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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-07-30
Something Must be Done.

Something Must be Done.
s27, 100000 of State indebted
ness ).
A treasury bankrupt;
A Legislature corrupt, ignorant'
and ininical to the people;
An Executive disowned and de-
nounced by his party friends, on
account OF dishonesty and cor
ritption;
\ statute book Dlacfened with
Constabulary, Election, .Slau glitter
House and other infamous laws;
A horde Of ofice-holders eating
out the substance Of the people,
and growing rich by taxation;
a fungus partisan press upheld
III ribald abuse Ct the State by
funds extracted from her Treasury;
Rank and fostering ttolnoraliza-
ton in all public places. from Gov
ernor down to School Director;
Public insecurity and Gisqlic-
tude, checking improvements and
driving away immigration and
capital;
Loss Of State pride, w-aot Of
public spirit, lock OF public conf
dence and general lassitudo in
State af;airs;-
These are q few OF the troubles,
wrongs and grievances under
which the people Of Louisiana arc
staggeriu 8, and fol which tley are
indebted, with many others,' to
the Republican party.
Toiling farmers - struggling
depressed merchants - Lon giny,
patient professional men, have
youscriously considered how much
You are embarrassed by these
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. vain and profit
less is the labor Of your hands and
brain when such llintirances CON
front you at every step?
Is it possible t!lat there is an i'll
telIigent voter in the State who is
not ready to exert himself night
and day to stop short off this mis-
cradle, retroGrading condition OF
public affairs?
Two years more Of such diabol-
zeal, infamous, devastating misruie
will ruin tho State and bankrupt
the people. During that time
our homesteads may be sold and
Varcclcd out at the bciicst of i~-
| norance and lust, and the maine
Louisiana become q public re-
proach.
I Honest yoemanry, let us appeal
to you, in all sincerity and calm
ness, to arouse yourselves, shake
Off your apathy and indolcncc,
aud resolve that the people shall
once more rule in the halls Of leg
islation and that thcir voice shall
be potent III every department. Of
the government. Go earn testify to
work--1isregard the puerilc fears
Of old fogies and the hypo critical
cant and paIavcr Of designing pol
iticians - take right for your
guide, and Lot us once more have
d government OF the people, ad-
ministercd by pure, upright, eff
Gent men. And this we can, and
certainly viii accomplish, If We
are mon deserving q Republican
form Of government:
1z" Unusual interest appears 10
I,n 4aJt in +Ta TNn,,,ns,,,ii , ,,r..,,.;,,,4
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-07-30
Railroad from st. Louis to New
Orleans.

orleans
Heretofore there has been but
little attention paid to the build
ing of continuous lines of railroad
in Louisiana, as means of .devel-
oping her vast resources. Her
people have mainly depended
upon the rivers and bayous, Of
which there are large numbers
intersecting the State in every
direction, for bIin ging to their
cities and towns the products OF
other States, and the shipment Of
her tobacco, cotton, rico and su-
gar. These streams have been,
and arc yet, sources Of great con
venience; but there is time lost
and great delay i'll the shipment
Of produce, and tho introdu ction
Of articles il exchange. Every
thing OFF the Mississippi has to be
SHIPPED to New Orleans, aud
thence to the various points for
distribution; and every thing
Brought from abroad has to be
carried to the same point for distri-
button to the various points il the
interior.
Beside the delay, there is vast
expense cntailed upon tho people
in charges at the various points
Of re-shipInent, and the consequent
repeated handling Of freishts.-
There is a demand everywhere for
continuous lines Of railroad, as the
means OF rapid travel from point
to point, as well as the rapit.
transportation Of goods.
Ia North Louisiana, there has
long been felt the necessity Of a
| continuous line of railway from
some central point to the West,
and 40 western citypresents itself,
offering SO many advanta ges in
its location, wealth and impor-
tance, as ST. Louis. During the
past boating season, there was q
Edcmand fer q continuous river
| communication with st. Louis,
and the boats which were put in
between these two points came
well fl'elGhted, and, we understand,
| could not do the business demand
cd Ofthem. The North Louisiana
& Texas Rail road having been
completed, the st. Louis and Vicl1s-
burg steamboat companies have
| made arran gcrncntsto carry freight
to Delta for re-shipment through
TO the various points in the intc-
rior. They will have packets in
the Ouachita to distribute frcichts
at various points on the river, and
on the bayous running into the
Ouachita.
There arc vigorous efforts TO
supply the demand for a rapid
and quick communication with ST.
Louis. This communication, Of
course, will be Of vast benefit. but
it will not meet the requirements
Of this vast and fertile district-
Direct communication with Mon
roc by railroad will alone meet the
wants Of the country. Monroe is
in the center OF tho Northern part
of the State, is in tho midst Of a.
fertile district, whose agricultural
resources, under q favorable de-
7elopmcnt, can scarcely be calcu-
lated.
In less than two years, the North
& Texas Rail road will
bctinishod TO Shreveport. thus con
meeting, and forming al impor-
tant link in the projected South
ern Pacific Railroad. a glance at
the map wiIishow the Importance
Of tic speedy construction Of tIe
St. Louis, Pine Bluff & New Or
cans Railroad AS q npCpGSftv
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-07-30

