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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-08-26
Reply of Speaker Carter to Gov.
WarmOth.

The following is the most in
teresting portion of Speaker Car
ser's rejoinder to the attack upon
him by the Governor. All of
these documents will answer q
good purpose in 1872:
He charges mo with having
voted for the levee, warehouse
and other bills providing for a
large appropriation of public
money. I affirm that the journal
of the House will show that 1
voted for none of these bills, and
I took no active part in the pass
age of any of them but the levee
bill, which I believed to be a
good measure if legitimately car
ried out; and possess and have
possessed no interest in any bill
passed by the Legislature, except
such as has been legitimately and
honestly obtained-all insinua-
tions of his Excellency to the
contrary Notwithstanding. Can
he truthfully say the same? The
Governor, by his own witnesses,
and by the records Of the House
stands convicted Of classifying in
two instances; and I respectfully
suggest that his claims to veraci-
ty must be reinforced by some
evidence before his other asser-
tons can be entitled to credit. 1
do not claim to be the best man
in my party, or the only friend to
the colored man. / would give
every citizen, white or colored,
fairly and fully all the rights
guaranteed to him by the Consti-
tuition and tho laws. I was an
honest Confederate, and : am
now an honest Republican,, and
propose to give proof of the same
by holding principles superior to
party leaders.
His Excellency calls me Wick
lifte's friend and confrere, though
he is we'll aware that l had no
acquaintance or association with
him, and if he would refresh his
memory, he will recollect that
the celebrated Wickliffe message
was submitted to me for revision
and mainly prepared by me. His
EXcellency affects a fondness for
parallels, and would not proba-
bly, object to contrasts.
1 will suggest a few:
A high public functionary,
by special act the Office
of one of the Liquidators of the
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-08-26
A Trade We Ought to Have.

Our contemporary, the Caddo
Gazette, appears to take alarm at
the possible possession by Tren-
ton and Monroe of the trade of
South Arkansas, by means of the
construction of the Trenton s.
Fulton railroad, coupled with the
contemplated improvements, by
the general government, in the
navigation of the Ouachita river.
1t warns the people of Shreveport
that the improvement of the Qua
chita will secure an outlet for
South Arkansas and direct the
trade of that section from Shreve-
port, unless they go to work in
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-08-26
Arrival and Departure of the Mails.

From Monroe to Ficksburg-CarrylnS
all mail matter for the Western, Eastern,
Middle, Pacific and Atlantic States, and New
Orleans,
Departs daily III i A. NJ;
Arrives daily At : p. NJ. Sundays except
From Shreveport TO Monroe
Arrives daily Sundays cxcepted) At ~
p. NJ.
Departs daily (Sundayss eNccpted) at AM
From Camden, Ark, via Farmervii1c I"
Monroe, Lu.,-
Arrives Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur-
days at p. NJ;
Departs Mondays, Wednesdays and FIJI
days at ~. NJ.
From MonticeliA- Ark, via Hasfrop, I"
Arrives Tuesdays, Thursdays and >atul-
days at 7 p. NJ;
Departs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
days at n. NJ.
From Monroe &c narrisonDurs-
Arrives TUESDAYS. Thursdays and .5atur-
days at Z. NJ;
Departs Mondays. Wednesdays and FRI
days at g a. NJ.
From Hillsboro, Ark, via Ouachita City
Arrives Tuesdays and saturdays at
P. NJ;
Departs Mondays and Fridays at q a. NJ.
All mails closed precisely at O'Clock the
evening previous to departure.
No delivery, except from lock boxes, while
opening and asserting mails.
Office hours from s a. NJ. to T. NJ. except
on Sunday. Sundays from ~ A. NJ. to 81
A. M. w. II. D1NKoHAvE. Asst p. NJ.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-08-26
" Speak, or Die!"

