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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-22

Orleaps leaders became sud
denly alarmed for the safety of
the party; that Warmoth and
the Reformers, between them,
were about to buy up, eat up
and sell out, the Democracy
body and soul hence our
mushroom leaders began to
tremble and quail in their
boots at the Establishments of
Warmoth and the wiles Of
Randolph, and began TO call
Justify for convention after
convention. Such groundless
fears, as exhibited by those
belicose leaders, are insulting
to the intelligence and patriot
ism of the masses. Think you,
gentlemen, that the people of
this State are so unstable in
character, so easily seduced,
that.you must commit them to
yourselves before they blunder-
ingly commit themselves to
others. All, fustian! What
hideous deformities are hidden
beneath thy charitable robe !
The people are neither fools
nor knaves; nor will they be
found as easily driren as par
ty-lashers may suppose.
Artemus Ward was willing
to preserve the Union-in fact,
he was determined that it
should be preserved, even at
the sacrifice of the lives of-al
Of his ,cYe's relations ! We think
our leaders are just about as
liberal as Artemus was patriot.
ic. They think it mete and
proper that no National Demo.
cratic ticket should be put il
the field; that Black, Hend,
ricks, Pendleton, Voorhees, an6
other small fry" should make
the sacrifices the emergency
requires anything to 'bear
I Grant," you know-but they
never once whisper sacrifice
to their dear immacculat,
selves. All, that's another
question. To hint at such ;
thing is party treason-politi
cal decapitation. Liberalism
abroad, but none at home
Baltimore Convention to til,
contrary Notwithstanding.
! To us, it is painful to dwell
upon the situation. TIL
: prospect of defeat is SO yer.
glazing, that we feel humiliat
!, ed. We have no heart to en-
ter the canvass, as of yore
For years, we have fought tn
fight and kept the faith," an
confidently expected ever S
to do, but now are PRACTICAL,
without a party. There is n
hope of success for the pres
ent ticket, unless unforsee
f changes take place. 1t is hor
4 est and capable, but it lack
{ availability; it inspires neitl
Z er enthusiasm or hope, BIZ
r bears upon its face disintegr;
ton and decentralization.
This is not a fitting time ft
"empty compliments" and p,
litical hobnobbing over chan
The people deman
), SUCCESS; they must have r,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-22

space to advance a few ideas on
the all important and absorbing
subject of politics. L need not
give the history of Reconstruction,
for it has not only been well
known, but has been sensibly
felt by us all. Since this Congress
siona1 Reconstruction three dis
tinct ideas have prevailed and yet
prevail in the nation. One, held
by the administration is that the
South should be kept in perpetual
bondage as a second Ireland, to
serve mainly as an excuse for cen
tralizing the government. Anoth-
er, held by the ultra Democrats
is, that the Reconstruction meas
ures being forced upon us are I'M
constitutional and should be war;
ed upon until they be set aside. AS
the English Church and the Irish
Catholics, by their chickering's,
were mutually the cause of Ire
lands slavery, SO the administra-
ton idea is perpetually strength
ened by that of the ultra Demo
Gratis. The third idea, now held
in common by the Liberal Repub-
licans and the New Departure
Democracy, is that the Recon
slruction measures being accom-
pIished facts, should be submitted
to without inquiry as to their con-
stitutiOuality, and that the nation
should again become a whole I'M
derthe Constitution as interpret
I'd by tue fathers of the republic.
The movement in favor of this
third policy has been going on for
two or three years. Gratz Brown,
the Liberal and Yallandigham,
the Democrat, were lis first great
chiefs; chiefs of the movement i
mean, and not originatorS of the
idea fer, that was in the breast OF
every intelligent man not govern
ed by interest or passion. To as
sist this movement, the great
father of the Republican party
brings his splendid talents. AL
ready large number of Republi-
cans taking counsel from reason,
and not passion, have joined in it.
Two-thirds of the Democrats,
judging from their conventions
and newspapers, go heartily with
it. 1t is thought on all hands,
that the Baltimore Convention
viii endorse the Liberal platform
and make no nominations. There
is one obstacle, however, in the
way TO success, apparently little,
but that yet may give the victory
to the administration. This OBJ
stacle is the keeping up two or.
CARNATIONS elsewhere, and in this
State three, having the same car
dinal principles, Here may be
Liberal and Democratic State
tickets in the field. Can these two
parties fight each other for State
officers and as allies fight the
Radicals for electors, with any
chance of success against the
Radicals? Would not self-inter
est in candidates cause the bar
tering off of the Electors in each
parish 1t would be even so, and
as a consequence the State would
go for the Grant party. There
must be compromises and conces
sions, and it is not yet too late tC
make them. The Liberals, juddiDg
from their organ, the New Orleans
Republican, are willing to fuse OF
fair terms, and it would be becom
ing in the Democrats and Reform
ers to lay aside passion and unit
with them, to the end of enamel
pating the South. The Demo
cratic II m j n atien s, however
have not created any enthu
| siam nc yot for oil Con thaf fh
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-22

