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Versailles troops were killed by the

Versailles troops were killed by the
explosion of torpedoes. The barricade
in Rue st. Horone was captured and
recaptued six times. Gen. Veroy is
reported wounded in the groin and
Gen. Dcuay in the head. 1t is ru-
mored that the Archbishop of Paris
and Abbess Francois and Villemesant
has been shot by the insurgents.
BUENos AYREs, April 27.-The
yellow fever deaths are reduced to ono
hundred daily.
Washington, May 23.-Senate.--
Anthony was selected presiding officer
of the Senate in place of Colfax, who
sent the Senate note saying that he
will not be able to preside the remains
der of the session. This body then
went into executive session OH the
treaty. Colfax is easier to-day, though
very weak and requiring close care.
Boston, May 23.-The Supreme
Court declares constitutional the law
furnishing persons for contempt in re.
fusing 10 answer the questions of
legislative committee, eliminating them.
selves.
Washington, May 22.-The CONS
mittee on privilege Of the Senate, ex-
amined eight witnesses tonight, includ-
ing the telegraph manager, who it is
stated. under instructions from his
superiors, declined to surrender manu-
scripts.
Washington, May 23.-The condi.
ton of Colfax renders his removal
imprudent. James Belknap confirmed
supervising inspector of steamboats,.
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TELEGRAPHlC.

Versailles, May 22.-ln the assem-
bly, to>day President Theirs made
congratulatory speech on the surprising
success OF the government arms. He
said he had not expected to effect an
entrance for three or four days lie
gives the account in detail of move
ments on Sunday, which tern mated
so VIGOROUSLY. He announced that
the'government was determined to visit
with vigorous punishment the most
criminal of the insurgents. Blils were
introduced to restore the chapel Of
Expiation and the column OF Place
Vendome. A vote of thanks to Presl-
dent Theirs and the army was adopted
by acclamation.
Versailles, May 23 General Clin'
cham having last evening occupied
Botigany attacked Mont Maitre to-day
on the west and south from the Avenue
and Boulvard de Clichy. General
IAdmerault simultaneously moving
his forces along the line of the Seine
and boulevards leading to the northern
railroad, attacked the station OF that
railroad and carried it by assault. He
thence moved upon Mont Maitre,
which was captured at one o'clock this
afternoon.
Gen. Cessy's forces carried the bar
ricade in Chausse Du Maine in the
southern part of Paris.
The operations Of the government
troops are progressing satisfactorily
everywhere, and the complete sup
preston of the insurrection is expected
to day or tomorrow. The losses of the
Versaillists in to days engagements
were small.
Paris, May 22-The Versailles army
has occupied Paris. The headquarters
of Marshal McMahon are established
in the new opera house. The head.
quarters of Gen. Cisscy, whose forces
entered this city from the south, are in
Ecole Militaire, which fronts the
Champs de Mars. There was great
explosion near the Esplanades des In,
valides.
Paris, May 25, cvening-s;ince noon
strong south easterly wind has pre-,
vailed which blow. ..;hulmes toward.
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NJ A X X L T 9.

Liverpool, May %.
Cotten-mid1ling uplands, 7Il ; midding
OIL aus, "a a al.
New York, May e5.
Gold Il1s to 1l2. Cotton-middling up
lands, lGsc.
81. Louis, May %.
Flour, S575 to G 80. Corn, ~ Gl&G3 in
bulk. Mess pork, Slb 50 to 1878. Bacon
!, a9 a 9lc. Whisky, so;
New Orlransi May %.
Coiton--good ordinary. i3s to lilc; low
midding, Iis to 10! middling l5i to l5i.
Cincinnati. May %.
Coiion-middling Isl TO l5t. Flour.
So 20 TO Z. Mess pork, SIC 81 Lard l0ar.
Bacon, Z, 81 a 9sc. Whisky. Soc.
Louisville, May %.
Cotton-middling I5c. Elour-i anily
50 %. Corn Csc in sacks. Mess pork, 81.
Bacon, II. u "a 91c. Picked hams sugs 4;
cured, a.! plain lie, packed, Lard IL to
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sions, are wholly dcstroyed. W.
already 10000 prisoners and shall
have 10000. The soil Of Paris is
strewn with insurgent corpses and our
loss is small. The army behaved ad-
mirably. Justice will soon be satisfied
and France will be happy in the midst
of her own misfortunes.
