»t«rn.
TKA— 1 che t Imperial.
Which will beeoldliy the pick»«» or at retail, nt
reasonable pricen for the tlnne
july2t> .TU8HC, \ IIKAL.
BEAL'S :
60 Barrels Single Extra FL 0UK.
10 .. M «88 PORK.
1 Hogshead Extra SUGAR .
u (irons P. A M. Y EAST Pi »WCEK8.
Just arrived ai d for »ale at mod. rate price».
AT »» &0 PER SACK.
AT REAL'S—Course Liverpool SALT—
oal> $1 60 per bag.
GROCERY
—AND—
PROVISION HOUSE,
PLANTATION SUPPLIES.
E. R. BECK WITH,
THIRD ST, CORNER OF LA VtiEL,
BATON ROUGE, LA.
CONSTANTLY ON HAND EVERY variety OP
PI .AKTATIOIV MPPIJKN,
Plantt-r» and other» would do weil to call
befjre purchasing elsewhere.
Cotton bottfglkt at feifilitiit marlm l rntea,
july6-3rao».
VICTOR'S
RE S
THE PUBLIC ARE.
heriby respectfully in
formed that they can be accommodated with
Board, at the above Restaurant, situated on Lato
yttte «treat, at the rate of 3* per week. Thin
**rïii înriu'ïe two meals a day. Every attention
and care will be given to the comfort of guests*
Payment mont be made weekly.
Julyi-tr VICTOR C Al, V AYR AC.
JAMES McVAY,
HARDWARE MERCHANT
AMD DEALER IK
Agricultural Implements,
WINDOW S ïï A DES,
WALL I'A I »KU, ETC.
/"'ALLS respcctfullj the attention of tho
V public to his lareeand excellent stock of goods
pirtâiiiin^ tô his lint of mere andise. He be
speaks a liber i) «hare of publie patronage.
Store on TMr4 street, opposite tjie bulldine of
the Louisiana State Sank. ju yl
Corn! Corn!!
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