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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

In an article headed Something
Wrong with the Sum- from the London
Spectator of August Sd, we are led to
believe that violent eruptions are now
going on in that "Orb," and twotheories
are advanced as to the probable result
of the eonhagration in the future, either
a~nincrease of lightandheat, or uice Uersa.
IF Tacchini, the Astronomer, who puts
forth the theory, il in doubt as to the
increase or diminution Of heat, just let
him cometo 0pelousas and spenda week
of such weather as the past week has
proved to be, and we feel certain he will
be satisfied upon which side he should
lean. If Geo. Washington had been liv-
ing here during last week, and it had
needed any erertion to tell the truth, we
are afraid his reputation as a truth
full man would have resembled a "harp
struck by lightning The labor of get
ting outside an iced julep is becoming
too great to be INDUCED IN until after
sun-doWn. Fat men are melting, and
lean ones = drying up.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

HIS CATEcHTsM.
Who was born on New Hampshire's plains,
With o go0d1y store OF healthy brains,
And Celtic blood full In his veins?
Uncle Horace.
With stick and scrip on shoulder blade,
Who came to "York to found his trade,
Bent on becoming "a man se1f-made4
Uncle Horace.
Who was from post to pillar tossed,
And with rude sneers and laughter crossed,
But never yet his manhood l0st2
Uncle Horace.
Who was most careful how to spend,
Still generous enough to lend
Half his savings to a friends
Uncle Horace.
Whose old white coat nc'er fitted tights
Whose hat is not de Paris quite2
whose head and heart are mostly right2
UncIe Horacc's.
For the cause Of truth and justice, when
There's a strife among the 1ettered men,
Who is it Yields the mlghtiest pens
Uncle Horace.
Who was to Ireland in her need
4 kindly friend in word and deed,
Yet unreWarded and unfeedR
Uncle Horace.
Who has a voice and helping hand,
With a free dollar on demand,
For the Oppressed Of ev'ry land
Uncle Horace.
Who is tho workingman's first choice,
And at his triumph will rejoice,
From North to South with clarion voice?
Uncle Horace.
Who goes for one term " and no more
Chats democratic to the core.
Grant would not b0ggle at a score)
Uncle Horace.
Who'll gather dead issues" in q heap
While sycophants stand by and weep,
And bury them nine fathoms deep?
Uncle Horace.
Who win the presidency restore
Again to what it was before,
When honest Andrew Jackson sworc?
Uncle Horace.
Who will bring back the simple ways
OF our great Republics better days,
When Washington was crOwn'd with praiseF
Uncle HOr5lGe
Then he the presidential strain
And let it ring and ring again,
From California back to Main
Uncle Horace Of ~Chappaqua!
Albany Argus
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24
We copy this from the New Orlean

We copy this from the New Orleans
Times
The Springfield Republican in view of
q Democratic call for a convention in
Massachusetts, on the 18th of September
next, says the whole thing isabsurd, and
adds: "There is, in fact, no Democratic
party i'll Massachusetts, nor elsewhere in
the country !; it died at Baltimore in the
arms Of Liberal Republicanism, and
there are no local organizations repre-
senting opposition to Grant, save the
Greeley clubs, just now springing up in
every village and town. 1t is indeed
absurd, after the old party has placed it
self on the Liberal Republican platform,
accepted the Cincinnati nominees, and
assumed the name and banner of Liber-
alism, to pretend to keep up local and
antagOnistic party organizations. The
supporters of Greeley should everywhere
act together, or they invite the cOnse-
duences which come to a " house divided
against itself" Those who, while acting
with the Liberal party on the Presiden-
tial question, undertake to play the part
of straight-Out Democrats in everything
else, occupy very much the position of
belated m0urners, who gather for q
funeral which is already over. Power
less to accomplish anything of them
selves, they merely prove stumbling
blocks to those whose capabilities are
greater, and whose desires are quite as
elevated.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