Outside of Paris or Thursday morn
ing there was furious cannonading
and firing of musketry.
The insurgent batteries in the aron-
dissement Des Buttes ChaDmont still
holds out.
Conhagrations are decreasing not
withstanding the fact that engines,
many of which arriving from the pro
vinces accomplished but little.
New York, May 23.-The stock
holders of the Texas Pacific Railroad
Company met today at the office o
Marshall o. Roberts and held an elec
ton of directors with the following re
suit: Moses Tay lor, Marshall o. Rob
erts, Thomas A. Scott, Samuel j. Til
den, Edward Pierpont, Henry G .Stei
fins, Geo. w. Cass, w. T. Walters
Henry ID. Newcourt, L. w. Rice
Henry S. McComb, John w. Forney
Joe n. McManus, John S. Harris
VIM. r. Travers, George Quintar
and j. w. Throckmorton.
A Versailles special to the Telegrar
/ says the heaviest fighting yesterda
was in Rue Royale. The struggle WI
, terrific. Colonels Dubois aud Nora
nephews of Guizat commanding Il
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ANOTHER OUTRAGE!
CHIvALRIC GAMES IL HEMPsTEAD
COUNTY.
The High Toned Performances ofBro
Brooks New Allies.

LITTLE Rock. May %, 1871.
Editor Repubtican:-I notice in
yesterdays Gazette, communication
with the headlines "Kuklux," "Four
colored men whipped a colored man"
and ga Radical trick nipped in the
bud," wherein the writer attemps to
give description of four men having
whipped one of their own race.
MIR. Editor, CHAT cock won't fight"
and the Gazette man will have hard
work persuading the colored men of
Hempstead county that there are four
Of their number so cowardly and so
vile as to assail one of their number in
the manner FALSELY reported to the
Gazette. But, since that apologist tor
Kuklux has its hands in, want to
inform it that it will be proven on the
trial in which Orange Boyd is inter-
ested, that he was told by the Kuklux
who whipped him, that if he did not
swear out warrant against colored
men for having whipped him, that
aey, (the rebel Kuklux) wouU Kill
him.
But, as it is the object of the Gazette
to show that no hostility exists against
the colored race l want to draw its
attention to dastardly outrage that
was perpetrated in the town of Wash,
ington short time since. A little col
ored boy (not ten years old), the son
of a respectable colorei woman named
Martha Edwards, was seized on the
streets by five men and taken into a
merchants store and there severely
beaten with n cowhide. These five
noble spirits were arrested the next day,
and when the little boy was sent for by
the justice of the peace to appear as II
witness the poor lad was suffering
such agony from his injuries that the
officer was obliged to carry him in his
arms! The defense of these chivalric
worthless was that-the little boy had
stolen fifteen cents! The prisoners
were found guilty and fined, and their
little amusement cost them not less
than forty dollars.
| am, very truly IS
A UNIoy MAN Of IIemppstead
County.
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"ii"i "ouiu
After scratching his head for h.
moment, In the meantime evidently
considering the question, he replied:
"Well, Massa, | doesn't know, but
I'spects I'd rum
This was too inu,h for my gravity,
and need hardly add, for that time
he got of scot free. The lesson was
not lost ON him, however, for when. a
few nights afterward, very stormy
one. by the-by, Lieutenant L., inten>
tioually giving the wrong countersign,
he was ordered to mark time, dar |"
and the order being complied with,
the sentinel unconcernedly resumed
the walking of his beat. Lieutenant
L., soon tired of his exercise, however.
and offered to give the proper counter.
sign, but it was of no use; evory time
the Lieutenant relaxed his exertions,
down would come that bayonet and
with it the reply, in tones not 10 be
misunderstood "Mark time, dar, /
tell yerl Mark time, darl No such
man as you got de countersign."
This was kept up for fully half an
hour, and the relief was never more
heartily welcomed by weary sentinel
than it was that night by Liutenant l.,
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The Grand Jury of the County has
been, since they were impanneled, dill,
gently at labor. On Monday evening
they brought down ten indictments, one
for riot, one for murder, two for keep
ing disorderly houses, three for assault,
one for grand larceny, one for assault
with intent to kill, and one for petit
larceny. They are still in session, and
from all appearances, we think assidu,
ously prosecuting their investigations.
