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Parliament reassembled to-day. Shortly af-
ter the opening the members Of the House Of
Commons we're summoned to the Chamber Of
the Peers to hear the
QUEEN's SPEECH
read. 1t is as follows =
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN-I reOur to your
advice at the earliest period permitted by the
arrangements consequent upon the retirement
Of the late administration.
My foreign relations continue most friendly,
and | Shall not fail to exercise the influence
arising from these cordial relations for the
maintenance Of European peace and the faith
full observance Of International obligations.
The marriage of my son is at once a source
of happiness to myself and a pledge Of friend
snip between two great Empires.
The AShantee war has terminated in the
capture and destruction of the capital and
negotiations which, [ trust, may lead to a more
satisfactory condition of affairs than hitherto.
The courage, discipline and endurance Of my
forces and the energy and skill eyinced in the
conduct of the expedition has brilliantly main
tanned, under the most trying circumstances,
the traditionary reputation of the British army.
I deeply regret that drought has affected the
most populous provinces of the Indian Empire
and produced extreme scaroity-in some parts
amounting to actual ~famine-over an area in
habited by many millions. | have directed the
Governor General Of India 20 spare no cost IN
striving to mitigate this terrible calamity.
GENTLEMEN OF THE House OF COMMONS
The estimates for expenditures during the COM
ing financial year will be forthwith submitted
to you,
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN-The delay and
expense attending the transfer of land in Eng
land has long been felt to be a ~reproach to our
law and a serious obstacle to dealings in real
property. 1 trust measures which will now be
submitted for your consideration will be found
calculated to remove much of the evil which is
complained of.
You will probably be of the opinion that the
re- arrangement of the judicature and the blend
ing of the administration of law and equity
which were effected in England by the enact
ment of last session ought to be extended to
Ireland. You will be asked to devote part of
your time to the accomplishment of this object.
The greater part of these changes are inappli-
cable to tribunals in Scotland, but you will be
invited to consider the most satisfactory mode
Of bringing procedure upon Scottish appeals
into harmony with recent legislation.
Among other measures relating specially TO
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H QUEENS SPEECH
LONDON, March 10.

LONDON, March ID.
Parliament reassembled to-day. Shortly az
ter the opening the members Of the House of
Commons were summoned to the Chamber Of
the Peers to hear the
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05

..Black League, incidentally acquits 'ne
colored people of any turbulent purposes
Init accuses them of ingratitude to the
nlanters for allowing them to work. ne
says: .hot thew
don't understand how the white folks eau
ait down. not work and have plenty OF every
thing. and they, working hard, only geI
thirteen dollars per month.
And adds: -,
In fact. they are hopeless set, and VIII
ultimately work their own ruin
After this is it not surprising to see the
Picayune publish this confirmation OF the
Cotton EA change report:
Our crops are very promising-more 50
than in any year since the war.
Thus the whites ''dont WORK. 1ne
blacks ..work their own ruin" and yet
sour crops are very promising-more SO
than in any year since the war; Really
this "young man by the name OF Guppy' >
who puts up the carards for the Picoyane
must be ignorant of the art Of garbllng a
communication to support his own canard.
A people so poor and dependent on the
the planters for their food that their wo-
men and children have difficulty to live,
rganizing a midnight massacre! Apeopie
idle, prohig ate and insolvent, meditating
murder and outrage, yet furnishing labor
for the production Of the best crop since
the war
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05

useful citizen, as well as an invaluable
laborer, and will contribute greatly to the
future prosperity of the country We
know very well, be continues, ''that the
White League has not for its object the per-
secution of the man Of color. It merely
excludes him from Office and from en-
ployment.l But if the negroes should be
told this a hundred times a day they
would never believe that the White League
had any other object than the complete
destruction of the black race" 1t is then
argued that this issue will cut off from
the white ticket all the colored vote,
whereas all those who design to resort to
ssthe place where the good old negroes
60 would demand nothing better than to
accompany their employers. The CORE
spondent teaches that there is nothing
necessary to anniLilate the Republican
majority but for '.the white people to con-
scientiously fulfil their duty"
The correspondent then urges the reor-
ganization of the Democratic party-as the
only party which can save Louisiana. He
well says that ''the Democratic party can
contain the White League but the White
League can not contain the Democratic
party" He fears that to unite upon the
White League appellation may divide the
opposition forces, and once more divided
it will fall never to rise again. ''Let US
then," says the correspondent, 'sfurl the
flag Of the White League to the banner of
Democracy" and ''we will save ourselves
in manner much more worthy of our
selves and of our cause, that our safety
will carry with it the safety of those whom
We shall have been compelled by duty to
combat That is, that all the Offices OF
the State can be carried for the whites with
out the necessity Of killing the cooks and
plowmen.
These views so conservative Of life
and property value strike even the petro-
leumites and communistic conductors OF
the Bee They begin seriously to doubt
whether white people enough can be got
together to shoot all the hands in the
cotton patch Or the cooks in the kitchen.
It had adhered to the idea of the White
League but there are Democrats who think
otherwise. 1t therefore consents to re-
serve the question which can not be elu-
cidated except by an attentive ezamina-
ton of all its bearings.
This then is click aback" in the run
of the White League, which was said to
have absorbed and comprehended the
whole opposition white vote of the State.
It now seems that the Partisan ideas of
overturning a government of numbers By
force of arms does not suit the practical
planters of St. James. The Fusion craft
will then drift until a consultation over
the charts in the cabin shall determine
her course and bearings. Let her drift;
II ir Safe.t
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05

