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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-03-15
EDUCATIONAL.
HOMER MASONIC
l'iI NJ ALE COLI EGE.

FiI MALE COLLEGE,.
The exercises Of this Institution began, on
the first Monday in. septemper last.
Tho scholastic year is divided into two
sessions of twenty weeks each-first ending
the last of january; the second the last 81
June.
l.. E.WILcox, President, and Prof Of Latin,
Mental and Moral Science.
Miss \. CALHOUN, Teacher in Mathematics.
Miss L. TAaaARr, Assistant in Literary De-
partmcnt.
n: "A. BARRIE, Prof OF Music and French.
Miss NJ. NJ. WILCOX, Assistant in Music.
TERMS:
Pupils admitted at any time and charged
until end Of session. No deduction In tut
ton except for protracted sickness.
Tuition, English: ...ss, 81 and 90 per mo.
instrumental Music, with use
of Instrument. .......... 600 {.
Extra lessons in Vocal Music. 400 :.
french. ................ ................ 2.O0
Board, exclusive OF washing: washing, ''
lights, and articles for toilet
if paid in advance, for each
session $500. ............."......12.5O 9
II not SO .......................16.0 "
Incidental, per scssion............. LOO -
Prof. Wilcox has now entered upon the
labors Of the tenth year Of his connection
! Female College. During that time the
| range of studies has been as extensive
| any institution of tho kind, and tho mode
Of instruction has been to inlpart n thorough
knowledge of those studies. The discipline
! in the College and Boarding Department has
been firm, constant, but parental. The
health OF the pupils has been invariably
good. In confirmation of the above, refer
ence is confidently made to the patrons OF
| thc Institution and former pupils scattered
throughout North Louisiana.
Additions are being made to the Boarding
House, so that a large number OF pupils can
be accommodated i'll tho family OF the Pres
idcnt.
| We, the undersigned, having been ac-
quainted with the workings OF the Institu-
| ton during the time it has been under the
| management of Prof Wilcox, very cordial
| ~ recommend it to our friends rs suitable
| place to send their daughters.
| T.. a. JONES, w. NJ, |
! a. WARD, S. W., -
JOHN S. YOUNG, j. W.,
| and Judge Parish Court, g
! J. r. RAMSEY, Sec'y,
X. r. VAUGHN, Treas,
| Roy. J. Il. DAVIDSON.
Feb'y 3, 1872. 20:ly
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-03-15
OUR DEAF AND DUMB,

From Prof. J. y. McWhortcr, Super
intendcnt OF the Institution for the
Education of the Deaf and Dumb, we
have received Il copy of the annual re-
port Of the Institution. From the Pro-
fcssor's report we select the following
interesting extracts:
STATISTICS or PUPILS.
The whole number of pupils in at
tendance during the year is tiity-eight,
thirty-cight males and twenty females.
OF those, twelve have entered during
the year; seven have completed their
course, one of these going to the Ma
tional Dcaf-Nlutc College ut Washing
ton, ID. G., and the six others are all
earning Il competent livelihood; four
arc now detained at home, one perhaps
permanently; one has been discharged
as not being proper subject of the
benefits of the Institution. This WAS Il
little girl who could generally hear
we'll, but from IccblcncSs of mind could
speak but little. After Il fair test, all
such, or similar pupils, are returned to
their homes, and their friends arc adj
visCd to send them to the public schools,
or else by private instruction to develop
their minds through the sense of hear
ing and by articulation. Sucl, can
hardly be placed in 4 more incongrlo,ls
school than an institution for tho deaf.
or the iiity-cight in attendance, thir-
ty-cight arc believed to have been born
deaf, or nearly so; one has heard at
times sufficiently we'll to have learned
to speak common coltoquiul language,
but finds an education in the common
~ ,J>I,
ut ten years of age and Of course had
attained Il knowledge of the usage and
idions of the English languages; one
heard so we'll rs to be returned homo
after 4 fair trial; the rest, seventeen in
number, became deaf ut uu age SO carly
| as to preclude Il knowledge OF Spok en-
language i'll II degree Of any uSc to any
one of them. \ frw OF these manifest
considerable aptitude for articulation
but not enough to warrant 4 recon-.
incubation to form 4 class to he in
structcd ny that method and to incu,
the expense another teacher.
HEALTH, RULES AND DIET.
Among the manifold mcrcics tina;
our Heavenly Father, the source OF n
blessings, has SO richly poured upon It's
good health is prominent, and justly
demands 4 fitting acknowledgement
and humble gratitude. No death has
ever occurred among the pupils Of TIL,
institution, and during the year JUS
closed, while they have not been oil
ttrcly exempt from sickness, moro than
usual health has been enjoyed and Tx
epidemic has been among us. On
pupils have as good physical constitu
tions ~ is common to all classes gene
rally. The proper attention to the laws
of health, is part of our discipline
Cleanliness il enforced: regularity il
habits OF labor, study, amusement. die
and sleep, arc scrupulousiy iuculcatcd
the prompt attention OF 4 good phNsi
clan is called n the appearance OF sick
ness frequent instruction is given tc
rcnucr familiar the simple laws q
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-03-15
A NE FACTO LIE IN THE COURTS.