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We acknowledge our Indebtedness
to our friends, Ernest Weidemann for
copy OF the Free West, published in
London, devoted to the subject of im.
migration to the Western States of the
Union; and to w. II. Bell, for a file
Of the Aberdeen Examiner, edited by
Maj. s. A. Jonas. These favors are
very highly appreciated, and especially
SO alta time when we are deprived of
our regular quantity Of mail matter.
by the high waters.
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manner generally so well .atood;
he replied:
"No you don't, old fellow, youwant
this place yourself"
The following dialogue took place
on the march to Alexandria, imnedi-
ately after the second battle of Bull
Run. Major j., who had been severely
censured for leaving the field at Nal
vern Hill in rather a hasty manner,
and who was afterwards the subject of
a court martial for a similar weakness,
thus accosted bugler of the tuder
age of twelve years;
"Well, my lad, were you not yery
much frightened during the fghtf
To which the intrepid little sodier
promptly replied:
"Yes, sir, | was badly scared, but,
Major, / did not let my legs find il
out%
The bit was so pointed, and, wihal
50 just, that a roar of laughter lurs
from the lips of all who heard it, nucl
to the discontinue of the gallan {?
Major, who put spurs to his horseant
rode to the front of the column.
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The Hampstead Circuit Court is
still in session. The business of the
term is being disposed of as rapidly as
circumstances will permit. One tried
Republican, Anderson Jones, has been
found guilty of larceny, and his punish
ment assessed at five years in Tankers-
ly's brick yard. But we believe a new
trial has been granted by His Honor.
Gadson Michael was found not guilty
of shooting Gus Cannon's horse, the
proof being that Gus Cannon didn't
have any horse. Qualls Baker, who
has been a regular attendant on the
Circuitcourt for seven or eight terms,
under a charge Of assault with intent
to kill and murder one Anthony Stu
art, was in the bar all day Saturday
and Monday, and was ascertained ON
the evening Of the last named day, to
be mot guilty in manner and form
as charged" and took advantage of His
donor'spermission to go home to work.
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The NEGRO that was hung by the
ku klux, some time ago, near the resi-.
dence Of Mr.. Alex. Franks, turned out
to be Coon, which some boys had
lynchcd, to prevent him from stealing
their corn, which, OH account of the
wet weather, they feared would be
scarce. Ordinarily, the boys would not
dN.such thing. But the probabilities
are that if we do not ku klux the Coons,
they will steal the corn before it is ripe
enough for the negroes.
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"Mary, my love, do you remember
the text of this morning." "No, pa,
I've a bad memory" "By the way,
did you notice Susan Brown ooh,
yes; what fright! She had on her
last years bonnet dole up, pea-geen
silk, black lace mantilla, brown boots,
an imitation honiton collar, ava
bracelet, her old earrings, and suh q
fan--o myl" "Well, yes, your nom
ory is certainly bad
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BEECHER ON COMPOSING SINS

BEECHER ON COMPOSING SINS. -
If man lies | think he ought to con-
fess it, but it is not expedient to tell
all our sins openly. Nothing is more
disagreeable to me than to hear Of n
mans ailments. If person has a
sore, | don't want to hear about it. l
don't care to be RECALLED with the state
of a mans stomach or liver. have
ills enough of my own. Yet some
people will get together and Groom and
Groom and talk about each others sick-
ness, and about corpses, and how many
they have laid out, and have regular
grave yard banquet. 1t is the same
with spiritual ailments. There are
times when a man should make con
fessions of specific sins. If man ha:
be n carrying on the liquor business
a. is converted, it is quite proper tha
he should confess that he has beer
doing the devils work. If he has beer
engaged in any wickedness that ha
been open to the whole community
his repentance should be open. 1t j
not necessary to give an inventory O
all ones faults, but if we say anythin
it is better to be specific than generic
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A private dispatch recf
day from Washington, q
the National Executive
decided to call the y
ic convention at :
1872.
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G.. III. MARTIN,
HENRY WAsHINGToN.
DAN. Hunt, Constable.

DIR. Martin was present at the trial
acting as prosecuting attorney. Henry
,'fashington attended and heard the
testimony. Daniel Hunt is the officer
who brought the 'poor lal' to the
court house to testify in the case.