The names of sixteen States
in the Union are Of Indian on
gin.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-22

Be contented with your lot
especially if it is a corner.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-06-22

Office.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-18
LEVITIES AND BREVITIES.

English brides are getting stubborn at
the word fsobey" in the marriage service,
and dissenters now leave it out altogether.
THE Protestant Episcopal church in the
United States reports an actual accession to
its communion last year Of "a, ia.
THE Buffalo board of police commission
ers has ordered the superinte dent OF police
to take measures for the suppression OF
sales of obscene literature iu that city.
A Minnesota ex-governor said recently:
minnesota has tho loudest thunder, the
most vivid lightning, and the most splendid
Northern lights of any ofthe states"
There is a man in Randolph county Mo-,
who has foot so large that bis shoes are
III inches long and II inches around the
instep. An ordinary pair of summer shoes
for him weigh five pounds.
MONTREAL young ladies do not wear
watteaus or polonaises or long trains, and
ten yards will make dress in that savage
laud. It is hard to make them believe
that it takes 176 yards to make dress
elsewhere.
In the San Joaquin valley is a grain
patch thirty-five miles long and eight miles
wide, covering an area Of l79, 200 acres; the
average YIELD is estimated at sixteen BUSH
els, which will give a total of 3,S67, 200
bushels, or 99,0l5 tons.
CERTAIN ladies of Hartford have opened a
nursery where working people may deposit
children from three months to eight years
of age and have them well cared for between
the hours of $50 AM. and Z PM. at five
cents per head.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-18
EX-PRESBDENE JOBNSON'S
EPERCEF

We never heard any one speak under
more disadvantageoUs circumstances than
Ex-PresideHt johnson did yesterday. The
Exposition building is not well adapted to
public speaking. The weather was ex-
tremely warm and oppressive. The au-
dience was densely packed. 1t was trying
upon the audience and far more so upon
the speaker. Nothing could testify more
clearly the great power Of the speaker than
the teRacity with which bis immense au-
dianco clungto him from beginning to end.
The hasty manner in which we have to
prepare our report of the speech, forces US
60 DO great injustice to the Ex-President.
Wehsve, however, endeavOred to give the
leading points. 1t is a speech which will
90 not only TO read but to study.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-18
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

Four and half inches of rain have fallen
at Lowell, Mass, the past week. All the
low lands are flooded.
The striking shoemakers of Lynn have
resumed work.
San Francisco has compromised the
Goat Island Railroad muddle, of Congress
sioual creation, by subsiding the Central
Pacific to the tune of S2,500,0O0.
The Susanvlle stage was robbed near
Reno, Nevada, after brisk fight between
the passengers and highwaymen. Nobody
killed.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-18
FIRST GUN FOR TEE MIL
LENIUM.
A Few York Justice Of the Peace
Fines himself for Drunkenness,
and Paws tt.


