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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22
Passage of the ku-kluX Bill by the Senate

The Senate passed the ku-KluX bill
with the amendments proposed by the
Judiciary Committee, with striking
out the repeal Of the test oath for United
States jurors, leaving the law as at
present; and another by Mr.. Sherman,
as follows: That if any house, tenc-
mcnt, cabin, shop, building, barn or
granary shall be unlawfully or felo-
niously demolished, pulled down,
burned or destroyed, wholly Or in part,
by any persons riotously or tuInultu-
ously assembled together, or if any per-
son shall unlawfully, and with force
and violence, be whipped, scourgcd,
wounded, or killed, by any person riot
ously and tumultuorsly assembled to-
gcther, and if such offence was commit
ted to deprive any person of any right
conferred upon him by the Constitution
and laws of the United States, or deter
him from, or punish him for exercising
any such right, or by reason of his race,
color or previous condition Of servitude,
in every such case the inhabitants of
tho county, city or parish in which any
Of the Of1cnscs shall be committed, shall
be liable to pay full compensation to the
person or persons damnified by such
otfcnse, If living, or to their legal rep
rcscntativc if dead, and such cornpcn-
sation may be recovered by such per-
son, or his representative, by Il suit in
any court of the United States of COM
petent jurisdiction, in the district in
which tho offence was committed, to
be in tho namc of the person injured ,or
his legal representative, and against
said county, city or parish, and execu-
ton may be issued on a Judgment rem
dercd in such suit, and may be levied
upon any property, real or personal, of
any person in tho said county, city or
parish; and the said county, city or
parish which may have satisfied said
Judgment, or the person out Of whose
property the said Judgment shall have
been satisfied, as the case may be, may
recover the full amount of said judg-
mcnt costs and interest, from any per-
son or persons engaged as principal or
accessory in such riot, in an action in
any court of competent Jurisdiction, and
the persons out of whose property such
Judgment shall have been satisfied,
shall, in such Il case, have contribution as
| at common law, and the Circuit Court OF
the United States, for the proper dis
trict, shall have jurisdiction of such
action.
Tho bill passed, 45 to 10, Mcssrs.
Hill, Robertson, Schurz, Upton and
TruInbull voting nay.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22
Dcplorablc Condition OF South Carolina

The Cincinnati Commercial (Rcp.)
presents the following picture of South
Carolina
The condition OF the State can be
briefly summed up thus: Debt, sixteen
millions and nothing to pay it with.
Bonds weak, if not dcmoralizcd, and
with a strong downward tendency
Taxes of this year and next both paya-
bic this year, to keep the sinking ship
afloat yet Il little longer. People hold
ing meetings all over the State and re-
solving not to pay any moro taxes. The
treasury empty. The Legislature as
corrupt as so many Now York back
alley cock fighters, and SO ignorant that
not Il third of them could pass an exam
inatiOn to teach backWoods district
school in Ohio. State Treasurer grown
rich while in office, and living like a
prince. Comptroller and State Finan-
cial Agent in New York, both under a
cloud. Ku KluX raiding around in the
upper country, pretending to correct the
evils of the day under cover of the night.
Militia called out only to be recalled
after the Ku KluN had captured all
their arms. United States troops COM
ing in by the thousand to preserve Or
der. business dull money scarce; the
people distrustful and sullen; officers
afraid to do their duty, or don't know
what their duty is; negroes frightened
from the country into the towns, where
there is nothing to do, and all the bad
elements loose and providing about
Such is tho condition of South Carolina
i'll the year Of our Lord 1871. People
| who read the New York Independent
and Cincinnati Gazette will say that in
all this is to be seen the rctributivc hand
Of an avcnging Providence, but from
my standpoint in the capital of this I'M
happy State, it looks moro like the
work of the Old Scratch. If PROVIDENCE
is to be blamed for the present state of
affairs in South Carolina there is moth
ing left for the devil to do, and he had
as well retire from the field.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22
Blair VS.. WarnOth.

Senator Blair stated in the Senate the
other day that he knew Gov. Warmotb
we'll, and that he went from Missouri
ragged and naked, and without money
to pay for his breakfast. There is, then,
strong presumption that the Governor
had not discovered his talent before
leaving Missouri. With a small yearly
salary, he has managed, as Governor,
to amass considerable fortune for him
self in three years, and to enrich, beside,
host of followers. He is young man
OF remarkable industry, strict economy
ana unimpcachablc integrity-which
accounts for his sudden elevation to
fortune. The honest, Industrious carpet
Dagger always grows rich.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22
South Carolina Darkics Tired OF Rad.
icnliSm.