c5 Dolhi Masonic lodge gave
q SllnlDtt.ous barecuc dinner on
"Wednesday, which was attended
and highly co1nplimentcd by some
Of our c:tizons.. Addresses were
delivered by MI. Lawson and.Dr.
). &. Gordy. The special object
had in view by the Lodge was the
establishment of q high school.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-07-30
THE OUACHITA VALLEY.

More than once nave we nlU
occasion to call attention to the
unsurpassed advantages offered
to capitalists by the region Of
country known as the Ouaehita
Valley Nature has made provis-
ion for a wonderful development
of the partially dormant resources
of this garden district Of the South
West; and with no portion has
she dealt more literally than with
tho parish Of Ouacllita.
The soil is very productive
that lying to the east Of the Qua
chita river ca stream f;ir-tamed
for its quiet beauty and fine navi-
gable advantages yielding before
the war, and even since, under in
efficient culture, an average crop
of a bale of cotton per acre, or
from twenty to forty bushels of
corn. Hitherto, these two, cotton
and corn, have been the principal
crops; but we feel assured the fu-
ture will establish that other pro-
ducts will yield as large revenues
Us these bountiful staples have
Experiments, made to soino ex-
tent, have convinced agriculturists
that most of the small grains and
grasses can be grown with COM
plete success.
Fruits, Of all the varieties cult
waited in the temperate and semi
tropical zones, reach q perfection
neverknowni in less favored clines.
AS adapted to stock-raising, the
Ouaohita Valley has no superior
aud but few equals. With very
little attention, horses, mules,
hogs and horned cattle make val
liable returns annually. In truth,
it can but be q matter Of time
and means to inaugurate the
change, when many large plauta-
tions, now devoted exclusively to
corn and cotton, shall grow the
grasses and forage necessary to
magnificent stock farms. The
native grasses afford fine pas
turage, with little attention,
throughout the year, and it is sell
dom ever absolutely requisite to
feed stock to any extent, SO mild
arc the winters.
The health of the Ouachita re-
gion is far superior to that Of the
greater portions Of the West and
Northwest, whittier immigration
now tends; nor do we ever expert
ence the extreme atmospheric
changes Of heat and cold to which
those sections are subject. Tho
winters are miId-but q few days
labor annually being lost in con
~equencc of cold ;-whjle the heat
OF summer is tempered by delight
full breezes from the Mexican
Gulf and the prairies of Texas
While the people of st. Louis and
New York have been almost melt
IuS Will ucHG tIiS SuIlluCt, ItiG
thermometer kept in our Office has,
at no time, indicated more than
81 degrees Fahrenheit, the gencr-
al average being somewhere near
SO degrees.
The lands, in tho main, arc
above overflow, with a drainage
easily managed, as there is a dip
in the direction Of the many nat
llral drains that thread the coun-
try in every direction, many Of
them being liavigabIc bayous and
rivers, SO that the means of trans
portation to market are abundant
and cheap. Owing to depressing
influences, mainly cngendercd by
the late war, the development of
our resources has been slow and
superficial; yet the progress made
under military oppression, cXDc-
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-07-30

