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The Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1870-1871, 1871-03-30

Of an arbitrary measure. Suppose it were 80.
what business is it of Congress or of tho North
ern People whois elected Governor or Judge in
Alabamaa Suppose the people there should
elect even the Hohmans and Halls, the Tweeds,
and Sweenys. and Fisks, Of their States to oil
their Offices is It not better TO let them do %,
and take the responsibility for the result than
to break up our system of government and have
municipal officers dictated to them by Congress?
Is temporary and local imperfection in gov
eminent TO be cured by permanent and gem
anal revolution3
'The notion that the Southern people are NO
longer actuated by human motives, but that
their interest in their own prosperity is wholly
lost in wild passion for revenge, is absurd in
itself"
Comments by Tho Tribune.
Here, you see, the Ku-Klux and their
abettorsA are treated as ''the Southern
people"-the Unionists being .'niggers,"
''scalawags," and of no account Being
unarmed. poor, and obliged to labor for
their daily bread, they cannot career on
horseback, each one o locomotive armory
from midnight till daybreak SO they
must be murdered without remedy.
Judge Pryor's charge. Mayor Sturgis's
statement. Senator Moore's piteous mar
rative, would llumine The Posts logic,
but they would not help to convert its
readers to SHAN Democracy 80 they
are excluded from its columns.
The Ku-Klux conspiracy is designed
to carry the South for the Sham Demo-
cracy in 1872 by terrorism so pervad-
ing and systematic as to drive half the
Blacks. .fromfhe polls or constrain ,thsm
to vote the ticket they abhor. Thus
several States have been carried in 1870 {:
thus it is intended to carry nearly or
quite every Southern State in IT, And
unless some protection can be afforded
BY the Union, thus most of those States
will be carried, with The Posts tacit ap-
proval To show the terrible power of
the machinery invoked, we call attention
to the vote of Louisiana in 1858:
Louisiana was fully restored to the
Union. She had Republican Governor
and Legislature, elected by large majori-
ties. She had 4,431, Colored voters to
4.5199 White registered in 1867. She
gave early in '6S, 64,9Ol votes to Henry
c. Warmoth (Repubican) for Govern
or. to 38,046 to James G. Taliaferro
Dem. And yet, at the Presidential
Election Of that year, she was made to
return Seymour and. Blair Electors by
SO,225 votes to 33,263 forl Grant and
Colfax How was this done : Let the
vote Of q few specimen Counties make
answer
D~<.:.%>~.J ..nS... ia. 2.
The Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1870-1871, 1871-03-30

1.-THE LourMAxrAN ispublished every Thurs
Az and Sunday at ia. Carondelet Street. New
Orleans.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-16

If great public calamities merely developed the
selfshness Of mankind, a. to some extent they I'M
questionably do, they would have In them an ele-
ment which might well make rs despair either of
happiness or of social regeneration. But we can
hardly remember any sad story of human suffering,
whether through wreck. siege, or persecution or
pestilence famine the shadow Of which Is not re-
ieved by acts Of self-sacrifce and by sympathetic
services rendered without thought Of other reward
than that which the consciousness of well-doing
usually bestows It seems to rs that the unanimity
with which the people Of this country have already
given largely OF their substance to thoee who have
been beggared by the Chicago burning may well
dispose all who think meanly Of the human soul to
revise their cynical conclusions. 1t 70 easy to eco
why charity covers multitude Of sins 1t Is because
1t is inconsistent with that selfshness which is the
moving principle of evildoing No man can welllive
solely for himself without violence to Gil the highest
social relations. To bea good husband, father neigh
bor brother, every one must beeapableof saltdsnia
and especially must he cultivate this virtue not for
the sake of applause but because he nds IN is exer
else the purest satisfaction. What gave have,".
was the pregnant part of an old epitaph and mo-
ments reflection viii show that IL was only the ex
preston of literal truth 1t s said that God loves
"a cheerful Gver" but the truth Is that nothing Ia
really scsn which is reluctantly and grudgnely be-
slowed The feature Of the Chicago donations which
best peases us 10 the spontaneous we may. cay the
extemporaneous, way In which they have been prof
fered By-and-by II viii begin to be understood that
Whatever the faults Of the American character may
be, parsimony q not one Of Aena. = ~ At1. =
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-16
HOW TO DO IT.

