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Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-06-15
POLICY.

As orr motto indicates, the LorIs-
Hy1Ays hail he RepuJlicm at aR
tsss mi ualrN circumstances We
shall a.,ocat. the security and enjoy
nnntoiuroaicivil iiber5y. the ahso.-
uis cql~a;; Of ali men before the law,
srt. m Impartial distribution of hOn-
4, ana uJuage to all who merit
ia5m.
Dcoirous Of ailayinS animosities, OF
cbl,tarltipg the memory OF the bitter
yast.pi promoting harmony and nnion
SM-ns BE-. classes and between ali j.
tur' Is. We snail advocate the removal
d all political disabilities foster kind
ness AMI iorncarlnc2, where mlliguit,
ami les. nlmvnt ryismed, and seek fox
iaua,s and justice where wrong and
ofI. s,oE prevailed. Thus united Il
oar AIMS and objects, We shall conserve
Eur n,,t interests, elevate our noble
STATE, to an enviable position among
Arr sister States, by the development
=; her illimitahle resources and secure
the iu.i beneii,s Of the mighty changes
N the history and condition of the
people and the country.
Believing that there can be no true
liberty without the supremacy of law,
We shall urge n strict aud undiscrimi-
mating administration of Justice.
TAXATION.
We shall support the doctrine of an
equitable division of taxation among
au classes IA faithful collection of the
revenues, economy in the expendi-
lures conformably with the exigen-
t''e oi the State or country aud the
W'charSe Of every legitimate obliga-
ton.
EDUCATION.
We shall sustain the carrying out of
'ae provisions Of the act establishing
'uf Common school system, and urge
S apanmount duty the education of
oN YOUTH as vitally connected with
'u'r own cnlight ment. and the secur-
II! aha stability OF Republican Gov
eminent.
FINAL.
Dya generous, manly, independent,
'ua lndicious conduct, we shall strive
" rescue our paper. from an ephem-
''' and temporary existence, and
'onSh II upon a basis. that if we
4lot command" We shall at all
events deserve" success
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-06-15

No. 3a AN ACT
Making appropriations to pay
Simeon Belden, Attorney General
for collection of State taxes in
the parishes Of Orleans and JET
ferson.
CoNzuuzD on TU1D PAoD.
Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-06-15
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Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-06-15

ID. URBAN,
uvpr NJ THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT.
UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER
Commissioner of the Court Of Clain'&
Dep.ations testimony, acknowledg-
ments. etc., taken at short notice.
Passports secured from the State Depart.
meut Washington, with accuracy ana
promptness- A..
Office at the Customhouse, over the
Post Office newspaper delivery.
New Orleans. Louisiana.
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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-23
THE DEFENCE OF PARIS.

The Communists in Paris would long
before this have been overcome had it not
been for the great aid they have derived
from the possession Of the strong forts and
defensive works about the city. In noting
this, and the terrible DEVASTATION visited
upon Paris because of the siege which was
possible by reason of the defensive works
about the city, the New York Post pro-
nounces them the course of Paris" The
seige but prolonged a struggle the final re-
suit of which was long before evident to
observing minds. 10 prepare the city to
resist it, the provinces were drained of
provisions and men, and the horrors of
pestilence, famine and war We're visited
upon the proud capital, whose works of
art and architectural skill crumbled before
the Obstructive eginery of war.
These were some of the results that
make one feel with the Post, that the forts
and walls about the city are its curse and
likewise the curse of all large and popu-
lous cities. t,3-F
But how different were they intended.
They were built because France thought
without them she was at the mercy of
Europe. Millions were spend in their
erection, when the same sum spent in i'm
proving the implements of war and orga-
nization of the army, would have better
carried out the object-the defence of the
nation.
The argument then urged in favor of
the scheme were eloquently summed up
by the Duke de Broglie, in speech in the
Senate upon the bill appropriating the
money; and in the course of it he used
these strange words: eve have taught
Europe invasive war, and Europe has not
forgotten our lessons. Do you suppose af-
fairs will go on as in 1892? that after pas
sing our borders the allied armies will
pause before handful of brave men in
trenched in the defiles of the Argonne, or
will retreat at the sound of cannonade
of Valmy? No: the example of 1914 and
of 1915 speaks decisively ON that point
they will try to do again what they then
succeeded in; they will cover with detach-
ments the strong places ON the frontier,
those we now have and those we have yet
to create. Their main army will march
directly on Paris very sure, if they get
there, to find there now the keys of Metz
and of Strasburg, as they before found
those of Landau, without any need of
sending storming party to take them
very sure to find there with Strasburg, AL
SAGE, with Metz, Lorraine; and to leave
there, when they go away, only the shade
Of government, of which they will dis
pose at their pleasure, The evil points
put the remedy. Put Paris in state of
defence; put Paris in state of serious
and formidable defence; let Paris be i'm
save by regular seige; let the |
attempt to beseige Paris be an enormous,
4 gigantic enterprise, and the scene is
changed at once"
The change was made as the Duke pre-
licted, and his remarks now read like pro-
phecy, though made thirty years ago.
But in the light Of past events, it seems |
20 us, the change" is for the worse, and |
We are inclined tn think with the Post |
hat they have and will again prove the |
Curse of the city.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-23
a PROFOUND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER.

