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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-12-26
GENERAL PECKsNIFr MERRILL

General Merrill, who figured so dis
gracefully in South Carolina, where his
itching palm was so proyerbial, is in
command now at Shreveport. He is
fit tool for the work he was sent there
to do. His cup of happiness is now
running over. He has been inter
viewed, and has poured forth his long
pent up "views" to all eager and SYM
pathizing interviewer.
Merrill's story is very pathetic. The
untold horrors, butcheries, murders
and tortures endured by the sainted
negroes of north Louisiana at the
hands of the ""accursed eX-slaye oil
garchy" are very thrilTingly dilated
upon. He says the negroes swarm
into his camp for "proteotion from
maltreatment and threats" That
they are "systematically plundered of
their crops" That they are "panic
STRICKEN" and that "it affects him
deeply to hear of these sad stories of
wrong, outrage, lawless violence and
devilish vengeance" Merrill can be
eloquent on the African when talking
for publication. II much fear" says
this military Pecksniff, "that this is
only the beginning of greater evils.
If these people cannot have their way,
they declare that assassination shall be
their resource, and even If they are po-
litically successful, there is a settled
determination and declared purpose,
that the radical leaders, white and
black, must leave the country or be
killed. do not see that the military
can do anything except furnish the
strength 10 arrest such of the perpe-
traitors of the crimes as have infringed
United States laws. If such state of
things as is now coming about COLI
tinues long the negroes will turn OH
their assailants. i can't anticipate
these things. have neither the right
nor the wish to substitute military
law for civil law"
OF course not. The troops now in
Louisiana are not there for this Lur-
pose. Merrill says so, and Merl ill's
South Carolina record forbids anybody
doubling the truth of this last state
ment All of the aggressions of the
radical administration are carefully
concealed under just such fiimsy and
false sophistry, but the intermeddling
in state affairs goes on all the same,
whatever Mr.. Pecksniff Merrill may
say to the contrary.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-12-26

FANNY ELssLER, the beautiful and
fascinating danseuse who bewildered
Europe and America forty years ago
is now an old woman of sixty-fOur, and
lives in handsome style in Hamburg.
She is devout Roman Catholic, gives
brilliant entertainments, bn. goes regu-
larry to confession, and is amusing her
self in her old age writing her auto
biography, She does not look so old
as she is, and has no gray in her hair.
She still retains traces of the fatal
beauty which destroyed the duke Of
Reichstadt, for which piece Of business
she is said to have received twenty
thousand florins from interested func-
tionaries. She began her stage life at
six years of age. At seventeen she
went to Naples, but did not make any
marked impression. 1t was in Berlin,
in 1880, that she first achieved the
brightest triumphs, which turned
the heads of all who saw her
wonderful dancing. She is described
as being at that time essentially un-
German in face and figure. The form
er was delicate and very animated, the
latter light, t,supremely supple and grace
full. There was lack Of the voluptu-
Gus and magnetic element, but her
loveliness, splendid movements, ex-
quisite poses, and the powers of fasci-
nation, threw every one into ecstacies.
She numbered all classes among her
admirers. Princes, dukes, journalists,
philosophers sought her favors, and
paid handsomely for her smiles. She
was very naughty and very mercena-
ry. In 1871 she bewildered America,
and carried home thousands of dollars.
Her fortune is near about two millions.
She hated the Americans, but took
their dollars with ravishing gracious
nacc
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Personal,