you a convincing proof of my assertion,
and have Won laid bv the heels for your
nresumption." This declaration had an
effect upon the company as sudden as sur
prising The young Prince became s9ppio
as a spaniel the ambassador trem oio9' .no
General sat silent and abashed. anu ING
doctor, who, it seems, had felt the roo OF
mower. crew pale as death, and assured US
ali that he had n intention to atfront any
person or people. '.Your principles,
doctor" resumed the old gentleman, ARE
no secret. have nothing to say upon tnat
head, but am very much surprised tnaS
man who despises us 80 much should nol-
withstanding, live among US, when he mas
no visible motive for so doing. why don
YOU take up your habitatiOn IL your, Do
loved France, where you may ran ~
monstrance the doctor thought proper TO
make no reply, and an unsocial silence en-
sued, which, l perceiving, took notice tha1
it was pity such idle disputes, maintained
very often through whim or diversion,
should create any misunderstanding
among gentlemen of good sense and pro-
posed to drink down all animosity IN
another bottle"
He subsequently learned to his tex
IRENE establishment that the supposed
young prince was dancer at one OF the
theatres and the ambassador no other
than fiddler belonging to the opera; the
doctor was a disguised emissary OF for
eign political movement
It will have been observed in this ex-
tract that the Englishman was not alto
gether free from the objections imputed
to the French government of that day.
He threatened the disafected railers with
arrest for seGtious discourses. The United
States has advanced beyond this rule Of
intolerance. 1t allows any man to speak
or write anything against the government
or in favor of any other. Having wisely
concluded thatif a government can not
stand the discomfort of its own people, or
the ignoronce Of foreign assailants, it can
neither be maintained by the dungeons OF
a Bastile nor the fine and Imprisonment
for a libel.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05
THE ISLANDER ABROAD.

The effect Of the false news divulged by
the Picayuae appears abroad. A letter
from Texas says:
notice an article in your iss ne of the
twentieth. speaking of difficulty between
the negroes and the whites throughout
Louisiana. l will say this much, when it
from this State, if necessary, to help clean
them out from the mouth of Red river to
the delta of the Mississippi.
Another correspondent from the parish
of st. James writes:
I have just read your editorial entitled
"The Black League" and from what is TAX
ing place in this parish, consider it well
worth the attention of the whole COM
munity.
This antagonism to the whites is greater
now than it has ever been since the war.
This they try to hide in their bOsOms, be-
cause they are entirely dependent on the
planters for their daily food, and as there
is surplus of labor, many women and
children have difficulty to live.
Our citizens can judge Of the mischief
done by the deliberate circulation of a
SANDER of our public peace, which the
journal that started it will neither prove
nor withdraw. The offer of ten thousand
men to clean out the laborers of Louisiana,
and re-inaugurate civil war, is based upon
this mischeivous SANDER. 1t can not be
amiss to remind those who publish
this foolish bravado, that while ten
thousand men were being raised, armed
and transported from Texas, hundred
thousand could be, if necessary to the
protection of life, or the enforcement
of law, be encamped in New Orleans to
await their arrival The gentleman from
St. James parish, under the heading Of
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05

And we hold a man either criminauy
ignorant or willfully wicked who seeks to
excite their fears or misinterpret their
kind natures. The prosperity of the
white people depends upon the discipline
and tranquility of the colored population,
and no calamity which is likely to over
take US could be greater than their de-
moralizatiou and deportation.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05
COLONEL JOHN M'ENERY.

