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Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1870-02-19
g q de G. 0iraud.
Au WHITE HALL. (St.Jacques.)

Co magasin ofre une raritH complete de
Marchandises ct de proauits de TOuest.
II Sc recommande par un Stock de choix,
par la qnali,e des obje.s, par leur bon marchs.
NJ. Grand contentera, CONNIE lila ~touiours
fait, la nombreuse clientele qui lui a accorde
ct qni lui conserve 50 confance.
Dec 4.
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Notice.

Lost a promissory note drawn by Pollet &
Gonrdain for the sum Of One hundred and
twenty Dollars, payable to the order of the
undersigned, in March 1870:
The payment of said note is stopped and the
public are notified not 10 negotiate it.
J. THOMAS POLLET.
ST. James, February nth 1870.
Emile Legendre F. p. Poch6
New-Orleans P. O. Convent p. O
Bog 1909. St, James.
Lsgendre f. Pochs
AttegDsys at Law
Offices: No. IS Royal Street, New. Orleans.
st. James Parish, at F. P. Poch6's resi-
dence near lhe Courthouse. ap II.
Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1870-02-19
Features.

............ R%eglements, etc.
Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1870-02-19

St.Jacqnes, 10 Fevrier 1870.
Le Louisianais. [volume] (Convent, La.) 1865-1883, 1870-02-19

b.-Iha The laws regulating
human affairs and those Of society, as laid
down by philosophers, on,ologis,s, and meta
physicians, are obsolete, aud unsuitel TO the
advanced civilization Of the aye, and tina, i,
devolves on New England 10 give new moral,
social and political laws to humanity and a
new direction 10 the social world!
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-22

The female assistants in the New York
grammar schools arc .audaci0us enough to
ask mems salary for doing mems work.
These women can not understand business.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-22

On hair Ci0ID KNOW az CEluoiluc ClOtI
and on all other manufactures OF hair not
otherwise provided for, thirty per centum
al valorem.
On hair-pins made Of iron wire, fifty pei
centum ad valorem.
On anaine dyes and colors, by whatever
name known, fifty cents per pound, and
thirtyitive per centum ad valorem
On buttons and on ornaments for dresses
and outside garments made of silk, or OF
which silk Is the component material OF chief
value, and containing no wool, worsted, or
goats hair, fifty per centum al valorem.
On silicate of soda, or other alkaline
siicates. a half a cent per pound.
On sporting gun-wads of all descriptions,
thirty-tive per centum sld valorem.
! On nickel, thirty cents per pound
| On nickel oxide and alloy of nickel with
| copper, twenty cents per pound.
| On watches, Weaknesses, watch move
ments, parts of watches, and watch materials,
| twenty-five per centum I'D vaOrem.
| On watch jewels, ten per centum ad
valorem.
| On live animals, twenty per centum ad
! yalorem: Provided, That animals specially
| Imported for breeding purposes from
| beyond the seas shall be admitted free,
upon proof thereof satisfactory to the
| Secretary of the Treasury, and under such
| regulations he may prescribe: And
provided further, That teams of animals.
| including their harness and tackle. actually
owned by persons immigrating to the
United States with their families from
foreign countries, and in actual use for the
purposes of such immigration, shall also be
admitted free of duty, under such regula-
tons as the Secretary of the Treasury may
prescribe: And provided further, That all
animals brought into the United States
temporarily and for period not exceeding
six months, for the purpose Of exhibition OF
competition for prizes offered BY any agri-
cultural or racing association, shall be ad-
mitted tree of duty upon bond being first
given, in accordance with regulations to be
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-22