King Kalakaua's reception at WASH
ington is described as rather wanting
in display.
Alphonse Karr recommends his old
proposition That to improve the
French drama, nothing is required but
to hang ten actors yearly. In an hum
bic theater in the suburbs, tableaux are
enacted. The murder of Abel is fa-
vorite subject, with the arch. angel pur-
suing Cain. When the curtain falls
the angel pursues the audience for
some sous, the sole recompense she re-
ceives.
The "Woolwich Infant" as Napo-
leon w. is irrevently called in Paris,
has not the stuff in him to govern q
people that sees in potentate nothing
Prince Napoleon alleges his cousin the
prince imperial is ninny.
General Buffers ridiculous assertion
that his devotion to woman suffrage
ideas defeated him for congress has
caused good deal of amusement.
Mr.. Macarthur, of Philadelphia, has
declined the office of supervising arch
itect. The country fails to obtain the
services of II man who is of high repute
in his profession, and the place is in
the meantime occupied by Mr.. niullett.
The Beecher-B Brooklyn moral muck
heap has been covered up until after
the holidays, possibly FOR II longer time.
1t is II matter of cOngratulatiOn that
the lawyers have succeeded in restrict
ing somewhat the latitude claimed by
the plaintiff, and that all the filth of
the original statements will not, as if
it were actual evedence, get into the
courts.
General and Mrs. Mcclellan will
spend this winter in Egypt. They are
now enjoying the voyage of the Nile,
and Mrs. Mcclellan has been restored
to health.
Mirabeau has at last received his
statue, which has been placed in the
palace of justice at ak. The great tri-
bune is thus revenged. Enshrined in
pantheon, then torn from thence by q
mob, infuriated at the discovery of his
''grand treason," he was thrown into
the potter's field at Clamart, till
Proudhon re-established his memory
by proving that while Mirabeau had
relations with Louis XIV. and his
court, he was but rs a lawyer with u
retained fee, not as man venally sold.
Douglas Jerrold says, in his "Hedge-
how letters" that 'respectability is all
very well for folks who can have it for
ready money; but to be obliged to
run in debt for it, is enough to break
the heart OF an angel"
The empress of Germany is one of
the most simply dressed of women, ex-
cept on occasions of ceremony. Her
dry goods bills are said to be less than
the wives of many of the merchants.
She drives out in calico dress. And
Princess Bismarck, fresh and comely,
though past sixty, superintends her
farm work, goes about the house with
Il great bunch Of keys at her girdle,
and her house is filed with knitted
quilts and such, the evidences of her
skill and industry.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-12-26
THE RADICAL suRrEKER IN CHIEF

That villainously mendacious sheet,
the Chicago Inter Ocean, continues to
revel in carnival of misrepresenta-
ton and falsehood about the situation
in Vicksburg and New Orleans. 1t is
Its trade to feed the forty thousand ia
natical buzzards, chagrined scalawags,
and plundering carpetbaggers tOwhose
hate OF the south it panders SO indus
triously, upon systematically manufac-
tured outrages and distorted versions
of southern affairs. 1t does seem in
credible that there should exist In the
country enough venom and undying
malice to support so large and widely
circulated a paper. There is but one
solution of the matter.
The nter-Ocean draws its support,
not from the honest, intelligent, pa
triotic men o. the west and north, but
from the miserable gang of political
adventures who infest the south, and
are still devouriDg her piecemeal. The
money they rob our ponr, long-suffer-
lug friends in Soutli Carolina, Missis-
sippi, Louisiana and Alabama of, goes
to sustaining in Chicago vile sheet,
which fattens on hate, lies and mis-
representations.
Read the Inter-Ocean's rawlings about
low "the Bourbon element carried the
late election in Mississippi by overaw-
ing, frightening and threatening re-
publicans," as Beast Buffers son-in-
law, Bayonet Governor Ames, reports
how, "still unsatisfied, they wanted
possession of the whole state,n ETC., etc.
Really indignation is fatigued, indeed,
in listening to this radical shrieker in
chief. Fortunately for us, the great
body of the people of the country see
that all this sort of thing is mere busi-
ness with the Inter. Ocean, and, there
fore, voted as they did in the last cleo
tion.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-12-26
NOTHING could be sadder than

NOTHING could be sadder than to see
Vice President Wilson smiling and
smirking at his little ring Of wire-pull-
ers, who are trying Ia make this old
puppet believe that he is the coming
republican candidate for the presiden-
cy in 1876. If there is deader man
than Wilson, unless il is Toonhs or
stephens or Colfax, the list of fossils
in the national collection is in error.
No amount of hedging or compromis-
ing can galvanize the republican party
into enough vitality to secure the adj
ministration again. viii it nevert take
to heart the lessons of the last election?
All the leaders, with Grant silent,
gloomy and smoking over Buffers new
war on him, cannot devise any new
trick that will win. The party is clear
ly Oh its last legs. 1t is ready to turn
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-12-26
VOL XXI, NO. Is

action with him he opens his place
Of business on Sunday and takes
money just as on other days. Now
what is to hinder the owner of tho
foundry, tho machine,shops or the
ilctory from doing the same thing?
What is to prevent the merchants
from opening the doors of their
places on Sunday? The law cannot
make distinctions in the business
pursuits Of the citizen. IF one class
of business men may carry on their
trade on Sunday, all classes must
necessarily have the right to do the
same Every one might not avail
himself of the right at first, but the
greedy disposition Of human nature
would soon break over the slight
barriers. Rivals would open on
Sunday, and then all the varied bus
mess transactions would soon 90 on
as on other days of the week. d.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-12-26