The West Feliciana correspondent Of
the Baton Rouge Gazette and Comet,
says:
On the subject of coalition with the
Last Ditehers, I find the leading minds
of this parish holding ont a strong, and
i take the responsibility of adding, just
opposition. These men, (hardly q bakers
DOZEN are doing yeoman service in
Grants cause by preventing the ele-
ments opposed to Grant from ooalescing.
But the argument which has more force
than n other with me in opposing a
coalition with the "Last Ditchers," liz
that / find them almost a unit in snp-
port of the Grant nominees, while they
have not a single kind word for Greeley
and Brown, the standard-bearers Of the
Liberal Dafty,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

What alcohol does for men, opium is
doing for women, and the temperance
gentlemen who wage war upon the use
Of rum, should also turn their attention
to the use Of opium, which is numbering
women faster than people generally
suppose, The Bureau of Statistics re-
ports three hundred and fifteen thousand
one hundred pounds of prepared opium
as being imported into this country dur
ing the year 1871, to supply the demand
of the unfortunate victims. The death
tide moves silently but steadily on, and
unless arrested soon by legislation, will
be beyond human control.-[Vicksburg
HpIaIn
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

Both Brick Pomeroy and the Courier
were opposed 1 the nomination Of Gree
ley and Brown and the adoption of the
Liberal Republican platform By the De
mocratic convention at Baltimore; but
Brick can see the effect Of the action of
the Baltimore convention, and the Con-
ger cannot. If the Courier leads any
body. II will he truly the blind leading
the blind. Brick pomeroy says of the
Democratic purity:
The Democratic party is damned.
There was 6 Democratic party before
the Baltimore Convention, but it has
now been opiated, sWigifed, poisoned,
e~lnaseulated, dishononed, by the very
men il helped TO make. Ithas retreated
from The fela-s0ughb refuge In every
hiding plnee~slept in every clubhouse
turned its hack upon every principle
ayed with peoples and eaten thesweet
seeds, till now IL has sunk into d calm,
= eternal sleeD.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

The two events in the proceedings of
the late Republican convention in New
Orleans, which nominated Lieut.. Gov.
Pinehback for Governor, were the
speeches of Cen. Campbell and Gov.
Pinchback. We publish them both to-
day-the first will be found on first
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

The suit which has been going for sew
eral months in New Orleans, entitled
Holbrook VS.. Holbrook, has been deci-
ded in the lower courts. Jennie Bron-
son Holbrook has been placedin posses
sion of the property i'm litigation.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24


Whether Charles sumneris Christian
Oh not, he expressed the sentiments of
one when he wrote the following in
his letter replying to Speaker Blaine
You entirely misunderstood me when
You introduce an incident of the past,
and build ON itan argument why should
not support Horace Greeley. What has
Preston Brooks to do with the Presiden-
tfal election. Never while q sufferer did
anybody hear me speak Of him in mn
kindness, ard now after the lapse of
more than half generation. ! will not
mite with ron IN dragging him from
the grave where he sleeps to aggraVate
the passions OF d political conflict and
arrest the longing for concord andhere
is the essential difference between you
and mo at this ~iuneture.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

Dae De the most pleasing incidental
evidences af the popularity OF the ticket
nominated August 18th, Rtob be found in
the endorsement Of ID By hosts be the
hitherto CnatOinhonse dev06aes. This IL
explained BY the fact tiaat their ticket
was rood haeaIlse there was no other in
the Geld. hut now That Il really good
sauane Republican ticket has been pnt
un, the old one IS compared with the
nrensent one and IL Ii ID racing terms
no where. II LOuisianian.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

The Hillsboro Recorder says: Hun
dreds of Caldwell Radicals voted for
Caldwell who will vote for Horace
Greeley. And were we q betting man,
we'd hot on North Carolina by ten thou
sand majority for Horace Greeley,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

