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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-10-10
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The opinion Off. S. Morris, Attorney
General of Mississippi, that there can
not be any legal general election i'll that
State this fall, nor in tact before No
vember, 1874, will not it appears, pre-
vent an election being held next No
vembcr. The constitutional provisions
and the election laws are so contradic-
tory, that an opinion can be given
either way with equal facility by any
one conversant with them. In fact
several lawyers, of abilities superior to
the scalawag Attorney Gcneral-such
men as Willie y. Harris and Amos II.
Johnston of the number-have already
given opinions clearly antipodal to
those of Morris, and declared that the
general election can and should be held
this fall. Gov. Powers has decided to
occupy sort of neutral position rs to
the conflicting opinions. He will not
order any call for an election, but at
the same time will not prohibit one
being held. The matter will therefore
stand with the registrars, and their i'll
structions to hold an election are posi-
| tive.
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Mr.. Edward Robinson, who was the
first man to ofliciutc as Il railway con-
ductor, is now living in Utah. He is
now siNty-siN years old, and ut the age
of twenty-five he was the first of six
men selected to run trains on the Liv-
crpool and Manchester railway, the
first railway ever built.
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THEN AND Now...1seo AND 1873.
The New Orleans Banks.

The New Orleans Banks.
From the New Orleans Herald we
get the following contrast of the two
styles of banking in this State-the old
style and the new:
~ THE OLD.
We go back to the month of October,
in the year 1860, when our banks were
controlled by State laws and operated
on specie basis.
At that time our city banks made the
following exhibit OF their condition.
We use round numbers
Total amount of banking capital,
twenty millions of dollars.
Circulation Consisting of their own
notes., eleven millions.
Specie in their vaults, TEN MILLIONS.
Deposits, FIFTEEN MILLIONS.
Loans, SIXTEEN MILLIONS.
Exchange, TOUR MILLIONS.
Just think of it! ten millions OF
specie, nearly all gold there being
hung up in the bank Offices card in
these fearful words: emo specie re-
ceived on deposit!'
"Your heavy bags of silver must be
taken elsewhere. We have no room
for them. Our vaults arc already fully
"But what am I to do with the stuff?
I can't take care of it or tote it around
the streets. Can't you give me your
notes for it ?''
eyes, at a premium of one and one
half per cent"
THE NEW.
Our banking capital is now twelve
millions. Eighteen banks are in full
operation, big and little. Twelve OF
these are National Banking Associa-
tions, two are chartered banks, Citizens
and Canal, four are free banks, under
the State act creating those institutions,
to-wit, Bank of America, the Southern
Bank, the Mechanics and Traders
Bank, and the Peoples Bank.
These banks, at this present moment,
are in the following happy and solid
condition: Altogether, they have in
their counters and under their control:
sevc,s h,n,e1s'ecz thousand dollars Of gyee's-
backs, against the paltry ten millions q
gold which contented us in 1860, and
these seven hundred thousand dollars,
under our very elastic system, are made
to represent nine millions of the same
description of currency, which were
left with these banks on deposit.
Where is the remainder-after de-
Quoting the seven hundred thousand
from the nine millions, to-wit-eight
million three hundred thousand:
Well, the Clearing Board will tell
you all about this That large sum,
and a great deal more, to-wit, sixteen
millions, are represented by notes or
loans made to our merchants, and by
exchange or drafts, on other cities,
whittier the currency has been sent to
meet these drafts, and where, it is pre-
sumed, that it will be safer and less
exposed to misappiication for specula-
tive purposes than it would be here.
OF course there is temporary incon-
venience resulting from this condition
of things, but what is that to the banks
1t is only the people who are inconven-
fenced thereby! They have only to
wait month or SO longer, and in the
meantime certified checks ut a discount
of 81 yesterdays rates) will avail them
for all useful and necessary purposes.
Why can't they have patience:
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. II, 1873.
Fsz1o,c- Citizens Of Louisiana
The Committee of Seventy has called
mass convention to assemble In this
city on the 4th Monday of November
next. -- ..I ..
The time is fast approaching when
the cause of the people of this State
will again be presented to Congress for
final adjustment and settlement, and
your committee, moved by profound
convictions looking to the well being
of the entire people Of this common
wealth, have concluded that a conven-
ton of the people Of the State would
be the most Acceptable medium for an
appropriate presentation to the Congress
of the nation of the alarming and I'M
precedened outrages committed against
the rights and liberties of the people of
this State, by which a Government
never elected by their suffrage has been
set up aud established by fraud and
force over them.
Elect to this convention your tried,
truest and ablest men, and let us make
one united and combined effort to res
cue our State from the grasp of the
spectators and usurpers.
Let us make at least one last grand
effort to arouse tho Congress of the
Union, and the people thereof, to a full
appreciation of the means and methods
employed under Federal auspices, that
throttled the State Government of
Louisiana.
We owe this much to ourselves, and
to those to come after us.
We desire to present the question,
fairly and squarely, to the Congress,
and to all the people of this American
Union, whether or not it is permissible
under our form of Government, for an
inferior United States Judge, supported
by United States soldiers and the Chief
Executive of the Nation, without refer
ence to and In defiance of the will Of the
people as expressed by the ballot, to
pull down one State Government and
set up another in its stead.
Should Congress repudiate such rep
rehensible practices, we merely will
obtain our rights; on the other hand.
should Congress permit such practices
to go unrebuked, we will then know
our status--know that despotism has
usurped the place of constitutional gov
eminent, and the quicker we know it
the better.
Let the people of this State take IN
active part in their own cause, which
is the cause of every State In the Union,
and you may then rest assured that all
will yet be we'll.
BY order of the Committee of Seventy:
r. III. MARR, Chairman.
JOSEPH COLLINS, Secretary.
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RESOLUTIONS

