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The Portland daily press., 1870-01-13
Annual Meeting OF the Relief AssOcIn iion

AHaAAHt u ShC
Portland Fire ns Department.
f 8. annual meeting of the above Association
was held at the Chief Engineers office, City
Building, last evening, at IL o'clock, Chief
Engineer Franklin c. Moody, the President,
in the chair.
The Secretary, Mr.. John c. Tukesbury read
his report, from which we learn that six meet
ings have been held by the Board Of Trustees
the past year, and that by their direction the
Secretary has drawn on the Treasurer for S27O
for the relief of James S. Mitchell.
The Board have chosen for committee on re
lief Messrs. Ayres, Bailey, j. T. Chase: Rand
and Tukesbury. This committee have held
eight meetings, and have drawn from the treas
ury s464 the past year for cases needing relief
Andrew j. Cummings, of the Board of Engi-
neers, has become a life member the past year
Inc members of the Association are the same
as last year, viz, eighteen life members, ana
Tor active members all members OF the boato
VI Engineers, the steamer companies Di'iso
No. 8 and Hook and Ladder 20.
From the Treasurer's report we learn that
the invested funds of the Association on Jan.
| 10. 1870. amounted to $4,000, and balance of
cash in hands of the Treasurer Sis. 20, making
a total amount of funds on hand of $911870;
amount on hand Jan. 1, 1869, was $S967 SO,
showing an increase of funds the past year OF
$150.S7. Four hundred and sixty-four dollars
have been paid out in benefits the last year, in
Guiding the $270 for the relief of j S. Mitchell.
The amount paid for benefits from 1S4S to 1870
is $353371.
The following gentlemen were elected Trus-
tees for the ensuing year:-F. c. Moody, J. c.
Tukesbury, Henry Fox, G. II. Rich, Leonard
Pennell, w. II. Ayers, r. D. Page, R. S.
Rand, j. f. Chase, G. u. Leighton, B. L. Saw
yer A. l.. Chase, E. Fl. Thomas, H. C. Barnes
and Spencer Rogers.
Mr.. Harris G. Barnes said he had heard that
the advantage of blowing the steam whistle on
Saturday night had proved its efficacy as an
alarm by collecting the firemen quicker at the
fire on Browns wharf, so that serious confla-
grafton had been averted. Mr.. S. R. Leavitt
consequently moved that at is the sense of
this meeting that the steam whistle on City
Building should be used as an alarm, especial
ly during the winter season, and that the Pres
ident be requested to inform the City Govern
ment of such expression of opinion" The
motion was seconded by every man present
rising. The meeting then adjourned. Over
fifty out of eighty-fve members were present.
The Trustees adjourned to Friday evening
next, at IL o'clock, when they will organize.
The Portland daily press., 1870-01-13

went out second shot followed and again
passed through my coat In the street, found
Nor, who liz, strength to descend the stairs,
add who was dead These are the facts just as
they transpired, and look for prompt and ex-
emplary justice for this crime.
(Signed) UIIsE D'FOUyIELLE.
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it being confessedly political-or
if any, only SO much and of that
character as, wenld be bestowed
upon some freebooter, or some I'M
usually successful and dishonest
political intriguer. Whether at
Monroe, Vienna, Farmerville, Ho-
mer, Minden or Shreveport, there
is an almost unwarying current Of
testimony from truthful and dis
passionate witnesses, that the peo-
pie, knowing of what use their at
tendance would be made abroad,
have refused to lend the eclat of
their presence, except in small Gu
rious circles, to the appearance Of
Warmoth and party in their sew
eral parishes. Our friend in low
er Louisiana may rely upon a
Democratic majority of fifteen
thousand in North louisiana
[Ouachita Telegraph.
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A Peoria, H., darkey applied to
Judge Puterbaugh, a radical, for
a mandamus to compel the board
of school inspectors of that city to
admit his daughter into one of the
schools for white children. The
Judge refused to grant the order,
and the case will be taken to the
Supreme Court.
