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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-19
Gossip and Gleanings.

The Massachusetts, Supreme Court has
held that city has title enough in trees
standing in its streets, though put there by
abutters who consent to their mutilaton and
when Immediately threatened, may resist
through its mayor and aldermen without
waiting for the City Councils action.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-19


The venerable German Field-Marshal Won
Moltke is living quietly in. the little Silesian
town ofSchweidnitz. He can be seen there
every day in long black frock coat smoking
an normous pipe and reading the newspa-
pers at the only cafe in the place.
A lady wishing to have her husbands life
insured in Boston Office the other day, Civ
ing as reason that she wanted either a hus-
band or some money, ''she didn't. care
which," She never expected both at the
same time.
A Kentucky lady is singularly affected, in
sisting that both her legs are paralyzed, and
that she is doomed to eternal punishment,
neither of which is true so far as the doctors
ofmedicne and divinity can make up their
minds.
A Western college offers prize for good
manners. Now it must offer reward flor a
committee of Chesterfields to act as Judges
and discover the locality of the standard of
department.
A dog at Terre Hau..e swallowed diamond
ring that slipped from fair maids finger.
lie was promptly assassnated and post-mor-
tened
The farmers of Alabama plow through
about four feet of caterpillars before they
reach the earth. These Southern farmers
always were shiftless; moderate smart
Yankee would raise his crops on top of the
caterp:llars and have guallo.
The best definition of scandal ever given,
according to Arthur Helps, was that of the
little girl who described it thus: 'Nobody
does nothing, and everybody goes on telling
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-19
REAL ESTATE.
For Sale.

THVHE undersigned proposing to remove from the
4 city, offers for sale his residence on Deering st.
The house is beautifully located, and in every re-
spect first class Can be examined any day from 9
till 10 a. M, and till 5p. m.
Portland, Sept. 13. GEO. M. HARDING.
1u
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-19
FOR SALE!
FOR SALE

FUNHE real estate of the late Mrs. ELIZABETH
Il SMITH, No. Chestnut Street.
Please address
Mrs. o. E. S. FRINK.
Portland, Sept. 4th, 1872. sep3dts
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-19

dog at Terre Hau.e swallowed diamond
ring that slipped from fair maids finger.
He was promptly assassinated and post-mor-
tened.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18
Letter from Claiborne Parish.
ATHENS, La, Nav 10. 49,

ATHENS, La, May 10, 1872.
Gu1t. &. W. lkcGu1aie:
Dear Sir-The people in my part of
Claiborne parish cling with a great deal
of tenacity to the name of Democrat,
but While doing so, we do not intend
to allow our prejudice TODD us an inju-
~. We would much prefer to remain
beneath the old Democratic flag than
to attempt to raise a new one, or in any
way change the old one; but if the
people can have, in the June Conven-
ton, Il fair and honest representation,
and the delegates in convention deem
it wise to change the name of Demo-
GRAFT, but not its principles, we are will
ing, perfectly willing, to submit to that
much, but no more. Rather than sub
nit to more, we would prefer to remain
longer under the burden of taxation
and Radical misrule, SO that when
Truth, Justice and Law does come,
which it will inevitably do before many
years have passed away, there will be
nothing for us to regret-the party re-
naming pure, not corrupted in any
way by soliciting to come into it a
mongrel set Of men who are destitute
of principle, character and soul-men
who have been kicked out of the Re
publican ranks. I think this class il.
all that could be got; for those who are
members of the Republican party from
principle will remain with the party
until its own weight kills it out, and
what few gar-heads have left the Know
Nothing and Democratic parties, and
gone over to the Republican party, we
look upon them, with very few excep-
tons, as treacherous and false as the
devil himself. And the other class, the
negroes, we believe Il majority will go
with the Democratic party in the CONF
ing election. The whites, SO far as our
knowledge extends, have changed their
course of action with the negro: they
arc now taking advantage of every OPP
portunity to win him over, and they
are doing it upon principle, acting
honestly and showing every day to the
negro how he has been deceived by the
Radical party. We consider the Ratii-
cal influence entirely destroyed in the
hill country, and VIC learn that the
river planters are wide awake to this
thing. And, sir, not that l would
tlatter you, but il we had few dozen
sensible working men like yourself,
scattered over the country, we would
have no fear for louisiana
| We would be pround to learn Of tho
Convention giving to you the nominal
ton for Governor. In saying this.
assure you, it is not from me alone, but
many gentlemen with whom l have
conVerSed.
| I have the honor to be
| Your obedient servant, < x y
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18

