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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-13
THE TICKET.

is the acceptance of the plat
form of the Liberal Republi-
cans by the Baltimore Demo-
cratic Convention, and the
nomination by ir of Greedy and
Brown. Thus a complete flu
sion between Liberals and Dem
ocrats, as to national affairs,
has taken place. This fusion
was effected by an almost unan-
imous vote of the Convention,
and consequently we must all
abide by it as the decision of
the party. We have not ap-
proved the fusion policy, nor
do we eonstrue party obliga-
tons SO strictly as to bind any
one to follow this policy if he
believes it not for the public
good. We have seen the ten
dency towards this policy grow
ing stronger and stronger for
several weeks past Great pa
pers like the n. Y. World, Mo
bile Register, and N. o. Bee
were powerless against it. Its
adoption by the Democratic
Convention was for sometime a
foregone conclusion; and con.
sequently due time to consider
of its acceptance by US has been
given. We have accepted it
and in good faith. Many say
they prefer Greeley to Grant
as a choice between two evils
But with us, under the presen
condition of affairs, we cal
hardly hold that the election o
Greedy would be an. evil at all
His administration might no
give the Southern people al
they claim as their due. /
might not satisfy the Demo
Gratis on the tariff questions
But if it would do all that th,
promoters of the Liberal move
ment claim for it, then W,
should rest satisfied. The!
claim that under it the countr,
would become thoroughly paci
: fed that questions growing
out of our late terrible civil wa
would be forever laid at rest s.
that the North and the Soutl
would again be one nation b.
: force of sentiment, and tina
} the eorruptions engendered b.
the war, and, to say the least
!, not sufficiently battled agains
by the present administration
would be done away with. w
believe that these great, goo
conditions. would be in a mea
q sure attained.
The Liberal movement seem
ed to ms to have SO weakene
the Republican party that ther
was q fair chance for the sue
cess of the Democratic part
on an independent nomination
q That success would have give
US everything we desire, exceI
the pacification of the countr,
! But under that success we al
fain to believe that old war i
= sues would have continued
harass the country for years
come. So the union of Lii
e erals and Democrats bids ia
s to accomplish one great goo
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-13

Gone to the Supreme Court,
atMonroe, are our legal friends
j. r. Griffin and Col. Rich'd
w. Turner. .-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-13

The N. o. Republican has
this to say of Lesere and Ran
dolph, political bummers -
1.-TWO such men are about as
competent to lead the people
as two old women E
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The Claiborne Advocate
says "the crops generally
through Jackson, Webster
and Bienville, are in a healthy
condition. In some portions
of Bienville, about Ringgold,
they appear to most advan-
tage." . -..
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-13

The weather during the past
week has been warm and
showery, with rather cool
nights for the season. Crop
prospects, so far, are good.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-13

Our thanks are due our &C
oommodating friend, N. A.
Durdin, for a sack Of fresh field
peas.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-13

Women can hold appointive
Offices in Illinois after the first
of July gGz fEa
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-13
Fair Warninu.

II No candidates name for Office will
be permitted to be announced in these col
umhs, without frat being paid for. No de.
viation from this rule. Send the money
along with your orders, If you want to re
ceiye attention. Il
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-13

Our thanks are due Hon. w.
P. Kellogg for a large lot of
public documents.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-13

The Galveston, Houston and
Henderson railroad has turned
out a locomotive named Hor-
ace Greeley.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-13

See announcement of Capt
B. +. Fort in another column
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General Intelligence.

