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VOL. 11, MCKINNEY, COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2,1866. NO. 13.
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.i«B rtl.EElMNU CHILD.
AT brook weot 4 octnff on it war,
Pram bank to valley Ion] in| ,
Aad by Itaannny margin Ujr
4 lovely iutmot altering.
" Thiairmr of the ponrinjf *trt%m
Binka not ib* tpell which bound bin,
l.ttt tiunic breathing in hi dnuu2,
-A tahaby aroantf bin.
It ia • 1n ety apst <o titw,
Wirbtn liift world af Borrow,
On* spot«-li¡«It ittill r«uiua the hue
Vfce With fiara Ueaveu may borrow.
A*4 «eb vh tbw—a scene so fnir,
Artayeá iuamuuii-.r bfflMpeai,
At>4 one |)o«r b«i jr rested there,
Oat aual of i'mIwui wbltaneas.
WUi fc«{<v* draottw, fuir child, «re givto,
To «ant their aooeibiiie o\¡r timet
Wkoi ootA uuitonth.r «cu*I to Heurm,
%'k*ia |*U btffvtx thocf
For amda of cloutllss mirth,
O'er thy fair fwrtorvaWmiufr,
Hay iwu tboajht—a t<>raa of earth
AU J« tLiv baxr of dreuiiiiujc!
Slf#p, lovely'babe, for time1 cold touch
Shall aiake &.■>* viaione wither:
Tout?! at<4 dnifflt which clwriu a<> lunch,
R-a*n £*d« «sd fi« together.
7k«««u«p, whila alaep IK pul #uii mild.
• earthly ti«f shiw atrouger,
Whan Vlou b«U lie no w>-re a child,
Am 4r«ttM vi Henrea no longer.
HOME WllSHi; VjUL'KK'3 0SK TO 1.0 VB US
•I OkAKI.IM «W4iV.
Hmm's not maraly tluriKpiare walta,
ThuufH tkiib pictarv#huutfuml ¿Mud)
Xt«m# ia whvr ' attention callé—
If'iltai with sliriu«e lite heart Lath buildtd:
Home V-go watch tb« faithful do ta
Hailing 'iiai.tb th« h«av«u ab'tve it ,-—
Hvicia ia *b*rr tlicr/k one to loft; I
ilwau i* wktfrc ihcrvn one So lot* us I
B.>• •'« uot ur«iv roof an4 room,
It ae«<l« Kiiuvthing to f*d*«r it ¡
lluuta i* wlu-r* tbt«h«>>.rt can bl«)um ;
Wk*i•* <bcrc'a iiuuie kin<! lip to cheer it 1
What ia huiiK' with Hoot to uioet f
Vita* to walcume~u«MB to givet an?
Rlam* ia «w«et—aad oaly nweot-
Wliara th«r«'a oae we lore to in ret nt i
A French physician Dr. A. <lc Grunu
]ioulo|t;n«, who b*« witnessed, it is **ut, four
foco «hulera epidcmici*, hus paMishcd in a
UtUr, advitve to the general public, lie bayit:
*'<.% ]«<•& U the result, in nineteen out of
total/ bases, of a choleratic diarrhea, which
maj tlvaye l>e Miiily cured I.y tinuly treat-
BMBt. What i* ioiportant to know is wheth-
er tka diarrhaa be cholcratic or not. The
general rule in time of epidemics «should he
(« pay the strictest attention to the state of
the patíeat'a bowels. If the evacuation be
foraui of aqueous matter similar in appear-
Mee te very clear cafe au lait, to rice water,
to 4ieh*water, or to tea stirred with a few
drops of milk, then whatever be the general
condition of the patient, although he may he
suffering neither from pain nor weakness, he
has.lh« cholera. The progress of the disease
has then to be attested by the use of pep-
permint, ef which the patient must drink
b&lf * cupfull every quarter of an hour; it is
to he taken quite hut, sweetened, and with
(he addition of two table-spoonfuls of rum or
eld cognac, together with twenty drop of
tinctur^ of ciaríamos, Pcr.spiri.tion is then
produced, and the infusion is continued till
the motion* are checked. Three houru gen-
eraüy suffice for this. If the medicine thu
administered promote rigns of intoxication,
this is to be regarded as a favorable sign of
recovery, if it cause vomiting*, then it is to
be discontinued, and a small glass of ol<i
cognac or of chartreuse is to be substitu'ed
lit its place, which is to be taken every quar
ier of an hour. When the disease has:
reached its crisis, it is generally necessary to
continue the treatment mainly with alcohol.
