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DISSOLUTION.

TINE partnership OF SHIELDS g. CoEtL hay
L ing been dissolved by mutual consent, the
md ersigped has been appointed as the ONLY
authorized agent to receive aud receipt tor
amounts due thrt firm.
lie "a now Offering the large stock ofShiel's
g. O,.e!I 1T their old stand. at cost prices, Tor
the purpose Of ]iquidating the business.
To any party wishing TO pnrcha Sc the entire
well pr oportioned stock, 1 Will offer on very
advanta geous terms, either for cash or APPROX
ed CITY acceptance payable in the Fall.
All persons having claims against Shields q
Ode}i are requested to present them for early
settlement and those pe.sous owing the hrm
or individual psrtners will please come forward
and settle promptly.
r3I;lm
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VERY BAD News !-Ne,U York,
May 1S.-This State has gone
Democratic by $4,000 majority
The negroes voted without moles-
tation. .-5 .t+ -
The Eighth Ward, where the
greatest proportion of the ne
groes live, gives nearly 5000 Dem
ocratic. majority. ....-
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STOP THE MURDERER!

TSCAPED Jail on the night Of the 2s'h Of
T. Apra, 1870, JOHN }. CAl.COIE,
charged with murder.
Said Cslcote is about rs years old; feet,
six inches high; light hair, fair skin, large
blue eyes, no beared and looks young. SLOW
spok en- and hard of hearing. Small h,nos ma
wears a No. boot Left arm small and
little crooked.
Vernon, jackson Parsh, La. na3:it
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(,osyESr1oss.-The Republican

ION kSN = ~ -
marty of this State assemble IN
state Convention, at New Orleans.
on the 10Th of August next. Inc
Democrats meet at the same
place on the 18th of September
next. The Republicans OF tins
district hold u nominating con-
yention at Delta, Madison parish
on the 18th of tho same MONTH
Delegates for this last convention
are apportioned as follows: c!al-
borne, 3; Carroll 4; Catahouia' i;
Caldwell, 1; Concordia, q; BEN
vile, 2; Franklin, ]; Jackson z;
Madison, 4; Morehouse, 3; Qua
c}ita, 3; Tensas, 4; Richland, l.;
Union, l..
The Democrats of this district
have as yet named no date or
place for holding their convcn-
ton.
The State conventions will be
called upon to nominate bnt a
single candidate, which will be a
candidate for State Treasured
The District convention will Sc
}ect a candidate to fill the exist
ing vacancy in Congress from
! this district, and also a candidate
to represent the district in The
42d Congress, which does not as
semble until. March 4, 1871.
The basis of representation
adopted by the Republicans is one
delegate for every seven hundred
votes cast for the Constitution in
1868 and one delegate for every
fraction above one~half that num-
Der; provided, that each parish
shall have at least ore delegate.
without this saving clause sew
eral parishes in the district would
not be represented.) We suppose
the Democrats will apportion rep
resenration in. their conventions
according to the democratic vote
pofled for President in 1868. The
Republicans, having no votes In
several parishes at that election,
were compelled to take the vote
polled at an election several
months anterior thereto.
Even accordingto that vote, the
Republican convention in this
district will be under the control,
lacking one vote, of the four par
ishes lying along the Mississippi,
fourteen parishes constituting the
district.
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Trouble Among the Republicans.