hook, of Illinois, presented thu
name of Horace Greeley as The
Democratic candidateaios pgesi.
dent. Roll call on Physiological,
nominations. Each vote Tor Gree.
ley received with cheers Ballop
resulted, Greeley nominated, $50,
James A. Bayard 10; j s. Black.
81; Groesbeck, %.
Committee to inform Greeley Of,
his nomination meet tonight to
fix the time. E-.E
Brown nominated, vote ia:
Stevenson, of Kentucky, 6; blank,
Ii. Blanks we're, Florida, 2; New
Jersey. 9; West Virginia, .; Della
ware voted for Stevenson.
At a meeting of the National
Democratic Committee this after.
noon, all the members being pres.
ent, except from the States of DEL.
aware and Florida, Hon. Augustus
Schell, of New York, was elected
permanent Chairman, and Hon.
+. o. Prince reelected permaaentI
Secretary aud Treasurer.
Female suffragists disappointed
They declare intention to work
for Philadelphia nominee
The following gentlemen were
elected members of the Executive
Committee: Thee. F. Randolph.
New Jersey Cyrus 81. McCor,
mick, Illinois; VIM. A. Moore, Mi.
chigan; Isaac Eaton, Hon. F. o.
Prince, Massachusetts, John G.
Thompson, Ohio; James P. Barr.
Pennsylvania; NJ. w. Ransom. N.
&C.; Gen. w. 7. Bate, Tennessee,
The Chairman of the National Ex!
ecntive Committee was member of
the committee, ex officio. : The.
following gentlemen compose the
4 =
resident Democratic Committee at
Washington: Samuel j. Randall,
Pennsylvania; w. W. Goncoran.
Washington, d. c; Allan G. Thur.
man, Ohio; JAS. Brooks, N. York.
Montgomery Blair, Maryland.
MONROE, La, July 11.-Exten-
sive preparations are making for
a mass meeting and barbecue. Ja-
ly 20, to ratify the Baltimore and
united State ticket Ouachita
and surrounding parishes will par.
ticipats.
NEW YORK, July 11.-There
was an earthquake, at $50 this
morning at some points on Long
Island and on the Hudson.
NEW YORK, July 10.-Greeley
and Brown interviewed zach otbar
yesterday.
WILMINGTON, n. g., July TO-
The nomination of Greeley and
Brown by the Baltimore Conven.
ton gives universal satisfaction
among the Conservatives and
| Democrats here.
MOBILE, July 1O.-The cater
pillar has appeared in many conn
ties in Alabama, causing depres.
sion among planters.
New ORLEANS, July 10.-Im.
promptu ratification. meeting at
Lafayette Square. Fireworks,
torchlight procession, music! and
address. Great enthusiasm.
July 11.-Grand rally of Dem,
ocratic and Reform Conservatives
takes place at Lafayette Square
to morrow night, to ratify the &C
ton of the Baltimore Convention,
and the united Reform and Dem
/ ocratie State ticket. 2s B8AD s.
} MONTGOMERY, ALA, Jnly II
All the daily Democratic papers
; of Alabama have hoisted the Gree
ley ticket, and the weeklies vii
do so at an early day. White peo
IL .ok..n1l i'll - II /.
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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-13

"At present" Blackburn
does not think Kellogg awill
be elected"
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The establishment of an eff

The ESTABLISHMENT OF an ef-
fective line of steamers be
tween Cincinnati and Red Riv-
er continues to be agitated in
Cincinnati, and efforts will be
made to secure the counte-
nance of both the Chamber OF
Commerce and Board of Trade.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-13

Our Texas exchanges are
filled with repeated and heart
rending Indian atrocities.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1872-07-13

Only six colonies contest a
Georgia judgship.
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BELLEVUE, La,
Saturday Morning, IuIy Is, 1872.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-28
Imprisonment for Debt.

In the worst days of debtors prisons
in England, imprisonment for debt was
wholly illegal. When acreditor wished
to incarcerate his victim, he OBJ
tanned an order directing him, in the
Queens name, to pay the debt. AS he
could not do SO, he was straightway ar
rested for wilful disobedience to the
Queens command, and kept in Jail I'M
til he obeyed it. Ludlow Street Jail is,
apparently, becoming the Fleet Prison
OF New York city, and by much the
same indulgence in legal bubbles. New
York law permits the arrest of any one
who has fraudulently incurred debt by
getting articles for which he knew he
was unable to pay. The result is, that,
whenever debtor fails to keep his
promises, his creditors can at once &C
cusc him of fraudulent intent, send him
to Ludlow Street Jail, and put his pro-
perty in the hands of Sheriff, where,
of course, it is sold at ruinous sacri-
flee. Some painful instances of legal
lied injustice have been revealed,
which show that the jails, as we'll
as the Judges, of Gotham, need to be
| reformed.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-28
The Survivor of the Celebrated Dia.
mOnd Wedding.

William C. Bryant's party received,
while in Havana, many courtesies from
Madame Oviedo, the heroine of the
diamond wedding in New York in 1858.
The Rev. J. H. Bryant writes thus to
the Princeton (Ill.) Republican:
She was a New York girl, named
Bartlett, who married, some years since,
a rich old Cuban, with tinge of African
blood, l am told. remember there
was great noise about it at the time in
the New York papers, and the vast
sums of money that were spent at the
wedding. Mr.. Oviedo did not live long,
and his young widow now lives in his
spacious and splendid palace, in all the
luxury of a princess. We called upon
her Sunday night, to thank her for
kind attention, and found her alone
with another widow, sister-in-law,
younger than she is. Mrs. Oviedo in an
intelligent woman, talks like book, ,
and seems to understand all about the
politics of the island. l am told she
manages or oversees her business. She
has large sugar plantation near Man
tanzas, where she spends the summer.
The income from it is 100000 yearly.
She is strongly in favor of the annexa-
ton of Cuba to the United States, but
says she does not talk about it except
to Americans.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-28
A Curious Breach of Promise Case.