The Union Times, published in Union
county, South Carolina, has, in Il late
issue, cards from a number Of cofOrcd
and white pseudo Radicals, disavow-
ing :iny further connection with tho
party. Anderson Chambers says:
unfortunately for me, being per-
suadcd by designing men and office
seekers of the Radical party, l was
tempted to vote for the Radical nomi-
nation; bnt seeing the brink on which,
our country is standing, by ignorance
and niSruIc, I rcnOuncc now and for
ever that party, and call upon all good
colorcd citizens, who have been doing
the same, to join in, and let us, as far us
possible, remedy the evil"
John Wallace, Bon. Black and Mum
roc Jackson are also out in card adj
wishing all their colorcd brethren to scllt
loose from the party and unite with the
respectable white people to elect hon
est and Intelligent men to Office. They
say:
eve have tried the Republican par
or get office don't get any benefit from
it. Now, let Us go back to our old
friends and try them. Let us put them
in Office, and if they don't do right we
go against them afterwards. We ask
our friends to think upon this matter
very seriously, and try, with the peo-
pie, to put down our present troubles,
and get along quietly and pcaccably."
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22
The Great Act Of DespOtiSm.

The House of Representatives OF the
United States has passed a bill in rcla-
ton to the South, which can only be
compared, in the atrocity of it's despot-
ism, to some of the fearful acts which
the British Parliament in former ages
adopted in relation to Ireland, or to
some of the Imperial ukaSes of the Gar
of Russia in reference to Poland. In
deed, the bill must have been based
upon and suggested in its material
features by these comparisons. Ameri-
can original iniquity could hardly have
invented such tyranny. 1t authorizes
the President to suspend the writ of
hu6eus corpus at his pleasure, to pro-
claim martial law, and to employ the
military power of the United States to
Cypress and destroy his political enc
mics There is not a man south Of Ma
son and Dixon's Line, if this bill passes,
who will not hold his life, his liberty
and property simply at the pleasure of
General Grant. Elections in all that
section of our country are, during the
continuance of this bill, simply impos-
sibIc. 1t is the establishment of Il die
tatorship ofan Emperor under the name
ofa President. We do not know that
this will create any sensation or even
ripple upon the placid surface of our
politics. We arc getting used to des-
potism very fast, and its cncroachments
seem to inspire no alarm or apprehcn-
sion. The dominant party in Congress
are acting upon the idea that a majority
of the people of the North are brim-full
of prejudice and hatred against those of
the South, and will gladly sanction
any oppressive measures that may be
adopted that have this for their object.
They actually believe that it is unpopu-
lar for any man in this part Of the coun-
try to lift up his voice against any
scheme that may be devised to rob and
Cypress our brethren of the South. Such
| is the violence of party, that it does
sometimes appear to be an unwclcOme
and most injurious Office for one even to
lisp his opinion that our feet should be
taken OFT the necks of those who for
years have been governed so rcmorse-
lessly and opprcssivcly. Iftherc is any
consolation in this business it is this:
that those who are SO willing to deprive
others of their liberty will by the same
instrunentality lose their own, and
that the qualification of their hates will
be dearly purchased Cincinnati Eng.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22

"Thc universally recognized black
guard, coward and scoundrcl Of the
United States" which is the ''long"
for Gen. Butler, said in recent speech
in the House:
I am accused of degrading women
and children in tho cities of Baltimore
and New Orleans. ! only regret / did
not issue in Baltimore the same order
that l did in New Orleans. If there
was ever anything in my life to be
proud of, it was that order.
Under the influence of such express
sions Us these, the restoration of a fra
tcrnal feeling at the South ought to be
rapidly perfected.
There can be no doubt of Buffers sim
ccrity in expressing his pride i'll his
famous woman order, No. IS. 1t is
perfectly natural and perfectly lcgiti-
matc-as much 50 as it is for the cow
ardly wolf to prey upon the defcncclcss
lamb.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22
STATE NEWS BY PARISHES.
RICIILAND.


