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them, as soon as the plan is known to the
chiefs Of the enemy themselves And,
when captured, they are almost always
sure to effect an escape, released by some
member of the society among the enemy.
The great white chief told them that the
society extended all over the world;
taught them all the ceremonies connected
with it; taught this maiden to make the
badges and insignia worn by the initia-
ted, and on certain days, the oath of
June, aud some others, they walked in
procession, and held a grand dance at
night. They believed him to be the son
Of the Great Spirit. Heis buried at the
Golden mountain, and his grave is walled
and covered with gold, and is their sa-
cred place of worship. They gather now
every year ON the oath day Of June.
The great white chief told them he
was moons (months) on his journey
from his starting point; that he was
taken at BATAVIA, N. T., and from there
taken TO and confined in Fort Niagara,
in the latter part of September Of the
same year in which he came to the
Apache country. The reason Of his i'm
prisonment was on account Of his going
to publish q book divulging the secrets
of the great society. He was kept pris-
oner at Fort Niagara till September 10Th,
when he was taken in close carriage
and driven via Buffalo, N. Y, to Hen
nipen, Ill., on the Illinois river, and
and thence taken in hatboat to the
Mississippi river, down which he hoated
to New Orleans. There he was placed
on vessel and sailed to the mouth of
the Rio Grande river, and proceeded up
that iYer on horseback to Ell Paso,
where the Apaches found-him. His cap
tors intended to give him into the hands
of some Jesuit priests among the Indi-
ans, near where they captured him.
His captors passed down through Mex
leo and escaped. That great white chief
was the man supposed to have been
murdered by the MasoHs, William Nor
gan, and the subject of this story, his
son, Cochise
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oxen waltz.

Mozart was sitting one morning in his
bed when his wife entered to inform
him that the butcher was down stairs
with his bill. Mozart, who had been for
some time composing one Of his greatest
pieces (tbe immortal Clemenza di Tito),
was arranging in his fantasia its most
beautiful airs. He neither saw nor
heard his wife. She, a lovely, kind soul
of practical views, who had shortly be-
fore married the young artist, stood
waiting for while. Finally seizing
him by the elbow, she began to repeat
the butcher account. All was in vain.
The butcher ascended the stairs. Mozart
indistinctly conscious that something
had passed, had continued forming the
illusions of his fantasia on paper, when
the heavy footsteps resounding in
the hall. His walking cane was at
hand. Without turning his eyes
from the sheet he held his cane against
the door, which succeeded but for
moment, But the delightful fantasia
meanwhile had been poured on the
paper. 1t was saved. The cane drop
ped from his hand and he fell back ex-
hausted. The door opened and his wife
and the butcher entered. All uncon-
scious of anything he lay on the bed, his
forehead bathed in cold sweat. The
wife, terror-stricken at the sight, rushed
TO her beloved husband; she bathed his
forehead and embraced him. Mozart at
last opened his eyes. Never mind"
said the butcher, under whose blood
stained coat beat a feeling heart, you
make me fine waltz for my marriage
ball, and will cancel the debt, and Let
you have meat for year to come" " 1t
is bargainP' cried the lively and gifted
Mozart Meat for a year, did l say, "
exclaimed the enraptured tradesinan.
'No one hundred ducats:you shall have
for such a waltz, but ] want it with trum-
pets and horns and 6ddles-and soon,
too" In one hour the unrivalled Oxen
Waltz" was written. NtI. .slI
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@ The London Spectator. short time after
the death of Artemus Ward" published the
following verses in memory Of the. humorist
who, more than any other, had captivated the
English people. They have been but recently
published in this country;
Is he gone to the land of no laughter,
The man that made mirth for US ALI;
Proves death but a silence hereafter
From the sounds that delight or appalf
Once closed have the eyes no more duty,
No more pleasure the exquisite cars;
Has the heart done o'erhowing with beauty
As the eyes have with tearsT
Nay, IL aught can be sure, what is surer,
Than that earth's good decays not with
earth?
And Of ali the heart-springs none are purer,
Than the springs Of the fountains OF mirth.
He that sounds them has pierced the hearts
ihollows, tststR.
The place where tears choose to sleep,
For the foam-fakes that dance in LIES shall
Are wrung from life's deep.
He came with heart full Of gladness
From the gIad-hearted world of the West.
Won our laughter, but not with mere mad
Spako and joked with US, not in mere jest;
For the man in our heart fingered after
When the merriment died from our ears,
And those who we're loudest In laughter
Are silent In tears a l Aa
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England is startled at the discovery
that there are not nearly enough horses
in Great Britain and Ireland to mount
the existing cavalry regiments of the
British army.
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AS an indianapolis undertaken was
taking the measure of a deceased lady,
he was interrupted by emphatically ad-
verse criticisms from the corpse. {
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A reflective New Orleans reporter de-
scribed new hearse as "a splendid,
though sad vehicle"
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A large ball of flowers is now substi-
tuted at weddings for the traditional
marriage bell. :" ll
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BuRYETT's COCAINE is the best and
cheapest hair-dressing in the world.
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NJ yV wurrr TENcH S0HLKY,
EormsrIv Clark. Of Baltimore.
WOKSHAM HOUSE-White x Sehley, pro-
prietors; corner Main andsAd3ns streees'
Board, So SO per day.
MRI GGS HOUSE--Dr. X. IL. Boatman, pro-
nrietor; HOpefeld, Ark.
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SEWI NS NAOh1.-s = n Na;s.lo,, -. coyg-
WILCOX Il GIBB. H3lNmpgrox,su v,sat Sois'ies'
UARMEhM RnE hmM3enines, es,nS. rON : Agents Florence
Sa,virs n,chi1n. 1vn. as Main. street.
GROVER 4 BAKER ) ewing IlaS9ire MaUsiine AT
pany. 3ls Main ct. @ v. Hsllen9ne, as :.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-28
CAFET-BAGGERS.