49, President Grants special
train out Of Washington last week
was preceded by the regular OK
press train bearing General Il. L.
Lee, on his way to Baltimore.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-07-30

e. The Hot SDrin gs, Arkansas,
Courier announces that ''thcre is
q gentleman now at I;ockport hay
ing recorded the papers connected
with q lately discovered claim to
the Hot Springs property. 1t is
said this claim t!cScen{ls from the
Spanish Grown, and bears date. OF
1905. The records Of the claim
cover over one hundred pages"
The claim retcTreU TO is NOS q
late discovery III this parish, where
the claimant, III. q. Fiihsoi, vas
born and still lives. The grant
was made TO his father, Don Eli
]1iol, by the Spanish government,
for services rendered as tho Span
ish col,.IHan;;;ant at Fort IIyro
(now~ NIonroe} when Louisiana
was (; Spanish province. The son,
MI. C. Eilhiol, is now over eighty
years Old, with three sons and
one daughter and several grand
children living in this parish. It
is believed that the value Of the
Hot Springs is fully one million
Of dollars, and there can be no
doubt that this property was given
by Spain TO Don TiIliCl.
49, The New Orleans Tribune
Oad.) makes the following con-
fession:
We are 40 less ashamed OF our
Governor and late Legislature
than are the Dcnocr:,ts,-and es-
pecially since that Legislature
through it's scandalous representa-
tives Of our race, has cruelty slam
dercd that race.
The Tribune, as we have said, is
edited by colored men, aud men,
we are free TO say, Of ability,
| though somewhat u1islilIcll IL the
use OF the Queens English. Some
oftho' 'scanttaious representatives
referred to, live in this portion OF
! the State. Our colored voters
Will DO vel to ponder: upon tie
! Tribuno's reflections.
! NEW ORLEANS Dl1lGcC RAT.--STe
have received the initial No. 81
& tri-EoolllZ- DapoG bearing tttis
na!nc; published at 1OG Gravier
street, at $55 90 per annuDl. The
Democrat evinocs ability, energy,
vigO2 a94,i pIooz. It handles the
Republicans in q style which is
12l@oslling and viii certainly tell
IN November. We wish tie pro
! nrietors prosperity IL abundance.
Tie Chicago Post says: ''Lheso
Chinese are funny. Ai.~SinG is
not (; cli0ir leader, as might be in
ferred; but he has a dog named
Xii. One OF the superintcndcnts
Of the Celestial slloe-makcrs III
! North Adams is E;t-Ting. Why
; don't he take Lo-Eing and Slce-
! Ping for partners, and start q
hotel?''
THE CIiOps.--Thc corn CROP,
now Ilattured, will turn out a!o0ye
an average crop. Cotton looks
well, and is already opening 3 lit
tic, though it has Still Six weeks
III which TO make blooms which.
win arrive al perfection. We have
go authentic reports Of the eater
pillar, but the grass worm has
damaged the cottonin some places
heard from.
cc5 Dolhi Masonic lodge gave
a SunlDtt.oUs barecuo dinner on
Wednesday, which was attended
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-07-30

rS" \ Chicago paper, noticing:
the report that Horace Greeley
was suffering from fever aud aguc,
suggests that his former aiflictiou
was WOrse---fcyor aud argue.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-07-30

CS7 The stand OF cane through
out assumption ana adjoining
parishes is good, ol.G al tho plaut-
ors predict an u0uui0A, Jiuiu.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-07-06
All AbOut, Rows.

If boy has been brought up to do his
part; never allowed to shirk any legitimate
responsibility, or permitted to dodge work,
whether or not it made his back ache, or
soiled his hands, until bearing heavy bur-
dens became mat tier of pride. the heavy
end of the wood from choice-parents, as
they bid him goodbye, may dismiss their
fears. His life will not be a business fail
ure. The elements OF success are his, aud
at some time and in some way the world
will recognize his capacity.
If boy never earned dollar; if parents
and friends always kept HIM in spending
money-pennies to buy candy and fish
hooks, and satisfy his imagined wants
and he has grown to manhood in the ex-
pectancy that the world will generally treat
him with similar consideration, he will al
ways be a make-shift; and the fault is not
so much his as of those about him, who
never made the boy depend upon himself
did not make him wait six months to get
money to replace lost jack-knife.
Everybody has to rough it at one time
or another. If the roughing comes in boy
hood, it does good; if later. when habits
are formed, it is equally tough; but not
being educational, is generally useless. And
the question as to whether Young man
will succeed in making money or not de-
pends not upon where he goes or what he
does, but upon his willingness to do his
part, and upon his having earned money,
and SO gained knowledge of his worth.
Not little of this valuable experience and
knowledge the country boy gets on the old
farm, under the tutelage of parents shrewd
enough to see the end from the beginning,
and to make the labor and grief of child
rem contribute to the success OF subsequent
lifa
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-07-06
Monthly Publications.