The Hon. r. w. I'utch, of Union,
who is the State Senator for his district,
publishes in the Union Record, of the
LIST a very strong and lengthy letter
against the acceptance, by the Demo
Gratis, Of Horace Greeley as a candidate
for President. We make the following
extract from Senator Futeh's letter:
Mr.. Greeley has expressed some
sympathy for the Southern peODle
He has ever admitted that we are ours
ed with thieving carpet baggers, but he
takes care, in the same breath to huri
his anathemas at the Ku klux as a
kind of an offset. He appears to dep
recate both. How does his actions cor
respond with such expressions: lie
sits down and deliberately (llis partly
plans Il policy of government that nat
uraily produces the thieving carpet
baggers and I<u KIuk as twin sisters,
lie then sends his army down with in
StructiOns to maintain, support and up
hold the s'thieving carpet bageers."
but to crush out the I<u Klux, and in
doing so to have no regard for individ-
ual rights, feelings or honor, but if ne
ccssarS in carrying out any of their
schemes of rapine, revenge or lust ar
rest whoever they may choose and drag
the victim off to some miserable prison
there to await their malignant pleas
urc. With all of Mr.. Grecley's phari-
saical benevolence and liherality
he has clamored as loudly and as an
Srily for the laws designed to Cypress
the South rs any member of his party.
"Judgc man by his acts" is an old
and true saying, and 1 here invoke the
application of the maxim to the Gin
cinnati Nominees. How impuuent,
Greeley, boItcr from his own party,
ask the Democrats to support him, and
tolls them to their teeth if they refuse
and nominate Il ticket Of their own.
tie, and his followers will wheel back
into the Grant lines and secure his
election i'll preference to IL Democrat.
| am sure the Democrats will show
themselves men, ScOrn the invitation
of Greeley and present to the people OF
thcS" United States, men faithful to the
rights OF the people, to constitutional
liberty.
No, Mr.. Editor, Grceley'S complaint
because Grant prefers to him and his
friends his own relatives for office
his anxiety to forgive uS for Il crime he
committed himself, can never make
him IN acceptable candidate for the
South.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18

loudest, "On to Richmond ~ withsteel
and ball to put these "wayward sisters"
to death? 1t took a new party and
men of different ideas in France to pull
down from the public buildings the
inscription of "Eyo1ue, Eiwte,%Hs,
Libe'1c," and put in it's place "Zt!ta"-
te|ie, Csteu1es1e, AstHlerie;;," but in our
war politics, our statesman, Mr.. Greeley,
in the course of Il few weeks, passed
from under the wings of the dove of
peace and mercy, and bounded into the
military saddle, where cone blast from
his bugle was worth a thousand men,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18

Baltimore is about fifty dollars. AS it
is likely delegates and visitors to the
Democratic Convention will be carried
at half fare, fifty dollars will suffice
for the round trip. Meals and berth
in the sleeping car will be an additional
cost, amounting to about twenty-five
dollars more, making in all seventy
five dollars travelling expenses. An
economical feeder and drinker might
attend the Convention and not be out
more than II hundred dollars.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18

Our old Peoples Party friends in
Morehonse seem to have abandoned all
hope of their organization. Capt. ID.
c. Morgan has given in his adhesion to
the Greeley movement, having helped
to nominate the Ola Philosopher. G..
Il. Dunn, ESQ, was II delegate to the
recent Grant State Convention, and
then and there formally burnt his
Third party shingle and "ioincd the
Union band.''
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18

