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The Lincoln County herald., 1872-01-04
A Huge Lie.

The St. Louis Democrat gives an 10.
ccouut Of Ku-klux outrage in Saline
county, which is very good specimen of
the manner in which it's party manufac.
tsres political capital. The vide circu.
lution which the Democrats publication
Of 1t gave, srd tho damaging influence
Il might have on the state at large, has
induced an Investigation Of the mattor.
Adjutaat General Siegel left Jefferson
City few days since for Marshall, where
the Democrat says Eve negroes we're
murdered on Christmas day.
But VIC do not have to wait ros tho 70
port Of this investigation to stamp the
whole report as wiful partisan lie !
Mr.. W. T. Chastain, Of Marshall, Saline
county. writes to the Republican under
date of December 20, saying that the
Democrats report is al "unmi igated lie"
and that there is not more pcaceable
place anywhere than Marshall has been
s,occ Christmas morning.
Thus the Grant organs manufacture
their foul political capital. Dcad-Ievel
lying seems to be their best forte. The
Democrat, aftor publishing in the daily
edition last week this mean and sueaking
fabrication, hasn't honesty enough to
help repair the wrong it has done tor
after time enough had elapsed for it to
lsarn that the report was untrue, and
after contradictory publications we're
made, it re-publishes in its weekly OF last
Tuesday without word Of comment the
base slauder on Saline county.
The Democrats master, Grant, was
proven ty Andy johnson to bc a liar,
and we suppose he is its model.
A Radical senator publishes in the
New Orleans papers the following card -
which throws food Of light upon tho
sort Of Republican government with
which we are blessed
New ORLEANS, Dec. 8, 1871.
l consider it q duty to make public the
following facts, in order that President
Grant may know how he is misrcpre
scented, if ho be so, and that the people
Of the United States, if he be not mis-
represented, may lcrn to what desperate
extremes the president has determined to
go to extend aud perpetuate his power
just before the election for lieutenant
governor for Louisiana, vice Hon. o. j
Dunn, deceased, the United States mar.
shal for this State, Hon. s. B Packard
sought me and stated that l was ruiulng
my future prospects by not joining his
side, to wit: The Republican minority
aud Democratic coalition that it was NO
great consequence whether the Wnrmoth
Republicans elected the Lieutenant gov
ernor or not, or even if Warmoth sue
ceeded in obtaining re election in 1872
for in that event he had the guarantee o
President Grant that he would at once
declare martial Law, and give his politca
frieeds all the Offices. He urged me fol
these reasons voto for his candidate. anG
added that General Reynolds would be il
military command here, and everything
wonld be right with him.
Il. BUTLER,
Senator Fifth Senatorial Dist.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-01-04
NOW READ THIS

There are a great number
of Persons indebted to us,
and We kindly but earnestly
ask for a settlement Of these
accounts. In our business
we are continually paying
out money for goods, and
cannot afford TO let these old
accounts stand so long.
JACKSON e. HUTT.
Iroy- Misso'er..
Soycmber y 1871.
The Lincoln County herald., 1872-01-04

A Radical senator publishes in the
New Orleans papers the following card -
which throws food Of light upon tho
sort Of Republican government with
which we are blessed
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19
THE CENTENNIAL.

By act Of Congress approved March 3,
1871, the initial step was taken toward
celebrating the one hundredth anniversary
of American independence. It is pro-
posed to commemorate that important and
decisive event by an international exhibit
ton of the arts and manufactures and the
products of the soil and mine in the city
of Philadelphia in the year 1876
Commissioners from the different States
and Territories have been appointed by the
President, in accordance with the provi-
sions Of the organic act. The minutes of
their first meeting, held in the city Of
Philadelphia, and commencing the fourth
day of last March, are before us in a neat
pamphlet of eighty-two pages.
From this pamphlet we learn that the
commission is thoroughly organized. Sew
eral committees are already at work pre-
pairing system Of classification, plans
for buildings and grounds, and devising
ways and means to defray the expense of
so vast an undertaking.
It is proposed to erect building which
will cover fifty acres Of floor SPACE, and
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19
THOSE OBNOXIOUS LAWS"