The astute editorial writer of the Wing
and Reg ister is more profound and pene-
trating. in his researches on political
questions than any of his contempora-
ries of the extreme Democratic persu-
alton. He is not content to accept conclu-
sions satisfactory to ordinary minds, but
brushing aside commonly accepted facts,
he brings the full penetrative powers of
his mighty intellect to bear, and startles
the reading world with his remarkable
discoveries. For some days past we have
seen evidence that one of these startling
revelations was soon to be disclosed. The
commissions have been unmistakable
The herculean intellect was at labor on the
great political problem of the day-the
Origin, Nature and Future of the kuklux
khan. And now that the result of his pro-
found researches are known, we are led to
marvel that the world has for SO long a
term failed to see as, thanks to his brilliant
powers, we now do.
The Origin of the kuklux khan was the
first part of the problem to solve, and the
solution is in the Wing aud Register of
Thursday. hos
The khan, says the writer, was organic
ed by the aclites in sheer self defence.
They were threatened with humiliation
by the "lawless ignorant blacks" 1.-THE
most common ofense Of these blacks acas the
uioIdtion of i0hite ,conaeya, andfor this out
rageous offense we have no doubt summary
retribution has been melted out to them"
In the above we find an easy solution of
the whole question about which ordinary
minds have so widely differed. The fact
that these violations have never come to
the notice of any one else, or have been SO
few as to be lost sight of, is not at all in
consistent with this new theory. We are
obliged, out of respect for the distinguished
writer forego all questions and accept the
conclusion. Though there is an admission
that the khan is imposed of achites, which
conflicts with that orthodox journal at the
State capital, the Union and american,
which claims it is made up of blacks, we
have no doubt the theory viii be generally
accepted. If so, in order to sustain the
theory, we shall have busy Democrats
hunting up criminal records for every such
offense
But seriously, was ever a.more preposter-
Gus idea advanced? Have men no sense,
themselves, or do they suppose their
readers have not The Wing and Register
not only gives the above as the provocation
for the kuklux organization, but says 1.-THE
members of Congress well know these
facts Can want of sense in anything be
more glaring?
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-23


s We pity the man who has no other
means of rising in the world except upon
the mistortunes of others. He never tries
to gain favor by his meritorious conduct
but rather seeks to hide his own imperfec-
tons by calling attention to the short-com-
fngs, either fancied or real, of those whom
he regards as his rivals. Such a spirit
never finds a lodgment in the hearts of
any but little-souled men, and it prompts
them to the most degraded things imagine
bic. Without courage to look their rivals
in the face, and say in manly way what
they have to say, they seek opportunities
and in sneaking manner attempt to stab
him without warning; or, like the thief
by night, rob him of his reputation while
he Is Unconscious Of their intentions.
Such creatures naturally forfeit the esteem
of respectable men, and knowing that they
enjoy the confidence of no one making
pretensions to responsibility, they feel
jealous of every one who does; and they
never lose an opportunity to utter SANDER
and falsehoed when they think by SO doing
they can detract from the reputation of a
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-23
a DECIDED VICTORY.

j
~ The Republicans of Washington City de-
serve great credit for their significant and
decided victory of last Thursday. Under
the new territorial government granted to
the District of Columbia by Congress, the
first election for Member of Congress and
District Legislature came off on the day
above named. Gen. n. P. Chapman, the
Republican candidate for Congress, is a
man of strict integrity, great energy and
sability-a cultivated and generous gentle
man. He received Is, 1919 votes to r. T..
Merrick's II ,0S4-a clear majority of 4,115.
The total registration in the District was
2ss52s and the total vote 6,2sS. The Re
publicans elected fifteen of the twenty-five
members of the new Legislature, by ma
jorities ranging from one to five hundred.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-23
PRESCRIPTION.