The Richland Beacon inquiries of us
who is E. II. Riddell, the delegate from
Richland parish in the late Grant State
Convention. We will be ridd1ed if we
know; but some one says he is reve-
nue. assessor in lower Louisiana. We
respectfully submit that the people of
Richland ought to know their own
delegates better than we do. We can't
keep the 7tt1a of these dead-beats even
in our own parish.
We think we will write to Horace
Greeley about Riddell.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18

us pause, and render the bosom of the
Democracy, as the Courier-J ournal has
so happily expressed it, ga sweet and
gracious refuge-a retreat - and rem
der, also, a National Convention of as
sembled Democratic wisdom imper:.-
lively necessary. The TELEGRAPH
awaits with serenity and confidence the
deliberations of the Baltimore Conven-
ton.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18

1t was very unkind in the Cincinnati
people to bind Mr.. Greeley to one term
in the White House. We suppose,
however, they thought the old Philos-
opher would "cuss' out the whole Of
Washington and Great Britain and the
fetee Islands in that time, and he
ought to have long respite.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18

When Mr.. Greeley learns that the
Dcmocrats-or some of them--of East
Baton Rouge have endorsed his ticket,
he will shoulder his axe and march out
into the forest and cut down all the
little cherry trees he can find. And
then our old friends HERON and t'uqua
will have to say they did it.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18

The Industrial Exposition Building
in New Orleans, now all the go wave
siuht see,,s and which - :, Now pr,o.th he
what the great bridges are to st. Lo !,
and Louisville, contains, among otktcr
symbols of Industry, the portraits ike
225 of the most notorious scoundrels IN
the country, together with Il full kit>of
burglars tools.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18

And now comes Mrs. Isabella Beech
err Hooker, and says of Mr.. Greeley F.:
{" I consider him heavy load to any
party, since he always deserts or turns
somersaults when the pinch connes.' -
OF Carl Schurz she says: " With him I
desire no communication, and can only
wonder how he has consented to be
born Of 4 woman
We are utterly unable to see what
Schurz's opinion of the manner of his
birth has to do with the Greeley ques-
ton. Does Grant, or Mrs. Hooker, for
that matter,
" Bear charmed life, which must not yield
To one of woman born?"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18

If Col. Williamson, Of Shreveport, is
properly reported by the Times of that
city he has very nearly lost our conf
dence in him us a political leader. He
is represented by the Times rs alieseak-
that the Democratic party of this S even
&c :, ,,,;,n,o ,,.;+h C,,r, Vx,.,, tpcst
o'' 10th
with producing as an evidence of q II
correctness of his declaration the ride.
that the recent Democratic State g to
vention failed TO cNpcl from menu 'oe u,
ship, Thos. Green Davidson, the d NV.
accredited delegate in the Convent ivr
from the parish of Livingston.
Now we have to say in reply to
allegation, that Col. Williamson
totally mistaken the character of
men he has arr;,igncd. We arc onS ,.c,
those who voted against MIR. Davidsdfo for
expulsion, and we defy Col. WilIid ling
son, or any other Reformcr, social '''r
to point lis to II single fact or circ,I | ''a
stance going to show we are not as va
from being corrupted, Won over or nty
coycd off by Gov. Warmoth as he pear
self is, or any other adherent of II
Reform movement.
If Col. Williamson had taken irst
pains to analyzc the vote which haSf Il
greatly alarmed him, he would h!ncr
saved us the unpleasant task of writ ny
this paragraph and himself the uns,uit
cious labor of uniustly arraigning rgcr
who have been his friends and ares at
we'll known to the couutrv fur ut of
:,a..:,..,.. tr<-
'''''>'oi'.'s ''i'' i''s' pc, Il
zeal standard as Col. Willian,son,nr
himself. hcr
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18

Two of our near Republican, OK
changes, the Madison Journal and the
Homer Had, appear 10 be swarming.
They seem unable to settle either upon
Grant or Greeley, out at their great re-
Spect for Gov. WarnlOth.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18

We notice that two Of our old fore
men--now happily their own bosses
Smithee, of the Little Rock Gazette,
and Frolich, of the Searcy Record, met
g. ,'t,...o>. .'.r l'Iof,, i.-, ::
| make his guests comfortable. Charsl IN
| suit the times. JAS. A. LAWT
| March 81, iS72.-2S;ty hSi
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18
10 Country Delegates.