Now comment on the above, is ,un.
necessary. But as the Republican has
given currency to the slanderous state
ments of ga Union Man of Hempstc
County," we ask it as a matter o.
tlce to an outraged community, to
lish the above certificates of R,pl
cans, whom we dare say it will no
pudiate or denounce. As to the I'd
liability Of the.no5silcr-, of the ,lG'eA
we are prepared to prove that she has
been guilty Of secreting that which he
has heretofore stolen, and delivering
up the stolen goods to save hcrselffrom
prosecution. We are not an idle spec-
tator of what is going on around US,
and we may have the privilege of pay
ing our respects to the Republicans cor
respondent again in due time.
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|
and heard enough to convince the most
incredulous of the unscrupulousness of
some political partizans. But candor
compels us to confess that we were not
prepared TO expect the above, which
copy from the Little Rock RepuJG-
can nA1the 23d inst. OF course, every
ono in Nm commMnity knows that in
the above article. "a Union Man of
Hempstead COUNT mlsrepresents and'
slapders whole community of peace
loving and law abiding persons, and
the writer himself, if he be citizen
of Hampstead county, knows it himself
Just as well as any of us. But then
there are large numbers Of persons in
the Northern States who have been
schooled to believe that the Southern
people are set of savage canibals, who
would think nothing of making a
breakfast occasionally of fried niger
or "broiled union man." and it was to
appease the appetite of such, and to
confirm them in the belief of such
doctrines, that the above article was
written by one who falsely assumes the
name of "a Union Man of Hampstead
County" We believe that no homes
union man of sense enough to write ,
I single paragraph dramatically correc
would be guilty of publishing to th'
: world what he knew to be an incorrec
and slanderons statement of an afiai
wh;ch of itself, would not have al
sracted attention for an hour in any @
the Northern States, or anywhere else
but for the political capital which III
" unscrupulous writer hoped to max
of it.
Of As to the proof to be made on Il
a trial of the case in which Orange Boy
IS is interested, we doubt not, after SEER
he the above publication, but that son
as one may be found who can swear ju
he what his masters may consider necG
,s sary to be sworn. AS the grand j
or quest of this county is now in sessio
no and will have to act upon this ca
nd under their oatbs, we prefer not to d
is. cuss the matter now, as we might
en- accused of trying to influence the a
lions of that body We believe I
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The weather has cleared up, and
we now have a prospect of a few dry
days.
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DIR. j. X. Hood, the general agent
OF the patentee, Prof. Luna j. Ader,
hold, Of Randolph county, Alabama,
ias shown us one of the Adherhcld
aatent Hoes, which we think deserves
the particular attention of farmers and
gardeners. 1t is combination i'm,
plemept,. using .on the same handle
.,s h different blades Of
me. 'n'e "a., All, .sS Ted size, ps well as a
,nvenient and uscid ~ ."
low. Arrangements will soon De \
made for the sale Of the implement at
his place, and in the mean time a
specimen can be seen at our Office.
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The political troubles in Chicot
county, it seems, are not yet entirely
allaycd. Halfa dozen Republicans of
that county, appointed by a mass
meeting for the purpose, lay their griev'
ances before Gov. Hadley, and most
patheticsfly appeal to him to nave the
wishes Of the people consulted in the
matter of appointments Why, ye
good Republicans Of Chicot have ye
so far forgotten the leading features Of
your party policy as to be found earn
.f3ig contending for the Democratic
S,ne of consulting the people
out, now, OF you viii be ex'
1inicated. the last mothers sol
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present grand jury to be composed of
good men, black and white, who will
do what they believe to be right, and
we are willing for them TO 60 into the
investigation of the matter untram,
melled and uninfuenced by anything
we might say.
AS to the 'dastardly outrage" per-
petrated in this town short time since
the statement made by the writer of
the article copied from the Republican
is simply untrue. The boy was not
seized ON the street by five white men,
but was caught in the act of stealing
money from Il cash drawer behind the
counter, and seized by one white man
before he got out Of the house. He
was taken into the back room of the
store and genteelly whipped with a
small riding whip by one of the pro
prietors of the establishment, just as
the little thief deserved to be. He is
not under ten years DID, as alleged, BY
ga Union Man of Hampstead county,"
but was proven on the trial to be about
fifteen years old; besides which, if it
was not proven, it can be that he is a
common thief
Having established a rule of saying
only what we can substantiate by proof,
we submit, in support of what we have
said above, the following:
We the undersigned citizens of
Hampstead County, and members of
the Republican party, certify that the
statement made in the Little Rock
Republican Of the 23d inst. signed "a
Union Man of Hampstead County,"
in regard to the whipping of the little
boy, son of Martha Edwards, is un,
true. The evidence on the trial showed
that he had been caught in the act of
stealing money from the cash drawer
of Cheatham, Green e. Co., and that
he was taken into the back room of the
store and whipped by Mr.. Cheatham.
