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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-11-04
HALLS PATENT
GLOVES

Enables the wearer to husk 20 per cent more, and
Aosolutely prevent sore hands Made of the best of
leather with metallic elsWs attached. Price S1,0 per
pair. FOR sale by dealers generally. Send for circular
on sample. state size, large. msdium or small. Lib
eral discount TO dealers. Address HALL HUSKING
GLOVE CO., 80 ard 90 South Water St. Chicago, Ill.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-11-04
By Consumption Brought Almost
to the Grave.
HAnIMosD. ST: oRoH Co, Wis, July 10. $50

EVERY DAY SUOH EVIDENOR AS THE FOL
LOWING Is RECEIVED, SHOWING THE
GREAT L OF ALLEN LUNG
BALSAM WEIR Any OUHER
E0I-EH 0R LINZ REMEnX
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-11-04

Are getting lively. Joseph Medill has with
drawnh his name as a candidate for the nomi-
nation to Congress, and @. B. FarweIl, of the
firm Of John V. Farwen & Co., is the only
Republican candidate now on the course.
The Tribune thinks he will withdraw, but
whether the uiSh is the only father to the
thought 1 do not know. There will be a
lively scramble for the minor offices in this
city and county.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-11-04

Il RI Par. Collar-Stud and Tie Holder. The
8(M oops OF snap" ties Iock fast 10 The looted buib
Wen gold-plated Malsd for 90 cts Agent
wanted. s. u WILLIAM, Hartford. Corn
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-11-04

Is close, though the demand from mer-
chants has diminished, their collections
having increased-which is q hopeful sign.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-11-04

The receipts of cattle the past week for
five days are 14.17l; of hogs PITTS, and of
sheep 11,423. Prices are lower, and sales
dull. The packing season will begin in
earnest about week after next, and as there
is a great corn crop in the west. aud tho hog
crop will naturally be "accord.n," pork will
undoubtedly rdle lower than last wear.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-20

ity that arrested the incendiary or the as
sassin. Sufficient for the day is the de-
iverance thereof.
The weakness of the Times consists in
it's constant apprehension Of ruin. and its
ceaseless lamentation and never-ending
dolor of countenance over the advancing
strides of an arbitrary government. Cas-
sandra did not save Troy.
Soldiers are not dangerous to peaceful
people until public sentiment has been SO
basely demoralized that. it will fly from its
own power to the protection of the
bayonet We can not kill the Republic as
Cesar was killed. Cassandra can never
prophesy the fall Of liberty Us she did that
of Troy. All that she can Go Us to de-
clare for our information and instruction,
that when we have forgotten how to be
free, then, and not till then. will the Re.
public be put in peril.
All this mimic misery which is affected
by the Times, is of that tinselled kind Of
patriotism which exalts Brutus before,
and assails him after Mark Antony has
spoken. 1t is the merest sham, being
rather an apology for mob violence than q
conscientious appeal for the preservation
Of the constitution and laws.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-20
A WEAK POINT IN GUNNYBAGs.

A big pother is made in New York when
ever the government, or any public officer,
sets himself about the job Of ferreting out
little rascality. 1t has always been be-
lieved that there were men in New York
who could be induced for a consideration,
to vote more than once at an election.
It may or may not be considered offensive
to political purity to do such things, ac-
cordingly as the question and the fact pre-
sent themselves; but it is beyond dispute
that certain parties do oppose and assail
this popularity as contrary to their ideas
of morality and law. And these parties
are forever fretting their minds with
projects for the limitation and suppression
of this Objectionable feature, either by pre-
venting the act, or by Furnishing the actor,
to the end that others may not be LED
into similar conduct. One OF the ways
adopted was to write note and address
it to some one Of these duplex voters o.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-20
AMENDMENT TO THE BANKRUPT LAW.