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S. NJ. THOMAS.

We occasionally hear COM
plants. from, strangers of the
scarcity of lodging houses in
our parish. This was not so
before emancipation, but now
that all household duties are
generally performed by ones
family, it IS not often that he
likes to be troubled with stran-
gers. Again, the disinclination
to take pay for lodging, causes
many to turn off strangers.
This should not be so. Every
one entertaining a lodger is
entitled to due compensation,
and should feel no compunc-
ton in exacting it. For our
part, we have often been fret
ted by the refusal of pay ten
dered by us for lodging, for it
seemed to us as if we were i'm
posing upon clever hospitality.
At convenient distances on
all public roads, there should
be lodging houses, and the
neighbors should understand
it, so that waytarers might be
directed to them. At these
places due preparation for the
feeding Of horses should be
made, and the dodgers horse
should be given over entirely
to his care. Let it be under
STOOD that the owner of the
premises is to have nothing to
do with it, for only when one
cares tor his own horse is he
entirely satisfied.
Above all, let the lodger for
q night have early breakfast,
under the old maxim, "speed
the parting guest"
Lastly, let the charges be
reasonable; enough to pay for
the provisions and the labor
and care--say 81 80 for man
and horse for the night. Before
the war, the usual country
price was one dollar, and TAX
ing into consideration the pres
emf high prices, the price above
would be reasonable enough.
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Do We Threaten?

The organ ofthe Radical boilers
requests plain answer to the
question, Do we threaten the col
ored voters? Of course we do--
we threaten them with the Radi-
Gals every week, and if they clear
ly understood their real interests,
no threat could be more alarming.
We threaten them with Radical
taxation, Radical ingratitude and
Radical hypocrisy.
But we do not tell them, as
Capt. Sheridan did when endeav-
oring to drive them from the
Democrats, that if they vote the
Radical ticket we will be in favor
of reducing them toslayery again,
pretending all the while that they
may vote for who they please.
Nor do we tell them, as Supervisor
Jones does, that their citizenship
and freedom is contingent upon
the ticket they vote. We tell
them they have a legal right to
vote, and to vote as they please,
and that they are responsible to
themselves, to their postority and
to God for the exercise of this
right. We tell them, as we hon
estly believe to be true, that their
ultimate interest is to sustain the
4 Democrats, and that unless they
do this in the coming election,
they will have thrown away the
golden opportunity, which, now
seized upon, will make them, in
dividually and collectively, politi-
cal sovereigns the remainder of
their lives. Every one knows
that the laws regulating suffrage
are notimmuta ble--that Congress,
having conferred suffrage upon
the Negro, may, under the same
strength and power, deprive him
of it, or white the privilege down
to almost nothing. The State it.
self can regulate the matter. In
either of these events-if suffrage
is to be based ugon education or
property, as many Republicans
advocate-where will be the untu-
tered Negroes support, if the in
telligent whites are not at his
back? Thus we repeat, it becomes
of the greatest Importance to the
negro now, to bind the whites
firmly to the maintenance of his
suffrage, which he can easily do
by going with the Democrats. If
he elects otherwise, then he is
presumed not to want any friends
or any help OaachitG Telegraph.
BLACK MAILING OFFICIALS
By direction of Gov. Warmoth, "a
sealed and registered letter has
been sent to an official in an adj
joining parish, stating that his
Excellency had requested that
this official should at once con
tribute funds to the carrying-on
of the campaign, in behalf of the
Radicals. We imagine that this
is sly trick for Warmoth and
friends to get a little ready money
to defray the expenses of their
show tour through North Louisi-
ana. The venture has turned out
very disastrous, leaving a margin
filed with expense. As for the
canvass, money can be had out of
the State to pay all the expense
of that, and leave a balance for
proht.-[ Oudchita Telegraph.
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Grant is said to be more anx-
ious about the Dent claims to
real estate in st. Louis than
the Alabama claims against
Great Britain.