A new feature in the printing
business is that several of the
Radical "ofhcials journals" have
acquired within the past few days
an awful stammer, and can't tell
whether they are for Dunn and
Carter, or for Warmoth. If they
take the Dunn trail, Warmoth
won't approve their bills for print
ing. If they follow Warmoth,
Dunn and Garter will revoke their
contracts. Like frightened rats,
they have taken to their holes,
and there has not appeared, as
vet, the ferret to run them out. If
we were Warmoth, these organs
should speak out. We would not
enrich a man with bounty, and
suffer him to remain neutral in a
struggle where Our official head
was at stake. And such is the
stake in this game. If Warmoth
don't overawe, whip in, or win
over a majority of the legislature
before it meets in January, Oscar
Dunn will supplant him as Gov
ernor, beyond a peradventure.-
Pinch can't save him; Sheridan
can't save him; the Election law,
which was to be his strongest
card, is utterly worthless to pre-
vent an impeachment.
The ingratitude of the Cover
nor's organs and office-holders is
truly wonderful. Only one of
them - the Republican - comes
manfully up to the mark, and
gives and takes blows with the
Dunn organs. This paper - the
Republican-hits right and left at
it's antagonists, and persists in
that Warmoth is in
the right and is a model Cover
nor and Republican. The other
Warmoth papers have,
as we have said, got to stammer-
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-08-26
A Pressing Commercial Want.

We have frequently urged the
Importance of establishing a bank
for general commercial purposes,
at this place, and now recur to
the subject, because increasing
local interest is manifested in Sc
curing SO important an adjunct
in the transactions of trade and,
in fact, in all kinds of business.
The fact will sound strangely
to commercial men in the North
and West, where cities the size of
Monroe have not only one, but
from two to half-a-dozen banks,
that there is no bank whatever at
this place-that all transactions,
wherein the agency of a bank is
necessary, are absolutely impos-
sible in a district centering here,
that makes and ships annually
over one hundred thousand bales
of cotton, the proceeds of which
come back to us annually in the
shape of supplies, stock, dry
goods, Sc, making an exchange
of commodities admitting of two
separate financial negotiations in
which a bank wsuld be of indis-
pensable service and from which
it's profits would be largely re-
munerative. It is, however, a
fact that from Vicksburg to
Shreveport, a distance of nearly
200 miles, east and west, and
over n much greater distance
north and south, there are no
local banking facilities of any
kind or character. 1t Is strange
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-08-26
otherwise, there is anarchy and

there is anarchy and
trife. |
1t does not, we think, prevent
The Democracy from maintaining
that the reconstruction measures
were all violations Of the Consti-
tuition, to admit, now, that they
are in force. 1t would be bless
ing to the country if there was
no Radical party, but that there
is such a party we are bound to
admit. Because we admit that
deplorable fact, it is no reason
that our opposition to that party
should cease.
We have declared our belief
before that negro political equal
ity, the essence of the Amend
ments involved in this discussion,
is a fixed, although a lamentable
fact, and that however outrageous
and despicable the means en-
ployed to secure the elective
franchise for the negro, it would
nevertheless require another rev.
olution to divest the negroes of
that privilege. We adhere to
this belief. If only one negro
should retain the right to vote
and to hold ofice-and we pre-
sumo no political reformation
would utterly deny the ballot to
each and every negro-the only
principle of any value to the
South would be lost, that is, the
superiority of the white over the
black race.
If, therefore, the National DEM
ocratic Convention sees proper
to ssdepart, we are prepared to
bear the party company, but not
to the extent advised by Senator
Schurz when he wanted the De-
mocracy to promise never to dis
turb the reconstruction measures
even by a decree of the Supreme
Court. Nor are we willing to say
these measures were either just
or proper. They were, and still
are, outrages, but with the sane
ton of law. The time may
come, however, when they will
serve a purpose little dreamed of
by those who originated them.
We are willing, and believe it
wise, to let the Northern Demo-
Gratis fight the battle-of ~ upon
such issues as they shall deem
safest and best. The North is to
be the great battle ground. We
can carry the Southern States,
and must do it for local protec-
ton, but when the electoral vote
is counted, it will be for Grant
it will not be for a Democrat, GER
tain. Our platform is to win, and
by one bound get clear of that
worst of all predicaments, bon
dage to our Radical oppressors.
We have not read Reade's
"Terrible Temptation" but we
cannot conceive where he could
have discovered temptation
than the temptation tie
people have before
them, in the desire to be rid for
ever of "carpet-bag thieves" and
brass tack rulers.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-08-26
CUACfifTA RIVER PACKETS.
THE STE 4 .HEiLe

