New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1867-06-16
LETTERS FROM RUNNER"

NAIIulIuthEo' Luz NAY 81, loO''
Parties just arrived from the border par
ishes, and the Texas line, report everything
peaceable in shat vicinity, and the soldiers
have little else to do than to hunt deer; the
good citizens often Joining them in this in.
nocent sport.
The rains are injuring the crops to very
| considerable extent in this vicinity.
The weather is disagreeaby cold and OPP
pressiye, but alternately, which does not
conduce to hasten the growth of the young
Gotten and corn.
have visited many portions of this State
recently and found no place yet which will
compare with this parish and some Of those
adjoining it in point of peace and good
order.
There have been no tournaments held
| in this place for the "reliefn of, or to make
| ''widows and orphans nor do the good
| sensible people contemplate having or coun-
tenancing anything Of the kind, either on a
| grand or small scale, in imitation of
many OF their neghhors.
These "chivalric - gatherings are
an evil, and those who get up, and
by their presence or participation sustain
| them, are seldom disappointed in their ex-
pectations for the whole tendency of such
affairs is toward wrong. 1t is disgraceful to
| a civilized community to sustain these
\ things. Because Memphis with SdUdge
| leader gets up grand tournament" it is
| no reason that better places should initiate
her course, nor do we find the mania per.
vading this sensible community.
The people of this whole State are too
wise and too respectable to intrust their
| affairs in the hands of fre-eating outlaw,
whose only distinction consists in natural
| faculty for melting savages to commit
/ bloody deeds, and their Sell, SO sweet to
his barbarous ear, is now aptly superseded
| by the barbarous ceremonies of the
| 'knightsr of 1867. Let good citizens, and
particularly those who love the title of "oldn
preceding their distinguished names, use
| their vast influence in another direction
than that used by our brothers at Memphis.
These are no days of knighthood, and
| the chivalry of this day hold the
plow-handle instead of the lance. All other
/ pretenders are the merest outlaws and
| "humbugs.r Let "our young men drink
less whisky, go to work, and earn an honest
living, and my word for 1t there will be
not only fewer widows and orphans" but
those who unfortunately are without hus-
bands and fathers will not be needy.
"Queens of love and beauty too, are
quite out of place at tournaments and |
| think the sober-minded reader will agree
with me tina. queens of love, and even
beauty, are ottener found presiding over the
| affairs Of some humble household than en-.
throned in an amphitheatre or joining in
and encouraging departed gladiatorial alb
surdities.
II can be no very great or lasting honor,
and certainly no pleasure. 70 be crowned
by an unauthorized and most ridiculous
representative of deported chivalry;
"Pity the poor widows and orphans" ]
say, II they must depend on such depend
ant, ludicrous creatures rs our modern
chiyalry
IA. Lancaster, ESQ.,, of Minden, Louisi.
ana, recently appointed receiver general
In the land office at Natchitoches, arrived
to night, but owing to the fact that the books
and other necessary material are still al
New Orleans he will not at once enter on
his duties. but will return to Shreveport and
| await the arrival of the register and books.
He informs Us that Claiborne and indeed
all that portion of the State Is perfectly
quiet; that the laws are enforced ana nc
outrages are committed.
/ / suspect much credit Is due our friend
Blackburn Of the Iltad for this good STATE
Of things. hummer.
GRAND EcoRE, La, May 81.
Natchitoches, whence my last was writ
ten, Is about four miles south Of this place
aud was formerly the place Of landing fol
steamboats,. That truly beautiful old towr
(of the same age of Philadelphia) Is now
left entirely Tout In the celd," but does mo-
complain, and, sitting down Tiers In III
own real, Independent loneliness, calmly
witnesses It's young conpeer (Grand Ecorel
spring into increasing Importance, and re
CARDS this strange transition IS merely
"something In the order Of events" Yes
Red river ignores Natchitoches, and Its old
path, and Is not even restrained By the
many threats and loud deuunciafioni
against new things and changes But
the Ssssr IL nm oubtedly right. II 10 only