It still mortias the Picayal7ae that there
are carpet-baqers in the land. And yet
it is as doubt about the real article as it
is about the rnedy for an epizootic horse.
What is a caret-bagger and who is he? Is
the man who ills and moils for money
that be inten, to spend in France, a car
pet-bagger? S the itinerant whose lib
| erality andgood nature captures the
crowd and sures an office one? Or is
there any sue thing? According to our
mature refecbn there is no such creature
as the carpe0agger that the Pjcayenoe
dreams about,or the simple reason that
the conditionsf life do not allow Of such
men. No maran ''come here for the pur-
pose Of making money out Of Office and
then going avn for the hard reason that
before any game can be played, the
people must consulted, and if they &C.
. cept and intlop man. their acceptance
relieves him ofle offense OF being a carpet
Dagger. If the deral government appoints
a stranger to &c Of its agencies in this OR
any other Stat we have 10 right to COM
plain OF him, hatever right we may have
TO complain 0the appointing power. and
if we elect q an to office for some quail
ity that makehim more popular than one
to the ''maIr born" that preference
should excepnim from the charge Of hav.
ing selected imself for sinister purpose.
Taken Altogether. this cry against carpet
baggerS is very silly one importing
sort of jea1usy Of strangers that the COM
munity shdld be ashamed to confess. If
we do not want . carpet-bagger in Office,
it is our duy 10 reject him; but if we find
that one o1that class is better adapted to
fill the ofie than 2 native. the best thing
we can dos to elect him. As a rule the
Americanoeople have not been the suffer.
ers from ter hospitable treatment Of new
corners: ad Louisiana is SO much in want
Of that cLss that she ought 20 be very
cautious bw shessloshes around with her
epithets ia moment Of spleen. Before the
war we dicpot have the disease very badly.
for Slidelwas o Northerner. Benjamin was
> West Iuian, and more than half Of our
great offers were importations. II a live
man cones to the State. let him alone.
and if hisgrade IS up. admire it, and if it
S down, leplore il. # a man lives here,
however, without learning the language Of
he State and merely for the purpose Of
making nough money 30 fix himself.
.fter a VILE. in some other country. treat
lim as . carpet-baSger, and turn your
Jack upol him when he attempts 10 run
regularsankee Doodle out Of the COM
nunity. No American can be considered
carpet-lagger in any place where the
Interchangeable have consecrated the soil
. their 'wn use by the expenditure OF
heir b!ooi and treasure.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-28
AFTER TIE CITY TREASURY