AS matter of information, we would
call the attention of our readers to the
fact that under the last amendment to the
Bankrupt act, the fifty per cent clause ap-
plies only to liabilities contracted
since January 1, 1869. The commercial
endorsements in our city are due in
great measure to liabilities incurred prior
to that date, and it will, therefore, be a
matter of little difficulty to those whose
condition warrants their availing them
selves of the benefits of the act, to push
the proceedings to a successful issue.
For be it remembered, that the fifty per
cent clause operates on only such of the
liabilities contracted since january /,
1869, as are proved, that is. those to
which creditor himself deposes. AS a
rule, few creditors make themselves parties
by proof of claim, in many cases none what
ever. An examination of the bankruptcy
records of this District has shown us that
the average creditor never makes opposi-
ton to discharge. And should the assets
of bankrupt, burdened with debts
incurred since January l, 1869, be meagre
to satisfy even the few claims that might
be proved, he has still left to him the re-
sources Of consent by such proving
creditors, if any, to discharge or as
likely of no claims whatever, and there
fore, no opposition. We venture to say
that scarcely person can seek the bene-
fits of the act without success. The
liberal compass of the fifty per cent
clause, the infrequency of proof on the
part of creditors, and the general charac-
ter and date of the heavier liabilities of
the insolvent are each good reasons why
persons here, who are seriously involved,
should, under the provisions afforded by
Congress, get again upon their feet.
There will be large increase to the bank
rupt docket this term, and during the
term many discharges, two months only
being the legal delay, either where there
are no proofs made, Or where there are no
assets surrendered.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-20
nnTIES AND RIGHTS,

The French have issued their circular,
which rather glowingly defines the
"Rights of man." but they have failed to
supplement it with on equally important
formula setting forth the Duties of man"
This, says Bismarck, IS their weakness
France is disturbed by theorists, who de-
clare that the people constitute the govern
ment. and that their voice should control
its operations 1t is their right to put up
and pull down. They are the beginning
and the end of law. These propositions,
which are true in their general bearing,
are taken advantage Of by men who de-
clare that they and their followers are the
people, and that all these rights belong to
them, lust as Clusuret las done in Mar
settles, and as the leaders Of the Reds
attempted to do in Paris Such "rights'
as these are not disciplined by any
:.duties.' These extremists are simply
usurpers of the rights which belong
to all, and while they may not
do any particular wrong to individuals,
they nevertheless ovelawe the real senti-
ment of the community. create distrust
in the minds of the conservative element,
and weaken the State in the estimation of
the mass of people who are not repre-
scented by the usurpation. Government
fails of its usefulness because it does
not represent the will of the people, for
acauiescence is neither sympathy nor
support. 1t is the duty of all men to al
low each individual to exercise his fair
and proper voice in the government, and
any interference either by emperors or
mobs with this right, is violation of
duty, and source of weakness to the
State. Our duties are more important to
be learned than our rights, for while we
are seldom in danger of losing the
latter, if we properly understand the
former, We are often in peril Of sacrificing
the right by neglecting the duty. Men
60 forth to maintain some supposititious
fracture of their liberties and come home
slaves We can see this danger devel-
oped in our own midst occasionally, that
society thinks itself imposed upon i'll
some small particular, and in an illegiti-
mate attempt to remedy the evil, finds
mob at it's door, and an armed sentry fol-
lowing after, neither of which is ever
supposed to reason with its victim. The
mob beats us down in a passion, and the
soldier does it according to orders. If we
all understood our duties better the evil
of the riot and the presence of the soldier
would be abated. Bismarck says Ger
many escapes this evil by educating her
people to understand their duties, and
proper appreciation of these naturally
leads to full development Of their rights.
The two are incapable of divorce without
breeding progeny Of evils.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-20
OUR LOCAL CASSANDRA.