The principal stock in trade of Demo-
cratic politicians since the war is the cry
of prescription" The late rebels in the
South are held up as the worst prosecuted
people on the face of the earth, and one
would suppose from some of these illusions
they were in a state of abject slavery. 1t
seems to us that this cry (for we do not adj
NIT its truth,) comes with an ill grace
from some of the men who are giving vent
to it in the loudest terms. We have only
to look back few years when Union men
were driven from their homes, and orders
were issued by military satraps for Union
women, with their children, to be sent
within the Federal lines. A merciless
conscript law was enforced, Indians and
blood-hounds being used for the purpose
of frightening men and forcing them into
an army, the overthrow of which they ar
IDENTIFY desired.
We have not alluded to this for the pur-
pose of needlessly narrowing up unpleas-
ant remembrances of the past, but for the
purpose of showing the hypocrisy with
which some men act. Then, prescription
did exist in its most sickening and horri-
BILE form. Now, it does not exist, or if at
all on the part of the Republicans, in its
mildest form. The men who engaged in
it most heartily then, are now expressing
the greatest horror at what they are pleas
ed to style prescription.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-23

-. THE fact that the President has issued
{ his proclamation converting the Senate in
! Executive Session on the 10th of May is
: regarded as conclusive proof that the Joint
High Commission has arrived at such
r satisfactory stage of its deliberations as
that there will be some action on the part
of the Senate necessary before final action
on the part Of the President.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-23
go THE LARGEST CIRCULATION
OF ANY Daily Published in East Tennessee

- JAMES TIcKNeR FIELDS is to retire az
editor Of the Atlantic Monthly on the LIST
July, to be succeeded by Mr.. ID. Howells,
at present assistant editor.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-23
SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL %. 1871.
HOW TO REMIT.

Money sent to us in registered letters by Express
prepaid or BY Postofce orders will be at our risk
otherwise at the risk of the sender.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-23
SEND US THE NEWS

We extend special invitation TO our friends to SEND
ms brief and pointed letters giving items of interest n
their several locatios We desire TO have somethin,
OF local interest In every issue for East TENNESSEE
readers.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-04-23

OF sS50,oo0 appropriated by the New
York Assembly last Wednesday, the Ro-
man Catholic Asylum got two-thirds.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-23
MORE SECURITY REQUIRED.

The frequent recurrence of such horrors
as the Westfield disaster the Harpeth riv-
er affair, the railroad accident i'm Maine a
few days ago, and the Pittston coal mine
disaster, are waking up the people to a
proper conception of their rights. They
begin to see that submission to wholesale
murder is not softened or satisfied in the
least, by having it understood as the result
of negligence or carelessness. Public car
riers and employers may not be guilty of
murder in the first degree, when they per-
nit such terrible loss of life, for we sup
pose of course, that it is not done mali
ciously, but that many culprits, guilty of
manslaughter, are going scot-free all over
the land, there is no doubt The year 1871
has been fruitful of such accidents, and it
is high time that the public was waking
up on the subject. The terrible experiences
of the immediate past are sufficient to con-
vince the most skeptical, of the urgent ne
cessity of enforcing existing laws on the
subject, and if present laws are insufficient,
that laws that are efficient should be en-
acted without delay. When one hundred
persons suffer n horrible death and are
hurried to premature grave, by a single
boiler ex plosion, las in the Westtield disaster,
men should look to see where the heavy
responsibility rests. If those having YES
sells or railroad trains in charge, will not
take steps to secure the safety of those
who patronize them, they should be forced
by law and by public opinion to do so.
BY our dispatches yesterday morning, it
will be seen that the principal officers of
the Westfield have been held to ball. and
will be tried for the terrible offence, COM
mitted by some one, of allowing n vessel,
which daily carried so much living freight
as the Westfield, to be run with defective
boiler. We trust justice may be done to
all concerned, and that the guilty may be
punished. Nothing rash should be done
in the premises, but let a full and fair in
vestigation be had, and let the punish
ment fall where it justly belongs. If the
guilty are punished i'm few instances, it
will have wholesome effect in opening
the eyes of others to their duty.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-23
THE OUTLOOK.

The outlook is favorable to Republicans.
The party lives still, and has enough of
vitality to combat the hcresies of Democ-
racy with success. This is easy work be-
fore an intelligent people, such as we have
in this country. A recent number of the
Washington Chronicle has the following
cheerful words on the subject
1.-THE political outlook is decidedly in favor
of the Republicans. They have either gained
all the important elections held thus far this
year, or gained, as in Kentucky so as to make
it almost equal to defeat for our opponents
Connecticut, North Carolina and Montana-to
say nothing of numerous small affairs, such rs
municipal elections, &c.,-go to swell the Re-
publican column. Next month, in all proba-
bility, California will be added to the list of
Republican States. Maine, of course, is sure.
In October, Ohio and Iowa will elect Republi-
can officers. In November Massachusetts, Min
nesota, New Jersey and Wisconsin will do the
same
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-23
WEEKLY SUMMARY OF NEWS.
HOME.