Liberal PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
At large: Z. C. Manning, of Rapides,
Andrew s. Heron, of East Baton
Rouge, and C. A. Weed, of Orleans F;
alternates: j. B. Elam, of Desoto, w.
Robertson, of Iberia, and G. Potthof,,
of Orleans. First District, bingham
Lawrence, of Plaquemines; alternate,
Hardy Richardson, of Washington. Sc
cond District: Louis Bush, of La
fourche; alternate, Chas. E. Fenner, of
Orleans. Third District: Gen. Allen
Thomas, of Ascension ; alternate, DR..
j. A. Taylor, of st. Landry. Fourth
District: A. III. Leonard, of Caddo; al
ternate, ]. P. Harris, Of Pointe Coupee.
Fifth District: L. v. Reeves, of Tensas
alternate, Wade R. Young, of Cata-
hOuIa.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

NDoRsEMENTFROMA FOE.-COI John
III. Forneys DC the Philadelphia Press. q
supporter OF Grant, il generous enough
to say e Few intelligent people doubt
either the honesty and patriotism on the
ability of the Chappaqua farmers
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

They have d man III Lock Haven.
whose naaaeis Gaudan. His Would bea
nice tame for aghureh deacon. For in
stance. thepreacherN0nl say. Deacon
Gaudam you pass the plate.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

The Courier used to head it's articles:
"A SANDER Exposed" Now it heads
them: Kicked by aJackass.n Theears
were plainly " exposed in both instan-
ces, but no one was Kicked to hurt;
and any average "jaekass' could have
done better in writing a newspaper arti-
Gle. We have often heard it said that
men who are politicians by nature gen
orally have large ears; but it does not
follow that large ears alonemake apoli-
tician; the large ears must be attached
to a head that has brains in proportion,
and must convey to the brain intelligence
from the outer world; otherwise, the
Ssears Y simply show a brainless Jack
ASS The Coarierss quil-driver ought
To have his "earsn opened with some
thing that will at the same time add to
the volume and the quality of his brain.
Arace horses eelsmaytakehim through
ID d horse race; but 4 jaekasse's won't,
let him kick evers so much. And both
& ears'' and heels may not take q Jack
asa through III the Legislative course.
aHe that hath ears to hear, let him
hear
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

Fiction-A lie with holiday clothes on.
Iaw-The sllackles of liberty.
Science-The literature ov truth.
fIosh Billings.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

pARToN's LIFE OF GREELEY.-Now
that there is every probability that Mr..
Greeley Will be our next President, d
truthful history of his life becomes a
matter DC highest interest aud impor-
tsnee to every citizen.
lit Ii therefore most fortunate that ne
have such a book from the able pen Of
James Parton, the well known essayist
and biDgrapher. Any life of Mr.. Greeley
that ii likely to be put forward now,
rot up under the press of presentpoli-
tieaI excitement, win be liable to the
charge of p~arfisanship. II is the great
merit DC Mr.. parton's work that, having
been written without any intention Of
making IT spbserve Il political purpose,
II presents an impartial view of the in-
portart events of NIr. GreeIey's career,
The work il d profoundly interesting
me; and aside from the attention now
devoted to Mr. Greeley, arising from his
present candidacy, the mere story DC his
wonderful and singular careef-hiaearIy
early life, IFS poverty, its hardships,
anlR its precoeioHs Development under
It'll Lis life lis Il pFinEafs apprentice at
East Ponltney, VT; his journey To
Western Pennsylvania. his arrival in
New York almost penniless and alone
Unsteady progress, first s aiourneynaan
printer, then 81 editor. until bis estab-
Nhhment Of the New York Tribune;
Ills success ii building up the Tribune
ait were cut &c his own brains. until il
became the most powerful journal ii
America his subsequenGeareer rs one
oE the most active, influential, honesi
and best abused men DC his dmeall
this, as graphically told IN Mr.. Parton
Ii valuable reading II asly time; ans
particularly valuable Cd young men b
I'D example IL what can u accom-.
nlished by integrity md devotion Il
honorable pursuits
The narrative il brought down ID Til
present time, giving b history o Mr
Greeley connection with the bailint
Ii Jereoa Davis bis views II recon
Rnction, etc., md closes 18th aa ac,
asuas of lis nomination, and letter u
acceptance
3 published by lie NATIONAL Pub
ing Col, III Memphis, who van
agents iii every parish.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