LIE ATLANTIC MONTHLY has changed its
custom of publishing its articles anonym pUs-
ly, and now attaches the names Ofthe author
TO each article. The current number opaps
with poem by Longfellow, which dresses up
an old legend in his inimitable way.
= EVERY SATURDAY, published by FielIs,
Osgood u Co, has another installm cut
OF - Edwin Drood," Dickens last story
and a variety of other matter. lie
engraylngs are, Edwin Booth as Riehe-
lieu, Twilight, On the Derby Road, AT the
Opera, The Dreadnaught Hospital Ship, and
Theophilus Gsutier.
Our Young Folks Is full of the most enter
tang matter, as may be judged by the table
of contents: We Girls: Home Story, WI,
by Mrs. A. ID. L. Whitney; Farmer John, a
Poem, hy j. T. Trowbridge; Robbie Malcolm
by Lulu Gray Noble; Planted, Poem. bv A.
Q. g.; The Strange Adventure of John Fer
nande2, by james Parton; The Mason and
the Tent-Makers, by II. S. j.; The Babes in
the Wood, by M. l.. Bolles; SamuePs Dream
Poem, by Guilbert; How to Draw, by Chas
A. Barry; The William Henry Letters, New
by q. +. Gerry; Our Young Contributors,
Prize Essays; The Evening Lamp; Our let
ter Box. Fields, Osgood IL Co., Boston, pub
fishers.
GoDEY's MAGAZINE, with its pages overflow
ing with the thousand and one things which
m&tron and maid desire to know, its beautiful
fashion plates and patterns, and Its pleasant
reading, will be welcomed heartily IN every
household where 1t goes We repeat what
we have said before, that it is worth its price
tor the department of home matters if moth
ing else. Published by L. A. Cooley, Phiia-
delphia.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-07-06
Fearful Death of an Army officer While
in Pursuit of Indians. al.fEs

A Washington dispatch, 18th inst, says
''Maj. Clinton, Superintendent of Indian
Affairs for New Mexico, reports the death
of Lieut.. Drew, United States Army, in
charge of the Southern Apache Indians.
The following are the circumstances: The
Indians. the Mesaleros, ran off the herd
belonging to train. Lieut.. Drew and
Lieut. Hunter, with fifteen men, started
after them, and when il the mountains
they could not find water. Lieut. Drew,
with five men, started back for Paraje,
New Mexico One of the men was lost
in the mountains, and is supposed to have
perished. All the others came in safe, ex-
cepting Lieut.. Drew. He must have been
eight or ten miles distant from the Paraie
when he got lost and had been wandering
for nearly forty hours. On the morning of
the 5th, party sent in pursuit, found him
alive, but very weak. They gave him water
and stimulants to revive him; but all their
efforts failed, and after he had been carried
about four miles he died in the mems arms
He was four days without water. His body
will be sent to Fort Craig for interment. In
acknowledging the receipt of the letter an
nouncing Lieut.. Drew's DEATH the Indian
Office takes occasion to mention the faith
full manner in which that officer filled the
duties of his post"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-07-06
No. 2S.

Nervous debility with Its gloomy attend
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age of five boxes and a large vial OF
powder, worth $500, which is very important
In obstinate and old cases, or 81 per
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phreys Specific Homeopathic Medicine
Company, 562 Broadway, New York.
Wholesale Agents-Burnhams & Van Scnaac,.. Hurl-
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-07-06

SET HIM BACK.-M. Roederer, the own.
er of the vineyards and cellars whence
comes the wail-known champagne Roeder-
er, died on his estate recently. He leaves
very large fortune. HIS life was eyentful
and full of aneedote. The following is re-
lated: One day he received letter in these
words: 'sSir, have not cent and am
very fond of champagne. Be SO good as to
send me basket of your bottled nectar.
They will enable me to forget my poverty. -
By course of post NJ. ,Roederer returned
this reply: '.Sir, your plan of forgetting
your poverty is too wretched for me to take
anv share in its execution. The incessant
and persevering dunning L should subject
you to until you had paid my bill would
remind you every moment of your life OF
your humiiating position"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-07-06
gnulla golks' department..
Dildrum and DOldrum