He was not severely injured, and was
not saffering from the effects of the
whipping the next day, as stated by
the Republicans correspondent, nor
was any other party found guilty. but
Mr.. Cheatham, who was fined, and
paid his line,
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Alex. H. Stephens Political Views.

He considers the 18th amendment
as fully ratified and valid, as the nat,
ural result of the war. The 18th and
10Th amendments he considered as
"gross usurpations of power, passed
by force and fraud" with seven of the
original thirteen colonies unrepresent-
ed. He did not, nor did any one,
propose to do away with negro suffrage,
but desired to avoid what now existed
hostility of race to race. The white
needed the blacks, and were dependent
on them for labor. 1t was to their
interest and advantage to treat them
well. The blacks we're ignorant and
dependent, as is child on its father,
and as mass, they acquired knowledge
with great difficulty. They sought
white advice aud counsel always;
before every election they came to him
from all over the country. seeking
advice and a clear statement of the
issues at hand. Not one of his negroes
had left him, and the feeling among
them was general that they were better
cared for and prospered better where
they remained with the old masters.
With emancipation agreed upon as
a fixed fact, and negro suffrage admit
ted as another fixed fact, we do not
see that the record can be changed, or
that MIR. Stephens proposes to change
it. He denounces the usurpation of
power and the fraudulent manner in
which it was accomplished, but can he
point any safe way out of it. The act
of secession, at time when the Su-
preme Court was Court of, as well
as under, the U. S. Constitution, when
he U. 5. Senate was Democratic.
when the tide of aggression was set
back-a as witness the vote of the resol-
ution in the House after Mr.. Lincoln's
election-were the incipicnt steps to
the 18th and 10Th Amendments. They
took out of the Union all the States
south of the Potomac, and rendered
powerless all the conservative men
north oft. We neither see nor expect
any practical movement towards restor.
ing what was then lost forever, and
the consequent usurpations of powers.
Policy and duty, interest and patri>
otism, seem to us now to demand. that
we unite to prevent new us-
of power and new infriH
the rights of the Peo2
W. c,.1 Al
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VI by lie of court, will be Id at Pubic Auction,
25lh 1871 10 O'Clock A. NJ, the following described
Real Estate, to wit:
Four Acres, Seven Rods more or less of Intervale
Land, sad Northbrge, lying between the Blackstone
and the old canal ana norhery of inervale land
set oil to Caleb L. Sweet.
Also the NOrherly Half of the Barn the easterly
side of the road leading from Uxbridge to Plummers,
together with 10 rods of land, less under and
around the
re above described tracts that portion of the
Nathaniel Sweet estate, which of Lydia T..
Sweet In 1869 which partition is file In the Registry
u Probate said county, and TO which reference may
be had for more particular description of the premises.
CHARLES u, SWEET
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GUARDIANS SALE of REAL ESTATE

VI BY license OF Court will be sold at Public Auction,
the premises, in Northbridge, on SATURDAY. March
25th 1871, at 10 O'Clock NJ, the following described
Real Estate, to wit:
Four Acres aad Ninety Six Rods more or less, Of
Orchard and Pasture Land lying the eastery side of
the road leading from UXbrldge to Rock ale, ami south
erly OF land off TO Charles U. Sweet, and
northerly OF and of James V. Sweet.
Also, another Parcel OF Moving Land, containing 2
and Is rods or less situated near the above
described tract and easery of the Prov and
ceser Railroad. and ng between said railroad land
of to Caleb l.. sweet
The above described tracts that portion of the
Nathaniel Sweet estate, which set off to Amanda NJ
Sweet in 1863; which partition is file in the Registry
of Probate aud to which reference may be had for
more particular descr ption OF the premises.
CHARLES U. SWEET,