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The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-08-01
Granl5t2s -so.IiIoquE..

I wonder what the people mean
This silence is appalling hss.
WITNESS yet no pageant scene,
hear no Jealous baWhng.
My name was once magic word
~ Toset the throng a-shouting, H
But now those sounds no more are 81
81. heard, -a45 Diva m
.aIAs if they all were doubling.
I smoke and ponder till the tears q
Adown my cheeks viii drizzle, 2
. For have many anxious fears gaiHs
Of o COMPOUNDED tizzle. Il lgs..
I sometimes think I played the fool
In politics to dabble,
And feel I'm but a plant tool
For a half-erazy rabble. E1as4.J@a
I wish I'd had the sense to bolt r..
The pow WOW at Chicago,
For well they know Tn but dolt,
Although I made the war go. a' la
To conquer with ten times the force
The enemy could muster, aaa.t
Was not too great a thing, of course,
And sheds but little lustre.
Had Lee but been where I was placed,
And / been placed where Lee was,
I think I should have been efaced
In half the time that he was. #-a-,
My soldiership they Overate, g
And think to fool the masses, IL
But if I read Alright their fate, .. ...
d.. They'll prove a set Of asses.
.
They've got us in a hellish muss,
>@i Our friends are growing tickle, r.
And soon they'll have us, every cuss,
In a most internal pickle. ra .,..
/ feel as if my head was bumped,
My brains are in middle, -.
And oft I wish I had not jumped
18th Into their dirty puddle. ..ass. u.s.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-08-01
Communicated.
The Hero.

Sublime may be hero on backgrounds
And laurels worth a victory
Secured by gallant bravery
But more sublime before oar Gods found
al hero. who IN passions Strri0es4
Fights 5ra0ely for q 0irtlSOus life
And let's his faith in deeds resound -
a champion firm tn death, remains:
That eternal Eite in God he gains SO
Through Christ, our Savior -
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-08-01

SATURDAY., /: AUGUST /, 1868.
In the State 81 Panama, before
the yearly unions of the Assembly
take place, political parties gener-
ally meet to consider among them
selves such matters as they intend
to bring before the Legislature.
AT one Of the late meetings a gem
tleman who had lived for some
time ID the United States, and is a
GREAT admirer of its institutions,
maintained that by adopting these
institutions, + without delay, this
country would Immediately be on
.alevel,with the Great Republic J;
or, in other words, by following
the North Americans we would be
one of the most civilized people in
the world. We extract from the
proceedings of the meeting Mr..
SIS reply to the gentleman,s
assertions: '71 ,aa IA
Mr.. President, in proposing
that we adopt North American
institutions, in order that we may
rank among the most civilized
nations in the world, our friend is
merely repeating q yulgarism
against which I do most solemnly
protest. We are represented as an
nncivilized peOple but. Sir, if to
do what the North Americans have
done is to be civilized, then ace are
civilized. IF to have done it before
them is to be ahead of them, then
we are at the head of civilization.
For what do the North Americans
boast Of? They have but recently
abolished slavery we abolished it
long ago. They have ustproclaim-
ed the equality of the races, and
are. trying to hold up the negro ;
we have proclaimed that equality
and heldIup the negro, long ago.
They have just finished their first
civil war, renderedcmoney scarce,
and made a paper dollar not worth
a dollar; we have had dozens of
civil wars rendered money scarce,
and made dollar not worth a dol
lar long ago. They are beginning
to tear up their Constitution, i'm
peach their President, and set up
q Dictator ! we have done ait thus
long ago. They, at last, are going
to the deVI as fast as they can ; a0e
haze gone to the deVil long agoT'
The argument could not be
refuted, and the meeting broke up.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-08-01
Poliee Jury Proeeedings.

Pursuant to notices issued BY the
Clerk OF the. District Court Of the Par
ish Of Calcasieu, % the members Of the
Police Jury elect, the Police Jury have
met at the Court House Of this Parish,
on this 25th day Of July, 1868.
Present u. G. Hay, representing
ga Ward; ]. i. Bilbo, from 8d Ward /;
Jonathan Wmg, from 4th Ward /;
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-08-01