ABE FACTO LIE IN THE COURTS.
If Louisiana should be called upon,
as New. York will soon be, to say how
her judges should be chosen, whether
disappointment or by ballot, we should
first lave to obtain the consent of the
Judges themselves to an election. The
last bulwark of free government-the
iudiciary-fas become it's destroyer in
Louisiana. What with injunctions,
restraining orders, and as Senator Car
penter styles them, "packed courts"
we, the people of Louisiana, have a
future before us enveloped in such deep
gloom, that, if it were practicable, not
less than one hundred thousand people
would cross our borders tomorrow
never to return.
The Judiciary has become the State,
to all intents and purposes. No judge
has anything to fear in the way of pen
alties, so long as he conforms his judi
cial functions to the course of the party
now in power. He may snap his fin
gers at the bar, ut public opinion, at
the press and al whomsoevcr chooses
to call his acts in question, being sure
that his retention of Office is contingent
only upon his fidelity to the policy of
the Radical party. He may rob liberty,
in the name of law, Of all its blessings,
dispense benefits to G.voritcs and with
hold plain rights from those not Of his
order of faith, thus mangling our
matchless code of laws and expressing
the citizen for the benefit of a political
party, and no dread of future punish
ment will disturb his dreams of official
prosperity.
It need not be by any process Of pro-
found reasoning by which one may
arrive at the palpable conclusion that
incentives to official usurpation act
alike on the legislative and judicial
departments Of the State government,
and that protection, on the one
hand, or the penalty of abandonment,
on the other, operates continually on
botH the bench and in the legislative
hall, to perpetuate IN alliance against
return to enlightened self-govern-
ment. "United we stand, divided we
fall" is an ever-present admonition to
both legislator and judge to cement
more firmly the bond between them.
In Louisiana we have n judiciary,
which, if it were not the author, would
est political wrong ever perpctrated in
q country with free institutions. The
foundation of n free government is the
expressly declared will Of the people
interested and legally empowered to
choose. But the judges of this State
stand in the attitude, almost without
exception. of recognizing government
never chosen y the people, and which
: has no warrant in that Constitution tho
judges arc solemnly sworn to support
1t sta,tis upon an1cxtra-judicial decis
ion of the SUPP iourt and upon tho
-l2SnYorthy judicial foundation of re
:: COO ion by the President, neither O
which claims ought n a momentt TO bt
entertained rs worthy Of ;solcmntcom
fth thu one 1ea,sihs truth tina
b 2iinSn1 = nun from IT'S incep
trau:Auaron I'LL owe
na authority.
at the com
and clerk, h
b man rs Gov
las never elected t,
hose prctcnsions ar
not and whose de feet
)p4sovernM' ~ dc .tacto lie. And yet
for the wanto( ncial independence
and that manhOOf(DOf thought tina
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-03-15

~ b'LAItDlNtf u la S\41o(ps,
For Young Ladies,
MONROE, LA.
The session of 1S72-'7a will commence on
Monday, the I'd day of September.
Mrs. 7. W. benton, Principal, and In
structress of the Primary Department.
THos. o. BENTON, Esq, Instructor of the
Academic Department..
----, Instructress of FRENCH
and assistant in the English branches.
Mrs. l.. w. WEDDEI.L, Instructress of
Music.
Miss Ms. PHIrPEN, Instructress in Draw
ing. Painting in water co1ors or Oil. en-
broidcry and fancy needle work.
TERMS (PAYABLE MONTHLY:
primary Classes. 100 per mo.
Middle ......-.......... 400 -
Academic % ..,............. 500
French .............. 500
MuSic( with use OF instrnment) 600
Board, including vas h i n e,
lights. Nc.........................o 1000
drawing, Painting, &c, Mt teachers
charges. Aug. Pc. 1879, Soft
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-03-15

for the want 0l ncipl Independence
and that manho6el OF thought that
scorns to sanction Il monstHosity, moral
or legal, we are to have the kellogg
= government judicially perpetuatcd, and
all the solemn forms O, oaths, vcrdicts
and DEGREES rendered in the name and
upon truth and honesty ever cXcmpH-
fed in q republican country!
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-02