The announcement in recent Washing
ton dispatches that it is the intention Of
the administration to use the powers of
the enforcement or Ku-Klux laws in the
next Presidential election, has peculiar
and startling significance when the fact is
borne in mind that the individual charged
with the execution Of these potent and
wide reaching enactments has manifested
determined purpose to have himself re-
elected to the Presidency. 1t gives en-
phasis to all the charges that General
Grant will use every power of the gov
eminent to continue his authority, and
must confound those who have defended
him from participation in the outrages
perpetrated by his subordinates in Louis
lana and elsewhere.
It has been con tended that the election
laws of Louisiana invest the State execu-
tive with authority to so arrange the poll
ing places that the federal election and
other political laws will be imperative at
the polls where simply the State, parochial
and municipal votes are cast. In view of
the necessity and desire for fair, full and
honest expression of the will Of our
people, combined with the boast of the
Customhouse ring that they will manip-
ulate the coming election, and the i'm
piled threat contained in the dispatches
referred to, these local and much con-
demned laws may yet be unexpectedly
found to preserve instead of destroy State
rights.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19

which win cost six or seven millions
The building for the Paris Exposition
covered thirty-nine acres.
Napoleon L, after his return from MS
Italian campaigns, proposed the nrst
national exhibition in which the jury
system of classification and management
was adopted. This idea was improved
upon at the Paris Exposition OF 1867 by
adopting the geographic as well as the
systematic plan of arrangement.
We understand it is the aim Of the COM
mission intrusted with the management OF
the proposed exhibition in Philadelphia,
in 1876, to make it surpass all former ones
in extent, in utility, and in all the ele-
ments which illustrate the history and
progress of civilization and promote the
welfare of mankind. AS we have all the
experience of the past to guide us there
is no reason why this should not be &C.
complished.
Our condition, as nation, is peculiar.
We can exhibit the past, we are yet so
young, in contrast with the present; and
in the most wonderful century Of the
worlds history, trace the growth OF a free
nation from three to forty millions.
It is difficult to grasp the magnitude or
conjecture the effects Of such expositions.
Civilization halts on these great occasions
and takes stock-analyzes her resources,
measures her progress, and, catching fresh
inspiration from the heat evolved by the
friction of conflicting thought Of practical
men from every civilized country, pro-
poses plans SO grand and new as to mark
an important epoch in the worlds history.
Friendly competition in arts and pro-
ducts exhibited is conducted on SO large
scale that class is unknown. Labor. and
capital, in perfect harmony, put forth their
efforts, and the bonds of brotherhood the
world over are drawn more closely to-
gether.
At the great Exposition in Paris in 1867,
Louisiana received several premiums
Let us see to it that in Philadelphia, in
1876, she shall retain the honorable posi-
ton she then attained
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19
Senator Jim Ingraham is reported by til

Senator Jim Ingraham is reported by the
VI Citizens Guard to have declared at ward
meeting on Wednesday night that the Re-
untrustworthy. AS Ingraham and the
Democrats ate, drank and slept together on
the Wilderness, and as he aud the Reform
ers told "the bully boys of town" to go in
and clear ont the State House, and as he
says they all cheap imprecations on his
head" hotter than he does on theirs, there
fore, we decide that all parties concerned
are excellent authority, and know how it
is themselves"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19
STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

