The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-02-03
4 Good Suggestion.

| GOOu SUGGESTION.
| The most, sensible and plausible So
luton of the VeNatious problem that
perpleNes the minds of our Louisiana
Solons so sorely, is that suggested by
the OUACUITA TELEGRAPH, to call Il
convention of the people. BY such II
course it would soon be solved. The
people would soon elect delegates who
would not be long in righting the old
ship of state. But will it be done =
that's the question. Will those who
are fighting over the Spoils and contend
ing for the mastery over the people,
consent to loosen their grasp upon the
throats of the people and permit them
to act the part of freemen and patriots
and save the State?
They know that Whenever they turn
the State over to the honest masses,
their occupation is forever gone that
they can no longer rob the Treasury,
and crush the life out of the industrious
masses in order to fill their pockets
with money to be spent in riotous liv-
ing and shameful dcbauchcry. They
know that the honest masses arc tired
of toiling and sweating for the support
OF worthless vagabonds, drunkartls and
libertincs, and their paramours, who
indulge mall the vicious cNtravaganccS
OF the period, without exhibiting II sim
gle rcdeeming trait of character or Civ
ing one thought to the interest of the
country RichiollH BG0con.
The Columbus correspondent OF the
Nenia Gazette states the following in
cidcnt in the life of John sherman:
ellis first appearance before the pub
lie was at the Philadelphia convention
that nominated General Taylor for
PRESIDENT. 1t happened in this wise:
lie was Il delegate to that convention.
When in the organization it came to
the election of II secretary Judge,
also an Ohio delegate, arose in the
convention and said that the Ohio del
egation had II young man in it whom
he desired TO nominate for that posi-
ton that if elected it would probably
DC the only official position he would
ever hold, as he hailed from II hope
lcSSly Democratic district. He was
unanimously chosen. \ delegate from
Indiana nominated Il young man from
that delegation for assistant secretary,
and made Il similar speech concerning
him, and he was chosen. Schuyler
ColfaN and John Sherman met each
other and shook hands for the first
time ut tho secretary's desk.
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The New York Herald announces,
that having become wcaricd out and
disgustcd with the diIatorincss of the
British Government, the Herald has
sent out an expedition of its own, ac-
companicd with one of those reporters
whose fabulous achievements have as
tonishcd the world and after Il difficult
and expensive journey, the expedition
is now successfully on it's way, to inter
view DIR. Livingstone and learn the
cause of his long detention, or bring
him back. y recent number of the
Herald contains what purports to be Il
report of the expedition. II has subsi-
diZcd enough negroes and Airican chiefs
to produce the sensation which attracts
visitors, and some of these visitors i'll
form the Herald man, that "a fat old
man, with II long white beard, alone,
| and poor" supposed to be Livingstone,
still survives. The Herald promises
| additional news shortly, from the con-
| tral barbarism Of undiscovered Africa,
| and " from our own correspondent"
An attachc of the American Apri-
ctlturist has, with fcndish ingenuity,
/ to l.