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Senator Conkling said of the
Radical party in his speech be-
fore the Saratoga Convention !:
at cannot be spared, the ma
ton needs it yet" Needs it
for what To give away the
rest of the public domain /? To
rob the people still more by an
iniquitous and cheating TARIFF
To make more offices to enrich
Radical politicians? TO furnish
more plunder to Radical Con-
gressmen /? To blot out what
little is left OF our Constitu-
ton 2 1t can well be spared,
and the people are everywhere
fast reaching this conclusion.
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Governor Warmoth's Tour
Through North Louisiana.

ing among the Radicals III South
ern Louisiana. New Orleans es-
pecially,l and the waning influence
Of Henry Clay Warmoth in that
portion of the State, both presag-
ing ruin and disaster in Novem-
Der, to the Radical party, was the
controlling motive, no doubt, sent
the wrongful Executive of the
State upon his recent stumping
tour through North Louisiana.
He was made to believe-and
readily, we imagine-that his APP
pearance on the hustings, with
Sheridan to support him, would
infuse fresh life into his deplected
and ragged myrmidons in North
Louisiana, and might possibly be
the means of securing here and
there a few fresh recruits from the,
stragglers of the Democracy. It
was expected, perhaps, that the
Governor of the State would Gre
ate sensation i'll the rural dis
tricts, and predispose. the people
in his favor-the originators of
the enterprise forgetting that the
highest Office dishonesty filed
only adds ignomy to a name even
already infamous. -
IfGov. Warmoth and his friends
had any such expectation as that
Just indicated, they have been wo-
fully disappointed. If any stir or
commotion whatever has been the
fruit of His Excellency's visit, it
has been simply to confirm the
Democrats i'll their faith, and, if
possible, to knit them more close
/ ly together. Wherever the Gov
ernor has gone, so far as we can
learn, he has effected more for the
Democracy than any five Demo
cratic speakers could have done.
The people have seen for them
selves the utter hopelessness of
bringing about a reformation
through Warmoth, or Of relying
upon him OF his party for relief.
At a not very remote period, an
indefinite idea prevailed in this
section that Gov. Warmoth would
join the virtuous masses in an eff
fort to redeem the State. AS he
had secured high political posi-.
ton, it was believed he was anx.
ious to secure also high social
status. This vague and general
impression-we might add, hope
lis now completely obliterated
by the fanatical harrangues and
uncompromising hostility of the
Governor. He has most success
fully thrown "the fat in the fire"
the intelligent masses are a unit
against Radicalism and it's apOs-
tie, II. G. Warmoth.
Unquestionably the gubernato-
rial tour has been q disastrous
failure. Some of the Governors
underlings have undertaken to
Impress the public with the i'm
mense success Of the venture
have conjurcd up thousands of
hearers where there were not hun
dreds-have, in effect, peopled
North Louisiana with ten times
the inhabitants it really has i'm
order to choke down the dissent
ers in lower Louisiana and to de-
moralize the Democrats of that
section.
We have watched the progress
of Warmoth's trip from the Mis-
sissippi to the Red River, and
have enjoyed something better
than ordinary facilities for aseer-
tanning what attentions have been
the effects of his visit. The prac-
tical results we have already stat
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-10-29

The French russian war
still drags its slow length along
without any immediate pros
poets of peace. There have
been for some time no battles
nor military movements of any
importance. The English have
at length made a proposition
that may bring peace; which
is that a Convention of the
French people be called. With
this Convention Prussia must
consent to treat, and with its
acts the French people ought
60 be satisfied.
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lation of Louisiana to be 717-
900, being an increase of only
5000 since 1860. The numbers
of white and colored has not
yet been given.
Had our State increased in.
proportion as between 1850.
and 1860, she would how num-
Der a million, Thus can clear
~ be seen one of the fruits of
the late war and revolution !;
for strange as it may sound, it
was a a revolution, the South
representing the Conservative
and the North the Radical in
the contest. The great good
effects that were to have been
brought about by the social
change effected among us, has
not yet appeared.