The Monroe hsteligencer OF July says
"this gentleman returned to his home in
Monroe some two weeks ago, and was re-
ceived with very impressive silence and
indifference by his fellow-citizens. But
some time after this it appears that the
friends of Colonel MeEnery concluded to
call upon him with music and make him
face it in the presence Of select few.
The I1telligencer further says very few
persons knew of this until the next day
when a brief report of the speech appear
ed in the Monroe Telegraph, Democratic
paper that is generally thought to be
sound OF the goose. We presume it is
from this report that the extract in the
Bulletin of yesterday morning, accredited
to Governor McEnery," was taken. In
that extract the "Governor," addressing
his friends, says:
We can not afford to cut loose from the
Democratic party; we must be In active
sympathy and cooperation with 1t. 1t Is
the great party of the present, and IS des-
tined. to control the affairs OF the nation.
The Colonel is evidently about as much
deluded about the Democratic party being
''the great party Of the present, etc., as
those of his friends are who still persist in
calling him "Governor;;" with this advan-
tage, however, in the Colonel's favor in
regard to what he has said about the Dem
ocratic party, viz: In the past it was
great party, and entitled to be ranked as
such; but now it really has no more life
than Governor" McEnery; nor has it any
better chance to control the affairs of this
nation than Colonel McEnery has to be-
come Governor of Louisiana. We say
this with all due Difference to the Colonel
and his friends, for whom we have nothing
but the most kindly feeling. We have no
doubt but they honestly believe what they
say of the De mccratic party; but it has
been said so often since 1860, and as often
refuted, that the people are prone to believe
there is but little life left in that old and
played-out political organization.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05
ORR LAWMAKERS,

As the period approaches for the choice
of representatives, we again adjure all
political parties, and especially our own,
to require higher standard of intelli-
gence in the legislator than has been here
tofore demanded. A man to be entrusted
with the enactment of laws to govern the
property and labor of State, should be
above the average in his mental capacity
and entirely beyond suspicion in his
moral character. 1t is important that
wherever the people can secure the SER
vices Of experienced and educated repre-
sentatives of their own principles they
shall do so. To the Republican party
here it is particularly Of importance, be-
cause while dishonest Fusionist may get
an equal share of any shameful job, the
Republican majority must bear all the
blame; and the Republican press is i'm
properly left to defend the offenders.
We confne ourselves at present to the
consequence of electing incompetent legis-
lators.
What is the usual course of enactment?
Outside parties desire an act which will
enable them to profit by some franchise.
Their first step is to engage an attorney,
not unc ommonly one who haunts only
the purlieus of the profession to prepare
q bill. The object of this bill is stated by
the lobby agent charged with til e duty of
effecting its passage. The members are
polled, and upon the canvass the bill is
introduced, it is passed upon suspension
Of the rules through its various stages,
and not uncommonly enrolled and sent to
the executive as it came from the hands
of the attorney who wrote it. The absence
Of that intelligent preparation with the
amendatory discussion which elsewhere
follows the introduction of an important
bill is subsequently felt by the parties
and by the public. Such scrutiny at least
secures the legality of the act for it not
uncommonly happens that where bill
originates, not in the Legislature but in
the lobby, and is passed in the manner
described, the undue rapacity of the
benefciaries or the want of skill in their
advocates saves the public from evils
which might for many years afflict it. We
have unhappily some monopolies whose
work has been done by high priced and
sstute attorneys. Their nails do not draw,
their rivets are clinched and their bolts
can not be broken. But is there proof
asked of this incompetent legislation?
We cite the whole batch of appropria-
tons suspended by the infexible integrity
of the Republican officials. The slightest
enumeration of the objection upon which
nearly two-thirds of the money voted by
the last Legislature has been suspended
will show gross ignorance of law and of
language, while many items may have
been necessary to the public service and
to individual right, there can be no ques-
ton but that the treasury has escaped
some burdens that would have promoted
neither the one interest nor the other.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05
MASSACRE POSTPONED.

Yesterday was not even an average day
for massacres, so that announced upon
the information of the Picoyune to come
of, did not take place according to pro-
gramme. This, however, is not the fault
of the chronicle which announced the
event "by authority
The same journal jingles its nickels and
taunts those guardians of public order
and civic reputation REPUBLICAN and
Buuetin-with their inability to compel
either win dication or retractal Of its
misc hievous farce. In its edition of
yesterday it asks, like Tweed, "What are
you going to do about it," We reply
on our own behalf that we can do no
more than we have done. The Picay,uae
is safe. This time it has published
libel against whole people with impu-
nifty. The panic-stricken old ladies have
no right of &C ton, the defrauded pie and
soda shops can not hold it in damages
1t may cry its canards in the very vesti-
bule of Hon. j. Hawkins with reckless
disregard of the sleeping thunders of
verdict. We dismiss the exploded and
false poster, with a single observation
If the Picay,ne will neither give up its
authority nor withdraw its charge, now
shown to have been alike unfounded and
improved there is but one adequate atone
ment in it's favor. Let it faithfully dedi-
cate all the nickels received on account of
the poster headed canard of the massacre
to the pie men it has thereby defrauded
and to the soda fountains, the unfzzing
victims of an outrageous canard and a
thirsty and abstemious public.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05