AN OLD-FAsHIoNED INDIAN STo-
RY.-A Washington correspondent
of the New York Tribune says;
About six months ago, in dead
winter, the Kiowa tribe of Indians,
then a hostile band in Texas, made
prisoners of a family of white set
tiers, consisting of six persons, in
Cook county, Of that State, and
carried them into captivity. Be
fore they reached their camping
grounds they killed four of the
mum f-the father, mother, uncle
and babe. The other two, who
were little girls, aged respectively.
four and six years, they kept as
4scaptives. Several weeks age Col.
ILeavenworth, the Government
agent for this tribe Of Indians, had
occasion to visit their camping
ground, and there found these lit
tie children prisoners. He COM
PEELED their release, and has
brought them to Washington. He
had them at the Capitol to-day,
and says that as they are in the
world alone, without a relative, he
proposes that Congress deduct
100000 from the annuities Of the
Kiowas to raise and educate them.
The Indian appropriation is under
consideration in the Senate, and a
sufficient sum win undoubtedly be
set aside for such an object.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-08-01

When the intelligence of the
nominations was brought to Hiram
Ulysses Sam Simpson Grant, that
impefturbable person interrupted
his fTi me- the bearer, by first offer
ing him a cigar; and when the
news was conveyed in like manner
to Colfax, that model of flial afec-
ton said, Excuse me for a mo-
ment, gentlemen, my mother would
like to hear this, and straightway
went to telegraph the fact to the
maternal author of his being. 1t is
quite impossible to withhold ones
admiration from qualities like
these. The GOODNESS of Grant and
the loving consideration of Colfax
make up together the ice-cream of
human kindness. .'.,'
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-08-01

An Irishman who was Illus
trating the horrors Of solitary con-
finement, made the melancholy
statement that out of one hundred
persons sentenced to endure this
punishment ior life, only fifteen
survive Ill!
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-08-01

dEblSb pdluboA y g409tA0 "a -4SAA' |
jackson on horseback, by order of
the State Legislature, A resolu-
ton to pay the artist two thousand
dollars for the picture being offered,
an old senator from Clay county
arose and spoke as follows
ct am opposed, Mr., President,
to paying the Missouri artist
two thousand dollars for that an
picter- because I don't believe, sir,
1T is a good picter. 4 have never
saw gineral jackson and tharfore
don't know whether it is like HIM
or not, Perhaps my friend, the
Senator from Camden, who has
saw gineral jackson, can tell you.
III it is a good picter OF him, But,
Mr.. President, | haze saw a boss.
I have raised 'em, ] have rid EN-,
I have run 'em and I have stood
'eln, and I tell you, sir, that ar
thing up thar Amt a hoss, You
know, Mr.. President, that a boss
must stand on somethin', but that
thing is standin' on nothin' and
rarrin' up at the clouds. Now I
won't vote for payin' for any SIGH
boss picter as that, and won't vote
neither for payin' for gineral Jack
son eff his picter aim tno better. /
ask the Senator from Camden eff
that picter. is like gineral Jack
son %
AT this point all eyes were turned
to the venerable form of the Sena-
tor from Camden, which was seen
to rise slowly from its seat. The
usual incontmence of tears accom-
| panied the venerable orator on this
interesting occasion, and it was
some time before his pent-up feel
ings could find utterance in articu-
late speech. The suspense was
getting to be painful, when the
Senator at last commenced;
!" Dir. President Il looked with
great consarn for the overlapping
Of that ar picter yesterday morn
ing. For, as my friend from Clay
says, I knowed gineral jackson
well, and / loved him dearly.
have played with him, ! have
Fassled with hun, / have TIT with
| him, I have run foot races with
! him, and lave saved under him
in the Iniun wars and the British
wars. I say / loved gineral Jack
son, tears more oopiOus.4 / cum
lin here yesterday to watch that
picter. But when it was enrolled,
and / looked for my friend, nay
friend warn't thar, His head warn't
thar his har warn't thar; his eyes
warn't thar; his mouth warns
1 thar; his chin warn't thar. Mr.
1 President, the picter peared te
me it warn't the picter Of my
4 friend no how, but the picter of D
i O6In1nOt6 CLll6L,
Takes his seat amid many man,
ifestations of delight among the
secessionists. Judge II, Csc
i 4 thought, Mr.. President. / don't
believe the picter is like ginera
/. Jackson any more than the thing
he SITS on IS Ike q moss. 4 don
think, however, it is a Seminole
ehief, but q Shalcnee chief. Yor
know the missouri artist has
been living up on the Kansas Dor
der. While up thar he painted {
Shawnee chief and now wants III
to pay him $4,000 for a picter o
gineral jackson"
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John Baker, 81 Illinois, lately

John Baker, Of Illinois, lately
proposed that whenever a Demo
GRAFT had not more than 1000 ma
iority he should be considered de-
feated, and his Radical opponent
be allowed his seat. Mr.. Pollard,
radical, of Vermont, hearing the
suggestion, proposed to amend by
declaring that whenever a State
did not give over 10000 Demo
cratic majority, the entire Radical
ticket should be declared elected.
Such remarks show how utterly
disguised these gentlemen are
with the action Of their own party
In the conduct of contested cleo
ton cases.
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-08-01