Dildrom and Doldrum, these are our
two small cats They are very funny, and
full of irolic. Dildrum and Doldrum have
breakfast, dinner and supper like the rest
of us. They have box in the woodhouse
to sleep in, where they can catch mouse
on its way to the piggery, or a fat spider
spinning her web in sly corner.
And yet, would you believe it ? they will
but | must tell you. When they came
into the kitchen the other day, 81 smell
milk, " cried Doldrum; ''let us jump on the
table and lap"
'Is it the thing?" asked Dildrum.
''We were never told not to-" said Dol
drum.
''Yet it will not be that ugly thing they
call stealing ?" asked Dildrum.
SIS jumping up on the table stealing,
should like to know?" snarled Doldrum.
''Tabby does it every day, and goes to
sleep there as grand as you please.
'rfhat's so, said Dildrum.
''And don't we lap every tine we eat oul
supper ?" snaried Doldrum again.
''Why, yes, said Dildrum, somewhat
confused by the logic; "but tn en-"
Before, however, she had time to say
more, Doldrum was high and dry on the
table, The boldness of the act was not
without its effect on poor Dildrum, who
presently followed her example.
There was the pan of milk, which Dol
drum had no seruples to put her tongue
into. Dildrum had her misgivings. Every
noise scared her. She could do nothing
but listen; as every boy and girl does, who
has conscience, and don't mind it, well
knows.
"Oh, Mercy" cried Dildrum, hearing the
housemaid coming. Down she jumped and
MD. But nobody can hide the proofs OF
their guilt. If there had been any doubt
who did disturb the pan of milk, there
were their whiskers.
Such beatingas Betty gave them
''And to be called such hard names p
mewed poor Dildrum, her back smarting.
"Oh, people will call things by their
right names, and you can't help it" cried
Doldrum scudding under the wood-house
floor, much disgusted with the way Betty
put things, as well as with the world at
large.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-07-06
A Noted HTIser.

John ELVES was nephew of Sir HerYey
Elves, baronet, who died in 1854, and was
himself miser, having maintained his
household on $3.50 a year, at . time when
his fortune was 81, ,250,0 900, besides a land
Ell estate. Sir Heryey, though he disliked
soclability, was member of a club which
occasionally met in his own village of
Stoke, in Suffolk. To this also belonged
two other baronets, named Sir Cardwell
tlrebras and Sir John Barnerdiston To
these three-alt of them rich and miserly-
the amount of reckoning was matter of
anxiety One evening, while they were
discussing the items and proportioning
the respective amounts of payment, they
were so loud that a member in the
street called out to another: "For
heavens sake, step up stairs and assist
the poor! Here are three baronets,
worth million sterling, quarreling about a
half-penny." Elves mother actually starry
ed herself to death, though her fortune was
one hundred thousand pounds. John FL
Yves Inherited the property of mother and
uncias large estates, worth 81, $50, 900 in
cash, and, partly to curry favor with his
unc47 and also because avarice was hered-
itary III the family, used to dress badly and
walk on cold days up and down the hall, to
save the expense OF fire. Once possessed
of the money, he plunged into extrava-
gance andmeanness, playing cards all night
for thousands, and going to Smith field
market early in the morning to meet a drove
of his cattle from the country, and, in the
cold or rain, haggle with a butcher for a
shilling. He, too, was a member of the
House of Commons, and used to ride on
horseback from Berkshire to London, living
on hard boiled eggs and crusts of bread, to
save inn expenses, taking the roads on
which turnpikes were fewest. and feeding
his horse on the grass from the roadside
hedges He knew nothing of accounts,
trusted everything to his memory, was a
prey to sharpers who baited him with prom
ises of high interest and lent freely to
peers and members of Parliament, losing
S750,000 by them alone But he
would walk five miles in the rain rather
than pay q shilling for ride in hackney
cOac b, and would then sit in his wet
clothes rather than light fire to dry them
In those days every gentleman wore wig
Elves used one which had been thrown in
to the street as worn out, and after some
years, when it was completely dilapidated,
wore his own hair to save the purchase of
new or even secondhand one. His shoes
he never suffered to be cleaned, lest they
should be worn out the sooner. In Lon
don, where he had great many houses, he
would live In one which was unlet-his fur
niture consisting of a couple of beds, two
chairs, table, and an old woman (she
died of starvation) who cooked for him.
He died in 1889, aged ", leaving $4,-
100000.