prescribed by the Secretary of the Treas
urv, with condition that the full duty
hereinbefore imposed shall be paid in case
of the sale of any such animals IN the
United States.
On oranges, lemons. pineapples, ana
grapes, twenty per centum ad valOrem
and on lines bananas, plantains, shad-
docks. mangoes. and cocOanuts, ten per cent
adj yaorem: Provided, That no allowance
shall be made for loss by decay on the voy.-
oue. unless the said loss shall exceed
ttyenty-fiye Der centum OF the quantity, and
tbe allowance then made shall be only for
the amount of loss i'll excess OF twenty-five
ncr centum of the whole quantity.
On Zante, or other currants, ana prunes
and plums, two and onc-hali Genus per
pound. e
On ,s-foot oil, and all animal, whale,
seal. and fish oils, twenty per eentum al
valOrem. .,,;u4r
On oil made of linsecd or haxseed, thirty
cents per gallon, seven pounds anu nan
of weight to be estimated as gallon; -
On hempseed or rapeseed, and other OH
seeds of like character other than hnseeu
or flaxseed. one-half cent per pound.
On linseed or fiaxsecd, twenty Genus per
busheI of fifty-six pounds weight: Provided,
That no drawback shall be allowed on Oil
cake made from imported seed.
On sesame seed oil or Come oil, and cot
ton seed oil, thirty cents per gallon.
On sesame seed, ten per centum al vaio-
rem.
On opium, one dollar per pound
On opium prepared for smoking, ana on
all other preparations OF opium not othcI
wise provided for, six dollars per pound:
Provided. That opium prepared Tor smoking
and other preparations ofOpiu1n, deposited III
bonded warehouse. shall not be removed
therctrnm for expectation without payment
of duties, and such duties shall not be re-
funded.
On morpha. and ali sorts of morphla, one
dollar per ounce.
On cotton thread. yarn, warps, or warp
warm, not wound upon spOols, whether SIN.
Gle or advanced beyond the condltion OF
single by twisting two or more single yarns
together. whether ON beams or in bundles:
skeins. or cops. or in any other form, valued
at not exceeding forty cents per pound, TEN
cents per pound; valued at over forty cents
per pound, and not exceeding sixty cents peg
pound. twenty cents per pound; valued at
over sixty cents per pound and not exceed
ING eighty cents per pound, thirty cents per
pound; valued at over eighty cents per
bound, forty cents per pound; and in add
| ton to said rates of duty twenty per cent
UNI ad valorem.
| SEC. o. And be it further enacted, That
| after the thirty-first day of December
| eighteen hundred and seventy, ia addition
! to imported articles now by law exempt
| from duty. and not herein otherwise PRO
| vided for, the following articles hereinaftfl
| 4 I'LL IL liz
New-York tribune., 1870-12-20

otbnolooical theory assert that men OF the
s,me race must form the same nation, Dut
they also virtually insist that tho stronger
people shall expound the scientific merits OIL
tho case. and then proceed TO annex all those
in whom they have discovered kindred blood.
II tbe smaller nations object to the evidence
presented, and prefer not to be' adopted INTO
the growing family, they are denounced aS
rebels and traitors, and persuaded into the ma
tional unity about as gently as Hoods butcher
"conciliatedn refractory sheep, neck and
crop, into the slaughter-pen. This was gro
tesnuely shown at tho Pan-Savio Congress held
some time ago in Russia at the invitation OF
the Car 1t wa, largely attended by Bohemian
scholars and professors from Prague, VINO
clamored for liberation from the miid ana
debonair despotism OF Austria, and YET
denounced as monstrous and unnatural the
movement toward freedom on the part OF tho
tramped and agonizing Poles. The utterly un-
justifable agitation in Austrian Poland, where
an almost complete autonomy prevails, is con-
.idered noble and heroic by these purblind
theorists, because it is directed against Ger
man prince; whilo the long and desperate pro-
test of the chvalrOus people of Warsaw ls
regarded as a crime against ethnology, because
In this case tho tyrant is Sclave. The very
midsummer madness of this pedantic dream
Ia seen on the Lower Danube, where few
professors intoxicated with thin draughts OF
the Pierian spring, have begun Pan-Dacian
movement. to fuse into one nationality all the
peoples inhabting the territory of ancient
Daca at the time of Trajan's conquest.
m. hot nf r
sighted gentlemen who search the libraries for
muniments of title take their fancy So
riously and really believe in it. But 1t If
equally certain that the statesmen who pull
the wires to which these earnest puppets
dance regard the whole comedy as very
ridiculous. The Russian politicians who keep
| this Pan-Slavic agitation on foot in Austria
| and along the Danube are nearly all Germans
| by birth and race. The Emperor himself has
scarcely drop of Tartar blood left in his
veins after all the Teutonic alliances of his
family. Louis Napoleon himself, the patentee
of the theory, spurned il whenever it came IN
his way. lie did not stop to consider II Nice
| were more Provencal or Italian. When he at
tempted to found q Latin Empire in America
under the lieutenancy of Hapsburg, he was
not influenced by the fact that an aboriginal
President was the chosen ruler of the native
born people of Mexico. When Bismarck adds
to the Prussian crown Schleswig- -Hostein,
LuYemburg, or Lorraine, he will not trouble
himself to prove that the inhabitants are pure
blooded Aryans of the Teutonic family. Ht
will make up his mind that the absorption Il
wholesome and digestble for the monarchy
and he will let Herr Won Teufelsdroeck ant
Mr.. Carlyle amuse themselves over the his
| toricm argument.
New-York tribune., 1870-12-20
DEATHS DOINGS.