Before the war the, North
loved to-eomment on the good
effects emancipation would
have here. especially in the in
creased value Of our land, in
public Improvements, and the
higher education of our people.
Now that section may hold to
to the same opinion still, but
taking counsel from its fears, it
throws every obstacle it can in
the way of our improvement.
We might extend this article to
great length in showing the
legislation to our injury, but
shall only mention one instance
that has not been much thought
of. No land in the United
States can be entered now as
formerly, North or South. But
at the North a homestead of
one hundred and sixty acres
can be entered, while here it
must be Of eighty acres. There
two sections of a township can
be got by Agricultural College
scrip. Here, none. There,
each State has for endowment
of an Agricultural College SO
much scrip. The Rebel States
have none.
Outside of the legislation
against us, the executive by
its acts have greatly injured us.
The war has been over five
years, and yet the Land Office
at Natchitoches has not been
opened. The post offices and
mail routes formerly in exis-
tence have not been re-estab-
lished.
We could do very we'll with
out fostering legislation. All
we ask is, for Congress and the
Executive to put us exactly on
an equality with the Northern
States.
Senator Conkling said of the
Radical party in his speech be-
fore the Saratoga Convention {:
at cannot be spared, the ma
ton needs it yet" Needs it
for whata To give away the
voet &c Al, ,l,I;o Io: IN.
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hED I'LL Ek hAFIs--lG MAY UUt
be generally understood, that the
navigation of upper Red River is
entirely closed by the formation
of the Raft, past and above the
head of Adams canal, making
now a continuous accumulation of
drift, of little less than thirty
miles in extent. The raft has now
to make but a few miles to reach
Digge's hills on the west bank of
the river, when the obstruction
will be complete, running diagon-
ally across the valley, from Mil
ler's Bluff to the hills above men,
toned. This will necessarily
cause the inundation of a vast ex-
tent of valuable lands, including
Long Praire.
The plan heretofore resorted to,
for the purpose of avoiding the
raft, and navigating the upper
Red River, i. e., canaling around,
has proved but poor substitute !;
the present being the third canal
the accumulations of the raft have
closed up in the last six years.
The eXorbitant tolls on the canals,
too, (exorbitant in proportion to
the cost of their construction, ]
subject the country to the high
freights and assurances, while no
relief is afforded the overlowed
lands.
Having been President of the
company, chartered by Congress
previously to the late war, for the
removal of the Red River Raft, a
company which was thoroughly
organized, and which, had not the
war interrupted its plans, would
have speedily accomplished its
object, my friends, and those most
deeply concerned in the enterprise,
have for several years past, per-
sistently urged me to take iniato-
~ steps for the renewal of the old
charter. The pressure Of private
business, q delicacy in assuming
the lead in matter of such vital
importance to a people of a vast
district, and a consciousness that
there were others more compe-
tent than myself to do SO, has, up
to this time, deferred me from
acting.
But now, seeing some hopes of
accomplishing the object III view,
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Duties Secular Serve Her
and Save Her.

We recently had the pleasure
of hearing Gen. w. I'll. Wallace,
of Union, address a body of Carroll
ma youth. Gen. Wallace is a pro
found thinker, an earnest speaker,
aid one of the truest of the true
in devotion to South Carolina.
He belongs to the school of pro-
gress, adheres to all that is valua-
Bile in all our past, and aims at all
that is promising in the future.
His address, upon the rather pri-
yate occasion to which we have
referred, was brief, but beautiful,
eloquent, and sensible. He meal
culated the duty of devotion to
South Carolina on the part of the
young men whom be was address
sing, and in conclusion he used
these impressive and suggestive
words respecting South Carolina:
"YOaag men, SERVE HER AND
SAVE HER, This is the great
duty that devolves upon the young
men of South Carolina. They
must serve. her-not in war-not
under the crimson ensign Of bat
tle-but under the banner of
peaceful progressand useful labor.