Trouble Among the Republicans
Among the few prominent re
Dublicans aS Washington who
have the manliness to inform tho
country correctly of the inharmo~
NOUS condition of the Republican
party, is Col. Don Piatt, the
Washington correspondent OF the
Cincinnati Commercial, one OF the
most influential Republicans pa
pers in the great West. Col. Piatt
is a shrewd politician and is well
known as Il. caustic and witty
writer and a forcible stump speak
err. Here is what he says IN Il
letter to the Commercial of a late
date:
The condition Of reform is this:
The people and the press have
Given a real scare to the high
tariff people, the manufacturers,
their attorneys and theirpension-
ed editors, and these latter are
now agitating within the Repub-
lican party, trying to secure the
week-kneed, the little, the nervous
and false by crying: "Don't split
the party!" The way not to split
the party is for the thieves In it to
stop stealing. The cry OF read
T ing people out Of the party is play
ed out, since the impeachment.
! trial. The real way for breaking
up tho Republican party Is to
drive something out OF 1T. one
! good daily newspaper gone from
| the party in any one State loses
! the party that State. Therefore,
! Messrs. j. S. Morrill,, Cake, More
head, Grisworld, ct a., the way to
save the Republican party is either
to get out OF it or stop blackma!l-
ing it. You can not coerce 1t,
or wheedle it, and let it live
You have been the burden and
the incubus OF it since it's begin
ming. There is no compromise
on our side of the question:. The
| cry is peace, peace, but there is
no peace. The war is actually
begun! The next gale that sweeps
from the west will bring to our
ears the clash, of resounding war.
Our chains are forged. Their
clanking may be heard on the
plains Of Pennsylvania. The war
is inevitable and let it come. :
beseech you, sir, let it come! rms
is good doctrine since the day OF
Patrick Henry.
The St. Louis Democrat and
Chicago Tribune, both leading Re-
publican Journals, contain daily
| the expressions of sentiments no
less Indicative than the above of
a widening breach between the
protectionists and free-trade men
of the Republican party. It was
to bridge over this yawning chasm
that the Republicans in Congress
were. to have met in caucus last
week. What success the caucus
achieved we are yet to hear; but
we are satisfied it will not amount
TO q complete reconciliation of
the frcc-trade Republicans of the
w est, VINO are Ill d HIiuOIieS. ~
the high-tariff views Of tho Re-
publicans Of the East whose poll
cy is the accepted Republican
doctrine in Congress. There are
Republicans in Congress, with the
three papers we have named,
along with many others, who,
seeing the reconstruction hobby
! we'll nigh run down, will quit their
party before they will support a
tariff which is so justly odious to
all the agricultural States and dis
tricts of the North.
Southern Pacific Railroad.
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THE THIRD PARTY.