1t would be matter of congratulation
to the general public if the Times would
not cultivate its capacity to agonize over
the infracted constitution in such doleful
and contorted manner as now seems to be
fashionable in that institution. If the
President orders federal soldier to keep
the peace, or if the Governor saves the
community from disorder, the Times is at
once Frustrated in despair, and its sad but
fearful soul is charged to prefigure before
the innocent public the fearful calamity
which sometimes results from allowing
military men to encroach upon the funda-
mental law and the accepted traditions of
a free people. 1t is SO thoroughly and
contritely opposed to the use of soldiers,
that even if its own venerable head was
threatened by bludgeon, Or its compact
rotundity endangered by trifing bullet,
it's heroic and virtuous hand would never
cease. even in drticAo morris, to waive
away the advancing ''minion" of a
peace inspiring despot, if De had the
slightest point about him that resembled
bayonet. This is tolerable enough if it
is properly concealed as domestic and
personal virtue. 1t is weakness of hui
man nature to be affected by these strange
impulses to martyrdom, but it has never
been considered big and profitable bill
tn eyhibit this novel dementia for public
approval. The generality Of mankind
prefer peace, and they do not feel any
particular antipathy to the force that feeds
them with safety and order. All of us are
of that sympathetic nature that enables
us to detect wanton oppression from
necessary restraint, and the man who has
been saved in his own person and prop
erty seldom stops to question the author
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-20
THE nAToN R0UoE RIOT.

The Democratic papers continue to
apologize for the acts Of the Baton Rouge
rioters. The plain English Of their
reasoning, or rather, sophistry, is that, as
the heightened white citizens of Baton
Rouge have only killed few negroes, and
attempted to upset an election where ne
groes were permitted to vote, they have
violated no law of ''the SOUTH but only
an unconstitutional act of Congress,
which our oldest and best citizens do not
approve OF. But ii fortunately happens
that the power that controls Louisiana is
loyal to law, ordey and the supremacy Of
the federal government. There has been
wonderful change FOR the better within
few years. Men can not now be shot
down with in,punity, nor stand at the
corners of the streets urging others on to
deeds Of bloodshed without being caught
and punished. Captain Myers, one OF the
most gallant officers that ever wore UNI
form, happened to be in Baton Rouge on
election day, and he has since proved that
he has a steady and rnerring eye as well
as cool nerves, and a brave heart. His
testimony is direct and to the purpose,
and overwhelmingly damning to the per-
| sons arraigned. He fully corroborates the
statements we have heard from other eye
witnesses of the scenes in Baton Rouge
before and after the riot.
The Picayuae on Friday morning, after
having heard enough testimony to con-
vince any but the stupid or obstinate. re-
luctantly comedies this much:
If any of the prisoners are shown, upon
the testimony of reliable witnesses, to have
taken part in the riot, they should, OF course,
be tried.
As several Of the prisoners have been
placed in this category, We suppose there
will be committals But the people will
not be satisfied with trials merely. The
public sense has been outraged; public
order violated, and innocent blood shed.
Against these stubborn facts We see no
defense set up, except an arraignment OF
the law, an attempt to bully witnesses,
and general faultinding because the
officers dared to do their duty. If the
press is to be arrayed in hostility against
prosecuting officers and witnesses; if the
latter are to be held up as prosecutors and
perjurers, we shall soon arrive at that
state when justice will be unknown. 1t is
nearly to that point now. And the sooner
We reform the evil practice, the better it
will be for the peace and safety OF society.
Instead of saying that those guilty of
rioting should be tried, the press should
90 step further, and demand that they
shall be punished.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-20
ON CARONDELET STREET.