ny the Committee Of seventy, Calling a
Mass Convention At the City Of New
Orleans, and an Address by the
Committee to the People Of
So - the state, adopted Gath
81 .as5sEe-y, September, 1879.
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SEW 4 NJ MA II N z

DIR A w FE ID
Sc w n q M "A H N Z.
|! q /
Z y :
The late Great Improvement,
The "Draw Fced!''
Great Increase of Power!
Simple and Easy to learn to Operate!
Has Fifteen less pieces
Than any other First Glass Machine!
The recent Improvements make the
WHEELER & WILSON SEWING MACHINE
The simplest, most reliable and most du-
rable, doing a far greater variety of work,
with less time and trouble, than any Family
Sewing Machine in the world.
1t is the only Sewing Machine an inexpe-
renccd person can learn to use in thirty
minutes and the ONLY one that can moi he
put ont Of order when properly used.
1t does perfect work long aft er machines
of other kinds have become worthless.
1t will sew finer and coarser goods, is
quieter and quicker in its movements, uses
| less thread, and requires less exertion on
the part of the operator than any other
| machine in the world.
If you want n Good Family Sewing Ma
! chine that makes the Lock Stitch, which is
alike ON both sides, and will not rip or
ravel, then call and see our new STYLE Draw
Feed Machine.
PECK BROTHERS, South'rn Ag'ts,
149 Canal ST., New Orleans;
l25 Washington ST., Vicksburg, Miss
MIR. w. f.. BRADFORD
Is our Agent for Ouachita and adjoining
Parishes, and can be found at the store of
H.GERsON, Jn., GRAND ST., MONROE
May 8, 1878. 33:1y
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Resolved, That mass convention Of
the people Of the State of Louisiana be
and 70 hereby called to assemble at the
city Of New Orleans, at IL M, on the
24th day Of November next, being the
fourth Monday of said month, and the
people Of all the parishes, irrespective
Of party, who are opposed to the KEEL
logg usurpation, are earnestly invited
and requested to join, and participate
in the election Of delegates to said con-
vention.n -
Resozve1, That the purposes and OBJ
jects Of said convention are to take into
consideration the political situation In
Louisiana, to institute the necessary
measures looking to an amelioration OF
the condition, Of the people, to set forth
our grievances to the Congress of the
United States, and to the people of the
Union, and to petition and memorial
ize Congress for relief from the Kellogg
usurpation established over US alone by
Federal power without reference to and
in defiance Of the will Of the people as
expressed through their ballots.
Resozuea, That the Sd day Of Novem-
Der (hrst Monday be and is hereby
appointed as the time for the election
of delegates throughout the State to
said convention.
Resozued, That each ward of the city
of New Orleans and parish of the State
shan be entitled to double the number
of votes in said convention which it
has in the House of Representatives
but the country parishes may elect as
many delegates to cast said votes as
they shall see At.
Resolved, That all papers In the State
opposed to the Kellogg usurpation be
and are hereby requested to publish
these resolutions and the accompanying
address.
A true copy: JOSEPH COLLINS,
Secretary.
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-11-24
The LengIh OF serm ans.

