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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-23
POLITICAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS.

Our Minister to France has blunt way OF putting
1t when he says:-"The people don't send their
representatives to Congress to live like princes,
buck the tiger and keep hafa-dozen mistresses."
Here Is o clean sweep OF onlce-hoders
which the Governor OF Texas demands from
President Grant just because they don't exactly
agree with the aforesaid Governor on certain
points in state politics: United States
Marshal; General Clarke, Postmaster at Calves
ton Colonel whittelesy, Postmaster at Houston;
Colonel Plats, Collector OF Customs OF Corpus
Christi, and II. M. Taylor, Collector OF Internal
Revenue. 1t is curious fact that while the
Governor wants these of1cials removed, they re-
turn the favor by wanting to have the Governor
himself removed.
Parson.Senator Brownlow's third episte to Gen.
eral d. II. Ill., OF North Carolina, sounds as n 1t
had been written at "Yuba DAM" a town In Cali
fornia.
.In these days OF gigantic moneyed operations
says the Rochester Unf0n-"these days OF moneyed
control Of Presidents and Governors, Congresses
and Legislatures. the peoples only reliance Is a
free and independent press" There scarcely ever
was truer thing uttered In fewer words.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-23
THE HERALD AND THE SOUTHERN RADI-
GALS.
From the Montgomery fAla., Mail. Julv 1911

From the Montgomery (Ala.) Mail, July 1871
While the NEW YORK HERALD, published In the
Northern section, with its million OF daily readers
in the United states and throughout the habitable
globe is holding up with fearless hand the mirror
to these strange and Hateful tmes-times full of
evil and OF the darkest pers to all, and so pecu-
arly full of humiliation, bitterness and suffering
for us OF the South-ttN little Southern radical
newspapers fawn upon and toady, with restless
and disgusting eagerness, the Washington powers.
They insist 1t is all right to govern the Southern
States with negro voters and to degrade us with
unmstakabe marks and badges Of inferiorty.
They display, apparently without shame,
the negro uniform they wear for
nay, because it is the symbol of the
national radical party South. According to these
miserable mercenaries the whole South has been
made free and prosperous by reconstruction; the
scaiawags are the prophets Of our new polit-
cal glory, and the carpet-baggers the chosen
patriarchs and saints necessary to teach states
manship and religion; while. the darkies are su-
perlor to white men in afYairs Of government. The
men who aspred to and fought for Southern inde-
pendence, ana to defend their property and homes
from armed invasion, although now fully accepting
the situation as law-abidlng, peaceful and hard
working citizens, and although they constitute, as
individuals and In the mass the very brains and
bone and sinew OF the land-these men, according
to the little treacherous radical papers, are in the
habit OF complaining OF Ill government without
reason and deserve all the pains and penalties
which can be possibly visited upon them. The
NEW YORK HERALD thinks otherwise.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-23
GENERAL QUEsADA.
Reply to Some Charges Made Against
Him.


reporter OF the HERALD had an interview
yesterday with General Quesada and Don Carlos
Castillo (who represent the Cuban Republic in
this country, In reference to certain state
ments made by one ofthe morning papers accusing
him OF having exaggerated the number of Spanish
prisoners OF war which he had shot as CON-
mander-in-chief &c.
~ am so busy sending arms and ammunition to
Cuba" the General said, with great courtesy,
"that really have no time to engage in O con-
troversy with newspaper. have always en-
joyed the confidence Of the government
and the army, while in Cuba, and
was the only commander.in- chief the Re-
public ever mad, for no other commander In chief
was appolnted after resigned. Afterwards re-
celved the highest appointment outside my coun-
Try wnch ~ ID the gilt OF the Repubc--the mission
10 represent lree Cuba in this country-and this Is
enough lot me. have no time to answer newspa-
per charges, as all my time is taken up sending
rlnes and ammunition TO Cuba.v
Don carlos castillo made q similar statement.
After having expressed his satisfaction at seeing
a representative OF the HERALD, he said 10 am
lriend OF the HERALD and would do all could for
your great paper, but sense OF the dignity which
&taches TO my position as agent Of the Cuban Re.
public mere lorbids me to notice newspaper state
mens renecting upon General ouesada."
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-23
SUDDEN DEATH.