The curiosities Of breach of promise
suits have had a notable addition in a
case recently decided in an English
court. Miss Alice Watkins, a dress
maker, sued Mr.. William Rainey, de-
scribed as negro from Sierra Leone
and an English barrister, to recover
damages caused to her lacerated heart
by that gentleman's failure TO fulfill his
plighted troth. In consequence of her
engagement with Mr.. Rainey, Miss
Watkins asserts she had refused two
offers of marriage-one from a Welsh
gentleman, the other from the son of a
barrister of long standing. From this
she would appear to have been young
woman either of unusual personal at
fractions or some social standing. Yet
by her own admission her first acquaint-
ance with the defendant was made
while walking in the street one evening
with her sister. 1t was evidently case
| of love aG first sight. "Othellon prom
ised at once to marry the fair dress
maker, and Desdemona" coyly con-
sented. Only to save time all tiresome
| formalities were waived, and the happy
twain repaired at once to the barrister's
chambers. On parting, the dusky swain
presented his spouse with sovereign
and put her in an omnibus. After 6
| while Rainey returned to Sierra Leone
where he kept up an animated CORES
| pondence with his intended. In many
of his letters his promise to marry was
renewed, but at his request all these
valuable epistles were carefully de
stroyed by the confding plaintiff. II
spite of the defendants energetic de
mails, the jury promptly rendered {
verdict against him for $3.50. Perhap
this is not more absurd than mos
breach of promise cases, but it certainly
looks on its face like scandalous per
version of Justice.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-28
Bryant on Darwin.

Mr.. William C. Bryant, at a recent
meeting of the Alumni of Williams
College, opposed to the Darwinian
theory very ingenious reverse PROPOSE
ton, which may hereafter be known as
the Bryantian theory-at least it would
become known as such if some wiseacre
would only write three-volume book
in support of it. He said:
1t is not more likely that the easy
road downward has been taken, that
the lower animals are derived from some
degenerate branch of the human race,
and that, if we do not labor to keep
the rank we hold, our race may be fritz
tered away into the meaner tribes of
animals, and finally into animalcula :?
Then may our Tweeds become the pro-
genitors of those skulking thieves of
the Western wilds, the prairie-wolves,
or may swim stagnant pools in the
shape of horse-leeches our astute law
yers may be represented by foxes; our
great architects by colonies of beavers !;
our poets by clouds of mosquitoes,
famished and musical our doctors of
divinity say it with all respect to the
cloth-by swarms of the mantis or
praying insect, always in the attitude of
devotion. If we hold to Darwin's theory
as do not-how are we to know that
the vast multitudes of men and women
on the earth are not the ruins, SO to
speak, of some nobler species, with
more elevated and perfect faculties,
mental, physical, and moral, but not
extinct?
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-28
An Absurd Law.

The English are talking of amending
their burial laws, and apropos of this
the Pail Mall Gazette thinks that it
would not be amiss to revise marriage
laws also. At present no one can be
married after IL o'clock in the day, and
this absurd regulation imposes upon
the relatives and friends of happy
pair the necessity of eating cold Oh; cken
and drinking champagne almost imme-
diately after breakfast. After doing so,
of course no one is fit for business dur
ing the day, indigestion and waking
nightmare set in, and these terrible re.
suits are brought about by holding to a
vestige of barbarism."
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-28
The Overthrow of Rings.

The fight goes bravely on, everywhere,
and against all sorts of peculation and
jobbery. This is the year of investiga-
tons. Not that there are more thieves
in this year of grace 1871 than in any
other year of grace. But the great po-
itical questions are in some sense out
of the way, and now the public con-
science has come with swift and sud-
den retribution against the unfaith-
full stewards, who, having presumed on
delay, have wasted their masters goods
in riotous living.
In New York the overthrow of the
Ring becomes every day more and more
utter. Last Thursday, as Mayor Halls
trial dragged its slow length along, and
all had grown tired of the tedious battle
of technicalities, Andrew J. Garvey, the
swindling plasterer of the public build
ings, who spread on his charges entirely
too thick, and who has been Tor long
time in hiding, was suddenly marched
out of private room, to the great con-
sternation Of all concerned in the de-
Tense of the Ring. He comes prepared
the technical points raised by the law
yers will allow his testimony to be given.
Connolly is said to have fed the city,
Tweed is in hiding, and the battle seems
to be pushing itself to the last refuge of
the thieves, who are already politically
ruined, and who can hardly escape the
punishment due their crimes.
At Washington three Congressional
investigations are pending-one into the
New York Custom House and General
Order abuse, and two into the French
arms business. These committees ought
to investigate thoroughly and conscien-
| tiously, in the interest of pure govern
ment, into the conduct of all officers OF
the Government connected with both
these affairs.
In the South the reckless adventures
who have plundered the States under
pretense of governing them, are coming
to grief, and, on the whole, we believe
this to be year of reforms. The old
abuses, always hiding away In the city,
State, and federal governments, can
hide no longer against an awakened
public conscience
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-28
England'S John Brown.