JxeJ aromatice, energetic frictions, injections
not MO Uronty etherised, rubbing of the
limb?, and to use every suitable means for
increasing the circulation and exciting the
ftervous system."
French vessels wore recently passing St
Thorns* for Vera Cruz, with troopu to rein-
fore# the Impcr'alute i& Mosteo,
TUB CUY OF MtOXICO.
The City of Mexico is situated In the State
of the Fame ns.me, 7,40fl feet above the leve!
of the se , 252 miles west of Vera Cms, 8l>0
iniles south-wM of Tsmpico, on the Gulf « !'
Mi xico, and 270 north ol Acnpulco, on the
Pacific Ocean. Trout Washington City it is
2,750.
The present city occupies only part of the
site of the ancient eity of Tenochitlan, which
was founded, according to the traditions of
the natives, in 1327, or two eentuuo.s before
its conquest by Corten. Tho location is ttenr
i,nkc Ter.ouco, the waters of which, with the
other lakes in the vicinity, have been on the
tiecrease for several centuries. " Mexico is
undoubtedly," says^llumholdt, "one of tho
finest cities ever built by Europeans in either
hemisphere. With tho exception of Peters
hurjf, 'rJurlin, Philadelphia, and Westminster,
tlsere docs not exist a city of tho same extent
which enn be c(ittipnred to tho capital of New
Spain, for the uniform leve! of ¡he ground on
w hich it stands, for the regularity and brondth
uf the streets, and the estcr.t of tho public
places. Tho architecture is generally of a
very tine style, and there Rrc edifices of a
very beautiful structure. Two sorts of hewn
stone give to tho Mexican boildingsan air oí
solidity and of magnificence. Tho balus-
ustrades and pates :;re «11 of Biscay iron, or
namented with bronze, and the houses, in-
stead of roofs, have terraces like those of
Italy and oth^r Southern countries."
Many of the streets are over two miles in
length, perfectly level and utrnigbt, fourteen
yards in width, and tho end* terminating in
a view of mountains that surround tin; valley.
Tho houses are in general of a uniform height,
most of them having threr stories, each frotn
15 to 20 feet high The fi . ts f f the most of
tho houses arc painted in dift'erent colors,
vir,: white, crimson, brown or light green,
nd rciain their beauty f"r many years, ow-
ing to the dryness of the 'atmosphere. The
city is built in the form of a square of about
lour and a half ntiles on e side. Its length,
from north to soutn, is 4,10(5 yards, and from
east to west, is !';,4y4 y rds. The Plana
Mat or, or Great Square, is one of thej finest
squares to bo seen in any city in the world.
The east side is occupied by a rpletidid pal*
ace, formerly oc-iipicd by tlio viceroys, and
now by Maximilian, and the north side by the
cathedral, a magnificent building, the west
by a range of shops, with piams—called
¡.hero portales—in front"? the south part by
homes with pirales,2 and a fine building
called C&pa dolE>t do—of commonly, U Di-
putación. Near tl*e suburb of San Cosme is
the Ahimedia—1 ¿ fine park.
The city is divided into fourteen parishes,
containing thirty seven convents—fifteen of
monks and twenty-two of nuns—seventy,
eight churclu'P, exclusivo of the cathedral,
six cemeteries, three public promenades, three
theatres—not mentioning several of inferior
order—two bull-rings capabJc of accommo-
dating fifteen thousand persons each, ten
hospitals, three public libraries, one museum,
a university which was founded in 1551, an
academy of painting and sculpture, the mint,
which is the most extensivo establishment of
tho kind in the world, in which t ilvcr to the
amount of many niiPions i« coined every
year. The botanical garden is small, but rich
in rare and interesting productions, it is hand-
somely laid out in the Spanish fashion, with
flag walks, bordered with large pots of flow-
ers. In the centre is a large stone basin,sup
plied by a fountain with watw.