Wcextract the following items from
the Beacon:
On Wednesday night last, the 18th
inst, the door of the cell in which Berry
was confined was broken open from
the outside, the irons, filed Off the pris-
oner, who, of course, escaped. The
alarm was given by a negro who was
in Jail, after the jail-breallers had
cleared the enclosure, which was too
late-thc bird had flown.
Berry, it will be remembered was
convicted of murder and sentenced to
be hung on the 18th inst, during the
last term of our District Court.
Great delay and inconvenience in
travel is occasioncd by the high water,
the railroad being submerged to such
an extent as to prevent trains running
between here and Vicksburg, though
we still have tri-weekly trains from
Monroe to Rayvillc, and they manage
to get the mails and passengers through
on hand cars and boats.
CONCORDIA.
The concord among the loyal sisters
of Concordia has been disturbed, in a
way thus noticed by the Herald:
On Sunday last, on the SurSett ASH
ley plantation, Il woman by the name
of Serena Minncr was shot and killed
by another named Adclinc Foreman
Coroner Randall held an inquest on
the body of deceased.
JACKSON.
The Standard emits Il brilliant spark
in the following:
Amidst the flashing silks and tiaunt.
| ing lace and muslins on exhibition at
church last Sabbath, we noticed II &c"
plain, transformations calico dresses
worn by ladies of taste and cultivated
intellect. We happened to know tho
wearers, and can certify that their cal
icoes were not put on as matter of nc
ccssity; and we, therefore, cannot for
bear an expression of our appreciation
of the taste displayed by them.
The church-the house of GOd-Wt
regard as the last place on earth for tho
exhibition of human vanity.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22
4 Soldiers Burial.

Tho Nicksburg Times says: In the
month of May, 1862, Lieutenant Glib
son, an officer in an Arkansas regiment,
was murdcrcd--shOtd down in cold blood,
without warning or noticc-by 4 fcdcr-
nj sentinel at Jolnson's Island. The
other prisoners, the friends and COM
rallcS of the murdered soldier, were
Justly indignant ut the outrage, and re-
fused the coffin sent him by the prison
authorities. Gathering some boards,
and procuring nails, q hammer and Il
saw, these gallant fellows constructed
Il rude coffin with their own hands,
placed him in it, dug Il grave near the
shore of Lake Eric, and then, silently,
sadly and rcvcrcntly, they laid their
friend and brother to rest. Over Il
thousand Confederate soldiers tcarfully
followed the dead Southron to his low
ly grave, and though there was moth
ing of pride or pomp in that rude bu-
rial, there acns that genuine feeling
which makes brothers of true Southern
men.
The following lines were written by
Il prisoner soon after his return from
the grave.
1Thc editor of the TELEGRAPH hay
ing been an eyewitness to the murder
of Lieut.. Gibson, is enabled to state hat
the above from the Times is substan-
TALLY correct. Tho sentinel who COM
mittcd the decd had double charge
in his musl>ct, showing he mcditatCd Il
"rcbcl hounds death; and he WAS
promoted immediately after the muir
der to the position of sergeant, for his
q0Uo,t,y. The author of the lines be-
low was Lieut.. TidmarSh, ofthC TcnCs
500 Artillery, Il gallant officer, and II
first rate actor, now dead.
No military rCqllicmS grand
Swell round his lonely bier
No mutllcd drum, no mourning band.
Attend the warrior hcrc.
All funeral pomp TO him denied.
No fife or trumpet loud;
No guard ofhOnor by his side,
No banner for his &hroud
No last salute is fired DER
Tho prisoners cw-ma,lC grave.
Sunk close by tirir's sloping shore.
And washed by Eric'S wavc.
No trophies won in daring fight
Adorn his coffin rude
But buried lone beside the tide
Where Erics pillows brood.
Calmly hc sleeps honcath the sod,
His last parade is done;
lilo stands before his country's God,
His last great battle won.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22

The reports concerning the cotton
factory at Augusta, Georgia, are graft
flying, and show the encouraging pros
poets of Southern manufacture. This
factory has been gradually extending
its operations, till now it runs 10000
spindles and 600 looms, and consumes
100 bales cotton per week. The aver
age daily product is 523 yards per loom,
or 25,00O yards in all, making some
million yards yearly. At its organiza-
ton the company had 100000 capital
which by its earning has increased tC
100000. The par value of the stock is
800, on which it has paid for five years
past an annual dividend of twenty pei
cent. Tho stock is now worth Sl65.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22

Ihere was meeting of the incorpo-
rators of the Texas Pacific Railroad, in
New York, on the 18th, but the organ
lzatlon was not completed. Marshal O.
Roberts took II, 900 shares of stock Gen.
fremont several thousand, and the re-
mafnder was subscribed at once. Fur
ther intelligence of the meeting is
anXiously awaited. We have no news
relative to the sale of the North Louis
lana and Texas road.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22
NEW ORLEANS CARDS.