While there is said to be unusual ac-
tivity in the Brooklyn and other navy
yards of the nation, fitting up the mon
ster ships of war; preparing for war in
time of peace, according to wise old
rule; the activity of commercial char
acter is correspondingly graat in New Or
leans at present. Carondelet, st. Charles,
Camp and, above all, Canal street. give
unmistakable evidence that the active
season has arrived, and with it an i'm
mense number of people from the West,
North and East The hotel arrivals show
large increase already. And, to insure
accommodations for all, the st. Charles,
did Corinthian portico, is just receiving
its finishing touches of paint, and its
tho usands of yards Of new carpet in
readiness to open Wednesday next, in
time for the State and national Thanks
giving. 1t will doubtless soon be crowded
as of yore, for its new proprietors intend
to make it sufficient offering to the Cog
and Magog of eating and drinking, even
for the demands of New Orleans
And, as will have been seen by the RE-
PUBLICAN of yesterday, the facilities for
reaching our great commercial mart are at
once to be increased by the opening to pas
senger traffic from tomorrow morning of
the New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga
Railroad, upon the New Orleans and Mo-
bile division. In the first number of the
REPUBLICAN, in May, 1867, or three and a
half years ago, the advocacy of the con-
struction of this road was commenced;
and that advocacy has continued until the
completion of this division. The opening
of the road. therefore. is a matter Of De
culiar satisfaction TO us.
While it is freezing and showing in the
icy North, it is warm and sun-shiny and
pleasant here, with an enormous quantity
of shipping at the levee, and the only
thing resembling snow are the Jumps OF
cotton strewn all over the levee, fallen
from the thousands of plethoric bales in
moving them from the steamers. Steam
ers are daily arriving, apparently alarm
ingly overladen by the heaped up cotton
bales. Again did the sales of this staple
on Caroudelet and adjacent streets amount
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-20

to over three hundred and SIXTY thousand
dollars yesterday.
And yet, in the selling Of this amount
of cotton-some six thousand bales--s,l-
though large checks have to be drawn,
much coin and currency change hands, it
would astonish stranger to see so little
fuss and hear so little said. A few sam
pies are exhibited and examined quickly,
thoughtful and intelligent faces seen,
laconic whispers, mods, signs and the Like
are seen, and the business is done. The
characteristic features of the habitues Of
this cotton mart-the factors and brokers,
collectively and Individually, are those Of
talent and saSacity in high working order.
There was comparatively little done in
stocks yesterday, but whether trade be
brisk or dull, high change is equally
crowded. When trade is dull, as at pres
ent, the brokers stand motionless as
statues; when it is active, and Slaughter
house, Earbarin or Calcasieu is advancing,
every man on the street seems as if he
belonged to the community of dancing
dervishes. being utterly incapable of re-
naming for single second in one place.
The following sales were made late
Friday evening and yesterday, viz: 100
shares Sugarhouse, late Friday evening,
deliverable yesterday, at SO; three lots of
100 each do at same; $50 and 100 do at
$50; 100 do at SIT so: IS do at S2l; % do
yesterday at s1S so; and 4ido at s13.
Fifty shares of Mississippi Valley Navig-
alton sold at So so yesterday, and 10
shares do at S. 62}.
Of jackson Railroad first mortgage
bonds, $4,000 brought S5c.
Two shares old Pneumatic Propelling
Company sold at $50, and shares do at
$40.
Thirty shares Citizens Bank brought
the advanced rate Of STA.
Of Fiscal Agency certificates for July
16, $3.50 brought 81.
Of new State warrants, $1,000 sold at
IA; $4,000 and $500 do at 74.; $1,000
and 5000, and some small lots do at "a;
and $500 and $3.50 do at 49,; $500 old
do brought SO.
Of new City seven per cents, $4,000
sold at 74a, and $1,000 of old do at 73i
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-20

one or more of the domiciles at which he
pretended to live on the registration lists.
This note was sent by the letter-carrier in
an innocent way, and if the party to
whom it was addressed had bona Ude
name anu habitation, as stated by himself,
no harm was done; but if it was returned
non est the presumption would naturally
arise that there was ''nigger on the
fence" Several of these missiyes were
sent adrift from the postotfice IN New
York, and, like the dove from Noah's ark,
they came back for want of finding the
sprig Of humanity they were sent in
search Of The clue being thus given,
little trouble developed the patriot whose
love of country was so great that one vote
could not express his devotion to the free
dom Of the elective system.
Cool-headed, quiet. orderly Gunnybags
comfortably reading his morning paper,
will at once surrender his face to a con-
tented smile as he accepts this little ma
neuvre He will say at once that he
has not been harmed, and that
justice has been aided and abetted
by the detection of fraud. This
This will be his honest impulse, and the
impression will last him all day, provided
he does not fall in the way of one of the
great constitutional lights of the country.
If he does meet with such misfortune,
how his big business eyes will stick out,
and what peril he will feel himself to be
in when he is told that all this is wrong,
and that the postoffice must not be used
for any such political purposes. ltIs
contrary to the traditions Of the country to
do this thing. Wepity the contending sug-
gestions that must come up to disturb
Gunnybags, for he is ever willing to
punish fraud, but he is unwilling to
violate the constitution and its traditions.
New York is wonderful in the defense
which she makes over her fraudulent
voters. She seems to think that the con-
stitution was invented to assist her in
this great work. She calls it protecting
the liberty of the citizen" And her hand
is raised in wrath against the federal
army and the federal postofice, if either one
insists on limiting the right of her citizens
to vote when and where they please.
Gunnybags is debating the matter at
present, whether he has the most reason
to applaud the action which defeated a
fraud, or to condemn it as violation of
the constitution. He will probably de-
eide that the point interferes with his di-
gestion, and in that case the fraudulent
voter will claim release on the ground
that the jury failed to agree.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-20
STRASBURG AND METZ,