This body assembled yesterday in the
National Theatre, in accordance with the
call of the Democratic State Central Com
mittee. A large number of delegates was
present, every parish in the State but one
being represented. The convention was
called to order shortly after twelve o'clock,
and on motion of Judge H. D. Ogden,
Mr.. Alexander Declouet, Of the parish of
St Martin, was made temporary chairman.
A committee on credentials was appointed,
and the convention took recess of half an
hour in order that they might have time to
make report.
Up to this time the utmost good feeling
had been exhibited by members of the
convention, and from their staid, sedate,
intelligent appearance, as a body, specta-
tors must have been led to think the
REPUBLICAN was right when it said yester-
day morning, so far as it was informed,
the convention would present an unusually
strong array of talent and solid respecta-
bility-just such body Of men as might
confidently be expected to exercise sound
discretion and cool judgment in deciding
what is best for the people and State. The
knowledge it had gained of some of the
members led to the hope that no blind,
unreasoning passion would present itself
to mar the harmony and usefulness of the
convention. But in this we have been
mistaken, as the conduct of certain men,
bers, after the committee on credentials
had made their report, has abundantly
proven.
There was an evident disposition to
shape and control the convention by an
illiberal, bitter and proscriptive feeling;
and this feeling, we are sorry to say, was
not confined to the young Hotspurs of
Democracy, but was exhibited by men
whose gray hairs should have been a
guarantee for better conduct in deliber-
alive assembly. So eager were individuals
to let out their political rancor they had
not the patience nor good sense to wait
until the convention was properly organ
lied. Two or three hours we've consumed
in spouting the most bitter invectives at
fellow-delegate, the Hon. Thomas Green
Davidson, simply because that individual
had sided with the majority in the Legis-
lature last winter in sustaining lawful
State government against the unlawful
attempts Of revolutionary minority
The attempt was made to expel Mr..
Davidson, but his enemies did not sue
coed yesterday in anything but disgracing
themselves and retarding the legitimate
business Of the convention. The conven-
ton adjourned without. effecting per-
manent organization; and when it meets
to-dayit should meet with determination
to assert better feeling.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19
LETTER FROM HORACE GREELEY.

Hon. Thomas w. Conway, of this city,
recently addressed letter to Mr.. Greeley
asking an expression Of his judgment as
to the course which Republicans in the
South should pursue in regard to the Gin
cinnati convention, and especially as to
the bearings of the Liberal movement on
the interests of the colored people, for
whose welfare Mr.. Conway expressed his
usual earnest anxiety. The following re-
ply has been received and will be perused
with interest
NEW York tribune OFFICE,
New York, March l6, 1872.
Hon. Thomas W. Conway, New Orleans:
have yours of the twenty-frst instant.
answer briefly. think the colored PEG.
pie will be benefited by and should sym
pathize with the Cincinnati movement, be-
cause it tends to free them from the odium
Of completely with the villainies and rob-
berries which have been perpetrated in the
abused name of Republicanism during the
past FIVE or six years, especially in the
South. The monstrous exaggeration of
taxes and debts in most of the Southern
States is the fruit of white villainy. The
thieves who perpetrated these robberies
are now seeking to escape the just punish
ment for their crimes by bawling Justify,
Grant! Grant! I'm for Grant Hurrah
for Grant,"
The Cincinnati convention is at deadly
feud with these robbers and their evil
deeds. Let the honest and upright colored
men join it, then, and thus rid themselves
Of crimes which they did not commit and
which others only have perpetrated.
Yours, HORACE GREELEY.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19

Florence Nightingale is said to be plain,
simple woman, quite destitute OF romance,
poetry or sentiment-no ''Evangelicar' in
belief or habit, no professor" least of all
devotee;. yet when she is thinking how
she can help the sick and wounded, how
she can improve the administration OF hos
pitfalls, her face takes on an expression OF
pure. spiritual beauty, her eyes kindle with
enthusiasm, she is transported out of her
SELF The soldiers in the hospitals at Scutari
adored her as an angel were happy if they
could but touch the hem Of her garment,
and sent imploring looks after her shadow.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19