THE Chicago Intcr-Ocean, with fe-
fictitious cheek, don't call the recent
hanging of Howard, the murderer, by
bluckened face mob of citizens of
Des Moines, a kuklux outrage. 1t goes
back into history, and revives, for the
weird "Vehmgericht," which figured
hundreds of years ago as the name of
a secret socie:y, which was sworn to
resist political oppression, the mem
bers of which neither blackened their
faces nor wore masks. They did their
work equally as efectually as the Iowa
kuklux, nevertheless.
The citizens of Des Moines, it must
be said to their credit, have held meet
ings and denounced the hanging of
Howard by their fellow-citizens.
Meantime, where, oh where, is Will
liams and his troops? Can't some of
them be spared from Vickshurg and
New Orleans to "put down treason )"
in Iowa?
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SEND troops to Iowa. One hundred
and fifty disguised men entered Des
Moines jail, OH the l4th instant,
knocked down the jailer, tied him,
took his keys, and brought out Charles
Howard, murderer of Mr.. Johnson,
and dragged him through the court
house yard, and hung him to IA lamp
post. These gentlemen all had their
faces BACKED. Here is kuklux for
you, and not in the south either !!
Whete'sTWillisms "the administra-
tration ?" Come, give Iowa taste of
your quality!
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Religious Notes.

The Rev. DR.. Wingtield, Of The Epis-
copal church, was consecratti bishop
fov the missionary dislr!ri of North
California, ut Petersburg, Va, the I'd
of Decem her.
TIe emperor of Germany has given
to the minister of public worship the
authority to permit the formation of
Old Catholic parishes. Hitherto roy
al decree has been necessary in each
case.
a French Catholic congress was held
at Lille OH the 18th of November.
Catholic charities for the laboring
classes were the topics of the different
addresses. The congress, before sepa-
rating, voted an address To the pope,
whose beHediction they had received.
The Rev. Henry Narley. II revivalist,
is attracting much attention in Toron-
to, Canada Besides holding services
during the day, he has for some time
addressed two audiences every night,
no one building being large enough to
contain all who desire To hear him.
He is himselfa Baptist, but ministers
of all denominations take part in his
services.
The Pittsburgh synod of the Luther
an church has lately passed the fol-
lowing rule concerning the relation of
the synod to Independent churches
Lutheran congregations, which are
such not only i'll name, but also In doc
trine and practice, do not forfeit their
Evangelical Lutheran character by
not being connected with synod, and
may be served by ministers of an
Evangelical Lutheran synod"
Trouble has arisen in a Presbyterian
church in Louisville, Kentucky, which
is in connection with the southern as
sembly. In consequence of disagree
meuts between some of the elders of
the First church and its pastor, DIR. S.
X. Wilson, the presbytery requested
DIR. Wilson to resign. This DIR. Will
son ed TO do, and his church has
declared itself Independent. A law
suit will probably follow TO determine
TO whom the church property now be-
longs.
The Emission" which Father Riv-
ington, of the church of England, has
been holding in an Episcopal church
in Boston, has attracted attention to
the society of st. John the evangelist,
to which he belongs. This society was
founded in 1866, by the Rev. Richard
Menx henson, vicar of Cowley, Eng
land. The Cowley fathers, as they are
often called, now number about twen-
ty-five. They have "A house at Cowley,
and another in India, where they went
at the invitation of the bishops of
Bombay and Calcutta. They receive
no salaries, and have all things in COM
mon.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-12-26
THE Washington darkies are in