A triumphant, not only unarrested, but in
creasing Disease, Especially IL it chance to be
mOrtaD is great satire upon Human Wisdom.
1t proves carelessness, Ignorance, incapacity.
Literally, there should be no disease at all
except the mid one of old age. The natural
life Of man should be about century long
his own folly has reduced it TO an average
which we IRE ashamed to mention. TheO.
lOsians have made tremendous use of the
shortness of life-but, with all respect for their
Reverences, that is no great consolation, for
it is certainly pleasanter to live than to die,
unless we have arrived at period when the
grssshopper is burden; and most men would
be willing to bear the pOnderOus grasshOpper
even then. Yet this precious boon of life, 30
dear to their hearts, men and women are not
content to make even the smallest sacrifice to
secure They go on with their dreading and
their dying, their apprehension and their alb
surdity; and commit slow suicide while pray
ing Justify for life. 1t is all very funny and
highly funereal at the same time.
These profound and important reflections
are engendered by reading the wall of Inc
Philadelphia Press at the audacious proceed
ings of Consumption In that city. Under the
impressive Latin (or rather Creek name Of
PHTHIsTs, he or she, for Phthisis is gram
matically woman, commits from 30 to 40
murders week in that city--s proportion Of
sixteen per cent 10 the whole amount OF Bills
of Mortality. She keeps doing it. She cannot
DO arrested and put into the calaboose. Her
long. harpy fingers continue 10 tear the lungs
of her victlms TO pick. little bits until right
lobe and left lobe are both gone--and then
come tao funeral baked meats. the under.
New-York tribune., 1870-12-20
GOLDEN SILENCE.

There is a wide spread delusion, we believe
to the effect that newspaper, by virtue or
being newspaper is bound to take notice OF
everything that is done by everybody. People
in the business are especially strong in
this faith. Every three-penny exhibitor that
comes along seems to imagine that the eyes
of the world are upon him, and that the press,
in particular, will be false to its duty and use
less to mankind, unless he and his affairs are
answered And-the smaller the Snowman the
greater his pretensions.
Silence-often the kind e1pedient of the
benevolent journalist-will never do, for
creature of this sort. IT, by any chancellor
example-he can get half-a-dOzen wretched
people into back room together, and there
bore them with Poe's "Raven" or Cole
ridges "Ancient Mariner be assured he
will deem that woful occasion far too
momentous to be allowed to pass unglOrifed in
print. He is not content with having personal
ly afflicted his fellow-creatures. He must have it
recorded, and he must get himself praised for
it, We have sometimes passed over infictions
of this sort, for the reason that we think them
trivial, except, perhaps, as cases for the phil
anthropic intervention of a Bergh. We have
seldom passed over one Of them without SUBJ
sequently receiving, from some quarter, let
ter of onstrance-demanding to know for
what reason we have dared to fail IN search
ing, minute, and enthusiastic puff of the great
reading of Jenkins, the great acting of Mrs.
Snooks, the great picture OF the gifted young
Dawdle Daub, or the great something or other
of some great somebody.
Perhaps it may be worth while to state the
reason. Possibly We shall thereby gain few
hours of respite from the persecution of lot of
the stupidest bores that ever cOncet let loose to
harry the editorial calling. The reason, then,
is--tliat there are very many manifest ounces
before the public, demanding attention in
many ways, and occasionally getting it, whose
doings are, literally, of no more consequence,
as topics of newspaper comment, than the bad
dreams that were forgotten by the ancient
Romans. We habitually give prominence to
every topic that seems to deserve it. We do
not chronicle small beer"-when we can help
New-York tribune., 1870-12-20

French journal states that at the battle of Sedan
five hundred surgeons and hospital nurses took part
In the fight and left than two hundred Of their
number dead on the field Of honor. It perhaps is
partly owing to this liability in French and German
doctors and nurses to forget their errand on the bat
te-ield, that the Anslo-American ambulanoes. both
in the French and Prussian armies, have attained
their present position the first in effectiveness and
usefulness DR.. Marion Sims of few-York is In
command Of the corps Of surgeons and nurses There
are fifty Of the latter with him. half English and half
American women of culture and skill. and a like
number In the Prussian lines. And one of the few
cheerful glimpses of human progress in this dark
aud bloody drama has been the cordial unanimity
and zeal with which these missionaries from the two
neutral nations have rskod their lives in aid of the
sick and suffering. and the hearty approval and sup
port which tho American branch has received N En-
sllud
New-York tribune., 1870-12-20
THE UNITED STATES IN ACCOUNT WIIIl
TIE U. 7. u.