They must serve her by their 10y
al devotion to all those principles
and virtues that have made the
State eminent in the past. They
must serve her, not in the forum
only, not in the liberal professions
only, but also on the farm and
| in the workshops. They must
serve her by contributions of mus
Gle as we'll as OF mind. They must
serve her in duties political and in
labors industrial. They must serve
her, not only with the pen, but
also with "the pillow, the loom and
the anvil.n They must serve her
by firm resolve not to give up
the heritage of their fathers-by
a devotion to the soil, which shall
make it productive and theirs for
ever-by devotion to our streams
which shall make them utter the
| language of busy machinery-by
"a devotion in general to South
Carolina, which shall make the
State an object of pride and love
in the eyes of her genuine sons.
And all thus serving South Caro-
lima, they will SAGE her-save her
from the grasp Of the ADVENTURE
save her from the rule of igno-
rance-save her from fraud, cor
ruption and misrule-save her
from bankruptcy and ruin-save
her for ourselves and our children
and for the people that inhabit
her. Aud so doing, we may again
build the State up-may again re-
establish in her borders peace and
prosperity-nlay again put her
upon a career of solid progress.
To all the youth of South. Carolina
let the words OF our friend Gen.
Wallace go. From the capital, we
take them up and send them forth,
greeting. Young men Of South Car
oliaa, "sERvE HER AND SAVE
Herr Columbia Ph@nir.
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OrruMwA 4 Sr. Paul RAILROAD

OrruMwA& Sr. PAUL RArLsoAp
The corps Of engineers upon the
new route BY way Of Marsneo.
Blairstown, Vinton and Indspen-
dence, for this road, have just return
60. and the. chief, engineer, Captain
Bailey, is now engaged making pro-
hle. A good groundwork is now laid
for this important enterprise, and we
hope our people upon call, will res
pond literally when the matter is
laid before them in such form % the
company may determine in / few
days to do. IF Iowa Central, Bur.
lington, Cedar Rapids 4 Minnesota,
Davenport & St. Paul, Keokuk, Mt.
Pleasant l. Iowa City railroads, can
DC built as they are now being done.
why rot the Ottumwa & st. Paul.
We earnestly hope that our people
will give this enterprise their atten-
ticn in manner commensurate with
to greatimportance.
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DOES PROTECTION PRoTEoT.-Tb,s
's'he ineislvc title of new Free
Trade book from tho pen of Col,
Grosvenor editor of the Missouri
Democrat which is published by the
eminent house Of d. Appleton L Co..
New York who Fave kindly laid Il Or
our table.
1t is dedicated to "The American
Free Trade League" and 10 an able
and ingenious argument in favor Of
the theory that the, people ought to
be allowed TO buy where thew can
get thelr merchandise the cheapest.
ana sell where their products will
bring the most money.
This is the formative period on the
tarin question,aud we advise all Der.
sons who want clear, concise and
exhaustive argument on the Ere.
Trade side of the question, to send t.
the publishers for copy Of Col. eros
venor's book.
W. shall take occasion TO refs,
again to the work perhaps, durinet tn,
'mpeLding crisis on protection.
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Mr.. Wentworth is an agriculturist.
As farmer he ia success, having
raised this year, with tho assistance
ofthe Tribune and Times, the biggest
beat ever seen in these parts. He
relapsos into politics at infrequont
intervals, merely for recreation, but
bis normal condition is that Of Gin
cinnatns. Heis an agriculturist. His
soul is wrung with solicitude for the
welfare ofthe rural population. They
know it, and they reciprocate it
The result is that in the twenty two
agricultural towns in this county.
Wentworth was badly beaten by
Farwell, and in two towns he was ont
OF the count altogether. All which
goes to show how fond farmers are
Of Johannes Elongatus, and how
earnestly they wish to prolong his
residence among them. AS Wash
ington remarked. agriculture is one
"of the noblest Of tho arts. Chicago
Post.