Fines himself for Drunkenness,
and Pays &c.
Oswego county, n. Y, boasts of JUS
tice of the Peace who fushes out in the
annals of local fame as arraigning himself
for a delinquency. The Justice of the
Peace referred to (uO matter about his
name or where he belongs) possesses the
excellent attributes of integrity, ability,
and worth, but on one occasion he forgot
his magis.erial integrity. He let down ina
weak moment the judicial bars which
should hedge him in, and rOamed into the
field of Bacchus. Ia short, on a recent oc-
casion he imbibed too much strong drink,
and in consequence awoke with realizing
sense of that fact next morning.
Now here was pretty go. a Justice oil
the Peace had been On bender, or part OF
one. A man who was appointed to swing
the fail of justice over the heads Of poor
unfortunate fellows wandering over into the
wrong pasture himself! But there it was.
He felt the reminders oft in the occasional
throbs of headache. But what was to be
done2 The more he viewed it the more
he became disgusted with himself. He
made I'D his mind. He would attend to
his case. lie would vindicate the out
ragged law.
So, at the usual hour, he entered his of
fee. He formally opened court, and then
he called his own name as defendant in a
suit in which ''the people" charged him
with an ofense against the law, went over
the circumstances in detail as far as he
could remember them, read ''the statute ill
such cases made and provided" and then
"asked the prisoner what he had to
say?" In the role of prisoner he plead
guilty to the Ofense, said It was a shame
for a man of his years and position, and
hoped ''the court" would not be too Sc ere
on him, as he was determined to reform.
"The prisoner will stand up" said the
stern old Justice. Then the prisoner arose.
"NoW," said the Justice, 81 am very sorry
you have been brought into this court on
charge which so seriously affects your good
name and standing in society; You have set
a bad example, and if you go on at this rate
you will bring sorrow and disgrace on your
self and family. l sentence you to pay
fine of ten dollars and costs, or to thirty
days Imprisonment in the county jail"
The s'prisoner" said he would prefer to
paw the fine, and when the court closed, he
walked over to the pOormaster Of the town
and maid the ten dollars
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-18
ONLY KISS.

Bx ELLA WHEELER.
Once, when the summer lay on the hilI-tops,
And the sunshine fell like golden hane,
Out from the city's dust and turmoil
A gallant, fair-haired stranger came Fl.
Came to rest in our humble cottage
Til the winds of autumn should blow again,
70 walk by the meadow and lie by the Drookletl
And WOO back the strength that the town had
Twas young with the heart of maiden
That had never been wooed; and the stranger
&wOke that heart from its idle dreaming,
And swept the string with a master hand.
remember the thrill and the first wild tremor
That stirred its depths with a sweet surprise
When glanced one day at the handsome stran-
And caught the gaze of his deep, dark eyes,
And the knitting dropped from my neryeess
He stopped, and then as he gracefully gave it,
He held my hand in a loving clasp.
We said no word but he knew my secret;
He read what lay in my maiden heart;
No vain concealing was needed longer X
To hide the tremer his voice would start. B
We walked in the meadow and by the brooklet,
My sunbrowned hand in his snowy palm; 81
he said my bushes would shame the roses, -A
And my heart stood still in blissful calm.
lie stroked my tresses, my raven ringlets,
My eyes dark spleudor was full of danger,
he said, for Cupid was lurking there. , fe
And once he held me- close to his bosom, p
And pressed on my lips laughing kiss;
Oh, how trombe with shame and anger,
Pitlful now as think of this ..
But in that moment thought that heaven
Had suddenly opened and drawn me in,
And kissed with passion the lips 50 neas me,
Nor dreamed was staining my soul with sin.
But came letter one quiet evening
IT. the man that was dearer to me than life
ga picture" !" he said, as he tore 1t open;
''Look, sweetest friend. at my fair young wife,
A terrible an2u uish, seething anger,
Heaved IN nv bosom and bianched my cheek,
And he who stood there holding the letter,
He watched me, smiling, but did not speak.
took the picture and gazed upon it
A sweet young thing with sunny hair
And eyes Of blue. "May the good Lord keep
yOu,"
1 said aloud, "in His tender care
You who are welded and bound forever
Unto this man"-and met his eyes
"This souIless villain, this shameless coward,
Whose heart is blackenei with acted lies"
NY heart sweled full of terrible hatred,y
And something OF murder was burning there,
But better feeling stole in behind it
As looked on the picture sweet and fair.
l turned and left him, and never saw him
Never looked on his startled face again,
And time has tempered my shame and sorrow
And sOothed and quieted down my pain.
But always tremble, in awful anger,
That wears and worries my waning life,
When think how he clasped Inc close 10 his bO-
som
He, with lawfully welded wife
When think how L answered his light caresses;
And clung to his neck in a trance of bliss;
And the tears of lifetime and all my so rrOw
Can never remove the stain of his kiss.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-18