serious detriment to the best interests of
the country. The war Of the rebellion is
over, and with it all possibility Of its re-
vival. This exclusion, therefore, of promi-
nent and recognized leaders of public senti
ment in the South, from an active particl-
patton in the affairs of government, consti-
tutes an evil which grows more conspic-
uous and alarming every day. These men
have abandoned with the radical States
rights doctrine the delusive ideas of a
Southern confederacy. Their interests and
inclinations tend to more perfect union
of the States. The most Of them emerged
from the war with shattered fortunes and
the hulniliating consciousness of having
been engaged in an impossible and useless
enterprise. Slavery, for which they strug-
gled, has been swept away. The sole ar
gument they urged for resistance to the
federal government is dead 1t can no
longer breed an issue, or give food for dis
cussion. Their hope is now to let the
dead past bury its dead, and engage as
becomes patriotic citizens in the active
political issues developed by misgovern-
ment and the local interests of the State
and country;
Identified with the doctrine of general
amnesty is that of civil service reform.
That these two prominent and essential
requisites of government shall be carried
into effect, and that pure and liberal adj
ministration of public affairs may be in
augurated, is the primary reason for the
call of the Cincinnati convention In this
liberal movement. pledged to accord JUS
tice to the Southern States, pledged to the
removal Of disabilities and bitter opposi-
ton to fraud and corruption in Office, ac-
knowledging the right of the States to
carry on their internal affairs in their own
way, free from federal espionage or federal
interference, all parties should coalesce.
1t involves the integrity and well-being of
the government What is there in it in
which Democrats, Reformers and Repub-
leans can not alike concur? In comparison
with these essential principles, Of what
earthly significance is the local advance
ment of individuals or factions? Would it
not be better for all persons and parties in
favor of amnesty and reform in political
abuses to unite upon the basis of principles
which has called into existence the Cincin-
natl convention, instead of fermenting
local divisions and hostiities which may
possibly defeat the great objects in view2
Certainly reason and common sense would
so decide
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19

Parties who do not pay their taxes be-
cause the lawyers tell them they can sue
cessfully resist the collector before the
courts had better ask advice of their shoe
makers when they ought to throw away
their brogans. The lawyers always pre-
tend that they can save their clients, and
though many people, have been cheated
over and over again, they still take this
selfish advice, only to pay both the dam
age, the lawyer and the officer. Go to.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19
GENERAL AMNESTY.

The illiberality of the government on the
question of general amnesty has at length
awakened the sympathy and earnest advo-
cacy OF the most prominent leaders Of the
Republican party. They rightly assume
that the offensive and unnecessary proscrip-
ton which the Acknowledgement Of promi
nent men in the South occasions, is Of
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19

There is gentle matron in St. Augustine,
Florida, who, if report be true, as it very
likely is not, has 50 tanned the birds in the
groves and gardens of her husbands farm
that they come into the house and hop upon
the shoulders even Of guests who are
strangers. None of them have been Gagged,
but they have been tanned by the gentle
and fascinating treatment of the lady. Ii
everybody was 80 good how pleasant 1t
would be, especially for the birds.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19
THE CITY HALL.

The City Surveyor has completed an
elaborate set of plans and specifications tor
the repair of the damage caused by the
break in the Waterworks. The ordinance
authorizing the Administrator Of Water
works to advertise for proposals for this
work was promulgated in the official jour
nal yesterday morning.
Mr.. John A. Griswold, president of the
New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad,
and Mr.. Morton, of New York, were in con-
sultation with Mayor Flanders yesterday
on the levee question.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19

/ Four Ku-Knx prisoners were sentenced
to twenty years. servitude in the peniten-
tiary in Charleston, South Carolina, on
the eleventh instant. They confessed to
their guilt and threw themselves upon the
mercy of the court. The New York World,
which denounced the arrest and prosecu-
ton of these men as arbitrary and des-
potic, now complains that the government
is criminal for not hanging them. This is
a Democratic way.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19

A cruel Connecticut lady keeps an Usage
orange plant in her parlor, and has recently
made two full blown flowers and one-haf.
opened bud Of white wax, and placed them
upon the barren plant. All her callers ad-
miro the "sweet-smelling fraud, while sew
seral gentlemen have observed that the half
blown bud has opened considerably since
sthey first called.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19
A CAUTION AND SUGGESTION.