The Washington darkies are in high
feather. The color of the king
of the Sandwich islands is very
dark, and the negroes want to claim
him as of their race. They look upon
his presence at the capital and the at
tentions shown him, as complimentary
to all colored people. The king is
about the color of a new saddle, has a
yellow-pine look that is like anything
but the African race. His majesty is
domiciliated in four handsome apart
ments at the Arlington, and it has
come out that he can drink Grant
whooping, bowling, singing drunk any
day our executive wants to hold was
sail with him.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-12-26

THE business men of Vicksburg are
out in manifesto in which Ames, the
governor, is accused of no end of ras-
cality. He not only put Crosby up to
his murderous conduct, hut wss at the
bottom of the whole thing. In this
connection it may, perhaps, be well to
inquire whether there is any rope in
Mississippi, and this fact being estah.
lished, whether the feasibility of set
thing the political situation by present
ing AXes with q cravat tritle too
tight in the neck, has been properly
considered.
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HER home was Monroe, Wisconsin,

HER home was Monroe, Wisconsin,
and her name Mosher. Old Mosher
was anxious to get that girl Off of his
hands, so he selected a husband,
named the day and ordered the outfit.
The bride was elected against her will,
and was unable to observe it. Her
dear mamma brought her to Cleve-
land. Then began a general legal
shindy for the maid who, meantime,
waits for her eighteenth birthday, that
she may bid defiance to old Mosher,
whose matrimonial programme for his
laughter was nipped in the bud by
the law, which stepped in and rescued
the fair Mosher from the fate of the
unwilling bride.
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Now, this is too bad Just as Mill
lister Schenck has his poker party well
organized in London, an effort is made
to wrest that venerable old barnacle
and diplomatic buffer, Moran, from
the legation and pigeon hole him as
minister to Portugal. Nothing can
indicate Grants incompetency stronger
than his war OH the poker syndicate,
which has been so ably sustaining the
American national game among the
effete representatives of the European
despots simpering in London around
Schencli,s poker tables.
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MEXICO.
by. q q. RIVERS.

Oh, I'll sing tonight of Aztec Land in the lap
OF the tropics set,
And, of all the lands I've Travelled DER, tits
the loveliest have met
There, Rio Grdnde sweeps, the puma sleeps,
volcanic breezes blow
In that dear Old land that Greaser Land-the
land of Mexico.
But oh, alas how can sing? ~ Americdno
breathe strain?
That bloody land of my wild oats days, |
may never see again, &.
And the very joys that fill my breast must
ever change to woe,
For that high old land Ipronunciamento land,
whe % the prickly-pear doth grow.
But I'll sing of Vera Cruz's unhealthy Lands
where our bones once nearly laid
Where D'Ulloa stands, and Yellow Jack s
bands full many grave have made:
And III strike the harp with mournful
touch till the cowboys tears shall flow,
For that honest old land, Gortina's land,
where Texas cattle 90.
And I'll sing the Hapsburgs lonely fate, the
Hapsburg's lonely grave;
Carlotta' doom, In her beautiful bloom, and
her spirit more than brave.
But now they sleep, Austrias eagles keep
watch DER their grave so low,
Far from the land the bloody land-the land
of Mexico.
And I'll sing 'of Mejia and Morclos, Hdalgo
true and blest
They won the crown-the patriots crown
and they sleep in the shade and rest.
In letters of gold their names are scrolled-
they died in manhood's glow,
For their dear old land, their cruel land-the
land of Mexico.
I'll sing Of Mexico's ancient days, when her
chiefs were God-like men;
Montezuma's race, who led the chase through
forest, field and glen,
The Aztec line, in that golden time, gave the
Spaniard blow for blow,
For that dear old land, their sweet old land
the land of Mexico.
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The government of the district of
Columbia has been miserable botch-
ed business from first to last. AS a
district it occupied sort of hybrid po-
litical position, and when the district
had governor inflicted upon it by a
congress anxious to put off on some
body the bore of governing the people,
the door was opened to municipal
frauds which rivaled the illustrious
rascalities Of the great and good Will
liam NJ. Tweed. Congress is now con-
sidering whether it won't be best to
try and do away with the governor and
remand Columbia back to her original
negative stock of political impotency.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-12-26

PROFESSOR SWING, of Chicago, an
nounces himself on the side of Thes-
pis. He sees no harm in legitimate
drama, but good deal of good, and
says that he believes actors and ac-
tresses to be about as virtuous as the
generality of people. He calls DR..
Tallmadge's recent attack on the pri-
vate character of play people "a sense
less denunciation."
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LOVE.
Love Is net made of kisses, or Of slghs,
OF clinging hands, or Of the sorceries
And subtle witchcrafts of alluring eyes.