CUAoFtTA RIVER PACKETS.
TUE STEAMER
f. t. "rTACllITA BELLE"
J. NJ. WHITE, Master.
+. \. Blanks, Clerk.
Has recently been entered in the Nicks-
burg and Bends trade. making weekly trips
to and from New Orleans.
PASSES Delta:
Going up, every Saturday at II NJ: coming
down, every Monday at y NJ.
and the BEST Of 'i fre s NY: r. Is7i 4itf
TINTED STATES NAH. oUACuITA
PACKET COMPANY.
- - - -
at p. m, for CAMDEN and all interme-
date landings on the Ouachita river-The
new ST Gamers
Jennie Howell,
II. SiENO1I. Master
Bertha,
J. W. BLANKS, Master.
carry owen.
NV. tAELTOS, Master.
These Steamers will leave positively as
ing clear bills Of ladng for Bayous Macon
Little River, Tcnsas, D-\rbonne, I'artholo-
NEW, and all the tributaries ofthc ouachito
river.
N. B.--Passengcrs and shippers rely
upon this line leaving as per advertisement
feb4-sd&w.
TT $. MAIL BOAT.
Df0u7v~. Tci,iDu ,,,,T D.,ut.hi/l fftu
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-08-26

matlOn. 10 ENFORCE GllS "NEuluS,
the Gazette copies the following
from the Arkadelphia Standard:
We understand that Captain
John Tennyson has worked down
below the mouth of the Doggy,
some ten miles by water from this
place. The work, we learn, has
been we'll done, and many snags
and logs of enormous size have
been taken from the bed of the
river, and all the leaning and 9TH
er timber that impeded navigation
has been cut away. The work
thus far has progressed very rap
idly and satisfactorily; the hands,
who are all white. work like bea-
vers, and the utmost harmony and
good feeling prevails between the
hands and the superintendent,
each being we'll pleased with the
other. 1t will not take long at
this rate to complete the work to
the mouth of the Little Missouri.
The last we heard of Capt. Il. II.
Tennyson he was nearly opposite
Rome, going up, having had to
work his way as he went. When
he gets as high up as the river
can be made navigable, then he
will return, completing the work
as he goes down. We learn he is
getting along finely.
We should like to see the fears
of the Gazette realized-not that
we entertain any unkindness for
Shreveport, but because we are
partial to the improvement of our
own immediate section. And
there are good reasons-natural
causes-why the trade of South
Arkansas should take the course
indicated by our contemporary.
The Ouachita is q much more
certain and safer stream for
navigation than Red river, and
it would shorten the route con-
siderably from Fulton to New
Orleans to take the Ouachita
at Trenton or Monroe instead
of Red river at Shreveport. The
improvement accomplished in this
river, and 4 railroad built to Full
ton, passengers and freight might
be transported to new Orleans,
by rail 40 miles and water 500,
in SO hours at any season of the
year, or pursuing the all-rail
route, arrive in New Orleans in
26 hours. Going East or West,
the advantages of a route in this
direction are too palpable for any
elaboration to be necessary.
Why should the people of South
Arkansas turn their faces in an
opposite direction to the great
centres of trade and travel west
ward to Shreveport for a market,
when their wants can be as well
and more n aturally supplied on
the .Ouachita j.? We know of nc
reason, except the want of capital
and energy upon the part of ou1
own people:
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-08-26