Complaint Against Coroner.
At three o'clock yesterday afternoon two GENTLE
men called at the Coroners' ONCE. one OF whom
entered grievops complaint concerning the case
Of Mrs. Elmra Cooper, widow, twenty.three
years OF age, who had died suddenly about
three O'Clock that morning at her residence ga
West Thirty-frst street. Coroner Kessler or
his deputy had been notified OF the death
early In the morning, but no official
action towards holding an inquest had been taken
up TO the time the gentleman, much excited n not
an gry left home to learn the cause OF the DELAY in
the matter. In the meantime the corpse lay In her
clothes, the same as when discovered, and decom-
position having set in, filed the house with
contagion. There should be no excuse for suck
delay 10 caseA like the above,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-23

From the Charleston News (democrat, July 1871
A strong plank in the HERALD platform
is Its demand that the Southern States be recon-
structed with generosity, manliness and wise
craftsmanship" wherever, In the South. the
radicals rule there is lying and stealing private
oppression and public wrong. That radical rule is
the onshoot ana creature OF the federal govern
ment and for 1t the federal government is respon-
sible. Reconstruction opened the stable DOORS
and the radical knaves, who entered In, stole the
horse and cleaned out the manger. The HERALD
proposes to lock the door and pursue the thieves
1t Is not too late TO do good; nor Is IL too late to
secure to every Southern state government
which shall know no distinction OF race or party
in dealing with public questions. and in which
there shall be no taxation without representation.
1t is true that the Southern States can, In time,
reform their governments without the help
OF the HERALD's new departure But In what
time In ten years or twenty or nfty' And
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-23
DIX'S Ian D.
An Interview with the Governor
at His Summer Home.

A Scholar, Statesman and Soldier in His Sea-
side seclusion-The Strange Origin Of
Rumor-How Executive Business Is
Conducted at tho Sandwiches
blythe Bushel-The Newspa-
per Claims Bill Killed
AHappy Guberna-
torial Family.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-13
t. Young girls from ten to fifteer
W. S. GRoESBECK

70" Young girls from ten to fifteen
are particularly injured by this sort Of
life, says Long Branch letter. Rising
at 10 in the morning, breakfast at lOs
or IL, dawdlipg through the day talk
ing aud playing croquet until 5, then
dressing for dinner at 6, then drive,
and after that the evening hop, is pro-
gramme for the day. These young
girls are not satisfied with the attention
of gentlemen or boys their own age,
but must have real grown-up beaux
upon whom to exercise their fascina-
tions. Little chits of ten or twelve
walk aroyd the halls on the arms Of
men old enough to he their fathers, and
talk "grown-up talk" by the hour.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-13

e A kiss, however pleasant, may
cost too much. Here we have an ac-
count of a Missourian who INDUCED in
the salutation of a fine young woman,
and of what happened to him. The
magistrate fined him. The fine young
woman's brother horsewhipped him.
His wife worried him into a brain te-
yer. The parson alluded to him per-
sonally in a strong sermon. The local
editor took sides with the clergyman,
and pilloried him in loaded long primer.
Finally, he was punished by a special
providence, for the potato bugs left
their potatoes to eat every blade ofhis
wheat crop. Letthe kissipsly inclined
take warning.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-13
NEW THIS DAY.
TEMPERATURE

AS REPORTED BY FERGUSON & scHNACK
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-13
The Democratic Organization,
LETTER FROM W. s. GRoEsBEcK.
July 25rH, 1873.