The city is supplied with water by two
aqueducts, about fvur miles long, each con-
taining nearly a thousand arches. The canal
or Chalco, which extends from the lako of
that name to the city afford? an avenue for
conveying, in canoes, the produce of that
country, and the fruits, flowers, and vegeta
uai summer—the atmosphere pure and hoal
thy, ami water excellent. There are many
pleasant rides out of tho city, among others,
those of Tacubaya, Tacuba and San Angel.
The ancient City of Mexico, or Tenochit-
lan, was taken by, Cot tes on the 14«h of A<t*
¿ust, 152rt, after a seigo of twenty-six days,
during which time mo>e than two hundred
thousand Mexicans lost their lives. They dc-
iended the city so desperately, that Cortex
had to dcsti-oy all the building* as ho advan-
ced, and from the rtiins of the old ciiy the
conquerors commenced rebuilding at the be-
ginning of 3522.
It wrs railed Mexico from the name of one
of the pods of tho Aztecas, Mcxitly, and
Tcnoch'tlan was derived from the Indian
word Tenuehfli, which signifies the fulfilment
of a promise.
The population of fho city is about two
hundred thousand, composed of all the differ-
ent t acos which inhabited that country.
Madam Calderon's description of Ihe valley,
s seen from the heights of Chapultepcc, is
as follows:
44 From tho terrace that runs round the
castle, ihe view forms tthe most magnificent
panorama that csn be imagined. The whole
valley of Mexico lie\ slrctched out as upon a
map—the el'y itself, with its innumerable
ehurches and convents, the two great acqua-
ints which cross the plain, the avenues of
elms arid poplars which lead to the city, the
villages , lakes and plains which surround it.
To the north, the magnificent Cathedral ol
Our Lady of Caudalupe—to the south the
villages of San Augustine, San Angel, and
Tacubaya, which seem embosomed in trees,
and like an immense garden. And if in the
the plains below there are many uncultivated
lieids, yet, with its g'orious enclosure of
mountains, above which tower the mighty
volcanoes, Popocatepetl and fr.taccihuatl—the
Cog and Magog of the valley—around whone
giant sides great volumes of misty clouds
were rolling and with gorgeous sky forever
smiling on the scene, the whole landscape, tin
viewed from this height, is one nearly of un-
paiallelled bcauiy.Fx.
THE REPORT OF CARL SCIIURZ ON
THE CONDITION OF THE SOUTH.
The report of Carl Schnrr, on the condition
of the South was printed in the New York
Tribune of the. 23d, fiiling sixteen closely
¡minted columns of th*t paper. Schiirt says
at the time he went South the people of the
Me insurgent States were so despondent that
they would have regarded as a favor a read-
mission on any conditions. He says he found
four classes: First those who, being com-
pelled to yield, hoi estly endeavor to accom-
modate themselves to the new order of things;
second, those who are eager to have their
Stales readmitted, with the design of fixing
mailers to .-suit their tastes afterward ; third,
swaggering young men, loiters and idlers,
who Kill assume to hopo for Souihern inde-
pendence; and, fourth, the multitude of per-
sons nho have no definite opinions, and urn
apt to he carried along by thone who know
how to appeal to their impulses and prejudi-
ces All these classes, he says, aro agreed
i hat further resistance is useless, and there-
fore all movements for separation have been
abandoned, lie thinks this ioralty of a neg-
ative character, and adduces letters to show
that the people are hostile in places where
troops have been withdrawn. He thinks
justice can only be dono to the frecdmcn by
extending lu them the elective frnnchmo, lie
claims that their emancipation ia rather of
form than of fact, and opposes, as unprece-
dented in history, the disposition of the Gov-
ernment to intrust the development of thoii
freedom to the Mates lately holding them in
bondage
He advocates the encouragement of educa-
tion aurmg the freedmen, and in his conclu-
bles, raised in the beautiful gardens in thej*'4"1 makes thu following remarks: "Tht
vicinity, to market. 'J he remains of the eel-¡loyalty of the masses, ami mo.itof the* South-
•.bratcd floating garden called Chinampas, tro ;crn people, consists in submi.-sioa to nctes
near the lake, and aro now stationary, sur-
rounded by a broad ditch. Mexico v,«r for-
merly subject to Inundations from the lakes,
s'ty. The emancipation of slaves is sub-
mitted to only in so far as chattel slavrry fn
the old form could not be kept up. Dot, al
to prevent which a gap in the m iutit&ina 12 though tho freedrnan is no longer considered
miles long, and SOU fed wide, was cut down! the property of an individual matter, bo is
:t an immense expense. From 1G07 to 1830,: considered tho slnve of rocictv, and all in*
$s,00u,0(j0 was expended.