ing terribly. They can't either
whine or howl.
1t is not so with the mouth
pieces of Dunn. They are all lip
and throat, and whine, howl, chat
ter, hiss, swear and snort like
trained ventriloquists on the
stage. They abuse Warmoth like
a pick-pocket. They say he is
perjured that he has accepted
brides that he is a hypocrite ;
that as q Republican he is ga prac-
tical lie;" that he never was the
right stamp of a man, and that
they want him impeached.
Can man stand such abuse as
this, with only one friend to help
him pass around the lie and such
choice epithets as drunkard, black
guard, rake and liarf What is the
use of organs, if they don't grind
when the occasion and the owner
call imperatively for musici What
is the use &c friends if they won't
help "a la".c .iog over the stile 2"
We sscome not to bur: i'esar,"
but to reproach his srienus for in
gratitude "sharper than a ser
pent's TOOTH They are the most
thankless offspring the country
has ever seen. They came here
in rags-some of them at least
and Warmoth clothed them we'll !;
they had no means of livelihood,
and he gave them good offices,
nice quarters and abundant con-
ISOLATION. He was a father to them,
and a drynurse too. He gave
them lots of brass tacks, and fed
them on rich cream. And now
look at them!
81 hate ingratitude more in man,"
|-Warmoth might say,
ethan lying, vainness, babbling, drunk
enness,
Or any faint of vice whose strong cor
ruption
Inhabits our frail blood!''
And the world would applaud
the quotation, for s'ingratitude is
treason to mankind" 1t is partly
because of. this view of the case
that we stick the spurs to the
Warmoth papers. They have no
right to stand by with dry pens,
when they ought to be singing
whole bottles of ink at Dunn and
his impertinent followers. A ne
gro-a Radical negro-told us the
other day that he did not believe
in a negro aspiring to he Cover
nor; the position was too high for
any of his race. Let the Warmoth
organs adopt the sentiment and
yell like hyenas for their benefac-
tor. Dunn is now canvassing in
South Louisiana. and the ground
is said to rumble and quake I'M
der the feet of the hosts who well
come his coming. Thus, the bat
tie is fairly opened by Dunn
Warmoth strikes off about fifty
official heads of Dunn men every
morning before taking his cock
tail. And thus Warmoth replies
to the challenge of Oscar. The
stragglers cannot stand neutral
long. They are bound to speak
out, and that pretty soon. All
the bridges between Dunn and
Warmoth have been burned
Would Warmoth surrender to a
negro7 Would Dunn surrender
to an interloping specimen of
'spoor viii: tcash3" 1t is i'm
possible. The war must go on,
and will go on. "Uru"s which
King, Benzonian7''
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that business can be profitably
transacted by such numbering,
log-rolling system as that follow
ed in this district of country,
since first it was settled. To
make a remittance to New York,
or st. Louis. it is necessary to
call in the aid of New Orleans,
or Vicksburg; to make a remit
lance to either of these places
some one must be found whose
draft or check will be paid on
presentation. And frequently a
mistake is made in the selection
of this individual, and the second
and third effort has to be made.
There are other inconvenience
not a particle less perplexing or
expensive. For the want of a
bank, business amounting to tens
of thousand of dollars, is con-
Quoted upon the loosest and most
annoying plan. Bills are allow
ed to run indefinitely that should
be paid on maturity; commercial
credit is scarcely of any marketa-
BILE value high rates of exchange
must be paid to square up pur-
chases abroad; in short, our COM
mcrce is all topsy-turvy for want
of q financial regulator.
Will a bank pays We know
of no better investment in all
this thriving region of country.
For fifty miles around, including
some of the best cotton-growing
country in the South, nearly all
the business would be tributary
to a bank in Monroe. 1t would,
of necessity, he the only medium
of exchange for this section, in
the payment of bills abroad and
in the collection of bills here.
The bank accounts now kept in
New Orleans or Vicksburg would
be transferred to the Monroe
bank-supposing it to be SOL
vent and fairly-managed institu-
tion-and deposits, to large
amount, from men not engaged
in any active business calling,
would be made in its vaults, at
fording it a large capital not sub
ject to any encumbrances.
We have here the domicile of a
railroad =; government officials,
handling large snms of money
the headquarters for a telegraph
district; a postal money-order Of
Zee, issuing, monthly, orders to the
amount of seven thousand dollars;
prompt postal or water commu-
nication with a large number OF
neighboring business points; and
constant application for discount
upon the very best home paper
But it is not only what Monroe
,ao,v offers as inducements to the
establishment of a bank that
should be considered, but the fu-
ture growth of the country and
inevitable increase in wealth and
trade should also be duly weighed.
A bank of itself creates business
and expands the area of COM
merce. Starting with business
represented by, say, 10000 bales
of cotton, this business would in
crease, with the development of
the country and growth of trade,
i'm five years, at the present rate
of Improvement, to more than
double that amount. The profits
to a bank, now, would be hand
some, but in five years these
profits would be doubled. Emerg:
ing, as we are now, from the en-
barrassments following 4 disas
trous war and unfavorable crol
years. the country still affords {
field for large business operations
and tho successful employment
of capital in variety of enter
prises. If this be the case while
such causes are operating to re
fond o,,r v,roorass. how much bet
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-08-26
MONROE, TRENTON
LIFE INSURANCE