As claim is set up on behalf of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company, that, if allowed,
virtually precludes all rational hope that it
will ever pay the Thirty Millions or thereabout
which the Government loaned it in aid of the
construction of it's great work, we propose u
set forth the whole case, as We understand it,
without bias or prejudice. Here are the head
ing facts:
/. The United States urgently needed o Rail-
road through the two thousand miles of mainly
inhospitable desert which separated the Mis-
sour from the Sacramento. This need was
three -fold-Political Commercial, and Military.
We needed to send mails daily instead of tri-
monthly, and in six days rather than twenty to
thirty, from our Atlantic to our Pacific States.
We needed the means of cheaply and quickly
reinforcing and supplying our widely scattered
Military posts on the Plains and in the Great
Basin. And we needed q welding together of
our Atlantic and our Pacific States otherwise
than by bayonets. To these ends, two CON-
panies were chartered-one for either half of
the lne--and by those companies the central
Pacific Railroad was built.
e. Nobody expected or imagined that capital
would be volunteered for such a gigantic
wrestle with the Mountains and the Desert.
The platforms of each of the great political
parties, 80 long ago as 1853, virtually pledged
.ne government to extend the requisite aid.
All were aware that its amount must be very
considerable.
|. o. Inc Two companies were chartered-the
Union racine for the East end, the Central
faciho 1or the West-in the midst of our
great EiVii war. very considerable quantity
." ruo,ic ''ahus On either side of the line was
granted to either company in aid Of its nnder'
taking. Beside this, the Government oor.oa
to lend its bonds to either company at the
rate of $4,000 per mile for the easier nor,;ons
of their work, $4,000 for more difticnIt and
$4,000 for the most diflicult-these bonds rnn-
ming for thirty years, and 70 be paid nv the
companies, but the Government meantime 20
sponsible for every farthing Of principal and
interest Of course, If the bOrds were maid
New-York tribune., 1870-12-20

This evening the American Institute begins
its course of scientific lectures for the year.
the opening lecture being by DR.. George b.
Loring of Massachusetts, on "The Struggles
"of Science.n This is to be followed by other
and careful treatment of special scientific
topics, How we Stand and Walk" by Prof.
Wilder of Cornell University, "The Trlumphs
"of Modern Surgery" by Prof. Hamilton OF
Bellevue, "Water" by Prof. Chandler OF
Columbia College, Tides and Tidal Currents
and their Effects upon Harbors," by J. E.
Hilgard of the U. S. Coast Survey, and
Light" by President Morton of Stevens In
stitute In past seasons this course of lec-
lures has been one of the most valuable means
of popular scientific instruction attainable IN
New York, and we do not doubt that the pres
ent series will fully maintain the high stand
ard which the American Institute has set UP.
New-York tribune., 1870-12-20
THE PRINCIPLE OF NAr1oyALIrrES

The cOmmonest phrase for the last year or
two in the slang of European Cabinets has
been that of respect for the principle of na-
tionalties. 1t is vague phrase which may
mean anything q strong power chooses and
nothing that weak one claims. 1t was first
announced and sent out by that great master
of shams, the late Emperor Of the French.
He used il in his indefinite way to sustain the
Crimean war, by which the power of the Turk
over the Greek was sustained and confirmed.
He never grew tired of affirming the same
principle in those words Of pompous inanity by
which he heralded and expOunded his action
in the Italian war. In behalf Of historic
nationality Ne promised that Italy should be
free from the Alps to tho Adriatic; but he
sold the Italian cause ct the first victory, and
afterwards exacted as the price of his assist
anco the two Italian provinces of Nice
and Savoy. He found how little he had
gained by that adventure when the
army Of Victor Emanuel refused to rccog-
nize the cession of Venetia by Austria
to France; and he was afterwards forced
by circumstances into trampling that principle
under foot when Italy was following Garibaldi
to Rome, and nothing but the Chassep6ts Of
he saw the portentous growth of the German
nation after the catastrophe of SadOwa that
no began thoroughly TO comprehend what a
Frankenstein monster he had been shaping in
all the years of bis reign. The principle of
nationalities he had so petted and patronized
now threatened his very existence The crea-
ton OF his Own policy would destroy him, it
appeared, unless, like the tabled ChronOs, he
seized the dangerous birth and devoured it,
The result of his attempt to swallow the new.
BON nationality il sufficiently notorious
Now that France is conquered and il rests
with Germany to dictate the terms of peace,
1t seems impossible for the European mind to
escape from tho absurd rut in which it has
been travelling for years. The provinces of
Alsace and Lorraine are to be seized and an
pexed to Germany, for the valid and sufficient
reasons that this fortified frontier is needed as
defense for the future; that the territory
will serve AZ compensation for the expenses of
the war; that if France had conquered, she
would have exacted the Rhenish provinces.
But not content with this, all the professors
in Deutschland grow red in the face with
demonstrating that these are German prov
inces, and therefore should be annexed. They
make it point of honor and conscience to
talk about Wasgau, Lothringen, and Elsass,
and TO speak always of restoring, and never a
word of incorporating, the conquered territory.
So fully has this new and fantastic idea of
the aggregation of nationalities taken posses
sion of the ordinary European mind, that it
has utterly superseded the notion of tho ne
cessity of consent, AZ u condition of anncXa-
tou. Not only do tho apostles OF this crudo
New-York tribune., 1870-12-20
prprR1JcAy ORGANIZATION.