The Democratic State Convention re-
assemblies in New Orleans on the 3rl
day of June next.
Several important duties will dcvolve
upon this Convention. We will Gnu
merate few:
1. The propricty of fusing-lst, with
the Reformers, End, with Warmoth
and the Greeley men, and 3rd with the
Customhouse Republicans.
2. The propriety of awaiting and
abiding by the action of the Baltimore
Convention.
3. The nomination of suitable candi-
dates for State officers and n Congress-
man at large.
4. The reorganization of the State
Central Committee, and the appoint
ment of delegates to the Baltimore
Convention.
Doubtless other vital questions will
arise, but the above enumerated SUBJ
jects of deliberation will certainly be
brought prominently before the dele
gates of the Convention.
A matter especially concerning this
people is the absolute necessity for q
full country delegation to be present.
We are thoroughly convinced by such
an attendance and by a judicious choice
among the delegates from the country,
of sound, pure and incorruptible man
as their man for Governor, they can
secure his nomination. The Orleans
delegation, we are satisfied, will accept
and support almost solidIy such a man
thus presented to them.
Now let the country Democrats take
their stand and see to it that they are
represented by good men in the June
Convention. If funds arc wanting, let
them be raised by private subscription.
This is the time to put the old Demo-
cratic ship on her proper course. 1t
will be too late when she has gone to
sea.
We appeal to the people, we admon-
ish them, we pray them not to view
this matter lightly. The crisis is upon
us, and we must, we are bound to meet
it. Almost the be-all and end-all of
our lives are ut stake.
" A day, an hour of virtuous liberty
Were worth u whole eternity of bondage -
And virtuous liberty is what is now
at stake-noa', because as we set out in
June, on that path we must inevitably
travel until the ides of November and
the final conclusion at the polls.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18
I rISCkNEY SMITH,

'.--,---- toTT oN CToR ur-
rcr: :" We cannot sec the necessity of
being SO nasty in coming to the sup
port of tho Cincinnati Convention.''
Bro. Bartlett has the floor and will
please rise to explain. In an agricultu-
raj point of view, Bartlett, why go to
seed in such haste"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18

"Carricl with enthusiastic cheers, :"
is the real Dolly Warden style in re-
cording the adoption of motion in
Grant meetings.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18
BUGGIES,
CA RRI AGES AND ORA

VNRKIAE rs MD DRNYS. zee
Made and repaired, with full guarahat
ny the undersigned, upon reasonable teer-
the Shooting of horses will receive par
fHr attention. L.. MILLER bv
neSiard street, Railroad crossil
March ., 1872. % IOOk
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18
Whites and Blacks in Louisiana.

In al article under this heading, last
week, the types made us say that the
quotient in dividing 1864, the numeri-
cal preponderanceo Of blacks in this State
over the whites by five, the divisor gen.
orally used in ascertaining the number
ofvoters in the whole population of a
given community, was sol. It should
have read S12.
Since preparing the article referred
to, more complete statistics have come
to hand in the report of the Census
Bureau, and we find that our position
becomes still stronger. From this re-
port we obtain the following interest
ing facts:
Whites i'll ;'62, O65
Blacks in 1870. 1854, $50
Majority for blacks ........... ass
White Males over q years i'll $780,. 81, O66
Black Males over p years in 1870. 1913
White Male prcponderancc 1853
Thus it will be seen that there was in
1870, Notwithstanding, as we stated last
week, the absence from the State of a
great many white adults at the time
the Census was taken, an actual major
ity of 1913 whites over blacks. 1t should
be stated, however, that some of these,
white males are non-voting foreigners.
Under an impartial and fair registra-
ton of the voters of the State, we are
satisfied that the number of registered
colored voters will be reduced this year
instead of being increased. It is noto-
rious that hundreds of colored minors
have been registered at every election,
and equally notorious that hundreds
were registered, of the colored race,
whom officers of the courts, nor any one
! else, have ever been able to identify or
to find. Should the Republican split
| in this State continue to exist, of which
we are very we'll assured, we may rely
upon a close scrutiny into the claims of
colored applicants for registration. The
air of mystery and secrecy which has
hitherto surrounded the offices of regis
tration will give way under the sharp
and vigilant eyes of the leaders of the
contending Republican factions; but
especially to the enforcement of both
the State and Federal election laws,
| conflicting in their bearing at this junct-
ure, do we look for a healthy registra-
! ton and election.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18
Col. John Forsyth Oh the Cincinnati Con.
ventiOn.