July 25TH, 1873.
Judge Collins:
My DEAR SIR feel very much OBJ
liged to you and the gentlemen who
called to-day for the honor you pro-
nosed to confer upon me, but l will not
reconsider the answer I then made. l
will not accept nomination for the Of
fee of Governor. While this is SO, l
warmly sympathize in what You pro-
nose to accomplish, and hope the time
il near when present Democrats and
former Democrats and all dissatisfied
Republicans shall be cordially united
under q single organization. l don't
think there is anything sacred in mere
party organizations. They are only
machinery which should be repaired
when out of order, and renewed when
too much worn. A constitution of gov
eminent is more sacred organization
than that of political party, yet we
don't hesitate to pull down constitu-
tion in order to put up new one. We
have q convention at Columbus now
engaged in that work. give you the
letter to which you referred. 1t was
written to a gentleman in New York be-
fore your movement began and without
reference to it. 1t was not written for
publication, aud not exactly as I would
have written it with that view: but you
are at liberty to publish it, if you think
it may contribute in the least degree to
q closer and irmer union of all who are
opposed to the present Administration.
Very respectfully,
w. S. GRoEsBECK.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-13
Communicated.
Mr.. Editor

Mr.. Editor:
The officers of government should
be held to a strict accountability.
In a newspaper of this Parish, I
saw where an officer was charged
with over charges in the fees of his
office; this was right. Now I want
you to say that one of your craft is
doing and has been doing some
thing of the same. He is the pub
Usher of the laws of government,
and publishes sheriff and probate
sales. Now. if he should use type
larger than specified by law, and
charges the excess, then he does
not act correctly. The type the
law directs shall be used in pub
fishing Sheriff sales is smaller than
that used, thereby making less
lines than should be, therefore
making parties pay more than what
is right. Don't you think the pub
Usher knows he is getting more
than what. the law intended g
Please state the difference the type
makes in an advertisement usual
in a Sheriff sale of half a column.
State fully the difference in every
particular, and oblige a poor fellow
who has to foot such bills some.
times. Poor DEBTOR.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-13

u We are glad to know that the
New Orleans Herald completed its first
quarter, under the most favorable and
promising results; and by the LIST of
October will issue morning edition,
enlarged and improved. This Journal
we look upon as the real exponent of
Southern sentiment and of the true in
terests of Louisiana. tits emphatically
the live paper of New Orleans and is
bound to be complete success.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-13

% Now is the time and occasion
to come forward and how your
faith practically, and plank down
four dollars and get a receipt for
one years subscription to the Dem
ocrat. Now is the hour for those
friends who have hurrahed and
urged us on in the good fight to
come down to the tangible and en-.
roll their names under the old DEM
ocrat banner. Their names on our
paid subscription list will help us
more than their syren songs, and
then they will have better bottom
to sing our praises still louder
Don't stand back, but come to the
old lick log!
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-13


a. The Leonard Scott Publishing
Company, New York, is without the
least doubt, the best and most relia-
bic publishing firm in the land
Here we ore, hardly through Black
woods than in pops our mail boy and
gently throws on our table the Brit
ish Quarterly Review for July, from
which we CLEAN with avidity the fol.
lowing contents:
The Failure of the French Refor.
nation.
The Public Health.
Catholicism and Papal Infallibility,
Mazzini and New Italy.
Recent Travels and Explorations
in Syria.
Miracles, Visions and Revelations
The Gladstone Administration.
Contemporary Literature.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-13
CINCINNATI, o., !
MAY 5, 1873. :