A young lady in Cincinnati de-
sires to know if Eight Hour
Bills " are the same as Sweet
Williams"
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-08-01

/, But FIJI sights in this life are
more sublime and pathetick than
,,tu see poor but yirtuous young
man full of christian fortitnde
struggling with a mustaoh.
Josh Billings.
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THE RULING Passion. ~ When
Rabelais was on his death-bed, q
consultation of physicians was
called. "Dear gentlemen, said
the wit To the doctors, raising his
.languid head, !" let me die a natural
danth,n
The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1868-08-01

The Great Speeches of Ex-Gov
HoRATTo SEYMOUR and Hon. SAMUEL j.
TmDEN, ut the Democratic State Con
yeRtion held at Albany, March nth
1868.
, 1868-07-07


Ceremony, but after 4 while an order was
given to admit them as far as the princi-
pal entrance to the Blue Room, and i'm
mrdiaiely a rush was made by both ladies
and gentlemen TO get a peep at the proceed
ings. The cluster of spectators around
the door was very dense, and a good deal
of facetious comment was INDUCED 10 at
the expense Of the CelestiaIs.
Minister Burlingame read his letter of
introduction and handed it to Secretary
Seward, after which the Secretary read
the answer of the President. The letter
of the Emperor of China, engrossed on
yellow yelIum and containing the great
seal of the empire, was then u~nrolled and
exhibited to the President.
Mr.. Burlingame spoke on the occasion
as follows:
Mr.. President-If you had not already,
through the Secretary of Stale, kindly
relieved. me from embarrassment, my first
duty on the present occasion would be to
explain to you how |, who left this capt.
tai seven years ago as Minister of the
United States to China, have now return
ed here a Minister from China 10 the
United States. You will permit me to
renew in this formal manner the express
sion of thanks for the kindness and llher-
atty with which this change of represen-
tative character and responsibility on my
part has been allowed by the American
people. Mr.. President, the Imperial Chi
nese government, within the past three
years, having accepted the laws of nations
as they are allowed and practised by the
Western Powers, that government has
further concluded, if permitted, to enter
into communication through the custom
airy diplomatic way with the United
States, Belgium, Denmark, France, Great
Britain, Holland, Italy, North Germany,
Prussia, Spain and Sweden. This desire
of the Chinese Government is fully ex-
pressed in letters addressed to those Pow
ers respectively. We are charged, at the
expense of what might bear the appear
ance of egotism, to say that there are
nine official ranks in China. By way of
showing the greatest possible respect to
the Western Powers the letters to which
[ refer were committed to the care Of N.Y.
self of the first rank and TO Chih Tajen
and Sun Tajen of the second rank, my
self being vested with extraordinary pie
nipotentiary functions and all of US be-
ing accredited to you as high ministers
and ENJOYS. We have now The honor to
deliver the letter of his Imperial Majesty,
which is thus addressed to the President
Of the United States. In doing SO we
obey a charge given US by the Emperor
of China to assure you of a sincere desire
for your personal health, honor and happi-
ness, and for the welfare and prosperity
of the great nation over which, by the
authority Of Heaven, you have been
chosen to preside.
The President replied as follows:
Your Excellencies-States, like indi-
vidual men, have two distinct characters
in the field Of activiiy-the one domestic,
the other social. IF it be true, as | think
ii is, that the several political communi-
ties of the earth are now more actively
engaged than at any previous period in
ameliorating their respective constitutions
and laws, it certainly is not less manifest
, 1868-07-07