dependent Sta'o legislation will uhow I ten
The cliuuU is magnificent—in fitfl perpet. dcncy to traki him such.
14 Practical attempts on tho part of the
Southern people to deprivo tho negro of his
rights, aa a fret dinan, may result in bloody
collisions, and will, certainly plunge Southern
society into restless, fluctuating and anarchic
confusion. The solution of thV problem will
be very much facilitated by enabling all loyal
end free labor elements of the South to exer-
cise a healthy influence upon legislation. It
will hardly be possible to secure the froedm'an
against oppressive cinss legislation and private
ptrsécution, unless he bo endowed with a
certain amount of political power.''
TVtu Delta.
TilfóTIÍT"
Novel modb of petkctist. a Tniui\
Tho Fond dn Lac Press is responsible
for the following squib :
A gentleman of our acquaintance
¿ot into his head, the other dav, a
notion that hi* stove wood molted
away a little faster than tho warm
weather warranted, and concluded to
try an experiment, in the hopo ofj
ea'lclmig the thief. Taking a tine.
looking stick, ho charged it with!
some ounces of powder, and replaced ¡
it on the side of the pile which seemed
to diminish the fastest. This was on
Tuesday. On Wednesday afternoon,
an explosion, somewhat resembling
tho shock of a small earthquake, was
heard in a house near by. A man
pa wivcj by at the time navs that si-
multaneously with the explosion lie
saw a kettle of salt pork and cabbage
(it may have been gourkrout) shoot
up through the roof, near tho chimney*
\cry much like a sky rocket. At the
same time a largo Thomas éat was
observed making his exit through the
window, evidently under the impres-
sion that he had boon sent for.—
Thinking something might be wrong,
tho gentleman entered the house,
where a seene of indescribable con-
fusion met his gaze. The atmosphere
was pervaded with a most diabolical
smell oi gun-powder and burnt cat.
fur. The lady of the houso was
crouching awav in a closet, and said
she did not ieel well, tho woodbox
looked very much di!a{i late*', and a
pan of apples that had been stowing
on the stovy had been elevated to the
ceiling above,giving it very much the
appearance of Farmer's new map of
Wisconsin, which he promised to r-end
us, uud didn't; a chair had lost three
legs ; the stove was slightly demoral-
ized, and just enough water had been
spilled to prevent a general confla-
gration. The Teutonic proprietor of
the establishment was standing on his
head in one corner of the room, and
it was some time before he could be
prevailed onto "come down." lie
now expresses tho opinion that the
explosion was " a tam i'ankee drick,"
and threatens to fcite the owner of
the wood for tho amount of damages
sustained.
iNCitnucuTY PKnsoN'iFim—'There
ia living on Martha's Vineyard an
old man who has never been off the
island, and the extent of his knowl-
edge is bounded by tho confines of
his homo. IIo has been told of a war
between the North and South, but as
ho has never hoard tho din of battle
nor seen any soldiers, ho considered
it a hoax, "lie is utterly unable to
read, and is ignorant to the last de-
gree. An excellent story is told of
his first and only day at school. Ho
was quite a lad when a lady eauio to
tho district where his father resided,
to teach school. He was sent, and
as tho teacher was classifying the
school ho wui called up in turn and
interrogated as to his former studies.