One of the first fruits of reform was
presented in Judge Abell's court on Tues
day, when the new district attorney moved
that the new sheriff be instructed to make
out complete jury list Of the parish Of
Orleans, and the motion was ordered by
the judge. This will cost about five
thousand dollars, at the least, and will
have to be paid for by the city. 1t was
either entirely uncalled for, or else thejudge
of the First District Court has been work
ing along under very defective machinery.
Its necessity. considering the expense,
should have been very important, and it
is hardly possible the newly elected dis
trict attorney has been. long enough
in Office to consider matter SO
yariously esteemed by the !nembers
Of the bar What the district court ex.
poets 70 do with thirty-eight thousand
names piled up Oh the desk before it the
public viii be curious 20 learn: and the
new city government will look in vain
through the budget for an appropriation
TO cove: such an item in favor of the
newly elected reform sheriff. Judge
Abell's court has been the source of much
of chat public indebtedness which the
City Council has been blamed for and it
gives promise Of continuing to draft on
the public treasury in the hands of its
friends as it did in the hands Of its enc.
mieso The money is what is wanted.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-28

/ This distinguished gentleman IS evil
IDENTIFY regarded as the keystone of the
arch upon which the structure Of the suit
in the Circuit Court rests. He is accord
ingly assailed by all the powers Of elo.
quent yituperation, jesuiticai Insulation
and refined sarcasm. Even the basest
SANDER is employed to blacken his charac-
ter. NOT for acts committed since he has
come 20 an open rupture with The Execu-
tive and his new friends. but alleged Of.
lenses, which if he We're guilty OF them
must have been patent long ago, are
charged against him at a time and in
place when and where he could not be
heard in his defense General Heron has
a national yecold as soldier and a gentle.
man which places him safely above the
reach of present aceUserS. While he was
devoting his efficient services % the cause
Of his country. His principal assaiIan', 7.
}. Semmes Esq. was employing all the
powers Of Z naturally ingenious and fertile
intellect, rendered subtle BY iesl!;ticaI
training, 20 stir his iellow.countrymen up
to rebellion which entailed searfui dis.
asteg upon them and tleis 2os:eyity.
We 10 10: care % enter into q com.
parison Of the character, Q: these
two antagonists since the wa. Such
an inquiry would presen: nothing but
marked contrasts, il which General Her
ron would not be the sufferer. But il
seems the old rebels have not forgiven him
for the services he rendered during the
war and Lis consistent devotion to
his principles since. So long as there
was hope that he would occupy
l seat on the returning board as a silent
igurehead and plant tool in the hands of
lie Democracy, they corked up their
wrath and met him with hypQcritical
smiles and hollow greetings; but when he
began to talk Of inquiring into the al
eyed election frauds, he was marked as 5
ar8et Tor the most venomous and out
'ageo1s attacks. Such are the motives
IT lis assailants, and such is the man
whose character they would blacken for
10 other reason than that he considers his
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-28
'GLIGHTS OF PHANCY.

We seejt pictured wildly before us at
this moment. The patient but rather
carewoyn occupant Of the bench. the
thinned oft auditors whose patriotic desire
for 1.-THE Truth. the whole TRUTH had out
lasted the able effort Of Attorney Eustis,
and prominently in the foreground the
slim, tall but lithesome figure Of the late
associate justice. whose eyes flashed in
dignatio2 through paig Of DuhameIs
best Brazilian pebbles.
Counseog Howe was treating Of the
direfuI Gcom Of the returning board and
proving hat the pronapc;amjento Of the
Governor yclept the new election law,
had sQuaahed them out Of existence for
all eternity. Leaning impressiveIy toward
his iono9 he uttered these remarkable
and. judging by she facial expression of
the audience. impressive words:
These Boards, may IL please your honor,
are dead as-dead as-may it please your
hOnOr-dead as Phagaoh's mothers mothers
mothGS mother.
IL order 20 ind out how dead the re-
turning boards are. therefore. it will be
necessary to ascertain how dead Pharaoh
became at the time the Red Sea swamped
his dug out and ideas of conquest three
thousand years ago. Next. how aged
Pbaraohs four preceding generations of
ancestors We're. and how much
the added threescores and tens would
weigh down pharaoh's thousands. We
lack tiae Cor the mathematical calcuIa-
ton. bu: take the apparent Judgment of
the learned ex-judge's hearers, viz: that,
as Artemus Ward would express it, the
extinction Of the boards to this extent is a
50 very amoozing circumstance
The amusing feature seemed sufficiently
elaborated fog "alI hands" when the
earned orator declared that the above de-
crjbed deep, decided and ornamented de-
Mise left Nessrs. Lynch, Longstreet &
%. ".w.thoNt any more force in law than
he Sepoys blown from British guns in
Ddia.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-28