~
grew I'D under Banks, the foboer.
Of the men, and Butler, insuiter
of the women, of louisiana; tn'I ~
has the same editor now RS tten;
and that, even though the estao-
lishment has .'roped in''thes'oidest
Democratic editor in the STARE
it can offer no satisfactory reason
why the democrats shall sell OUT
the party to Warm 9th, the
Slaughter House Company, ana
other robbers Of the people OF
Lonisiana.-La. Dem0crat. .-
We are pleased to find such
on the part of our con-
sentative contemporaries in con-
demniug the disbanding OF the
Democratic party and the organ
ization of a new party at the be-
hest of few ambitious politicians
in portions of the State. Inc
editor of the New Orleans Times
never a Democrat but always a
Republican, is one Of these, ana
furnishes nearly all the printers
ink used to bolster up the new
movement. He was one OF the
leading spirits of the Press con-
yentions held to organize a ne"
party, and having ON his staff sew
eral well-known Democrats ana
Southern men was enabled there
by to catch in his net several OF
our editorial brethren who. de-
string to benefit the State and
the people, naturally fell in with
movement which propqged SO
much and yet when closely scru-
tinized possessed not an element
of success. TO have. made such
a movement successful, it was es-
sentially necessary to ascertain
beyond doubt: LIST, that the Eco
pie sympathised with and would
support. cheerfully the new pro-
and End, that the we'll
Republicans, who are IN
power would subscribe to the
rendered and give
the new party all ,needful assis.
tance. ...
1t, cannot be denied that neither
of these requirements have been
met-tbe people have repudiated
the proposition to demolish their
old and well-tried political temple,
and the New Orleans Republican,
speaking for Gov. Warmoth and
other leading Republicans, has
uncquivocally expressed its de-
termination to maintain intact the
Republican organization in Lou
isiana. Thus, beyond the posi-
bility Of a reasonable doubt, the
new movement has clearly and
signaHy failed, and the result is a
warning to all, that it is always best
to erect a new home before burn
ing or tearing down that which is
already furnished and occupied.
This much as to results. Bnt
we doubted, from the outset, the
wisdom of the plan for organizing
a new party, and when the first
Press Convention assembled IN
New Orleans, although present.
declined participating in it's po-
litical deliberations, for which, we
understand, we have been censur-
ed by some of our Democratic
brethren who formed a part OF
that Convention. These gentle
men now find, we believe, that
the objections we then urged have
received the verifcation of posi-
tive events. That they have hon.
estly made a mistake we do not
doubt, and we. therefore, shall
expect that they will, like faithful
sentinels on. the watchtower, so
to the people whose in
terests they are Sat to guard and
protect. We except from this
class of journals the New Orleans
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NONROE, LA, MAY p, 1870.
At HoME.-After an absence
Of near3y, three months, we are
again at orr post, reioiccd to eS-
change the gayeties, magnificent
distances and political strife Of
the Federal Capital for the less
unprctending attractions OF the
hofS1e. we call our own.
The letter published in last
weeks TELEGRAPH explained fully
ti,c-resuit 'of-our mission to WASH
5nctons as we'll as the causes which
brought. that result about. 1t
only remains for us to say that
We trust the people Of this con-
gressional district, viewing the
election in November, 1868, as a
Jaiy and honest expression of their
patty preference, will not be mis-.
led into nm attitude of indifference
toward the Democracy, which is
tho party of the people. by the
action Of the House Of Represen-
tatives at Washington touching
thatelection; norbe ''intimidated"
by the legal evidence of the
House. from voting in future, as
in the past, according to the hon
est convictions, Of their hearts,
We should be recreant to our man
hood and to the trust =reposed in
ns-false to principle. to country
and to ancestry-blind to what
We have seen and deaf to
what we have heard-were we to
counsel any abatement of the
zeal and enthusiasm which carried
us to such triumphant victory in
1868. Let us recognize frankly
all the valid changes which have
been iengrafted upon the Consti-
tutien and laws until they are
pronounced invalid by competent
authority, regarding as the very
apple of our eyes the reclamation
from political ruin and anarchy
of our once great and wealthy
State. We are Indifferent about
party, names, or party organize
tions, SO that they have the sane
ton Of the people. A party which
combines all the people is suffi-
Gent for us, and we feel it would
be unwise and even worse to fight
against such a party. Louisiana
has need of the combined politi-
cal energies Of all. her sons. Let
us, therefore, fight together, oc-
cupying a commanding position
near the great hosts now contend
ing for supremacy in the North,
prepared when the great struggle
in 1879 comes to reinforce that
host which will be charged with
our destiny and struggling for
our good, to follow its leaders.
carry its battle flag and bear its
name, whatever that name may be.
~ The Republican party, says
an Arkansas exchange, ''has
shown more magnanimity and
clemency toward the people of
the South than any party ever
did underline same circumstances"
Thinking, perhaps, that this start
ling proposition should be backed
up strongly, the editor adds tri-
umphantly, .'this is no vain asser-
.tion, and we challenge the history
of the world to the contrary"
At what time 'sthe same cir
c,1mstances" ever existed before
in this country, or what possible
connection the history of "the
world" has with comparison be-
tween an epoch which existed and
one which: never existed in the
South, are bits of information
about which this veracious Radi-
oo1 ocr;1s<, ;s.7 mn, dant1y s;1o,,t go
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~ We expect to hear very
soon ola great public gathering of
thslive Democracy of New Orleans
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Col. W. p. Grace has issued a
lengthy address to the people of
Jefferson county, advocating the
policy of voting county aid to
the DcVall's Bluff & Pine Bluff,
L. r., Pine Bluff g. New Orleans
railroads. That county is to
take a vote on the 10th inst, cls to
whether it will give the proposed
aid.-[Ashley (Ark. Times.
The people Of Ashley county
are to hold an election on the 18th
prox. to determine whether they
will subscribe 100000 to the l..
r., 2. Is. & N. o. railroad. The
route proposed passes through
the parish Of Morebouse. and al
so, we believe, through this parish.
STATE CREpIr.-State warrants
were selling in New Orleans ca
East Saturday at $50 for new and
23 q GAO for old rs h. 'Lsf5Fs'
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The Supreme Court has decided
in the case of the State VS.. Brew
er that the act of the legislature
re -enacting certain portions of tho
criminal statutes OF the State does
not operate as a pardon for often
ces committed prior to the pro-
null cation of that act. The de-
cision in point of soundness OF
law is generally condemned by
the bar in Monroe. .
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Special Attention

Given to the storage and shipment Of cotton,
and tn the receiving and forwarding OF a II kinds
of merchandise. Consignees notified OF srri-
walls of freight at the earliest moment. Ware
houses convenient to access, and situated on
the river bank.
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Ri ER n E w . .
For 0tAer River Items See 1nsrd Page.