THE New York Tribune Of the 18th inst.
says: "Judge Henry r. Selden united
with Horace Greeley in heading the call of
New York Liberal Republicans for dele
cation to Cincinnati. But he did not seek
the nomination of Mr.. Greeley, and there
upon the organs of the Ofice-holders'
party have been busy bossting that he would
not support the ticket he helped to make.
The Judge is not man toindulge iu boist-
erous protestations, but, at the proper time
aud in the proper way, he has stamped out
The foolish story by heading a call of his
fellow-Liberals ofRochester, more imposing
in numbers and character than any yet pub
lished in the interior Of New York, for a
Greeley and Brown ratification meetin.
The Ofice-holders have lately been saying
many handsome and true things of Judge
Selden's stainless character, unselfsh aims,
and commanding influence. Now watch
hew they wil drop him as if he burnt their
finoprs ~
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-18


king of sports IS undoubtedly apuzzle for
philosophers. He Is quick 10 fesI for the
tumbled and ready to risk his winnings on
things with which he has sympathy, setting
aside for that sympathy even his gamesters
judgment. How happens it-who can ex-
plain-that the muscular people, the un-
sparing, are all for Greeley in preference
to the physical soldier, GrantS
It must be that the hard-knu kled,
the bartaric, recognize in the editor -philan
thropist some: hing which, missing them
selves in early life, they find in their conee?-
tion of him-s King of the Commons,
motherly man, tender Centaur-sometbiDg
of that sex of which they are perfections and
something of that other sex whose best they
reach toward with their street-hardened
hands like founding child groping toward
its wild ideal of mother.
"And if Greeley be elected said Con-
gresham Roberts to a Herald writer, Gas he
doubtless will be, not his strength, but his
sensibility will elect him-his pity, bis ready
apprehension of the erriDg, the wrecked, the
recoverable. First in mercy for the slave,
first in mercy for the ruined Rebels, first
merciful for the struggling Cuban, the Irish
man, the Italian, Greeley awakens feeling
everywhere, and the more they harp upon
his weakness the more they strengthen him
with human nature"
John Morrisssy says that in Saratoga the
leading Republicans are for Greeley-men
like DR.. Hamilton, Pond and French, the
leading lawyers, and Others Ofindependence
and property.
A man named Wheeler came from Wash
ington recently, and said that he was "au-
thorized TO bet $4,000 on Grants election
straight" Somebody started for Morrissey,
and the other started for bed.
HOW THE GLADIATORs LIVE.
Morissey's dwelling at Saratoga is aqueer
one-the only cottage in the great barren,
pit-marked grounds of the former United
States Hotel, now surrounded with high
board fence. Among the trees of this yard,
deeply emboWered, the gamester NJ. G.
keeps bis family in comfortable relic Of
the former opulence of the place. Morris
sey's family consists of one son, John Nor
rissey, Jr., and an adopted son, the former
aged about fifteen, the latter twenty. Mrs.
Morrissey and her son go to the balls, and
the latter lately appeared in masquerade at
Congress Hall, and decided boat race on
the lake. Mrs. MoTrissey was the daughter
Of Troy steamboat captain when John was
a deck-hand; she is a large, impressive,
portly woman, of good address and intelli-
gence. Chamberlain married dame OF
St. Louis. He resides in cottage near the
middle of Long Branch. Both Of them are
sdoing'' a great season, between the turf
and the baize.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-18
MEMPHIS.
A Mystery Of Blood.

A Trading Vessel Found Adrift-Ali
ON hoard Murdered-FOur women
among the Victims.
MEMPHIS, Aug. l7.-Early this morning
a fisherman discovered the little steamer
Helen Brooke floating down near the head
of Cheeks Chute, some ten miles above
here. apparently abandoned. Rowing out
TO her. he made line fast to his skiH and
started to land her. Before landing, how
ever, he discovered negro sitting asleep
on the lower deck with shot gun in his
lap. When the boat struck the bank the
negro started up, jumped ashore and ran
into the woods. The fisherman on board
ing the boat found traces of a desperate
struggle and the decks were wet with blood.
He came to the city and reported what be
had done and seen.
Subsequently the GEand Tower from st.
Louis arrived, her officers bringing a mes
SAGE from the Magistrates at Bradley's
Landing, eighteen miles above here, that
Ine crew OF the Helen Brooks, the proprie-
tors and family of the trading boat which
the Brooke had towed up there, had been
murdered and the boat plundered. Assist
ance was at once dispatched on the steamer
John OvertoD.
The report is that Capt. VIM. Patt and
his brother, the two proprietors of the ira
ding boat, their wives and two daughters
were all murdered and thrown into the
river.
A Revenue OmclaI Tearing up q
Railroad.
Gen. Smith, Surveyor of Customs at this
port, has seized a portion Of the track of
the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad for
unpaid duties on rails amounting to $4,000
in gold, and is tearing up the inclined plane
TO the transfer boat and bringing it to this
side. About five hundred rails have been
torn up. 1t is supposed that no more track
than is necessary to cover the debt will be
torn up.
A Large Fire.
A fire broke out early this morning in
Paine's cotton shed, Poplar street, near
Fourth, and sool spread to the Central
Foundry, owned by Charles Gusman.
Both were consumed. A number of small
frame houses adjoining, occupied by negroes
were likewise burned. Loss 10000, with
very little insurance. The origin OF the
fire is unknown.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-18
CUBA.
Another winter Campaign.