CAROLINA LIFE INSURANCE CO,
MEMPHIS, TENN.
OFFICERS:
lion. Jefferson Davis, President.
NJ. !. Weeks, Ist Vice Prcsident
w. j.. Boyle, Secretary.
i. II. Itdni0nSon. General Agent.
BOARD or n,Ht:croIs:
NJ NJ 4 WisS+ Z: n. iIpa;
w. b. GrooHi:aW. .I:IucS Pulan.
+. Titus, Napoleon Hill.
}. G. IongSd;,lr. WIN. Joyncr.
F. W. Smith. \. sSesseI,
W. l.. Vance, y. =. Bruce.
Bohen brothers. State Agents for Sor,i,
J. L. Behcn, Special Agent, Monroe, la.
Office: Corner Grand and DeSiard SITS.
DR.. ID. IL. Key will attend to the business
Of tho office ut Trenton.
I;EFFEESCf:S:
NEW ORJE>NS.--Gcnoral Harry Hays, Il.
II. and J. NJ. Allen Il co., Galbrcath,
Stewart Is Fizcr. Jennings. Gates q Co.,
Nelson Lauphi"d 4 CO., Bcndlcs, Wingo
e Co.
SuEEvEroET,--K. NJ. Johnson, banker;
Wmbcrlcy, Ardis y Co., wholesale mer-
chants: Cumming, NofllSon ~ Co., 1. IL.
Morris, Druggist, Gregg x Martin, Jcssup,
Marsh Is Virgins, IINalns Il Kennedy.
Issues Policies on all the the improved
plans. No restrictions on travel or resi-
dence within the settled limits of the United
States, British North America or Europe.
All policies nou-torfritablc for their
equitable value. Liberal deductions made
on ministers.
Active, intelligent gentlemen wanted rs
agents in every parish.
Medical examiner, Monroe. Dr. SIrothcr.
PIsONfSI0NSI FEED! Ey'|1EER.
y HAVE on hand for sale nj lowest cash
L prices, Il consignment OF
CORN, HAY, OATS, BRAN,
FLOUR AM PORN.
ali of choice quality. Also
10000 FEET FIN EST PINE AND
CYPRESS LUMBER,
the best ever offered in thiSs4tS+44---+-----
For sale ut very reasonable prices.
ISO. l.. HANNA
July l, 1871 tl-tf
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cora INTO L01S controversy, Dut
having done so, he should prompt
ly have placed himself in posi-
ton in which he could have been
reached and held responsible for
the outrage perpetrated, even if
it had involved the resi- gnation Of
his office. But the official sur
roundings Of his Excellency, like
the divinity which hedges in a
king, makes it difficult to reach
him as promptly as his insolence
merits yet 1 question, when his
Excellency shall have sufficiently
recovered his health as to lay
aside his crutches, whether he
will repeat in my presence or in
my neighborhood his offensive
allegations.
In conclusion, if his Excellency
possessed all the imaginary vir-
tues that his most sycophantic
friends attribute to him, his I'M
scrupulous violations Of law, his
political treachery and gross cor
ruption in office, are sufficient to
destroy the confidence of the
people in him as a capable and
honest public servant, and to in
sure his removal from the office
which he prostitutes and the po-
sition he dishonorS.
He is, as n Republican, a prac-
teal lie; as a politician, n .trdud,
and would use any party to
which he might be attached for
his own personal aggrandiZe-
ment and whenever he deemed
it conducive to his own interest,
he would, without scruple, be-
tray the same. a constitutional
adventurer and a chronic equivo-
Gator, treacherous in every rela-
ton, personal and political, he
has proven himself a leader who
can be neither safely trusted nor
followed by any party.
Respectfully,
GEO. w. CARTER.
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OFFICERS:
Hon. jefferson Davis, President.
NJ. j. WicllS, lSt Eicc-PrcSidcnt.
J. T. Petit, End Nicc-prcSidcnt.
W. j.. Boyle, Secretary.
7. II. E,dnIOn@On. General Agent.
New-York tribune., 1871-06-03
A NEW CRUSADE.