Love Is net made of kisses, or Of sighs
OF clinglng hands, or Of the sorceries
And subtle witchcrafts OF allurlng eyes.
Love Is not made OF broken whispers no
Nor Of the blushing cheek, whose answering
glow
Tells that the ear has heard the accents low.
Love Is not made Of tears, nor yet OF smiles !;
Ofquivering lips, or of enticing wlles;
Love Is not tempted he himself bcgulles.
This is Loves language, but.this is not Love.
If we know aught of Love, how shall we dare
To say that this Is Love, when well aware
That these are common things, and love Is
rare?
As separate streams may, blending, ever roll
In course united, so, of soul to soul,
Love Is the union into one sweet whole.
AS molten metals minge as q chord
Swells sweet in harmony; when Love Is lord,
Two hearts are one, rs letters form word.
One heart one mind one SOUL and one desire,
A kindred fancy, and n sister fire
OF thought and passion these can Love In
spire.
This makes heaven of earth for this is Love.
TClambers' journal,
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THE situation of the man without
money or work in Philadelphia grows
daily more interesting. Forty more of
this kidney actually went to magis-
trate last week and begged to be COM
mitted to the house of correction, just
to have something to eat and be shell
tered. They frankly acknowledged that
they had tramped all over the state
looking for work, and could find none.
There is room in Texas for two hum
dred thousand of them if they are not
tlcklish or squirmish about catching
hold of the handles of plow.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-12-26

TIE civil rights bill, agreed upon in
the house of representatives, omits
cemeteries and provides for separate
schools for whites and blacks. Mr..
Summers friends, who were so pathet-
ically charged to stake care OF the civil
rights bill," don't seem to have any
scruples about taking the sting out of
this last venomous effort of the honest
but fanatical departed.
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left, voting with it till the dissolu.
ton of the assembly. Since the
coup d'ctat he has retired from pub.
lie life altogether. Less ambitious
of distinction even than his brother,
he is regarded rs a safe man, in
heriting with him in u marked
degree the moderation and good
sense which distinguished the elder
Lafayette, and enabled him more
than once to give good counsel to
his erratc countrymcn.
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THE Kiralfy brothers, famous dan
GERS, have been getting grimly face
tious. They gave an expurgated per-
formance of the "Black Crook" in
New York, the other night, and in
vited all the clergy and offered to in
troduce them to all parts of the house
This is one way of advertising not
often practiced.
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AT THE reception of King Kalakaua,
at Washington, on Saturday last, a
number of "National Airs" were sung
on the chimes of the Metropolitan
Methodist Episcopal church among
them aSherman's march through GeOr-
gia." We would suggest that it is
about time that such music was stricken
from the roll of "national uirs.n
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STILLMAN, referee in the Proctor
Moulton case, which grew out of Mr..
Beecher's pleasantries with Mrs. Til
ton, reports that Miss Proctor's reputa-
tion is as pure as the driven onow. The
amount of lying and cross lying done
10y the Brooklyn triumvirate, Beecher,
MOulton and TiltOn, is prodigious, but
there is q chance now that, by close
attention and hard work, their most
malicious lies will, in time, be nailed.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-12-26

IT is not safe to commit suicide in
Van Vert, Ohio, for the Fort Wayne
doctors consider suicides legitimate
dissectiug material, and they have an
amiable way of digging up your post
humous remains and leaving them,
professionally, ain way that all ad-
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BALTIMORE is in tears. A big rail-
way combination threaten to wipe out
the Baltimore and Ohio railway by re-
ducing rates. Close upon the heels of
tiis is a fesrfully ominous intimation
that the Baltimore and Ohio will give
dear old Baltimore the go by in the
new proposed through freight and pas
seDger arrangements.
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its face to the wall and die. Southern
outrages have lost their political effect.
Neither can the stirring up of strife in
Arkansas, Louisiana or Mississippi, keep
the radical pot boiling. The danger
now is il it boils over, the radical ad-
ministration at Washington will get
q worse scalding than ii did in the last
oil lont;1.