Governor Warmo is the victim of a
set of over-oficious friends and too gull
ible squad of enemies. The would-be
friends conjure up thousand patent and
infallible ways of saving the State and
curing all the ills which affect the body
polite; and because the executive may, at
some time, have injudiciously bestowed
upon them a favor, his opponents set
these persons down as authorized emissa-
ries, and instantly charge shim with all
sorts of efforts, with all sorts of parties, at
political bargain and sale.
That bar-room and street-corner gossip
ers should adopt such conclusions is not a
cause of surprise, perhaps; but that jour-
nails which in the same breath accord to
the Governor the gift of exceptional poll
teal shrewdness, should consider him
stupid enough to resort to such mediums
for negotiation-provided he had any in
view-surpasses our comprehension. Will
the Bee and Picayune make note of this
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19

At wedding in Williamson county, Ten
nessee, recently, the bride was married in
the shoes which her mother wore on the
occasion Of her marriage in 1864 period
sof sixty flour years and one week to day
The venerable mother. now past her four
score years, was present, and witnessed the
.ceremOny.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19

A meeting of the Mechanics and Agricul-
-tural Fair Association will be held this eve
ming at half-past seven o'clock, in the SEN
Fate chamber, Mechanics Institute, to which
stockholders, directors and all others inter
ested in the success of the sixth State fair
are urgently invited.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19

The regular season of the Varieties Thea
ire will terminate in few days, and the
summer term will open with Miss Charlotte
Thompson, in Divorce Fanny Ten Eyck
being her favorite character. Until the
middle Of June, while no other theatre is
open here, the Varieties, being well ventila-
ted, cool and airy, ought to be well patron
i~od
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19

collins History of Kentucky" at a cost
of "a . copy, must be placed in all the pub
lie schools of Kentucky, by order Of the
Legislature. "And now, by all means"
says a Louisville paper, "let the Legisla-
ture, at it's next session, order the Louis
willie directory into the public schools. One
IL about as necessary and valuable as the
n<hnr
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19
seIR(ULAR.

STATE OF LOUHrArA
rs O1lce State Board of Education.
New Orleans, April Q, 1874.
State Educational Convention will be held 4
the city Of New Orlesns, ct Lyceum Hall, on thu
TWKNTY-F1FTH DAY or APRIL, Ut ten o'coct
A. NJ, to continue that and following days.
The State Board of Bducation at ito ANNA,
meeting, having directed the calling of this con.
vention, appointed the undersigned COMMITTEES
to make the necessary arrangements in pursuance
Of which duty we respectfully and urgently "a
quest that at least two members be appointed bv
each parish and town board Of school direction "a
represent the same in the convention.
A matters of great interest to the educational
work will come before the convention, it il hopeS
that al portions Of the State viii be fully repra.
s0nted.
3. g. STODDARD.
Superintendent Second Diyiann
]. B. CARTER,
0uperinten Bent Sixth Division.
R. C. WYLY.
ape I'd 2p Superintendent Fifth Division.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19

ssThomas," said father to his son, ''don't
let the girl make fool Of you. Remember
the adage, that Love is blind" ''Oh, talk
shout loves being blind" said Tom; why,
I see ten times Is much in that girl as you
Ia
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19

A Kentucky legislator sent up the follow
ing memorandum to the clerk: sleeve is
asked to bring in A Bill to altar the time
for the Legislator to meet. Referred to the
comfy on Religen."
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19
speech Of Cassius NJ. Clay.

On the sixth page of this mornings RE-
PUBLICAN we publish the speech of Hon.
Cass ius NJ. Clay, of Kentucky, on the Lib
eral Republican movement. Readers will
make their own comments on the speech,
which is characteristic of the man.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19

A Western girl. speaking from expe-
rience, says "a kiss in time saves nlne;;"
for she AYERS in every case when she has
refused man chaste salute he has taken
- It urDais at least twenty.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19

A lady writer says if women were as
particular in choosing virtuous husband
= men are in selecting q virtuous wife, .
moral reformation would soon begin, which
would be something more than froth and
foam.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-19

I Four years ago, Lincoln, the capital of
Nebraska, was ''away out on the prairie"
and was called "YouDg's Colony" Before
the close Of the present season it will have
nix railroads, and will be lighted with gas.