Three children were burned up in fire at
Youngstown.-The first bale of Carolina cotton
has been received and sold for 20 cents per
pound.-Five bodies have been recovered and
thirty remain in Pittston mines.-An election
to decide whether or not a convention shall be
held for framing new Constitution, will occur
in West Virginia on the 25th instant
The coroncr's inquest in the Westfeld
boiler explosion case reveals the fearful
fact that scarcely any of the engineers of
New York harbor are comprehensive founda.
ton of the Scott monument was laid in Central
Park on the l5th.-Later advices from Pittston
say seventeen dead have been taken from the
shaft not one escaped.-Races Mt Saratoga con-
tinue.--Crop prospects in Arkansas were eX-
celent on the 10th. -Commisssoner Douglass
has decided that insurance policies shall be
stamped-The thermometer stood go in Wash
ington on the 10th. The hottests day of the
season by three degrees.-The President Su-
perintC EN-. and engineer of the Staten
Island ferry have been arrested and committed
to prison for criminal negligence in connection
with the Westfeld disaster
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-23
THE NASHVILLE PAPERS.

Those who have been in the habit Of
reading the Nashville papers, and who
have seen their fierce denunciations of
Radical corruption" will read with some
surprise, the expositions contained in Col.
Baxter's communication, in our issue of
to-day. Fifty thousand dollars made out
of one job is doing very well. The people
of Tennessee will now begin to see where
their money goes. Men are accustomed to
look to New York for 'ringsn formed for
corrupt purposes, but it seems that Ten
nessee is coming into line. We would
like very well to know how many of the
Democratic papers in the country were in
the "ring' and shared the profits of this
fifty thousand, and how many were paid
to give in their adhesion and remain out.
We will give this question more attention
at another time. These Metropolitan jour
nails at the Rock City, that have been so
righteously indignant at Radical corrup-
tion," ought to have the full benefit of
sage advice given by them in speaking of
their political opponents.
If this exposure was made by II Repub-
lican, they might get out of it by saying it
was Radical lie," but those who know
| Col. Baxter know that he is not prejudiced
in favor Of Republicans, and they fur
| Their know that in making the exposure
ne is not actuated from political motives
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-23

SOME enterprising newspaper men in
theSouth during the rebellion performed
prodigies of valor in annihilating Yankee
armies. They destroyed more armies than
the combined hosts of Lee and Johnston.
Some equally chivalrous and astute editors
are now waging vigorous paper war, de-
nolishing the hosts of " radicalism.' To
take their word for it, the Republican
party is rapidly disintegrating. But the
wiser opinion is that on election days they
will turn up as the Union armies did at
Appomatox and Raleigh with victory
inscribed on their banner.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-23

The Memphis Aualdnche gives an en-
couraging report of the crops in West Ten
nessee. The new cotton crop will turn
out much better than was anticipated. 1t
says concerning the condition of the crop,
especially on the uplands, it is well within
the bounds of truth to say that there was
never more encouraging prospect at this
period of the season and along with this
the farmers have made an abundance OF
corn, the earth has dealt most generously
in roots and fruits, and many localities
will have also II surplus of provisions.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-23

THE Cincinnati Commercial says Gen.
McCook's speeches in Ohio are plumb up
to the "new departure" and so nearly
sound Republican doctrine that it thinks
before the campaign is over Democracy
will be nestled close into the bosom of
Radicaism. What terrible fate that
would be for some of these eX-Radicals
who have buried themselves in the mire Of
Democracy, a business" transaction.
70 find themselves carried back TO the camp
they deserted by a surendering fee, would
@ a hard lot. Where would the "profit'
/. mo in
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-23

ABOUT the best illustration of the new
departure is now going the rounds of the
papers, in the shape of little anecdote we
heard told when boy: A boy was OBJ
served intently watching for wood
chuck" to come ont of his hole. Do you
suppose You can catch him?" asked a
passer by. Catch him ?" contemptuous-
ly answered the boy. 1--WE got to catch
him, stranger We are out Of meat
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-23

AS striking proof of "the rapid decay
of the radical party" we have in the offic-
ial vote of the ninety-one counties al
ready returned, in the Kentucky election
a gain of tifty-fhree thousand votes on the
popular ballot, ando gain of about ten in
the Legislature.
Elections in Kentucky, North Carolina,
Connecticut and Montana show such an
alarming decay" in the Republican par
ty, that it promises to survive all the
newspaper defeats now showering on it.
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-23

The Cincinnati Gazette IN accounting
for the cold reception of the Tennessee
Press Association at Louisville, says that
il is claimed that the business men were
out and that the newspaper men were all
specially engaged, Itsays that the editors
fthe COuricrJOundl, all but one were
engaged in preparing a reply to Aleck
Stephens last shot
Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-08-23

THE Democratic success in st. Louis,
of which some of our readers may have
heard recently, was the election of an
equal number Of Republicans aud Demo-
Gratis. The Democratic press and the party
made extraordinary exertions, and sue
ceeded in electing as many of the county
officers as did the Republicans. If it was
a Demoera tic success, it was equally Re-
publican success.