Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1869-12-18

all of them. The Brashear post office is
honored with five copies, Pa,tersonvillc, three.
Centrevi'le, three, franklin, eight, Clarendon.
none, and Cypremor,, mono. And most of these
nineteen copies, are sent 10 dead heads, white
and black, We send twenty.six copies Of the
Banner 10 Brashear, where the ~xoficial organ
is published, about a hundred and ten 10
franklin, and a large number 10 the other
offices.
"Andn no sale or other advertisement required
BY law, is legal unless advertised in tho
Attakapas Register (the "~oficial otsann).
And if we are correctly informed, it receives
ten thousand dollars from the State Treasury
for furnishing lis nineteen subscribers with
the State laws passed by a lava, Lcgislature."Cl
Isl. Mary Planters Banner]
"HoRRrBLE NARHArIya.-Spscial 10 Louis
vile Observation-Disclosures excite
ment is manifested throughout the State al
the conanct of adistrict attorney IN Rock'and
county. tie has prostitured the sacred nama Of
Justice, and created a feeling Of ahi,orrence
among all men, BY a fiendish act------
Antoine Manrer, convicted of the mnrAe, CT
Joachim Fuorter was sentenced 10 be hanged
on the 9th Of December.
The man never confessed his suiiL----
The District Attorney, W. C. Pratt, 4 Radical
appointed by Gov. Tenton bethouxit him Of a
scheme so diaboIical, so unearthIy, so ghoul-
like in its 6endish conception, that its very
mention fills the hear, Of every sensitive
person With disgust and adherence. lie
conceived the IDEA Of forcing a confession
from the unfortunate prisoner BY placing
before him suddenly, the head of the murdered
man-----anl he put tho scheme in
practice!
One day, Manrer asked leave to wash his
hands somewhere, as there was no water in
his cell, He was Told to go 10 the adjoining
cell where there was a bucket. Ee entered
the cell, watched by the Radical District
Attorney, and bent down to dip his hands into
the pail. Maurer gave a shrirl. Of fear.
There, footing on the surface of the water,
was the head, the contracted face looking into
his; the CLASSY eyes siarIlg at him as if yet
IN the, agony OF death; the waxen lips curled
as 1t IN pain, and the white, cleaning teeth
clenchcd together. He started back in surprise,
in fear, in madness, and rushed rrom ,ba,
charnei house of death. Again ard again,
the same ordeal was gone through, until tho
unhappy man made two or three confessions,
in WHICH insanity is clearly discernihle. Ii h:.s
sleepIess nights, the ghast'v head came before
, hun, in hi, loonl,, ali, - l.,.-,- Ii ! .
dreams, and appalled, his senses, until his
brain racked with terror, and he leareI t.om
his bed, stark, staring mad"[!.u)
These extracts are but Il small sample O.
the hldeons array of those Radical misLeeLs
and atrocities ,ha, have come before the
public eye. When to the recorded enormilies Of
those soulless officials, shall! be Aded
the unwvii,en ones,-somc Of which, We need
not travel far TO unear,h-what u caricatu,e
OF g RepubIieann administration will be
presented to The gaze of the civilized world!
OF all the Vaccinations of This Spurious
Radicalism, the mos, brazen and sIarneles
is, beyond doubt, the effort to establish a
& reconstruction Of disrupted Society, BY
means of the utterly worthless, Enthusiastically,
incapable, and inefficient agencies we have
been describing and, doubtless, the time
must soon cone, when people Of all classes,
will wonder, that folly and wickedness SC
stupid AID So incredible, could be perpe,raled
by any body of men outside Of Bsdlam.
Regarded from the standpoint Of naiura.
reason, this fermentation of Radicalism is
totally lAcomprehensible and mysterious.
Quos Deus vu't perdere, prius dsn,entak
Ii the rise and fall of nationali,ies, no, less
than in the mutations Of private life, the
hidden working Of ali everything Providence
is 10 be recognized, however imperfeclly
understood. What we know to a certainty O
The matter, is, that tho empire of a people
frequently passes into hands incompetent, K
effect the public veal. Aud this too, by lle
eternal designs of The Most High, who created
Society and gave it laws Of jus. government:
but yet retains the power of decreeing who
shall rule: "Donec cqgnoscam piirentes quoniau.
dominatw Encelsus in regno Aomiaum, et
cuicumque ~roluerii 1abii ilud.,'
The history Of the world furnishes many
examples OF the vicissitudes of human govern,
men,. The empire of the Assyrians passed ,t
the Babylonians, that of the Babylonians, /,
the P~ersians: that Of the Persians, to III,
Greeks; and that Of the Greeks 10 the Romans
, On purely human views, no good ground
can be assigned lor these changes of empire
for every one of the ruling powers, was, eacl
/, in its turn, weighed in the balance. and foun,
. waiting" The whole matter must, therefore
be referred 10 the impenetrable designs q
; Providence. Nor do wa see any other %soln,io,
to our own Governmental Enigma, than a Xix,
. reference. Perhaps we are destined TO endur,
s for some time longer, the iron heel Of Radical
9 ism, as a chastisement; and therefore, it is i,
be hoped, for our ultimate good. "Who,n III,
Lord Ioveth, He chastenelh."
"He works in a wonderful way, a