MY DEAR SIR have your letter OF
April %. l should have answered it
sooner, and have no sufficient apology
tor not doing so. Permit me to say
that the reply l here make to it is not
for publication, but personal to your
selSand those at whose suggestion you
have writtG4. I believe the historical
Democratic organization is spoiled
laundering constantly during the last
ten years, and shattered by many de-
feats, it surrendered finally at the last
Presidential election. 1t cannot recall
that surrender, or the confessions then
made, and it has no longer strength
enough for victory. In this extremity it
will be wise to lay. aside the old organ
ization and enter into new one. The
new organization should accept the re-
suits of the war, as was at Baltimore,
and it shonld accept them in good faith
and so as to command the confidence
of the people; and in order to command
the confidence of the people, the new
organization should be something diff
ferent from q recast of the old one.
There should be no exclusiveness about
it, nor should it be merely Democratic.
1t should be made up of present Dem
ocrats, of former Democrats, and of all
Republicans who are offended by the
policy and tendencies of the present
Administration. The new organiza-
ton should be the joint work of Demo-
Gratis and Republicans, and both should
be equally at home in it; neither the
guest ofthe other. You ask what should
be its name? Call it the Liberal De
mocracy. That will mean the free, IN
selfish government of the people. And
now, as to its doctrine or principles:
You ask in this connection how the
question of negro suffrage should be
treated. That question is no longer
before US. Negro suffrage is the bloody
contamination of great was-noth-
ing short of war can undo it in our day
In my opinion, it will endure in this
Governments long as general suffrage.
! comprehend the objections to it, and
think it was granted too. soon to that
part of our population recently eman-
cipated. All should make some prepa-
rationsfor this duty. We deny suffrage
to the foreigner for time in order that
he may prepare for it, and We have
schools for all on the theory that all
should prepare for it. But it is grant.
ed, and it cannot be recalled. Nor do
think it wise, in such Government as
this, to keep permanently so large q
part of our people in an inferior, degra.
ded condition. Slavery was always q
danger. To hold this population, now
tree, in degraded condition would be 6
@ater danger, and always trouble us
1--WE have adopted doubtful policy
o1one. Iaccept it, and on all sncf
exHPns admitted to be of doubtful
nv Ncy shall for the remainder O
IF perchance must err, striv,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-13

u Uncle Sam, on the LIST of July
1873, had in his Treasury cells the sum
of Ss7, 5O7, 402 SO, in coin, and SO, 1885,
529,77 in Currency!
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-13
|AND A FINE STOCK OF GROCERIES,;
DISSOLUTION.

NEW ORLEANS, La, AUGUST 10Th,
IN 1871 The Co-partnership existing
between the undersigned is this day dis
solved by mutual consent, B. H. Peterson
continuing the business and assuming all
liabilities. B. H. PETERSON,
w. NJ. SURLS.
4 LEXANDRIA, LA, AUGUST l, 1873.
n All business agreements, verbal or
written, between the undersigned since
B. 'f H. f Pteson assuming ali debts CON-
tracted for the Stage Line from Red River
Landing to Shreveport, and Stable at
Alexandria, La. B. H. PETERSON,
Aug. Cat. w. NJ. SURLS.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-13

n@- The total debt of the United
States up to July LIST, 1878, sums up
in figures to S2,147,SlS,7l3,5!
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-08-13

sa. The Alexandria market is
bare of vegetables and fruits, save
here and there a mean watermelon
and a high priced pumpkin.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-03-28
THE CENTRAL MARKET.

Nowhere else on the Pacific Coast can
be found a Market TO equal the new one
recently erected in this city by Messrs.
Ankeny x Watson. Not content with
having built the finest and best ar
ranged edifice of the kind upon the
coast, they have recently added TO its
attraction Saturday evening matinees,
upon which occasions the open promen-
ade is thronged with pleasure seekers
and purchasers, who are attracted by
the double prospect of hearning fine
music and making good bargains.
\ pyramidal fountain has recently
been erected for the central stand, which
the enterprising proprietors purchased
i'll San Francisco at a cost of some three
thousand dollars. This ornament con-
sists Of six octagonal stands, or vases,
each growing smaller as they ascend,
and each subdivided so as to present a
double front from both sides, the effect
of which is vastly multiplied by mir
rors, with silyered subdiyiding rods,
which reflect the exotics with which
the various vases are adorned in such a
way as to give the beholder n pictured
view Of many more plants than the
stand will hold. At the summit is a
silver plated crown with glass sides,
while a strong, silver plated railing,
about a hundred feet in circum-
ference, surrounds the whole, serving as
protection as well as ornament to the
paramid.
The Central Market occupies the en-
tire depth Of the block, and fronts to the
east and west. II is the intention Of the
proprietors to finish and furnish hand
some theatre in the spacious room
above, which will be in keeping with
the elegant design of the building
throughout. We are pleased to note
such evidences Of enterprise and inn
provement among wealthy men, espe-
cially when the good fortune Of success
and plenty crowns the efforts of such
pioneers rs Capt. Ankeny, who by fair
dealing, steady industry and intelligent
attention to business has amassed n for
tune which he knows how to make use
ful to the public.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-03-28
DOES YOUR PAPER PAY9