We are informed that coat Of whitewash,
official and otherwise, is in course OF ,prepara-
ton for Mr. Thomas Murphy. Nobody needs
1t more The partner of Tweed, Sweeny, and
Connolly, the traitor to his party, the sup
porter of John T. Hoffman, the shoddy con-
tractor, and the business man and politician
whose portrait Marshal Murray drew, has need
of some covering.
The enameling process, whereby it is fondly
hoped that, like Madame Rachels clients, he
may be made beautiful forever" Is said to
embrace afidavits and testimonials enough to
equip half dozen ofHce-seekers for their
first visit to Washington; and 1t would not
be surprising If it were even to embrace GER
ti1catee, from the Dix Special Committee, that
the text of their report on the case. as pub
lished in Mr.. Murphy's letter to The
TRIBUNE, was not forgery. Perhaps Mr..
Burr, who made the half million shoddy-and-
shellac hats, the secret of whose manufacture
he impaired to Col. Olcott and his stenograph-
ers, might be induced to certify with Muir
phys partner, Sheldon, that "they were good
"enough to be shot at" and the Government
Inspector might tell US of how much better
quality they were than the standard samples;
perhaps they may find lot of good. honest
fellows to swear for q consideration that Col.
Olcott is notorious blackmailer," and an
improper person altogether; perhaps-but who
can measure the depths of resource, or the
nights of audacity to which the Custom-House
influence that was able to control COnven.
ton of the Republicans of NewYork may not
attainf Let US wait as patiently as we may for
the treat in store for u.s. Meanwhile, we
throw out the hint that they may save them
selves trouble, and their friends some hard
swearing, if they will only place on exhibition
in the American Institute Fair a case or two
of those identical hats, with the Government
sealed standard samples beside them. That
would be better way to satisfy the public
that their patron is badly used man than all
the rubbish of papers, saying over what has
been said before, they are now spending 30
much time and money to collect. That coat OF
whitewash is the only one that can stick on
the oily surface of this shoddy Collector.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-16

jaed xith. and that . 9 revolution would
stand no chance Of SUCCESS. This penesfia
revolutisp tassumng that there Fih be no
armed resistanceJ Il certainly ono Of the most
important and radical consequences. It win be
marvellous II this sncisnt Empire, made OF
hundreds Of petty feudalities, ShaD be, at one
blow, soiidifef into ono compact State; but
snsh seeps to be the probable results Of the
action taken by the Imperial Government.
The Empire viii hereafter be homogeneous,
ceptsabsed, formidable. It Is possible, as the
Anglo Japanese journals suggest, that Sat-
sdudG one Of the ablest statesmen of Oriental
nations, willy and shrewd as he is, may be at the
bottom of this new coup GStat and, though
he now disappears with therest Of the Daimios
from prominence, he may reappear as new Ty-
coon, or 90 the real head Of affairs in Japan.
Foreigners may be perplexed a little to know
who Is TO pay the loans which they have nade
to the now absorbed DiamiOs on their princely
securities, and trade may be temporarily de-
ranged by the brief struggle between the I'm
perial and, tho baroniSd. pOwers; but the world
will rejoice at the passing away of political
system whose existence was plainly an impedi-
ment to real political progress In the Japanese
Rmnira
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-16

The Hon. WILLIAM H. ROBERTSON was on
Saturday unanimously nominated for Senator
by the Republicans of the. IXth District, COM
posed of Westchester, Putnam and Rockland
Counties. His competitor is William CauId1eH
of The Sunday Mercury, the most shamelessly
profigate sheet that ever pandered to and
stimulated the debauchery and depravity of
our City. Mr.. caldwell has been four years
a Senator, and the most obseqious tool of
Tweed and the Tammany Ring throughout.
Judge Robertson has served with honor in
both Senate and Assembly, and was never even
suspected of taking or earning bride. Though
the district is heavily Democratic, We conf
IDENTIFY hope for his election.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-16
OHIO.