After several light showers yesterday
evening and last night the weather cleared
up toward midnight and was gradually
growing cold.
The only additional arrival up to An.
was the Palestine, Louisville to return.
The MallIe Ragon, for Cairo, and the Pine
Bluff, for Grandview, departed The
MaIlIe Ragon had an excellentt trip out
.........The Palestine arrived at Ie 80 Pm full
of freight. Her pilots report three feet
scant on French Island Bar............A dis
patch from the Mary Miller announces
that she will not be in till to-day, having
been detained by fog. she win leave for
Memphis on Monday
The Florence Lee will not be in until after
noon. Duke Nicholson, her agent, will
receive freight for her in front OF w. G.
Browne Co.'s whaTfboat, and shippers are
requested TO have their freights down
early ...............A dispatch to DR.. Kennedy
announces that the Norman left Cairo at
four o'clock yesterday morning with a big
trip, having added I'D tons at Cairo and
way points..............By our dispatches this
morning 1t will be seen that the r.. E. Lee
has again won the horns, having set the
pegs II minutes and 43 seconds ahead of
the best time heretofore on record 1.-THE
river is gradually rising at Cincinnati
and Pittsburg. We may expect slight
swell here by the flrst of the week...............
The Palestine left the Emma Floyd at
Rock Island..........The Kate Putnam, Capt.
Ed. Evans. whom every patriot will always
honor, will be up to day. While patriot
ism is esteemed as a virtue, Ed. Evans
will be esteemed.......The Alpha lies over
till to day.......The Kate Robinson deferred
her departure from Louisville till tonight.
She Will be here tomorrow night.
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The Courts.

Nothing of general interest occurred
in the Circuit Court yesterday. In
the Criminal Court the case of the
State VS.. John Wolf, for assault and
battery, was on trial before Judge M.
s. johnson, the defendant having ia
ken a change of venue. The evidence
was all taken when the hour for ad-
journment arrived, and the arguments
will be made this morning.
RECORDERS Court. - ~. va
ard. Esq, presiding.-Daniel Coyle
coiled himself up in yard to sleep,
when officer 10. Anleitner disturbed
his quiet slumbers. 1t cost him s. 25
cash.
Bernard Herman is not lawyer,
and therefore is not properly quail
fed to give advice, which, however, he
volunteered to give Coyle when ar
rested. and the advice was to resist
the police. Barney paid S. 90 for
this piece of friendship.
Anton Lauterbaeh went to Jail for
an indecent drunk. that was judicially
decided to be worth IS %.
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PICOLILI.
KATE PUTNAM is coming.

KATE PUTNAM is coming.
REPUBLICANS are lively and hope
full.
ONLY four real estate transfers
during the past week.
Nh. DECKER is now Auditor. and
the Democrats are (they say fighting
for their Reitz.
AN exaggerated case of collar-y is
apparent in Schapker & Bussing's
show window.
WEBER's hat business is co-exten-
sive with his liberality as an adver.
tiser. as it well deserves to be.
THE highest point reached by the
mercury yesterday was Coz, and the
variation from that temperature was
very slight all day.
THE ball for the colored people,
which occurs at Masonic Hall on
Tuesday next, is to be a stylish affair.
Tickets for sale at SCOTS.
ED. COLLINS, of Knight Township,
sent nine potatoes to the JOURNAL
office. They measure oyer a half q
peck, and weigh ten pounds.
FIFTEEN happy couples were IL
censed to commit matrimony last
week, among them one couple who
were divorced only about a week ago.
The Unt0n of last night goes for
a wag who had the audacity to per-
petrate the pun, THE war is over in
Europe, but the war in Europe is not
over"
The French sympathizers have
another meeting at the Court House
tomorrow afternoon. for the purpose
of raising means to relieve the dis.
tress of those French people who suf-
fer by the war.
TIE advent of the Katie Putnam
Troupe will probably hasten the ap-
proach of the amateurs "16, 900 years
ago." or else, as Paddy McManus SAYS.
they will have to wait till q fwhile
sgo."
The Terpsichorean hop at Mr.. A.
III. Fosters, last night. was il keep.
ing with the parties this club always
give. being one of those peculiarly
pleasant assemblies for which the
Terpsichoreans are remarkable. The
supper was an accumulation of deli.
cacies, aud the music Henry Harris.
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The RAILROAD ACcIDENTs.-From
the telegraphic dispatches and the
Terre Haute E:rpress, the following
particulars Of the accident on the
Terre Haute & Vandalia Railroad,
mentioned in yesterdays JOURNAL,
are cleaned:
The collision was between West
ward bound passenger train and an
Eastern bound extra freight, and &C.
CURED atGreenville. M. P. Musham,
Adams Express messenger. was in
stantly killed; George Willis, Ameri-
can Express messenger, and Wilkes
Eddy, brakeman, were badly wounded,
and both engines and the express car
were smashed.
The accident occurred by the extra
train running by the switch at Green
villeto back on, instead of running
directly on, as it should have done.
Before this movement could be eff
fected, the passenger train came
around the curve at that point, and
the eHgines. collided with a fearful
crash, WreckiDg them both badly.
The EIrpress reports the name of
Michael Kenny, baggageman of the
train, injured, in addition to those re-
ported by the telegraph.
Further details of the accident on
the o. & NJ. Railroad are published
in the Cincinnati Commercial, from
which it is learned that the name of
the fireman who was killed is Conrad
Frederick, of Seymour.
The old lady who was killed was a
Mrs. McRoberts. of Vincennes, and
the girl was named Nancy RuDyan.
She was not the daughter of.the old
lady. as at first stated, but came from
Kansas. The wounded were George
Williams and sister, of Pomeroy;
Charles Zeigler, of Cincinnati; M.
Parks. of Missouri; John Larrabee.
baggage master; NJ. Sartmsn, Express
Messenger; George LOTUS, of Louis
Vile, and Mr.. Burnley, of st. Louis.
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Onr WeaIrhE Men.