This question has been asked US so Of
ten by friends who are much interested
in our enterprise because it is their work
as well as ours, that we will now make
a statement of facts, that they may
know upon what we base our caIcula-
tions for the future.
We have made the NEW NORTHWEST
pay, by doing all the work within our
own family, and had we been out of
debt at the commencement of publi-
cation would now be in easy circum-
stances. While our possessions, never
great, are equal to what they were when
we began, our Indebtedness is less by fif-
teen hundred dollars than two years
since. And il we were able to endure the
amount Of mental and physical labor
two years longer that we have borne
since this public work began, we should
then have no further embarrassment.
But the labor we are performing is sui
eide. -Four of the strongest men in the
state would break down under it, and
we shall not attempt it longer. We
cannot keep up the paper and pay in
terest without this extra exertion, and
the public, who reap the benefit of our
labors, will be compelled hereafter to
help foot the bills. We have found a
few tried and trusty friends who realize
the fact that all this load is more than
our share of the public burden, and we
shall find many more. In after years,
when our enterprise shall have become
self-sustaining, as it surely will, we can
return to them the bread they now cast
upon the waters, but we shall no longer
pay heavy interest while keeping up
one hundred dollars week expenses to
run the New NORTHWEST. 4 thousand
new pre-paying subscribers will start us
clear of debt and with bright prospects
ahead. We expect to get them within
three months. Yes, our paper pays, at
the above price.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-03-28
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN UTAH.

The abOminable bill, framed by Sena-
tor Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, and
approved by the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee, which was designed as an es-
pecial blow to Woman Suffrage in Utah
Territory, did not meet the concurrence
of the House, and through the efforts of
the friends of women, has failed to be-
come a law. This infamous Senator
went further, and proposed to rob every
woman in heTerritOries of her property
and earnings, praying "that the COM
mon law of England, in force in the Col
onies of America at the date of the Dec
laration of independence be extended
over and declared to be in force in the
Territories" etc.
The common law of England recog-
nizes the right Of the husband to abso-
lutte ownership in the wife, her property
and earnings; empowers him with the
privilege to whip her with rod not
larger than his thumb, and'so on, while
to all 'ntents and purposes she is in the
most aSject slavery. Weopine that our
mans rights brethren who, thank
Heaven, are in a constantly increasing
minority in high places, would find
snch a storm of Indignation raised about
their ears in the Territories by the ell
forcement of such a law, as they now
little dream Of.
Abiding TO Suffrage in Utah, the
Womdn's Journal says, truly: ave can
understand perfectly well that the Cen
tiles Of Utah. who are principally min
ers and unmarried men without fami-
lies, feel aggrieved at being out-voted by
the Mormons, Of whom a large portion
are women. 4 husband, wife and
grown up daughter count three at the
polls, an unmarried man counts one.
But, after all, this is right. These wom-
en- are entitled to representation. If the
Gentle wishes to count three, let him
also marry and rear children. We have
no sympathy with MormOnism or any
other form Of Seetarianism. We abhor
polygamy and long to see il suppressed.
But the evil of Mormon rule is tempo
rary. The disparity in numbers of
Mormon and Gentle women will soon
be reversed in favor of the Gentiles.
Why then does the salt Lake Tribune
desert q true principle which, if main
tanned, will prove permanent and in
estimable benefit, for the sake of an i'm
mediate and temporary advantage?"