Bismarck subjected himself to an inter
view at the hands of an English diploma
fist quite recently, and did not fail to take
advantage of the occasion to say some
thing worth thinking about. He de-
plored the misfortunes of the war, and
was at loss to understand how peace
was to be made in France until after the
factions had been suppressed either by
their own exhaustion or by the interfer
ence of some power strong enough to hold
them in check. His faith seems to rest
on the intelligence of the masses and
therein he claims that Germany is misun-
derstood. Although she is a nation of
soldiers, her government is not. therefore,
to be considered military establishment.
Every citizen moves Understandings,
and the German soldier before Paris feels
that he is defending his own country i'll
assailing France. Until she consents to
adjust the boundary line in such way
that Germany can not be suddenly
invaded and divided. With Stras-
burg and Metz garrisoned by
by Prussian troops. France will not feel
that she is menaced, for these fortresses
are not the point from which she can be
suddenly sundered into two parts by an
army of invasion. Napoleon's plan of
campaign, it will be remembered in this
connection, contemplated the massing of
large armies near the Rhine, and sudden
movement so as to cut Southern Germany
from its cooperation with Prussia. He
proposed to use Strasburg Metz, and the
fortified camp at Chalons, for the rendez-
vous of this incisive column. That he
would have been master Of the situation
will be admitted, provided his plans had
been based upon proper estimates of his
own support, and of the mobility Of the
German force. His mistake was due, not
TO the weakness of Metz and Strasburg
but to his defective information, both of
his own capacity and of the capacity of his
enemy. He had made no calculation that
Germany could move million of men in six
weeks; nor had he weakened his own ambi-
tious designs by any suggestions that the
five hundred thousand men he proposed
to move with would not answer his impe-
rial army call. The only calculation
Bonaparte made in his proposed campaign
which did not fail him was the part that
Metz and Strasburg would play in the
campaign. If all his other plans had
succeeded as these two fortresses held out
the war might have presented different
picture just now. And because Metz and
Strasburg are so dangerous to Germany
if another French emperor should propose
to perfect Napoleon's plan of campaign
with greater resources, Bismarck declares
that they must never return to the GUS
tody of France. And he supports this
suggestion by pointing to the German
army before Paris as body of men all
governed by the same thought. Each
German knows the object of the war.
There is no policy about it. There is
nothing but that necessity which leads a
man in terrible struggle to determine
that his present victory shall insure his
future safety. And the English diplo-
matist was foored by the Prussian states
man.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-20

The Louisville Courier-1oarn1li is in favor
of a system of enforced labor and COM
pulsory education for the colored people,
and rather than not succeed in its scheme
it is even willing to apply it to all classes.
If the ku-klux allow the Courier-Jou77lai
to perfect this plan, there will be an i'm
mense decline in the price Of masks and
revolvers, and the negroes of Kentucky
will be astonished to find the tobacco and
wheat fields around them invaded by the
white men from the corner grocery. All
of the old Bourbon element is in danger
of making friends with the shovel and
the spelling book, if this Louisville re-
former is not limited in his treachery to
the traditions of Kentucky.