The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-10-30
Radical Programme

reader looks anything but daterng for the future Of
our unhappy country:
The second session of the fortietl Congress will
i convene in few weeks and their various political
committees are preparing, it is said to make such re-
ports as may be thought expedieHt for the purposes OF
their party
4 The work for the session has already been carved
out by the party leaders, who have been buslly en-
gagged i'll promulgating the party programme and die
tatng the order of the performances. The House is
to pass Immediately bill regulating impeachments,
by which it will be provided that any public officer m-
pcaeled shall be liable, upon order Of the Senate,
to arrest, Imprisonment, and suspension from the ex-
ercise of official functions This bill is to be passed
of course, by two-thirds majority in both Houses
The House will then present articles of impeachment
founded upon the allegation that the President is po
litically opposed to them, and Senator Wade, Pres
dent pro team. of the Senate will succeed him.
The Shnate is to send the suspended Secretary Of
War, Mr. Stanton, back to the War Office forthwith
Senator Wilson will bring forward bis bill to establish
negro suffrage by force of in all the States and
as nearly every State will resist it, Senator Wilson is
to introduce bill for raising five hundred regiments
OF black troops TO enable President Wade to
| the law.
Several additional bounty bills approprating from
fifty to four hundred millions each for the purchase
of soldiers votes, and the influence of bounty agents
will be then passed. The subject of reconstruction
will be closely considered and something attempted
to insure and carry Senator Wilson's assertion,
that seven, eight of the excluded States shall
send Radical Senators and Representatives to Con
gress, and also support the Radical candidate for the
Presidency. Sheridan and Sickes to be sent back
to the posts from which they have been relieved.
This session is to continue till March 4, 1869 that
Lis, until the Radical President shall be naugnr-
| ated
| the coming session.
! Congress, during the last session. wholly insrcpre-
sented the views of their constituents. They repre-
sent now meagre and sinking minority of the people
OF the Northern and organised States. They form but
| the rump OF Congress- and msrepresent even the
portions OF the Union from which they elected.
Ten States of the Union they exclude from represent
tatlon and sube them to their arbitrary rule.
VI course, under these circumstances, they will
strike with reckless desperation for supreme power in
/ the Government, "outside of the constitution y
Their leaders are imperative and desperate and their
followers too timd TO resist their dctaon Of COURSE
the people will laugh at these pranks, bnt be ready TO
put them in straight jackets when they shall become
| too miscellaneous.
PARTY WEApoNs.--The Radicals have a hard game
to play. To cajoe the " God and Moralityn sect into
the belief that they the prophets and priests of
new millennium to humbug the negro out of his vote,
his money and his friends by promises Of land social
and political equality encourage him to demand
share of the crop, in order that ne may eat up the
substance Of his employer, and contribute nothing to
the public treasury; to pay off table, men at the
North with positions in the revenue service, where
they swinde the Government and allow per cent
age OF salary for party purposes and their emissari
South, with negro colIeagues-and then, to fight the
Democratic party. This is work enough and varied
enough for all their mongrel forces But it is life or
death-power and punder, total rout. Their
weapons diverse as tie piebald materials that
compose the party. They use inyective against the
late wealthy classes in the South and lick the sores of
the shoddy bondholders of the North. They Islander.
the President and send Old Ben Wade, the acting
VlcePresident, over the country, uttering such Il
" deal Of striking breath that the Northern Demo-
Gratis must be ready to excaim with the Frcnchnall
who remarked, he approached beautiful little spot
ted animal (Which he for the first time West
prare as remarkable for its odorS as its beauty
been dead long time
THE FEVER IN New ORLEANs.-Thc New Orleans
Picayune, Of the 22d has the following i'll relation to
the epidemic in that city:
The total number of ntcrments reported by tue sex
tons of the cemeteries during the week ending Sun
day, is 4ll Of which $50 died of yellow fever 80 Of
other fevcrs and 1877 Of various diseases. The
Der OF deaths from yellow fever week before last
355, thus showing decrease during the week which
has just closed of 100. Suce the week ending Sep
TENDER %, it has been gradually the decline. Dur
ing that week it reached its height, the Number of
deaths from the disease being 4S9. These figures
plainly show that the epidemic has its course,
doubtless for the want of subjects to attack and the
atmospheric changes combined. The mortality the
past week greater among the foreigners than Amer
leans, and, also, among the males than the females.
This has been the case ever since the commencement
of the epidemic. The mortality has also been much
grea Ter among the whites than the blacks. We have
been informed that the disease the past week has re-
sisted treatment stubbornly than at any other
time during the epidemic, and that in proportion
the number of attacks it has been more fatal We
will not vouch for the accuracy of this statement,
though we have heard it asserted by numbers. Ii it
is it is evident that the is attributable the
change in the weather. Though the disease is steadily
decreasing yet it would be safe for those who are
absent from the city, or the uuaccimaed, return
until this latitude has been visited by several good
frosts Experienced physicians frost is not
sufficient to kill the disease that the germ of the pes
thence fingers in houses and bedding even after frost
and an unacclmatcd person, coming in contact with
the localities and things thus infected very apt be
attacked. Our advice, then, to the absent ones is to
remain away until after several fross
New ORLEANS TYPOGRAPHICAL UNloN,-The Plea
eHit, vi INT lStil, HIS DOuy Which Is composed
of the printers of New Orleans though not strictly
benevolent society," has performed many acts of
charity during the present season. The society has
suffered very severely from the epidemic, thirteen
members having died thcrefrom. The following are
their names:
Hitter, HR Maxwell, G S Leonard, WIFI
Pound, G Abbott, W j Hannah, F J Winter, John
J Ackerly, T J Edwards s p Craig, N Cunningham,
Henry and John A Glenn
The Union has appointed the following committee
to attend to the sick and provide for their wants
messrs. John ] Rivera, Chairman; W A Jones, J
B Latour W J Hammond J G White r + Hall, Chas
Semper, S A Gray, J c Murray E Sherman, W H
Drnry, Gerard stth, Bailargeon, G Mclean, j
Guthrie Sol Harris, J Spencer and Samuel Joyner.
This society deserves much credit for its many acts
of benevolence In addition to providing for its own
sick, it has donated 5000 to the Howard Association
BRITISH IGNORANCE OF AMERICAN GEoGRAPHY-One |
of the famous British reviews of which Leonard Scott
Co., of New York, give the reprint, in noticing
LyeIls second visit the United States for the pur-
pose of observing the institution of slavery gays
" Be it remembered that the author is conveyed all
along this wide and desultory from city to CITY,
with occasional divergences for geological purposes by
vessel and railroad He with,