OLD AND NEW for April has good table
of contents, in which are catalogued five
chapters of Frederic R. Perkins's novel,
"Scrope; or, The Lost Library" begun in this
number; Concerning Language and Gold"
by A. FL. Lewis; Country Lights and
Sounds" by NJ. H. Hinckley; "My Time and
what have Done with itsS' by F. c. Burnand !;
cred Tape" by J. B. Mann; 1.-THE Abuse of
Reading" by J. P. O.; "Murrray's Lit
tie Sister," by F. W. Loring; 2 The Two
Monks" by T. G. Appleton; ''Some Cats
have Known by c. T. L. 'sSpain Re-
public, 3" by T. s. Fiske; poetry by Caroline
M. Hewns and Joaquin Miller, with the ar
ticles under the heads of "The Examiner"
"Record of progress, "Old and New, "and
Musical Review" Mr.. Perkins story PROM
ises to be very entertaining.
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-02
Maine Industrial School for Girls.

The trustees of this Institution held a sne-
oial session at the HalloweIl House. Hallowell
on Monday afternoon. There were present
Hon. BENZ. Kingsbury, Jr., of Portland Pres-
dent; Hon. E. R. French of South Chesterfield
Secretary; Hon. Nelson Dingley, Jr., of Lewis.
ton; Hon. John B. Neatly of South Berwick
Hon. j. s. Wheelwright of Bangor; Hon. H. K.
Baker of Hallowell and Mrs. C. A. L. samnson
of Bath.
The prospects of the school are very encour-
aging The trustees deem it ve-y important
that it should commence operations by the first
OF july next. To attain this result it will be
necessary to raise through public contributions
ten Thousand dollars in addition to what has al
ready been given. The President was directed
to prepare and publish circular soliciting
prompt aid. The generous people of Maine
need not wait for its appearance tmay send
their offerings to the President at once This
enterprise is one of the best ever initiated in
the State.
| Considerable other business was accomplish
ed and plans were discussed. which, however
at this stage of affairs would be of little public
interest,
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-02
STATE NEWS.
ANpRoscoGe1N COUNTY.


The Journal says that the Continental COR
poration of Lewiston will use three million
bricks in building its proposed boarding blocks
and cotton house. x
The Lewiston journal says that the dodge of
the liquor sellers now is to send boxes contain
ing liquors on the cars to some address of gro
Ger or other person who. never dabbles with Ii
ouors. A teamster is in waiting and takes the
goods, which being addressed as they are, stand
a better chance of escaping detection.
d. w. Write was arrested in Boston for
stealing $25 from Mrs. Mckinney of Lewiston,
and brought to that city.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
On Friday, the 18th ult, Prof Bracket clos
ed course of sixty lectures on chemistry
which was delivered before both the Medical
and Senior classes of Bowdoin College. They
are spoken of by those who heard them. as
most thorough, interesting and instructive The
present term of Bowdoin College will close
Anril Sth. On Monday, the 9TH inst, the Sen
ior and characterization will take place, to be
followed by military ball. The editors of the
Orsnt for the ensuing year were chosen last
week. and are j. w. Cole, ID. o: s. Lowell, F.
w. Hawthorne, G. III. Hunter, L. d. hlmball,
II. X. White and p X, Wheeler
HANCOCK COUNTY.
After an exciting contest, Monroe Young
was elected Mayor and George s. Peters udge
OF the Municipal Court in Ellsworth They
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-02
An Appalling Calamity.