From All the Year Rosnd.
After the reformation long sermons
came into fashion. The medieval and
pre-reformation diyines contented them
selves with homily varying from ten
TO thirty minutes in length; but the
Hugeunots, Waldenes, Puritans, Coyen-
anters, Independents and other protest
ing bodies, conceiving it their duty TO
assert and maintain these relating to
doctrine and discipline, made their ser.
mons argumentatiye, and sometimes
spun out the argument TO an inordinate
length. The hourglass literally corre-
sponded with its name, for IL ran for
one hour before the sand had all run
through and the preacher claimed his
full sixty minutes Sometimes he was
provided with halfhour glass, which
he used when a shorter sermon was TO be
preached. 1t was about the middle Of
the seventeenth century, when Pu-
ritan sermons occasionally reached
the enormous length of two hours.
that the hour.glass limit was ap-
piled. Many pulpits were furnished
with iron stands for the reception of the
hour-gass. One such is still existing
at Compton Bassett Church, Willis, with
a heur.de.lis handle for turning the glass
when the sand had run out. Another,
at Hurst, in Berkshire, has q fanciful
wrought.iron frame, with foliages of
oak and ivy, and an inscription: As
this glass runneth, so mans life pass
eth. At Cliffe, in Kent, is a stand for
an hour-glass ON bracket affixed to
the pulpit. The parish accounts of ST.
Katherine, Aldgate, contain an old en-
try, paid for an hour-glass that hangeth
by the pul pit where the preacher doth
make sermon, that he may know how
the hour passeth away, one shilling;"
and another relates to bequest OF an
hover glass, with frame to stand in.
One preacher had exhausted his sand
glass, turned it, and gone through
three.fourths of another runningI the
congregation had nearly all retired,
and the clerk, tired out, audibly
asked his reverend superior to lock
.up the church and put the key
under the door when the sermon was
done, as he (the clerk and the few re-
naming auditors were going away.
| hugh FeterSi aller preaching al nouri
turned his hour-glass and said, know
you are good fellows; so let's have an
other glass" Daniel Burgess, an elo'
quent Nonconformist divine in the early
part of the last century, let his hour
glass run out while preaching vehe-
mently against the sin of drunkenness.
He reversed it, and exclaimed, Breth-
rem, | have somewhat more to say on
the nature and consequences Of drunk.
enness, SO let's have another glass, and
then" which was regular topper s
phrase. A rector of Bibury used to
preach two hours, with two turns Of the
glass; after the giving out Of the te4t
the squire of the parish withdrew,
smoked his pipe and returned to the
| hlessinp
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The Ladies, car.

The ladies car" is a vicious fashion,
and fosters the art Of lying. There
goes young man at the heels of lady
whom he never saw or spoke to in his
life, and he is carrying a spick and span
new bandbox. My word for it, it is as
empty as a church contribution box on
Saturday afternoon. He bought that
box for precisely that emergency. The
lady asoends the platform. So does the
bandbox. The brakeman opens the
door, and the young man slips in un-
questioned, and secures comfortable
seat. There is another man. He
appears to be q good man. You
are sure he is, and he stands where
the brakeman can see him, and
he touches his hat to a window of the
car where nobody is sitting, and then,
with little smiling, affectionate haste,
he skips up the steps and says, Please
let me in a moment?" and in he goes.
That unfortunate man Aeyer beheld a
face in that car in all his life. The
more you think of it, the more vicious
the fashion seems. 1t does not benefit
the ribbons, and is positive damage to
the whiskers. Pen men up together, and
if they do not act like cattle, it will be
in spite of the peni Women sprinkled
thrdpgh the cats keep the train upon its
honor if not upon the TRACK, and elevate
the numbering thing from common car
rage to an educator,
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Henry CInque az Home.