spectacle citizens will 'admit" that the
American people know what they have
been about
But Mr.. Eustis also informed the court
that he did not admit" that these new
and comprehensive laws were applicable
to the case at bar; a fact which could
hardly have been novel to the judge, or he
would not have expected to find him ar
rayed on the side of the defense. Purely
and simply, Mr.. Eustis' argument "
amounted to simple presentation of the
issue of jurisdiction; his admissions were
of no consequence whatever, and his de-
NAL the very point upon which the inter
ference of the federal judiciary is invoked.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-28
A CONSTITUTIONAL ARGUMENT

The weak and feeble minds in the Con-
gress Of the United States who framed the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments, and the appropriate legislation for
their enforcement will feel great relief
when they learn that Governor Warmoths
constitutional counselor 'sadmits" that
these enactments are in force, and legally
so.
James B. Eussis, Esq, yesterday made
this significant and important .admis-
sion" in his address to the United States
Circuit Court, and We may, therefore, con-
slider that henceforward our. old and re-
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-28
COMING TO TIME

Once on . time the REPUBLICAN was
barated by the Louisville Courier-.J0mual
as a libeler Of the South and an enemy Of
this people" because it said there were
hu-klux cut-throats in the South who
should be hunted out by the nation if the
Southern people did not voluntarily purge
their own community of the rascals.
Now the tourier-Jo0nol says there are
"Ku-hlux cut-throats in the South who
have no policy except the polity of thu
devil, and that they have been in the
South ever since the Southern armies
disbanded. !" This is very slow dis
covery, but it will do. With such testi-
mony as to the existence of the evil, we
hope there will be united effort to exter-
inmate it from among the people.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-28

The iurisconsults of the Times have
quoted many times these two weeks arti-
Gle ffty-two Of our State constitution.
which reads:
No member OF Congress, or any person
holding office under the United States gov
eminent, shall be eligible TO the office of
Governor or Lieutenant Governor.
The application is this: 'Hon. ". P.
Kellogg having been elected Senator of
the United States, and still holding that
position. is ineligible TO the Office of Gov
ernoy Of Louisiana. for which office he
claims 80 have received d majority of
votes cast at the late State election" It
is not necessary TO interview Webster to
know that eligibility means capacity to
fulfill the duties of an Office If, on the
arrival Of the day limited for qualifying, q
nominee for office should be within the
age fixed by law. or be otherwise disQuali-
fed. then is that nominee ineligible. But
as 'Uany shall be called and few chosen"
SO the people may confer their votes upon
any nominee for Office. and provided the
nominee shall consent to accept the office.
and confirm that acceptance by taking the
oaths of Office. then, and not till then, is
his eligibility or non-eligibility complete.
Until he takes tina: oath he is DO officer.
and owes the State no service. When,
therefore, Senator Kellogg shall have been
authenticity informed Of the popular
choice. he may then exercise i:s right
of election as between the station
ne holds and that 10 which he
has been called. When this time
Of election shall arrive. lie may then
put off the senatorial robes. and abdicate
the curule chair, or refuse to accept his
little less than regal sceptre now welded
by the executive of this State. He can
not be deprived against his will Of status
which he may prefer, and indicted by de.
cree Or proclamation into an Office which
he may not choose to accept. That he
will prefer the Office TO which he aspires,
we do not doubt, nor dove doubt that he
will appear to take the oath of induction
without shadow Of disqualification; but
until he shall have taken the official oath,
his eligibility can not be questioned, Eli
gibility to political is analogous, then, to
ecclesiastical Office. There is a presenta-
ton and induction. It is composed of
two acts-the one an expression of popular
preference, certified by legal authority;
the other the acceptance Of official obliga-
tons only confirmed by taking an official
oath. sometimes by superadding an Off
ciai bond. Until he has takes that oath
he is no officer. When prepared to take
that oath, it is 20 be presumed any nomi- |
nee will have Invested himself Of any dis |
qualification within his power. Senator
Kellogg scarcely occupies himself with
this paper outlet which has been so often
thrown at federal representatives passing
10 and from State offices. Il is only in
default of some more solid proiectile that
.he Times has pitched this banderilla into
The arena.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-28