This morning we publish an account of the
most appalling calamity at sea that has tver
been recorded.
The Steamship Atlantic of the White Star
Line, from Liverpool to New York, went
ashore on Meagner's Head, Cape Prospect,
twenty miles from Halifax, at two o'clock
Tuesday morning, having on board one
thousand men, women and children, only
too hundred and fifty of whom were saved
The other seven hundred and fifty are VIC
time of the remorseless sea.
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-02

If the charges made against the manage
ment of the Knickerbocker Life Insurance
Company of New York are true, it will be
well hereafter for people not to place the full
est confidence in the statements of insurance
superintendent or insurance organs in that
locality. Two large stockhold rs on Monday
asked Judge Fancher to put the Knicker-
bocker's affairs into the hands of receiver
because its liabilities exceed its assets by
100000. Among numerous charges of fraud
and corruption, are that the late Insurance
Superintendent Miller, was paid $4,000 for
a favorable statement when its affairs would
not warrant it, that EIizur Wright was paid
S3232 for some unknown service and that
$4,000 was paid to the publishers of the In
surance Spectator for two articles defending
tho company.
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-02
Ananias l:ike in the S0uth.

The utter debaucberv of the Tribune and
all connected with it is most forcioiy anu
painfully illustrated by letter IN lle lsSu'
of SATURDAY. last from the notorious .. .. riNe'
who ACQUIRED so unsavory repu'a'ioh III
connect;on with our State election of last
Fan This letter is from South Carolina and
purports to give some account OF tha legisla-
ture of that State under the following head
ings: ssSoUTH CAROLINA PRosTRATE-A
BLACK LEGIsLATURE-HUMI OF
THE wHTTEs-THEIR sUBJEcTIoN COMPLETE
AND HOPELESS" The writer derides the ap-
paarance of the colored members, as negroes
not as men,-is funny about their clothes and
contrasts them unfayorably with their white
antebellum predecessors who are lauded a.
types of the highest civilization and culture.
while the present members are colored men
the color is mentioned throughout as in tsel
disgraceful and creditable-"whose types
1t would be hard to find outside of Congo;
whose costume, visages, attitudes and ex-
preston only befit the .orecastle of bl sca-
n .er.' l ay As'1 slf t
Now it is quite possible, nay it is quite Ger
tain-that the average negro of the south il
inferior in literary requirements to the aver
age master who went to the legislature be
fore the war. But the colored people are cul
tivating themselves with wonderful rapidly
and should receive commendatiop for theil
achievements and encouragement to future
endeavor rather than derfsion and scurrilouE
reyilngs for their deficiencies. Criticism o.
their manners and conduct in friendly ano
helpful vein would be proper and useful, but
such coarse abuse as is heaped upon them in
this precious epistle will arouse only resent
to progress. -
But that all this should be allowed in the
Tri5une-Horaee Greeley's Tribune,-once a
tower of strength and encouragement to al
attempts for genuine advancement, is mos
vivid illustration of the utter and deplorable
ruin which has fallen upon the moral tone o
THAT journal, since it has been affected will
Whitelaw Reidism. Think of the impossible
ty OF Horace Greeley allowing such lette
as the one in question to defile its column
two years ago-to say nothing of ten year
ago. One blessed compensation in all thi
bad business is that the Tribune, in losing it
character, loses also its power to harm, an
no one who has been at all familiar with
s. Pixies recent epistolary career would Civ
the slightest credit to bis statement of fac
nor any serious consideration to his deduc
tons.
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-02

ONE by one the newspapers are breaking
the cherished idols of reform to which
great many of us have looked for political
salvation; and now the New York CONNER
cial Advertiser falls upon Mr.. Godkin of the
Nation who has assumed the severest type
of a cynical reformer in the following vigor-
Gus if not ''high toned style:
There is no freside so sacred that his
(Godkin's) malignity will not invade it.
There is no public man friendly to Gen.
Grant and his Administration, no matter
how stainless and pure his character, that
this viper of the press will not spit his venom
at and attempt to traduce. He is relentless
and unforgiving to Gen. Grant, and the men
who drove him from his place in the Freed
mems Bureau, for his malpractces in that
most sacred OF all Departments of the Gov
eminent. Our Partially is not for scoun-
drels; but, if we have choice, It is not for
the white-livered, canting. skulking rogue
who trades on his pedantry and respectable
ty. They are the most dangerous and de-
spicable of all rascals.
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-02