The Democrats have carried two of the three
Senators from Hamilton County with five OF
the ten Representatives, though Gen. Noyes
has 1 AS majority for Governor. This result
was effected by anti-Temperance and anti
Sunday law agitation, which carried off most
of the German voters. The Senate will conse-
quently stand 18 Democrats to 10 Republicans /;
the House 81 Republicans to As Democrats and
one doubtful Republican majority in Joint
Ballot 10 or 10. Gen. Noyes's majority for Gov
ernor will vary little from 10000 The Senate
would have been Republican but for the refusal
of the Democratic inspectors of Jeffer-
son township, Montgomery County, to receive
the votes of the manned and crippled vete-
rams whose home is the Military Asylum near
Dayton. Six hundred of them offered their
votes and, these being rejected, opened poll
and cast them. Their votes, if counted, elect
Sayler (Republican) instead of Kemp Demo
crat.J
We pray that the return be contested to
the bitter end If the Democrats can afford
to clutch power by the Acknowledgement of
the veterans, we certainly can. But let the
issue be distinctly made.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-16


Charles Moore, the last and chief Of the
Emigrant Robbers, whose conviction we have
urged for some time past, has fed to Europe.
Has his forfeited bail been secured, or was it
"strawf" Has the telegraph been used to
intercept his flight Is Kornach, the unfor
tunate victim and still more unfortunate
detained witness, to be kept forever in the
prison House of Detention, awaiting Moore's
arrest and returnf The Commissioners of
Emigration have resolved to put a
stop to emigrant swindling; but are
their efforts to go no further than
they have in the pastf And is Superin-
tendent KelsO to supplement their action by
summarily closing the exchange Offices"
which continue to practice the frauds Of the
runner in modified formf We have hoped
and still hope to see this class of villains
driven from New-York or sent to the State
Prison. We have been gratifed at the con-
viction of four of them, and expect to see the
rest put to flight. A full directory of those
who are permitted to remain in New-York and
Hoboken will appear IN THE TRIBUNE in
few DAYS,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-16
Netn'21ork daily Grbmate.
MONDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1871.
WITH SUPPLE M K N T.

The French elections have resulted in favor OF the
Moderates and Liberal Conservatives The signing
Of the Treaty with Germany is officially announced
Republican meeting has been broken up by the police.
Another province Of Algeria Is in revolt. s. Tho
Bavarian Government has declared the Infallbility
dogma TO be a doctrine dangerous to the State" g.
A Cabinet crisis ia imminent in Vienna.
Fftytwo lives were lost by the burning of William
sons Mills, Wis. Fires raging in the mountains
OF California. Gen. Butler proposes to speak on the
Washington Treaty, in Philadelphia, to-day. .
collision ia imminent between the opposing factions OF
the Creek nation The Committee of the Protestant
Episcopal Convention the Revision Of the Prayer Book
reported on Saturday.
There rumors Of conspiracy to assaSsinate the
Grand Duke Alexis. - Attorney General Champlan
will aid prosecuting the perpetrators OF municipal
frauds 80 The church collections for the Chicago
sufferers amounted TO about S76OOO. The emigrant
swindIer, Moore has escaped TO Europe =- Nine In
surance companies have suspended. - Gold, ll4b,
liza 1I4 Thermometer Saturday eco, 7O0, 69o Sunday,
eco
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-16

hsmaz, or i.s superssfyiseGbio bOlstering Of
) Shoddy business man and Tsmnsay politieiany
SO, now, vhsn the sore-prsssed underwriters
pf New-York ans hailing he return Of Super
intendent Miller from Europe, and he Ia meet
ing thea with such generous assurasces ct
sympathy and offers Of Official help, this reck-
iessly Ifbelous paper mskes haste to say ma
Iienaft thiags about him. II its editors had
taken the trouble to mingie with the officers OF
the great FIRE companies on Saturday, they would
have ascertatned the real estimation in which
this public-spirited official is held; or, If they
win take the trouble 10 attend the meeting
at UnderwritarS Hall at noon to-day.
they may hear some wholesome truths
about him, and perhaps find out how
their conduct u regarded BY the class they
presume to champion. Mr.. Miller Is a Demo-
crat, but we are assured he Is not, and never
was, follower of Tammary; while his course
IA the State guardian over the immense under
writing interest has not only proven bis exc
cutive ability and personal integrity, but also
elected from the fire, life, and marine companies
cordial expressions of respect and confidence.
Democrat as he Is, it L. the duty of Republi-
can Journals, at such business crisis as the
present, to uphold him as much as Andrew d..
Green, or any other honorable citizen clothed
with public executive functions. Attacks upon
them in the spirit The Times has displayed
constitute offenses against the public welfare
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-16
THE RACE FOB THE QUEENS CUP.