RECRPTION OF PILGRIM KNIGHTS TEMPLARs--
THEIR PROPOSED EXCURSION.
A delegation Of Knights Templars, members
Of Allegheny Comma Ddery, No 49, Of Pittsburgh, arrived
IN this city Yesterday for the Holy Land. The
Pilgrim Knights were accompanied by ST. Johns Com
mandery, 80 T. Of Philadelphia At Jersey City they
were received with Masonic honOrs by 600 members Of
the Conmaudcrics Of tls city and vicinity, including
Coinmbia No. !; Manhattan, No. 81 Palestine No. ls
ouur oe ion No. % IyanhOe, No SO; De Witt Clinton
no. ~ Clinton, No a. and Constantine, 10. ~.
"AS'ne delegations from Brooklyn, Jersey City, New
btuhsNlcA' aud Camden participated in the reception
1nc io"o"lns officers in command: X. L. General
C"inhahuof' Geo Babcock r.. T. Commander, John A.
boner's v y Deputy H. NJ. Brown; Generaiissimo
SeoiRe van Nheti Coptan-G Goueral Theo ". HeIIing;
senior warden George W wslgravc; Junior Warden
George W hOuth"lek. cordial welcome was extended
70 the VISITORS AMI The whole part adjourned t Taylos
Hotel where collation. was served Tho sovcral dc.
tdclmtnt3 crossed tho Terry 10 the foot OF
aho ind Atl Up ito.aNa}, I'm body 10 tho 81 N!cbO-
ias HOsel, where " visitors Remained over night
consists az black dress coat In o,' isf'a n
Aaltf-e cross the collar. h4sk ,,|,'t.'.o,I.s
baldrc ~ white MORE antique hncd with green .,tir
sword and uff hrff gaIUt les with c,r,ii.,t ..''
and black bat with white plumcs Two beonfifni iTn
hes were cTr-Cd hy Tho So johns C1lmaudr.v o. ~
mhtf ahd ffcch ,IfiI thualDHrl With ths fr'fk and
haese crosses, snd The other Of black ana wUts .atiu
AlOfhtd WIN g CsiT OI MuIIllus " tt.c Agfms Del
ihf A..c- -uaur CYInandcIy VIII sail today iu IA.
a'ahti ID -luica t.r Liverpool, iO br absent seV, rs
bOith-. lI tla.ff. Rlsdls. and thc Holy Land Under
t!e t it. ~ .'frff English Knights they viii visit
the tomb o lHfnl.i. Grand ~ slr of ..a Oid,r 1,d
WI inspect tc Holy pu'cIor and tlc toD ut rNtava-
nuns ~ uic Vicinity Oi th, site ~ tr aulc1i irnpc 10
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