A correspondent of the New York
Times writes from London as follows:
1t is not quite clear who first seized
O'Connor When he presented his IN
loaded pistol at the carriage window,
but the Court Circular, which is drawn
up under the personal supervision of
the Queen, gives the credit of the cap
ture to John Brown. John is rather a
celebrated character in his way, and
was regarded with much curiosity when
he appeared as witness in the police
court. He is an Aberdeen man, from
the neighborhood of Balmoral, and vas
Prince Albert's favorite gilly when the
Prince went out grouse shooting or
Devastating. The Queen frequently
accompanied her husband on his sport
ing expeditions, and was much struck
with Browns evident attachment and
devotion to his master, as well as by his
shrewd remarks and independent judg-
ment on all matters on which he was
consulted. Brown was always prepared
for every emergency. If the clouds
gathered suddenly overhead, if a change
of wind brought biting air with it
from the snow-tops of the mountains, it
was invariably found that Browns fore
sight had provided for it, that shawls
and wrappers had been slowed away
somewhere, and that everything was
forthcoming when required. Brown
knew the incest camping places, the
safest roads, and the best way of man
aging everything. After the Prince.
death he became the chief persona at
tendant on the Queen, and has ever
since retained his supremacy in the
household. He accompanies her Msjes-
ty on all occasions, leads her pony or
rides in the rumble behind her car
riage. In his tartan kilt and plaid, stall
wart, shaggy, Manufactured, he is a
genuine specimen of the north country
Scot; and he is also thorough Scot in
character and temper-very quiet, cool
and imperturbable; reserved in speech,
although outspoken enough on occa-
sion; "canny'' and deferential, but also
resolute and pertinacious. He belongs
several samples are to be found in
SCOTS novels, who identified them
selves with "the family" believed in it,
worshiped it with intense, passionate
fidelity, but at the same time had no
hesitation IN expressing an honest
opinion on any question, even at the
risk of differing from the master or
mistress. The Scotch have always been
remarkable for this personal loyalty and
trustiness. 1t is commonly supposed
that a sovereign, with great household
always at call, must necessarily be well
served, but the value of all service de.
ponds on the spirit in which it is rem.
dered; and in the midst of the retinue
of state monarch is especially quail
fed to appreciate the watchful attention
of personal loyalty and attachment
| The position which John Brown holds
in the royal household is alike honor
able to the Queen and to himself. In
the police court he gave his evidence
with a strong Scotch accent and quaint
LONELINESS of language. Hejust cstcheG
the boy, he said, by the scruf of the
neck, and kept him till there was
enough people round about to take
charge of him. Prince Leopold was
also witness. "The boy" was com
mitted to take his trial at the mex
| Acei1aS
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-03-28

darkness began to gather in the tall
evergreens by the kitchen-windows, and
Lucy Ann began to feel very unhappy.
She had burned up the poultice, put
away the dish in which it had been
made, and hidden Jane Maria, so that
no one should ask any questions about
the cheek that had no paint on it. The
evidencs wac cut of sight, but the little
actor did not feel one bit better.
At last her mother came home. AS
soon as the lamps were lighted she saw
the oil on her child's dress.
Lucy Ann, what is that on your new
dress?" she asked.
{" 1t is castor oil, mamma"
"How came it there?"
Lucy Ann hung down her head, and
it was still in the room for minute.
Then the little girl looked up, and a
twitching about her lips disappeared
with the words:
81 spilled it. Twas playing give Jane
Maria some, for the mumps.'
"Playing with castor oil-and in your
new dress !" exclaimed her mother,
who knew nothing of the temptation
her little girl had resisted.
"You shall go to bed for that without
any light"
Lucy Ann went slowly up stairs. The
big round moon looked into her room,
and lit it up while she undressed. The
cat had followed her. 1t jumped up
upon the bed, and curled it itself close
beside the little girl.
~ don't care, pussy, if l am sent to
bed," said Lucy Ann, sobbing. ~ told
the truth anyhow, and Pm real glad l
did. And won't mamma be glad, too,
when tell her all about it to morrow ?''
Pussy didn't answer, but Lucy Ann
was comforted just the same.