THE RACE FOB THE QUEENS CUP.
If the English yacht Livonis sails no faster
than her owner negotiates, the race for the
Queens cup to-day will be q very dull one
The terms of the races finally agreed on have
been 80 complicated by confusing demands
aud concessions that the conditions are still
mysteries to- the general public, and only
Philadelphia lawyer and ancient mar
liner combined can possibly understand
them all. This is the more particularly
observable and Objectionable on this occasion
because it is important that there should be
every evidence of the disposition on both sides
for fair play. Really, there has been no EVIL
dence of any other disposition, nor do we be-
Eeve any other exists, but the natural effect
of the long negotiations has been to lead peo-
pie to suspect that in yachting, as in other
races, jockeying is practiced or at least con-
templated. A yacht race conducted on illegal
principles" and hampered with endless regu-
lations is an absurdity which American lovers
of racing cannot appreciate.
The view which tho public are taking of
this question, now grown into one Of very
considerable Importance to large class, differs
greatly from that held by the professional
yacntSUen. Inc luca OI CluU uOiuLhS ohO
Queens cup is in the first place an absurdity.
It was never won from or owned by club.
1t was originally raced for by whole feet,
and strange vessel, representing no club, car
ried it off against all competitors. But the
whole feet was not contending against the
America on that occasion, and it is not fair
to ask the LivOnia to contend against
tho entire New-York feet now. At the
same time the Livonia cannot insist that the
America or her representative shall race her
alone The race is, or ought to be, open to all
corners, just as it was year ago, and just as
it was twenty years ago, each vessel contend
ing for the prize on her own account. We
know this is not The view which yachtsmen
generally take of the issue OF such special in
terest to them, but it is that which the gene
raj public believe to be fair play in the mat
ter.
The race to-day is the first of a series of
seven, of which the LivOnia must win four in
order to claim the cup. Her first contestant
will be the Columbia of Mr.. Osgood, unques
tionably the fastest of the eight wind" boats
of the New-York Club. The contest is to ex-
tend no further than the Lightship and return,
but this in the present season, will doubtless
afford the Livonia an opportunity to show her
speed 1t is, however, the other races, which
are to be twenty miles to wihdward of the
Lightship and return, which her owner is most
confident of winning.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-16
THE LAST REVoLUTIoN IN JAPAN

Capitalization takes on q new shape In Japan.
It is the abolition of the feudal system and
the extension of the power Of the MikadO over
all the provinces of the Empire. Under the
old dual system of government, the Daimios
were supreme in the province, or "Han," in
which each resided and each was really
feudal baron, with his army of retainers, fefs,
castles, and peasantry. When the Tycoonate
was abolished in 1853, these Daimiates or Hans
were nominally transferred to the Imperial
authority, though they really were held by
their old Governors who still retained power,
but with many important changes which less
ened their Importance and made them more
subservient to the will of the Mikado, who was
now spiritual and temporal ruler. Next, it was
resolved to form q national army and navy;
some progress in this direction had already
been made when the revolution of 1858 broke
out. Tire ex-Rebel ram Stonewall, bought of
the United States and made the nucleus of q
Japanese war feet, formed one of the curious
complications of that contest, as it was held
by the American Minister during the struggle,
that functionary acting as umpire, and re-
fusing to deliver the formidable vessel until
he should see whether Mikado or Tycoon
won. Just such another contingency might
arise if the Central Government were to 90 on
with its warlike preparations, and the
Daimios were allowed to arm them.
selves, build fleets, and otherwise fortify
their feudd positions. The clans have,
accordingly, been gradually disarmed, the
samourai, or retainers, have been allowed,
on their own petition, to return to agricultural
pursuits, and the occupation of the Daimios is
virtually gone. They cannot make war upon
each other; they are no longer dangerous and
threatening rivals of the central power. We
do not understand that this change takes with
It the Assembly or Pafliament Of sDaimios, in
Yedo which came In with the revolution of
1858; nor do we yet see how the vast rev.
snues Of the Daimios are to be divided be
tween the Central Government and the "pn-
" yate gentlemen which the mobiles are now
said to be. These difficulties are commented
upon by the Anglo-Japanese press. but with
out any calculation. .yirr .r.F-gf
When our latest NAH adyices from Japan
were made up, o report. had gone forth thss
the Daimios had been summoned TO the Impe-
hal capital. If ,this should be true, and q
conference. a. expected. has taken place, We
shan learn by-and-by Il these dspossessed
mobiles take kindly 10 the new order Of things.
A Japanese naturs b much hle thsE of hu-
manity the world over, IL would not be sur
.prising IL thbre should be nanch pestiseAeas,
IF not an sttsmpt at rebellion O. but the joas.
mails of the !, country consider thar tie
SGdyernmept isss TO- 'dstrVnk T@to' be tn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-16
TILE SALSLRY OF JOURNALISM.

