The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-03-11

ana New Orleans arc considered no
where SO far as ttei, carnivals are con-
ccrncd. The Niisticls- -k rowe will please
hide their diminished heads.
EoHNUM.
/ STOP.
The time has arrived when, in refer
ring TO the present Legislature, plain
language is demanded. The deliberate
and persistent intention to plumber the
State and city has become so transpa-
rent that it is II common jest upon the
streets. The public treasure has been
lsquandered in a manner unprecedented
even in this State. since the war, and
the price Of votes is as we'll known to
the lobbyists and manipulators of bills
as the price of gold or any other COM
modify. One odious measure after
another has been passed-aii piiing up
| taxation upon our people-until they,
long suffering as they have proven
themselves, have lost all patience and
demand a sudden check to this shame
ful legislation.
We tell The members of tho Legisla-
ture that they must stop this wholesale
spoilation OF n people in whom most of
/ them have no interest, and to whom
they arc for the most part strangers;
and we tell the people of New Orleans
that submission to such outrageous
measures ia neither the part of wisdom
| nor true manhood.
! Let tho people come tO4cthcr in their
majesty and say to these men in the
| Legislature, who lor the most part are
lself-constitutctt representatives, occupy
ing other mems seats: ''ThuS far shalt
thou go and no further.' The occasion
demands action, prompt and decided
action, on tho part Of our citizens, and
no halfway measures will answer. We
are at the mercy of men who have
shown themselves utterly unfit to rule,
who have betrayed the sacred trusts
confiCed to them, and they must be
given to understand that they have
aroused the righteous wrath of tho peo
pie and to them they will have to an
lswer for their wrong doings.- Ricay'nee.
VIII the editor swear to all in the
above: Is it true Of all the members
of our Legislature, without regard to
party, race, color or previous condition ?
| People ofLouisiaaa ! this is an awful
state Of affairs, when you think of the
matter seriously. OH, jehovah Jcho-
vah have morcy upon us!
| Indian troeii:ca.---H0rrarS @! the Texas
| Frontier.
| We know nothing in the records of
Indian hari,artics, says tho Galveston
Civilian, since the settlement of Amer
| lea, exceeding some OF recent occurrence
| on the TcXaS frontier. The following
! are some further details of the recent
massacre ofa family in Wise county:
In the night tho Indians entered the
house. Mrs. Plschnt SpranS up from
the bed where they We're all sleeping,
fell on her knees ana commenced pray
ing, '!GOru Indians. spare me with my
children.'
They sl,ut i,er in the mouth and stab
bed her with knives, shot tho bed full
of arrows, The children twisting and
writiiing in btoo't, took some of them
and dashed their heads against the
wall, window and door htc!ngA; they
killed with knives and clubs, ~ they
thought, all the children. They then
shot three arrows deep into the breast
of Mrs. kccnan. dragged her on the
door-shuttcr they had cut down, and
cut around the c,igc ri her hair and tore
off her scalp: She was cognizant of all
that passed, and lay in That state with
the dead and dying all scattered around
her.
One ut the children had its bowels
cut out, and the arm, with the ShOul-
der, severed from the body with knife,
and the body thrown out into the yard.
One Of the women slipped an infant be-
tween the beds, and another small one
was so SCcrctcd as to lie very quiet next
! to the infant. These We're the only two
| that escaped unhurt. One of the little
boys, about eight years old, after being
severely wounded, jumped out of the
window in the midst of the tunult and
| hid, and after the Indians left he car
ricd water from a lake, about two hun
drcd yards distant, and CAV" to tho
wounded all night.
| Mrs keouan tried to pull the arrows
from her breast and twisted one off.
She could not move her baby, and kept
! her place on the door shutter all night
without covering. She lived II days.
The sUiIcring- she endured cannot be
EXPRESSED rhe child that carried the
water could be trailcd the next day by
the blood One OF the little girls, about
six years Old, was found holding the
little infant near the cmbcrs next morn
ing, and was crying, saying the Indians
sshah killed ma and little Willie" That
same evening the little girl that was
nursing died.
1t i expected that the Great North
crn Railroad of Texas will cross the
Trinity, during the latter part of the
present year, at n point about ten or
twelve miles cast Of Palestine.
\ good farmer will never be satisfied