We learn that the Republican State Com
mittee is called to meet In our City
to-day to consider the present state OF our
local organization and suggest, If deemed
expedient, measures designed to replace dis
cord by harmony. Assuming that such meet
ing is to take place, we proffer few
suggestions which the Committee we are sure,
can deem neither impertinent nor untimely.
Our City discords have long been source
of weakness and scandal. Successive State
Conventions have been bored and disglsted
by them. Twice already, if wo mistake not,
reorganizations have been prompted and eff
fected yet here we are, as chaotic and BEL
hgerent as ever. Reorganization, therefore, 1t
is plain, has twice failed as a cure for our
distempers; and the same men, in the main,
who have twice invoked it's aid, now summon
| it third time. What is the ground of hope
that it will be effectual nowf
Since the State Committee is coming among
us, we urge it to listen to all sides and con-
slider well before passing Judgment If it can
help us, by kind and wise suggestion, to achieve
that harmony we so greatly need, we shall
heartily acknowledge the service. But it is
essential to such success that its members visit
| US, nOU DIS Htdleu pditloahS, UuV ~ uop"ooA"A-
ate counselOrs.
There is room for just one Republican party,
under one compact organization, in the State
of New-York. A dozen warning Republican
factions may wrangle and strive here, but
they will all have no weight in tho National
scale; while one united, coherent Republican
party can carry the State in 1872 and choose q
large majority of her Representatives in the
XLIIId Congress. Right heartily shall we re-
joice if the State Committee shall prove able
to secure this cOnsummation; but it must be-
ware of distracting and disorganizing us still
further. Those who bolt from one Organiza-
ton because they cannot control it are likely
to bolt again and again for like reason
Hear before advising, even, and ponder well
before assuming the functions of judge
"Let us have peace"
New-York tribune., 1870-12-20

is disposed to appoint Commission 70 .Vr o
slider and redress the outrages OF wiz
have complained, and to settle the quss'tn qi"atn1
at issue ON the just and liberal Dasls ia .n' Tha
by the truest interests of both na'ionS. % Inc
Democratic journals appear to ,a",ctnD have DIc1'nO
already aware of their absurd tSs ouS
in opposing the American view a, Oh 'ns hy q% Gsn
tion simply because it was sus'ainoo W uu,,
- 90" curse, The Canuck authorities and news
naners. which seem to possess all the unrea-
sonjng obstinacy and prejudice of the English
character with none of it's common sense, are
still engaged in their absurd course OF
vexation and insult. The sooner they are
brought to q sense of their wrong ana Ioiiy
the better it will be for themselves. Ihey
may tempt the indolent magnanimlty OK q
great nation too far if they are allowed o
too long impunity.
New-York tribune., 1870-12-20

Precisely what the President purposed on
the subject of Amnesty, may be seen IN
brief Washington letter given elsewhere. his
views scarcely go to the extent we should de-
sire, but they are immeasurabiy more liberal
than the views which of late years we have
been accustomed to find defended from the
White House.; and the progress thus seen
is in direction In which progress IN the
future is certain to be more rapid. Nothing
can be more fatal mistake than the behei,
still cherished in some quarters, that occasional
excesses at the South can cause reaction at
the North against the wholesome purpose OF
doing away utterly and finally with the policy
of revenge as national system fox the treat
ment of our Southern disease.