more there will be added to these facilities
of intercourse the Pacific Railroad across
our own continent and a ship canal, con-
structed under French patronage, across
the Isthmus of Suez. But there will re-
main besides all these, and more import
ant than all of them, the great work Of
connecting the two oceans by a ship canah
to be constructed across the Isthmus of
Darien. To doubt the feasibility of such
a work would imply an ignorance of the
science and the wealth in which we live.
Your important mission will enable you
10 contribute largely to the achievement
OF that great enterprise. | respectfully
request you, therefore, to commend it TO
the favor of the United States of CO.
lumbia as we'll as to the government of
China and the several European States
to which you are accredited.
The speeches on both sides having been
delivered the Secretaries of the Cabinet
were severalIy introduced. Gideon We'll
les, it must be said, made the most pro-
found impression, and whether the Ce>
l~esliaIs took him at first sight for the
priest of the oracle or the real ruler of
the nation cannot be ascertained. One
thing, however, was plain, that his mag
nlficent milk white Thibetian lama beard
was the cynosure of every Mongolian eye.
Secretary Browning esSayed to converse
with San Tajen about the interior o.
China but beyond diverse pantomimic
gestures on the part of Sun, who seemed
10 say that China had no homestead or
presumption lots to spare, nothing was
elected. Secretary McCuIloch spoke to
Mr.. Tung, but said nothing about fnan-
ces. The interview altogether was brief,
and when the President departed so like
wise did the CeIestials.
In the State Department the embassy
spent about two hours, visiting every
room and learning in detail the secrets of
Secretary Stewards bnreau. The little
bell that tinkltd its OminouS tintinabula-
lions some few years ago was exhibited
as a precious relic of the times that tried
mems loyalty. The archives of the office
were also shown, and the gradual though
sudden rise and spread of the glory and
greatness of the republic were duly i'm
pressed on the Monaghan mind. At three
o'clock the embassy returned to the no.
tel, after which Mr.. BerIingame, the two
Taiens and the two Secretaries, Browne
aud De Camps, went and paid their re-
Spects TO Postmaster General Randall,
Mr.. Welles, Secretary of the Navy Mr..
McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury;
Mr.. Browning, Secretary of the Interior;
the French, British, Russian. Prussian and
Brazilian Ministers, at six O'Clock and re-
turned to the hotel to dine. Sun Tajen
received a beautiful bouquet of flowers
from the ladies of Secretary Browning's
family. After dinner the placid Celestials
retired to their rooms, lit their opium
chibouqes and in dreams revisited the
Flowery Land.
Mr.. Burlingame has been besieged with
visitors all day, in matches of dozen at q
time. Everybody wants to see the Min
lister from China, of American birth and
raising. Some want to see him to find
out if China is a good field for the intro
duction of certain Yankee notions, and
others would like to know if the Brother
&C tho Sup opJ Moor hos an, msc
, 1868-07-07


generally evinced hesitation, ~c,ution and
reserve, not to say jealousy, in regard to
advances of the United States. Of late
these features have set med to disappear.
There remains socially, one civilized and
regularly constituted Stale with which
we have not formed relations of cordial
friendship. So far from seeking TO i'm
pose letters upon our rs here
tOtorc, nearly all nations nov invite US 10
establish free trade. Our national thought
that the American continent and islands
are rlghtfuIly reserved for the ultimate
establishment of Independent American
States Is no longer anywhere contested.
Vigorous and wei established European
Powers now freely cede TO US for fair
equivalents such of their colonial possess
sions in this hemisphere as we find de-
sirable for strength and The
Inherent tight of MAD to choose and
change domlcIle and aIIegiance-a prin-
clpIe essential to human prOgrrss-is
conceded IN recent treaties. These chan
ges, although not less important, are less
striking than the extension of our friendly
intercourse with Oriental nations. We
have recently opened reciprocal and
equal Intercourse with Greece, with the
Ottoman Porte and with Japan. China,
having accepted the laws of nations as
they are explained in our approved COM
p%ilation, now avalIs herself, through your
mission, of your friendly introduction to
the Christian States OF Europe and Anne
RIGA. These events reveal the pleasing
fact Of a rapid growth of mutual trust and
confidence among the nations, resulting
from a general suspension of the policy OF
wal and conquest and the substitution of
a fraternaI and benevolent policy in its
place. Your Excellencies, we have not
failed to appreciate the sagaclty with
which the Chinese empire has responded
to this change of policy by the Christian
nations. We acknowledge with pleasure
the cordial and enlightened adoption of
that policy by the Western nations, acting
ally by Great Britain. France, Russia,
North Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden,
Holland and Belgium. [ deem it not
unworthy of this occasion to bear witness
to the merit of the representative agents
whose common lahors at Pekin have cul-
minated in bringing the empire of China
SO early and so directly into the family
circle of civilized nations-nameIy, Prince
Kung and WtnShian on the part of China;
yourself, Mr.. Burlingame, on the part of
the United States; the lamented Sir Free
derik Bruce on the British part +; Mr.. Ber-
themy on behalf of France; and Messrs.
Balluzek and V. LangalIy on the part of
Russia. Reasoning from the harmony
which has thus prevailed hitherto, I feel
myself justified on this occasion not only
in giving you q cordial reception here,
but also in assuring you of a welcome
equally cordial by the several Powers to
which you are accredited. In conclusion
I trust that the intelligent and enlightened
Chinese government and people will allow
me to build upon this days transaction an
expectation that their great empire, in
stead of remaining as heretofore merely
passive, will henceforth be Induced to
take an active part in the general progress
of civilization. There are several lines of
novirafInn hot wonn. Furnno and fthipa