HAVANA, Aug. 17.-In an editorial srti-
Gle upon the situation, the Didrio says:
We are now at the middle of August, and
indications are that a winter campaign
against the insurgents will be necessa ry.
We are convinced that this campaign of
1S72-73 will be, as it should be, the last We
viii have to sustain. The DiGriO says that
if necessary sufficient troops will be at the
disposal of the commander-in-chief to
hedge In the Insurgents with circle of
baYonets.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-18
FOREIGN.
GREAT BRITAIN.


The Belfast Rtets Break Out Aresh.
LONDON, Aug. 17.-Further advices from
Belfast confirm the serious nature of the
rioting there Thursday. There were sew
eral collisions between Protestant and
Catholic professions, during which large
number were injured. The entire city was
in an uprosr and the disturbances were
only quelled by the most active exertions
of the police. Many rioters were arrested.
LONDON, Aug. IL, P. MA dispatch
just received from Belfast states that riots
have broken out afresh and severe fighting is
now goingon. A barracks of police and
several houses have been wrecked by the
mob.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-18
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Brownsville has the benefit of gas-light,
and c3rtain citizens Of the place contend
that it beats everything except ''the Light OF
other days"
The Naynesboro ReU;eg says that arail-
road through Wayne county would kill too
many cows, and hence the opposition TO
railroads in that county.
Mr.. J. Turner, hotel keeper at Collier
vile was robbed one night last week Of one
thousand dollars, by burglars. A couple Of
negroes were arrested oG'suspicion.
Becky Simpson, The woman tried at Jones'
horO FOR aiding in the murder of a Greene
vile merchant, has been condemned and
sentenced TO the Penitentiary for life.
In 1862 some soldiers in Buel's army, on
its march 10 Shiloh, proke into Masonic
lodge at Lawrenceburg, and carried off Jew
els ard regalia. A letter from Independence,
Kansas, says the stolen property is
ia that place awaiting the order Of the Law
rcncebuTg lodge.
Miss sue NOrthcrOss, living near Trenton,
committed suicide few days ago by the
use Of laudaTum.
Di J. W. Gray, a well known citizen of
IrO stale county, is announced as a can
didste for the State Senate.
Ms, Martha Hamilton of Lincoln county,
died last week, at the advanced age of 95
wears. Last February sixty years ago, her
husband was buried, she having remained a
witoE sixty years.
There has been a company formed at
Rogcrsyille junction for the purpose of
sinking a salt well. They have bored four
hundred feet on the farm Of Pat McCul-
Tough.
The furnace of the New York and East
Tennessee Iron Company, in Greene
county, is now in operation and turns out
about five tons Of pig iron daily.
Acton Young could find an unoccupied
field at Greenevlle, as, according to the
Sentinel, there is no hotel in the place.
Hon. Joseph Powell, United States Co l.
sui TO the Falkland Islands, and promi-
nent citizen of Greeneville, after an absence
of FIVE years, returned home on the 9th
inst
TIE Bristol NelgS says the Radicals of
Johnston, Carter, Washington, Granger
and Sullivan, have declared for Butler for
Congress.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-18
Horrible Murder.

The partially decayed body Of an un-
known white woman was found IN The
Mississippi Bottom near Ripley, West Ten
nessca, last Tuesday. A coroner's jury
was summoned aud an examination re-
vealed a bullet hole in the back of the
head The unfortunate woman was
dressed in a dark calico wrapper with the
Pes" Z Undertaking and wrapped in large
,hawl. She had on her finger a gold
7n which was engraved sn anchor and
=lters +. G., and a plain gold collar
yL,-Ju in her chemise,