Robert Collyer defines the oyster-plant as a
vegetable that is always just going to taste
like an oyster, but never quite does it. Its
promise is excellent, but its performance
unsatisfactory. There are newspapers that
develop the same traits and 80 are constantly
lowering between impotent goodness and
feeble malignity. Here is one, for example,
that had not recovered from the public dis
favor that followed its effort to aid Ten
nessee demagogue in trying to break up the
Republican party, when it Unexpectedly
evinced what seemed an earnest purpose
to aid us in our long warfare against
the corrupt olgarchy that in the slandered
name of Democracy has for 30 many years
ruled and robbed us. It had long left us to
fight the battle alone; but, securing the mate
rails for an excellent news sensation in the
figures which one of the Ring Robbers, in re-
venge on the associates who would no longer
admit him to the Robbers Paradise at the
City Hall, had procured 40 means of punish
ing them, it came bravely, and with reinforce
ments, whose effect was electrical to the aid
Of the right ddes But, just as its past short
comings and tansgressions were forgiven and
about. to be forgotten, while it was
winning golden opinions from our citizens, and
deserved praise from its cotemporaries, its
congenital infrmity overtakes it, and it once
more proves itself the satisfy Of journalism. 1t
was Just going 70 taste like q high-toned
newspaper, but did MT quite succeed; and now
it is back in scurrility and malice again. See
its wicked boasts of its power 10 create riot
See It's foolish schemes to induce people to
stop paying their taxes. See it's wanton efforts
to depreciate the City credit. Bee its witless
ridiculeo Of the most hopeful Of recent demonstra-
fiona formunidpal reform, that of the young men
of the city, irrespectiyeo party, and its nsun-
dering apology for ito clumsy sneers at them.
See its treatment Of the Murphy case. when we
printed the fntal Committee reports and the
signed and unsigned afadayits-how 1t
turned to befouling the plaintiffs attorney
With abuse and the shoddy Collector with
iaudation. True, when the response oour In
dictment came from. the whole American press,
Democratic and Repubiicas; secular and res
keious, in tho form Of IN indignant demand
uppn thu President fsr. Mr.. Aurphys removal,
n turned coat and ssked 10 former protege to
re&my- bat .thAt could not ccndoao either Ia
Iknkaxnatiam 0DMo Wazietie end hoReeablegqA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-16

The anti-Tanmany agitation is serving, at
least the good purpose Of bringing into active
political service great many men who have
latterly seemed to think that politics was too
dirty subject for gentlemen to handle.
These are waking up to the fact that their
neglect of one Of the first duties Of good cit-
Gems has helped 70 bring the City TO it's pres
emit pass. One of these revivals of public in
terest has taken the shape Of the for
nation OF Young Mems League against
political corruption; and another rs the
increasing activity of the Council OF
Political Reform, wherein many citizens
of high standing, unimpeachable integrity, and
freedom from partisan trsmmels agree to con-
cert measures for the defeat of Tammany and
the election of the best men to Office.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-16

How Chicago looks, what are the salient
features of the physical social. and financial
situation, and what is the prospect for the
stricken city and its citizens are all
succincty and graphically told in the ample
correspondence and special dispatches of THE
TRIBUNE to-day. Summing up, we may say
that there is no abatement of the cheerful
tone of the men who make public senti-
ment in Chicago though it must not be for
gotten that there lie q vast element which is
more hopeless, because less successful hereto
fore in the worlds race for riches. This class,
also, furnishes some excuse for severity in
dealing out the relief sent in. But there is
yet before intelligent and unintelligent, rich
and poor alike, hard, dull Winter. And,
after all, the problem of how to alleviate the
miseries and provide for the rebuilding Of
Chicago has not yet been met.