~ :. HUNT ~ CO.,
~. NJ \ G. ii y II X Y ID Il i q z,
lS1 Gravicr St., New Orleans,
nut;icturerS' Agents for l.. CARVER COS
tELEHEhTED COTTON GINS AND III N'rEI,S.
HJ.AIlE's; STEAM pUMrS of all kinds.
Boston Machine Conpany's Engines; Port
able and Stationary Boilers; tho Baxter
Portable Engines; Schatlcr q Budcnbcrg
Steam Gauges; Collins Steam, Water and
Gas Valves, iIydrants and Water MctrcS:
Sturtovallt'S Pressure and Fan Blowers,
Exhaust and Dryer Fans; Bcrrvn:,n'
Automatic Boiler Fccd Regulator and Low
Water Alarm; brakes Evar,S' and Lows
Automatic and Hand Feed Shinglc Ma
chimes; Clarks Linen Hose, Hose Pipes.
Couplings, etc; Now York Tap and Die
Company's Screw Plates, Taps, Dies, Rca-
mors, ctc.; u. S. Standard Nut Company'S
Finished and Unfinished Nuts and Bolts;
j. w. MiNtcr e COS Saw C;umlncrS IpSCtS
and Mill Picks; Scldcn's Steam Packing;
Plymouth Mills RivctS; tho Eagle Wise.
Plantation, Draining, Cotton, Iron Eool<-
working and all LiudS of Machincrv; Belt
ing, Shifting and Pullcys, on hand or will
DO furnished at shot notice, Mt Man,li:,c-
turcrS' Prices.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22

At Il Juvenile party, II young gentle
man about seven years old kept him.
self aloof from tho rest of the company.
Tho lady of the house called him:
"Comc and play and dance, my dear.
Choose ono of these pretty girls for n
wife, "Not il>cly," cried the young
cynic. ono wife for me! Do you
think 1 want to be worried out of my
life like poor papa?'
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22

Tho Supreme Court of the United
States has decided, in case brought
before it from Massachusetts, that the
Federal Government has no authority
under the Constitution to tax the salary
of any State Judge. Hence the impo-
sition Of tho income tax on the salaries
of State Judges is unconstitutional. 1t
would appear that the decision applies
to all State officers, as we'll as to those
of the judiciary.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22
THE CAMPAIGN OF 1879.

-
bubbling and boiling with a
vigor and intensity unusual at such
an advanced stage in a canvass pre-
ceeding presidential election. The
Now York Tribune asserts, probably
from the vigorous preparations max
ing, that the election of 1872 will be the
most ssinfuriated" witnessed in this
country since the year 1900. Possibly,
the Tribune argues also from the evil
dent disposition of its party friends to
maintain their control of the govern
ment at whatever cost and risk, even
including the sacrifice of the peace of
the country, and a corresponding oppo-
sition on the part of the Democracy to
maintain the Constitution and our an
Gent form of government even to the
bringing on of blows.
The elements ofan "infuriated'' cam
paign are plentiful in every portion of
the Union. The executive head of the
government is not man to soothe the
passions in a stormy political conflict :;
has no very great regard for the sove-
reignty of the people; is an obstinate,
self-willed partisan, imbued with hatred
of Democracy and contempt for popu-
lar government. 1t will, doubtless,
best suit the purposes of himself and his
political brethren to aggravate, rather
than allay, the heated passions certain
to be engendered in the approaching
canvass. Congress, by tho Enforcement
and Ku-Klux acts, has bountifully sup
piled His Excellency with power to
rule the ballot-box, and the temptation
to employ that power will be strong
with a man like General Grant, who
neither respects nor understands our
theory of government nor cares straw
for the perpetuity of free institutions.
1t is to be expected, therefore, that
tho Chief Ruler of the nation will be a
prominent actor in the "infuriated''
campaign predicted by the Tribune.
The mon who hold Office under his adj
ministration-a mighty host with trea-
sure fmmense-will follow the Presi-
dents lead and do his bidding. In OPP
position to this compact, and, we might
say, corrupt mass, the people will have
to array themselves, and against it
struggle as they have never done, if
they would secure thcpresidentialp prize.
The coming conflict of 1872 presents,
in the distance, foreboding and
ominous aspect. The myrmidons of
powcr-thc graduates and admirers of
the military school of rulers-have in
view no object SO prominent as the
maintenance of power and a subsist-
ence and revenue from the public
treasury. They arc the legatces of the
loyal armies and are possessed of the
right to govern. Such is their belief,
and by it they will shape their course
The tendency of legislation has been to
degrade the sovereign, so that the most
illiterate heather has become Il power,
and the result is contempt for the ballot
and distrust in government by the
people. The very men who have
wrought this change arc those who arc
to lead in the destruction of constitu-
tional government, under the orders OF
Gen. Grant, and it may we'll be charged
upon them that such was their purpose
from the start. The tyrannous cXac-
tons of Congressional rcconrtruction
will yet bring misery and trials to all
the people, which may even cngulph
our republican system.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22