In Il letter written from New York,
on the 18th, to the Mobile Register, Col.
John Forsyth, the editor of that paper
and one of the foremost editors and
his views of the nomination Of Horace
Greeley. Mr.. Forsyth always expresses
himself frankly, cogently and in finish
Ell sentences. His observations are ta-
ken from an elevated standpoint, and
it seems to be his infiexible rule in
politics to keep principles steadily in
the ascendant. In all the trying crises
of the past seven years we have closely
watched the course of the Register,
and we have to say for that paper that
it has been not only ably, but reliably
conducted, and not only reliably, but
heroicalIy, honorabIy and with uncr-
ring divination Of the path of duty and
Of right. In consequence of the Regis
ter's consistent course, coupled with
the heightened character Of its manage
ment, it stands confessedly at the head
of Southern journals.
1t is worth while for our people to
consider we'll the counsels of such a
paper as the Register. The proposes
sion we all feel with any ticket that
promises to defeat Gen. Grant, should
not blind us to the possibility of fatal
results in surrendering to an organiza-
ton Of which we are not admitted to
be even a small integral part; nor
should we forget the grand climacteric
to be reached when Greeley is elected,
if elected by Democratic ballots, and
fail to determine for ourselves the i'm
portant problem, What lies beyond?
History informs us that after the Spar
tans had helped the Athenians to drive
the army of Pausanias from Greece,
Themistocles, the Athenian General,
becoming jealous of the power ofSparta,
asked the Athcnians to select some dis
Greet man to whom he could make
known plan for the accomplishment
of great purpose. Aristides was cho-
sen as the man, and to him Themisto-
cles proposed the destruction of all the
Spartan vessels then in the port of
Athens, saying this would give Athens
the supremacy of the seas. Aristides
returned to the Athenians and told
them that what Themistocles proposed
would rebound to the power and
strength of Athens, but that it was not
Just. And the Athenians went no far
Their. Suppose we aid Athens to defeat,
not PauSaniaS, but \erXeS himself and
suppose some modern Theinistocles
proposes that the Democratic ships be
all burned, lest Democratic Sparta out
strips Republican Athens, will Greeley
say that the proposition is not just?
''To be thus is nothing.
But to be safely thus
is the essence of political wisdom.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18

We expect to hear very soon that il
was Horace Greeley :nd not Mr..
o'E"ary'S COW that kicked over The
lamp that set fire to Chicago.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18
GEORGE CIIAMBERLA1S.

COMMISSION MERCHANT AND
DEALER IN w rs II l.. X y PRopT IS
he
MO y ROE, La
Corn. Oats. Hay, Bran, Pork Bacon
tl"ur sold on consignment. 25-teH
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18
nlA<'lllTA HOUSE.
" cor. pCSaru and Third SITS, Monroe GUS
il. rIunsickcr- Pronr;c+or .ul-

The above named Hotel, so long an ing
N"rahly known throughout the country of
hccu rciittcd and newly furnished, al
Proprietor pledges, himself to spare II III
fort To make all comfortable who NAV ioi''
him with their patronage. April IL Gopel
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-05-18
A Is. GRISWOLD \ CO.,

A Is. cRISWOLD n CO., the
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Corner Canal and Royal SITS. New Orfs
Importers of Ny,
FINE WITCHES. CLOCKS, JEwEtEf. Fuse
GOODS AND ,IrLERS
in
And manufacturers OF
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COTTON FACTORS AND GESEJ. ,f
COMMISSION MERCH ANTS, -,
No. ~ Perdidn Street. New Orleaul.
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