Of course he had to say that he
had never been to school, and know
nono of his letters. The schoolmis-
tress gave him a s?at on ono sido un-
til she had finished tho preliminary,
examination of tho rest of the schol-
ars. rfhe then called him to her and
drew on the blackboard tho letter A,
told him what it was and wished him
to remember how it looked. He
looked at it a moment and then in-
qulfced (he stuttered):
" How do you know it's A?*
Tho teacher replied that when aht
was a girl, she had been to school to
an old gentleman who told her so.
The boy eved the A for a moment
and then asked, " H-h-how did he
know Y "
This wan almost a stunner, but the
teacher suddenly recollected that ho
had told her that when a boy he had
been to school to a lady, who taught
him that it was A.
Tho boy eved tho letter a little
longer, when lie burst out with to ¿I-
h-liow did he know but she 1-Mied? "
Tho teacher could not get over this
obstacle, and the poor boy was sent
home as incorrigible.—Exchange.
An orator, in appealing to the
" bone and sinew," said :*
My friends, 1 am proud to see
around mo to-night tho hardy yeo-
manry of tho land, for I lovo the ag-
ricultural interests of tho country,
and well muy I love them, fellow-
citizens, for 1 was born on a farm—
the happiest days of my youth were
spent in the peaceful avocations of a
son of the soil. If I may be allowed
to uso a figurativo expression # my
friends, I may say that kwas raised
between two rows of corn. "A.
pumpkin, by thunder 1" exclaimed áu
inebriated chap just iu front of the
stage.
Scientific Music.—Alox. attonded
church last Thanksgiving day, where
they have scientific (quartette) sing-
ing, and was surpisod at the differ-
ence between sciontific singing, and
that he had been accustomed to in (he
backwoods. Ho brought mo a spe-
cimen of the style which ho coped
from the original:
Waiv-Uw, *w w daw awn * ,
Tliaw >aw th.tw law anw waw ¡
W w-kitw taw thuw-raw tawyfcwkraw
Aw thaw traw j iw a*w aw .
Which, rendered into Fnglish, reads
as follows;
Wtleonie, aw*et dav of r«it,
That *:iw the Imrri nriac:
Welcome to IhiK remití# bread
An* there r*ji>iviii{ ejes.
Alex, says that in the country they
are green enough to think it neces-
sary lor good singing that the word#,
of a hyinn should bo sung. How
very vcrdanff.—Nashville Union.
Hr had n*it Thebr.—Fox, the
great orator, being told by a lady'
that she 41 did not care three skips of
a louso for him," immediately un-
sheathed his pcncil and wrote the fol-
lowing :
A lady haa told ma, and i n btr owa hnnae,
Tlmt aha cure* not Tor me " Itirrr. akin* of a Ion ."
i forgive the dearcirature for What ane haa «aid.
Silica woinoii will talk of what run in thtlr Ktui.
Tnr Smam, Pox Hiarov.—The amitH pox
remedy, which currd three thousand cases in
England, taken in all stofrcn of the disease,.ia
-o simple that it cannot be too widely dea*
Hcminatrd. It is:
Cream of tartar, three quarter ounce; rba-
hurb, thirteen grains; cold water, one pint
Tho dose is (rom to half piut, In sever#
oiisea a half pint dos.* should be administered,
in cases characturifted by delirium, great ben-
efit has been obtained by applying a bottle of
hot water to the feet. Plenty of fresb air t#
important, and an out-door airing at the ear.
liest period practicable is recommended.
When applied in the earlier stage of th#
eruption, the eruption is arrested and suppu*
ration prevented without any injurious result.
The mixture should be well stirred or shskea
before administer:rig it.—em.
Among our telegraphic dispatches yester-
day was the first one o or the newly erected
line which ruus hence, by the way of Ticks-
burgh and Shrevepyrt, to Galveston, Texas.'
This dispatch, Wht specially to tho Times,
we transmitted to our eity cotemporaries ia
time for simultaneous publication. that morn-
uuig. "New Orleaiin Timet, 30 (A ulk
In Utah, on the death of a man, hia prop*
erty descend^ the Mormon Ciinrch; bis
wif<>, or wives and children, not being recog-
nised as his heirs. The Church is sol# tel*
of all property
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