Many live upon the promises they
make. They never expect to keep their
words, Init they be kept by it.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

LIBERAL CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS.
For the State ae large, Geo. 4. Sheridan,
of Orleans; First District, A. B. Sloan
aker, of Orleans; Second District, not
nominated Third district, Ebert CAN'T,
of St. Landry; Fourth District, long
term, E. G. Davidson, Of Sabine-short
term, Samuel Armstead, colored, of
Caddo; Fifth District, not nominated.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

The responsible authors of the " uni
ted State ticket" should read the fol-
lowing from the Baton Rouge Gazette
and Comet
The committee of New Orleans gen
tlemen who arrogated to themselves
the privilege of und0ing the work of
the Democratic State Convention and
choosing another ticket TO their own
liking has also seen fit to take time by
the foPelock, as very smart gentlemen
usually do and name an electoral ticket.
On that electoral ticket there is not the
name. Of q single Republican, and, if
we mistake not, none of hepartiesnamed
have ever identified themselves with
the Liberal State movement. Now, we
ask the question, why was this discrimA
nation made Did the committee
really intend to ignore the Republicans
who are supporting Mr.. Greeley, and
the Liberals of his party, purposely with
O view to keep up useless contentious,
animosities and iealousies between the
parties about to unite In the cause Of
reform z M that was their view and
their hone they reckon without their
host. The people have this movement
in hand, and they emphatically deny
the right Of the Democratic convention,
or any part of IT, to say who shall or
shall not compose that electoral ticket.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24
This is from the New Orleans Times :

The puzzling mystery of the day is the
distinctive nature of the party support
ing the united State ticket, Whether it
is entirely for Greeley or partly for
Grant, whether it is the Democratic
Reform, OF the Democratic, or the Re-
m-Democratic, is hopelessly mud
died. In fact, it don't know it's own
proper name, being therein like the
Deutscher of the ballad, who lamented
as follows:
I'm q prOken-hearted Deutscher
Volts villed nit Grief und shame;
dells you vot dc dr0uble ish;
[ doesn't know my name.
You drinks dis ferry vunny, eh?
Ven YOU der story hear
You viii not Wonder den so mooch,
1t was SO shtrange and queer.
Mein 4noder had dwO fiddle twins,
Deytvas me and mein brOder;
VelOGkt so ferry m0och alike
No Won knew Vich vr0m tOder.
Won OK der poys vas "Yaweup,"
-Und Hans" d Odef's name:
But den 1t made no t~iffePent,
We both got called de same.
Veil! won ov lis got tead-
Yaw, Mynheer, dat ish so!
But vedder Hans for Yawcnp
Mein mother she t0n't know.
Und so I am in droubles.
I CANT get droO mein he'd
Vedder I'm Hans volts lifing,
Or YaWcup vOt is tead!
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24
Uncle HOraces8
HIS cATEcHrsaf.

THE next President Of tho United states.)
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-24

We have no desire to dispute about a
simple matter of fact that can be easily
settled by an investigation. If the
Courier is willing to test the question OF
circulation, let it select one person and
this paper another, which two will select
a third !; and let the three persons 50
selected make an investigation as to
whether the JOURNAL has over double
the circulation of any otherpaperinthis
parish. We challenge and dare the
Courier to this investigation.
We have four candidates fol- Congress
in this district: C. B. Darrall, Custom
House Republican, nominated; J. B.
Price, non-committal, independent; FL
bert CAN'T, Liberal, nominated; Thos.
H. holland, Pinchback or Regular Re-
publican, nominated. Darrall and No
land are both running ON the Grant
ticket, which will divide the strength of
this class of voters; Price is going it
alone; and CAN'T, the Liberal nominee,
is the only candidate who will receive a
large white and colored vote. II the
United State Ticket" party should put
out a candidate, the complication will be
still greater. If . 4s
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