Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1868-06-04
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How THE RADICALS OuT0nE-
ERALnD THE CONSERVATIVE RI.
puBLicANs.--The New York Journal
Of Commerce says:
'No more adroit game was ever
played than that by which The Radi.
Gals took possession Of Gen. Grant.
After the Conservatives were beaten
in Congress- by the adoption Of the
Radical reconstruction schemes over
the Presidents veto. and the whip
ping into the ranks again Of the hest
tating, the movement for the sue.
cession began in earnest. Judge
Chase was the leading candidate Of
the Radicals and Gen Grant Of tho
Conservatives. When the latter an
nounced their determination to stand
by their chosen leader, even At the
risk Of running him upon ano party
platform, il certainly appeared as I
they held the winning side. Had
the Radicals resisted they would
have been signally defeated. They
chose more shrewdly, and by seem-
ing to surrender their preferences,
soon found themselves masters Of the
situation. They only stopped to
conquer. They adopted Gen. Grant
and with. the audacity peculiar to
themselves, set to work to mold him
to their wishes. The extent to which
they have carried this movement,
and the measure Of their success, are
to be found in their present attitude.
The chosen candidate Of the Con-
servatives has become the leader Of
the EXTREMIST sect of the party, and
Judge Chase, the old Radical leader.
and for a long time the exclusive
favorite Of the Tribune, Independent,
and other ultra Radical organs, 10
now too conservative, and is de-
nounced by those who formerly sat
at his feet in willing homage"
SEXUAL DIspRopoRTIoN. - That
there is preponderance Of the male
sex born into the world is now . gen.
orally admitted physiological fact, It
is estimated as high as three or four
per cent, and Paley somewhere ar
CUES that war is divine dispensation
70 remove this inequality. A writer
in the North British Review, however,
asserts that males, whether boys or
men, die at faster rate than females,
SO that toward the age Of eighteen the
sexes are about equal in number, and
after that age women preponderate.
The average excess Of women he
places at three per cent. The excess
varies 10 different countries, and there
is some reason to believe that it is
gradually increasing. The excess Of
women of all ages is, 10 Scotland, IL
per cent and Al per centin ireland ;
Of women between twenty and forty
years of age, rs per cent in Scotland.
,od 8 per cent in Ireland. A re-
oort prepared in 1851 estimates the
excess Of women in Sweden at 6.3
5pr cent. I; Norway, AZ; German
Union, 2.3; Holland, l.S; Spain,
Is; France, LOS; Denmark, 0,8;
Prussia, or In America the excess
i that time was about 5 per cent
10 England and Wales are now, as
.hown by the returns, $4,000 more
women than men. The North British
writer further asserts that there are
l,517, 900 unmarried women in these
wo countries. "England," be says,
has always been the country Of old
naids--it is becoming SO more and
aore." This is due to the increasing
axury Of the age. While four or five
Der cent. Of English women may pre-.
Ter celibacy, from taste or tenpera.
nent, the statistics show that fully 80
Der cent. remain in that condition.
For example-4l per cent. Of the
dult women Of London are unmar.
led, and As per cent. Of those in Sur
ey, Sussex, Middlesex, Westminster
nd Cumberland. "These figures"
OBSERVES the writer, "are the measure
II our divergence from a thoroughly
,iaturaI, sound, healthy, social condi-
ion !" and the fault Of thus diverg-
nee lies mainly with the men. "The
women are to blame, but the men are
lcomparably more. SO, for it is they
ho do or might give the tone on all
,cial matters. Thousands Of women
ould prefer love to splendor--a bare
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