The Count Of Chambord, although
possessing an annual income Of $780,
600, is content TO inhabit the ground
floor Of Frohsdorf castle, his residence.
His reception room is very plain. The
furniture represents the style OF the
latter part Of the last century, the pro.
prietor having an extreme dislike OF
what be calls the "gewgaws " Of modern
civilization. The prospect from the
windows is splendid, embracing q range
Of hills thickly wooded with fir trees:
His closet contains a large variety et
heavy walking stieks-iheir owner be-
ing lame-and an equally varied assort-
ment Of sporting implements, the Count
having inherited from his grandfather,
Charles y, who was the crack shot Of
his time, a decided taste for sporting
and a marked ability for hitting a bulls
eye. His favorite seat IS an easy
chair, made entirely from gigantic stag
horns, and upholstered with stag
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-11-24
ourions Facts about Voice and
sound

sound.
Il is a curious fact that musical sounds
hy farther and can be heard at greater
distance than those which are more loud
and noisy. IL we 20 on the outside Of a
town during a fair, at the distance Of a
mile, we hear the musical instruments,
but the din Of a multitude, which is so
overpowering in the place, can scarcely
be heard the noise dying on the spot.
To those who are conversant with the
power Of musical instruments, the fol
lowing observation will be understood
The violins made at Cremona about
the year 1000 are superior in tone TO
any Of later date, age seeming to dis.
possess them of their noisy qualities,
and leaving nothing but the pure tone.
If modern violin is played by the side
Of one Of those instruments it will ap'
pear much the louder OF the two, but on
receding hundred PAGES, when com
pared with the Amati, it will scarcely
be heard. The voice OF man is endowed
with purity Of tone in higher degree
than any Of the vocal animals, by which,
in state of nature, he is enabled to COM
municate with his fellow at distance
very remote. Providence has bestowed
upon children power Of voice, in pro-
portion to their size, ten times greater
than the adult. In q state Of nature
this serves them as n defense and pro-
lection, for it is we'll known that chill
dren have, by their cries, alarmed and
kept off the attacks of furious animals.
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to their strength and the stock Of their
provisions. and after awhile they have a
real pleasure; that is, when they come
back dusty, hungry, feverish with what
they have seen, and loaded down with
specimens which in a fsw days they
throw out at the back door. A particn-
lar friend Of ours, New York city gen.
tleman, came back after stay Of ten
days. He had on a shocking pair OF
pantaloous, held up by a big leather
belt, short-waisted coat and flannel
shirt. He had lost the skin of his nose,
aud he was so lame be could scarcely
hobble along, but he was enthusiastic
about the things he had seen. and he saw
80 many that the telling Of them will last
him so long he is not likely to go again
soon. The women always 20 TO bed,
and il is several days before their noses
resume the natural color.
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MEMPHIS TENN MONDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER a. 1878

skins. His father, the Duke Of Berri,
was very corpulent, and the Count in
herits the paternal obesity. He limps
in consequence OF having one Of his
thigh bones broken by fall from horse
back. His stature is less than five feet
eight inches, and his age is fifty.three,
although he looks not more than forty
FIVE. His locks Of gold are rapidly
turning toward the shining silver"
and so is his beard. While speaking he
usually strokes his beard with an air OF
c0mplacency. He speaks good deal
Of Versailles, and thinks that the bed Of
Louis XIV is there ready for him to
sleep in. His wife is three years his
senior, is both more cautious and bolder
than her husband, and is regarded as his
superior in intelligence and force Of
character. The Counts handwriting is
neat and easily legible, and his sigma
ture always " Henri"