run on the citizens ticket. The majority was
about 100.
Messrs Pollock and Scott have leased tn g
wooden mill at Orland and they propose to ex-
tend the capacity of the mill to 1000 wards of
waterproof week.
Mrs. Perry Grindle of Bluehill, broke both
bones OF her leg last Friday by falling in the
streets of Orland. '"e
KENNEBEc COUNTY.
The well,known case of George M. Delaney
vs. Joseph Baker, member of the Kennabcc
par, mas been ON trial at Augusta for several
days and IS just finished. This action was
Drought Dy Delaney to recover $4,000 in money
III BAKERS hands. Kate Delaney the formrr
m,,e oi the plaintiff, resisted the claim of the
paso ' canning the money as hers. The
case was tried last fall, when the jury disagreed
standing eleven for the plaintiff to one FL the
ueIendant. The jury were out all Friday night
anu came In Saturday morning unable to agree
ana, 1t is said, standing as before, eleven for
the plaintiff and one for the defendant.
The Augusta Journal says the Maine Cen
trai railroad are building culvert So feet long,
within one and half miles of Getchell's Cor
ner. Mr.. Otis Pierce has charge of the work.
The stone is brought from Yarmouth.
PENoBsCoT COUNTY.
Clarence e. Pullen has been elected street
engineer of Bangor
The Bangor Wing is informed that snow fell
81 times between Nov. %, 1872, and March %,
1873, and that the total amount was eleven
feet. The mercury was below zero 81 times at
sunrise, varying from 90 to 22o below, during
the winter.
The Wing makes the following contribution
to onr currrnt civilization: can old woman in
a state of maudlin drunkenness, who had
somewhere procured box of red pepper and
was using it as snuff Jas she sat in an Exchange
street doorway Monday afternoon, was in dan
ger of sneezing her ancient head off, when she
was rescued and placed on iigger by the po-
lice, and hauled to the station house.
PIsCATAQUIs COUNTY.
[Press Correspondence
Two days rain has reduced the roads to an
impossible condition. The snow is only five
feet deep now. A
A party of surveyors under the direction of
Frank S. Douty, of Dover, is making a survey
OF new route for railroad from Abbot tO
Monsoon They report a much easier route than
that of the previous survey.
sAGADAHoC COUNTY.
Judge Danforth is holding term of the SUI
premene Court at Bath, beginning Tuesday.
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-02
The Dry Goods Business in Portland.

The wholesale dry goods houses in this city
have entered upon spring trade that prom
isss to be the largest by far ever done in the
city so far as the extent of the sales are con-
cerned. We have frequently noticed the
growth of this important department of busi-
ness in Portland and are pleased to announce
as the result of careful inquiry that the GER
tainty for a much larger trade the ensuing
year is assured The growth of this branch
of business during the past few years has
been quite surprising and if in any other To-
cality would be quoted by local croakers
as an evidence of the growth of the
business interests of other places. We are
informed by one concern that in 1860 its sales
amounted to less than 100000 while last
year good, passed through its hands to the
value of So. 100000. A few years ago any ex
tensive sale of dry goods by Portland dealers
to the Domin.on provinces would have been
considered impossible and we doubt not but
what many of our readers will be surprised to
learn that one and perhaps several of our
Portland houses are selling dry goods to Hal
flax, St.John, and other Dominion parties.
There are many varieties of the commoner
grade of goods manufactured in this country
that can be sold to our Dominion neighbors
at better terms than they can import from
England and as the prices of labor and coal
are increasing in that country, thus enhancing
the cost of goods, the list of fabrics that can
be sold to the provinces at lower prices than
they can be imported from England, is rap
idly growing larger. Strange as it may seem,
goods that are imported to this port from
abroad have frequently been sold in the Do
m MON. .. ID.
The energy of our Portland merchants is
not only extending their trade in all parts of
Maine but has carried it to New Hampshire
and even to within twenty-five miles of Bos-
ton, while as the agents of manufactures
ss-siS .-ai-ass hos beeu extended to all parts
ofthe country. -- "a
In view of the fact that the Portland and
Ogdensburg and the Portland and Rochester
Railroads will open opportunities for trade
ten fold greater than ATE now enjoyed, it is
fair to assume that the already prosperous
dry goods business, of Portland, with many
others, is still in its infancy.
The Portland daily press., 1873-04-02
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The Portland daily press., 1873-04-02
THE PRESS
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APR. 2. '73

EVERY re gular attache of the PRESS Is furnished
with a card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Puilen, Editor. ALI railway, STEAMBOAT anu hote
managers will confer a favor upon us oy demanding
credentials of every person claiming TO represent onr
jour lal as we have information that sessrai pum-
mers' are seeking courtesies III inc hahle Vi the
PRESS, and we have no disposition 20 pe' e'eh pas
vely. a party to such fraud