cious Arguments can avail nothing against
the indubitable evidence existing of a
plot to cheat the people out of the govern
ment of their choice; and we have full
faith and confidence that, despite the
"oliye branch" of Counselor Semmes and
all other incidents of the scheme, the
peoples representatives will gain for them
victory decisive and complete.
We are curious to know, though, if the
plausible advocate really hoped to deceive
the severe but just judge whom he ad-
dressed.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-28
FINE WORDS BUTTER NO PARsNIPs.

Counselor Semmes had an admiring
auditor ia the Times the other day when
delivering his sophistical argument before
Judge Dprell AS one Of the c;tv papers
mtlmated yesterday morning, the whole
speech o. tine learned gentleman might have
been eolIafed IRON the Times during the
past week OF two. Such a compliment to
authorship is enough to put vain man il
good humor and exact from him a confess
sion that one who has the good sense 10
quote his lines and apply them to an i'm
portant ease is almost As great man as
tho e1thor.
-. vas an exhaustive and unanswer.
able speech, says the admirer Of the
forensic befogment, Of course; the Times
is in honor bound to say that much Of it,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-28

The Strakosch concert ngrpe il now de-
lighting Louisville audience oatwill move
southwark. Nashville wilt rheT nex5
point. Wherever they apr they create
d strong sensation. The sun meaualed
singing of Car!orta, the lam, IA merits IF
Mario, together with i trcape u first class
assistants, constitute an 7ray Fl talent sci
dom seen in this country NJ Levi, the
agent, has engaged Exposition Hall for the
concerts in this city.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-28
WHO Is WHO 2

According to the theory of the Times,
all the people of the State, except the
"Customhouse and its tools, voted for
McEnery. 1t is the business of Judge
DurelI's court to hear evidence that may
explode this theory, and the Tines is SO
Uneasy about the progress of the train Mr..
Beckwjth is laying down that we are con-
strained to think it does not believe its
own proposition.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-28
4 Bto0nTNa sHRuB OF AMIT7.

'Ghe eloquent 7. J. Semmes laid great
stress upon the tender Of an olive branch
By Governor Warmoth to his opponents in
the present important contest. He per-
suasiyeiy informed Judge Durel that his
clients signature Of the new election law
wa.s such N offer fpeace and compromise.
But the attempt proved too thin to deceive,
and his e!oguence and pathos caused only
smile Of amusement. and glance in
the direction Of Governor Warmoth-
MI. Sammes' 'sMephistopheles of poll
tics"-who sat listening to the thrilling
description Of this overture 5tubbornIy
and wickedIy rejected, with an air that
was child like and bland
This presentation Of the case might be
all very we'll if We had any guarantee that
the Republicans whom the people mani
tested their desire to have represent them
in the General Assembly stood the least
prospect Of obtaining their rights. But
that they will be defrauded Of their seats
and that the PRONUNCIATION Of this law is a
part Of the conspiracy to so defraud them,
is conviction which amounts to GER
tainty in the minds Of all, and one which
has been made boast of by the fusion
partisans themselves. Mr.. Semmes' spe-
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-28

duty to be abe party or personal obliga-
tons. His emies are numerous and
powerful, buhe has legions of friends
who will hol his memory in grateful
remembranceafter his detractors have
passed away nb merited oblivion under
a load Of nhlnnz.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-28

There is growing demand for horse
blankets ana walking canes-the former
for horses and mules that have the prevail
ing malady, and the latter for those who
are getting ready to foot it instead Of riding
in the street cars, which will soon be IN
able to run.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-28

Mr.. George Alfred Townsend, the famous
letter writer, and the Delaware delegate in
the convention that nominated Horace Gree
ley for President, will leave New Orleans
for Washington to-day. lie departs with
confused idea Of Louisiana politics and
Louisiana finances.