a blood-curdling story of a Georgia
Radical being murdered by ku-KluN
was printed as an April Fool hoax by
the Macon Telegraph. 1t was so eluni-
silly constructed that the Radical papers
pounccd on it for Northern consump-
ton. 1t was used in the Connecticut
election rs Il Ku-NluN argument, and
is still doing effective service rs n forth
fer of Butler and Morton's bloodthirsty
arguments.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22

MOBILE REGISTER.-Wc arc pleased
to notice that this sterling Democratic
journal makes it's appearance in an en-
tire now dress. The Register is one of
our ablcst and best exchanges, and is
always read with both pleasure and
profit.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22

The Planters Banner charges the
New Orleans Times with aiding in
getting up the Third party movement
last year, and then deserving it, first,
for Hatch, and afterwards for War
moth. Truly, very worthy and rcli-
able organ of Southern sentiment is
Boss Weeds paper.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22

The mail service between Louisville
and Lexington has been restored and
the State of Kentucky has resumed her
functions in the Union. Tho "Gov-
crnmcnt" has yielded to popular prcju-
dice and discarded tho c0S1tS bcUi-thc
negro mail agent.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22

The Governor ought to have a bur-
glar-proof Office. In one of his veto
messages, he apologies for it's brevity,
by stating that some one had distracted
the bill from his Office, and he was,
therefore, unable to review it at length.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22

OUAOHITA RIVER PACKETS.
TINTED STATES MAIL OUACIIlTA
PACKET COMPANY.
l 80 80 - IE@z =ata
Leaving every Wednesday, and Saturday
ut 5 u. M, for CAMDEN and all intcrnir-
diatc landings on the Ouachita rivcr-Ihc
new steamers
Gov. Allen.
X. SI$SoI'r, Master.
Cuachita Belle,
J. W. BLANKS, Master.
May Flower,
NV. CARLTON, Master.
These steamers will leave positively rs
above, making close connections and giy-
ing clear bills of I;,ling for Bayous Macon,
Little River, TcnSaS. D'Arbonne, IarthOfo-
mcw. and all the tributaries oftho Ouachit;;
river.
N. H.-Passcngors and shippers can rely
upon this line leaving as pcr advertisement.
trbl-Sd,Sw.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22
TRANSPORTATION.
OFFICE OF N. l.. IL Il. IL. X. CO.,

MONROE, March is, 1871.
Until tho subsistence of tho overflow,
through trains to Dclta will be suspended.
Trains will run rs follows:
Leave Monroe for Delhi daily (SundaES
eNcopted) at Il. IN.
Returning same day, arrive at Monroe nj
$50 p. III.
Arrangements have been made for the
transfer of passengers across tho overflow
diStric from Delhi to Tallula from which
point trains arc in operation to Delta.
Until further notice, freight will 40: DC
received for points cast of Delhi.
tt J. W. GREEN, lInAs'r and Supl.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22
GLEASON ARRANGEMENT,

187O-~1--
STEAMERS r. l.. LEE, AND j. FRANK
PAIt(;OUD.
The Magnificent Passenger Steamer
, HzT. b. r. T.. LEE,
J. w. CANNON, Master,
Leaves Dclt:t, the eastern terminus Of the
N l.. Il II. r. H., for New brfoanS every
Friday, at s L. NJ.
Tho Elegant Passenger Packet
, ~ 81. FRANK PARGOUD,
Ssz==Essszzana J. w. ToriS, Master,
Leaves Delta, for Grccnvillc, cvcry SHtli-
day, at S y. NJ. Returning, leaves Delta,
for New Orleans, every Tuesday, at > l.. NJ.
Ouachita trade particularly solicited.
Oct. l. 1870. season.