The United States census disclose
the fact that we have one millionaire
among us; two men who are worth
500, 900, one who is worth $685., 900,
one worth $3.50, 900, one 1925 900. one
s4OO, 900, one $4,000, two who are
worth $350,000, one 1916, 900, one
1920, 600, one $275, 900, one s21O, 600,
one s2O5, 900, two $500, 900, two $780,
600, two SIZE, 600. one $4,000, one
$155 900, one $3.50, 900. There are
five whose wealth exceeds 1926, 900;
eleven who are worth between $780,
600 and $125, 900; five between 100000
and 100000; three between $75, 200
and $50, COO; twenty five persons have
between $50. 900 and $75, 600; twenty
seven are worth between $4,000 and
$4,000; thirty-nine are worth from
$4,000 to $4,000; forty are worth
between $4,000 and $4,000; forty
five between $25, 900 and 5000, and
sixty between $4,000 and $25, 600,
while two hundred and ten persons
are worth between $4,000 and $780,
600.
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Republican Meeting.

The Lincoln Club Rooms were
crowded last night, with enthusiastic
Republicans. in response to the call
in the morning JOURNAL. No more
cheering indication of the healthy
condition of the party could be de-
sired than the meeting last night.
The principle question discussed
was the approaching Special Election
for Mayor. Every one present de
cIsred himself ready for active work,
and confident OF our ability to give
the Democracy another overWhel lining
defeat.
The following resolution was passed
as the sense of the Republicans pres
ent:
Resolved, That the Republican Elk
ecutIve Committee be requested 70
call a Republican Mass Convention
on Friday evening, November 4 b at
seven O'Clock, NJ. 10 nominate can
didate for Mayor.
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PITTSBURa, October 2S.-Growing colder.
MOnonga nela feet inches and station
airy, by the pier marks. ArrtYed-Carrie
Brooks, from GAINESVILLE.
PITTsBURG. October % CLOUDY. with
Indications of rain. Monhongahela 4 feet
and rising slowly. It rained hard during
last night.
CINCINNATI, October Es.-The river has
risen 8 inches, with feeG Q inches in the
channel. weather wet. Thermometer so.
C1NCINNATI, October 2S.-River feet 8
inches. Arrived-W. f. Curtis, PittsDurg :
Il. X. Hudson, Wheeling. Depsrted-Maj.
Anderson, wheeling; W. +. Curtis, Louis
Vile. Weather cloudy, with Occasional
showers. Cooler tonight.
LoUIsvILLE, Oct. 28.-Departed, Emma
Floyd, for Memphis. with all she could
carry. River Is inches in the chute, and 4
feet on Portland bar. Weather, raining
CAIRO, Oct. 28.-Mary Miller, Memphis
TO Evansville, IL PM: Florence Lee, Ev-
snsvtlle packet, 1 PM; Kate Putnam,
New Orleans to Evansville.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 2S.-Arrived-Johnso
from KeOkuk. Departed-Beardstown Il I
Peoria Rained nearly all day, and Is
now cloudy.
MEMPHIS, Oct. G8.-Weather clear and
warm. River falling slowly. Departed
Pink Marble, for Louisville; Silver Bow
for Red River; Mary Boyd and Oddly
passed here from the wreck of the Maggie
hays, and reports that she saved all the
money from the safe, and a great portion
of the machinery.
NATcHEz, October 2S.-The r. E. Lees
time to NaIchez Is IS hours, 70 minutes and
Al seconds, beating the time Of the Natehez
II minutes and 43 seconds.
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DRAMATIC Miss Katie Putnam's
troupe have engaged the Opera House
for a session Of one week, to COM
mence on the 7th of November, and
If suitable support is given them, they
will prolong their stay another week.
As Miss Putnam was always q ia
yorite in Evansville, there is no
doubt but the fortnight will be in
sisted on by the public and becom-
ingIy supported.