WASHlNGTON-On Friday, third instant, at $50
r NJ, HENRY T: WASHINGTON. aged thir'y.two
years, native of this city.
The friends of the family and those OF F. s.
Washington and John W. Fairfax are invited to
attend his funeral from his late residence, No. 1853
Sixth street, between Prytania and St Charles
Streets Fourth District, on Sunday, at A. NJ
New York city, Mobile and Montgomery Ala
bams papers please copy.
ROBERTs.-July 4, WILLIAM H., son Of W. H.
and Frederick Roberts, aged eight months.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05

An anonymous correspondent in the
morning Picayune having tackled the dis.
tinguished colored attorney, General Ches-
ter that gentleman comes to the front in the
evening edition, and quietly demolishes all
the statements in the former assault The
Picayune editorially expresses its own
disgust at being made SO often the victim
of sells and practical jokes, and concludes
with reckless admission that it has ceased
20 care TOR public opinion any more.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05

Senior Emilio CASTELAR,, one of the ablest,
most eloquent, best educated, and most
purely patriotic Of the Spanish Republicans,
has been compelled to seek an asylum In
a foreign land. He succeeded in leaving
Spain through Gibraltar, where he was re-
ceived with the honors due to his puohc
position and personal character, and taking
passage there in an English steamer reached
Lisbon on the third of June. He will visit
the United States in the fall.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05
ne1vE HER A TURN ABACK!n

Sh is the phrase that comes down the
tubto the engineer unconsciously driv-
ing e boat on some sand bar, where she
MAIZE high and dry all summer. The
Beedyised the formation of the White
Leae. and recommended arming the
VIII men. so that in case the certificates
of .ction should not be awarded to the
viii candidates, who it assumes are to
be rtainly elected, they should be in
stah by compulsory process. 1t also
commended the White League in the
pari of st. Landry, in which, it appears
fronthe census, there are more whites
thar blacks. This extreme doctrine,
has xcited the alarm of those land
holds who can not look with entire
inditrence upon the proposed slaughter
or Gle of the laborers, unless as
sureof some working substitutes. See
ing lat the Bee is driving ahead il a
reckks manner, one of the parties in In
teresreouests him to slow his engine and
evento ''give it a turn aback. tie
does OF wish to be run on the shoal Of
shortabor just yet. This yer temperate
remostrant states the true relation Of
races,ith a distinctness that the Most in.
expennced foreigner may comprehend
"We ave never doubted says this ap'
prove correspondent Of the Bee, ''tha'
the Whites could better dispense with the
blacks than the blacks with the whites
The Ole is the bead, the other is the arm.
Lou isina has still need Of the physical
force d the negro to cultivate her fields,
and tie negro, properly directed and
withdnwn from the poisonous influence
of The carpet-bagger, will become
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05
QUARANTINE.
PROCLAMATION BY THE GOvERa

STATE OF IouEBl
Executive DepartmE
New Orleans, June l3N
WHEREAS, An act of the Legislature Frs
March is, 1855, entitled Gan act to estabHlr
antine for the protection of the State, r7a
that the Governor Of the State shall isa u
proclamation, upon the advice Of the B%a
Health, declaring any place where there snls
reason to believe pestilent, contagious GA
fictitious disease exists, to be an infected places
stating the number of days of quarantine TO-
performed by the vessels, their passengers
GERS and crews, coming from such place or pla~
and
Whereas, The Board of Heath Of the state
Louisiana has this day officially informed me y"
the following named ports are injected paee
viz: All ports in the islands of Cuba, Porto Do
and Jamaica, and the port of Denarara In so4
America and has recommended that al Ve'@
leaving any of said ports on and after 'unss
1874 shall be detained at quarantine station
less than ten days.
Now, therefore, !, William p Kellogg Govern
of the State of Louisiana issue this my procaS
tion, declaring the aforesaid ports infected pa@
and req uiring that all vessels. together witha
GERS crews, passengers and cargoes, leavngE
places, or having touched or stopped at any
them, on and after the fifteenth day of June
shall be subject to q quarantine of not less ID
ten days, or fer a longer period, as may be cons
cred necessary by the Board of Health.
Given under my hand, and the seal Of the sw
hereunto attached, this thirteenth day Of June
the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
seventy four, and of the independence Of
United States the ninety-eighth.
WILLIAM P. KELLOGG
By the Governor:
WILLIAM WEEKS,
Assistant sacretarr of State. ieb
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05

w. p. Harper, Esq, the livil sheriff of
the parish of Orleans, has been granted
leave of absence by Governor Kellogg. and
will take a trip North for the benet, of his
health. Mr.. Harper has but lately recover
ed from very dangerous attack of sick
ness, and a change of climate is deemed
necessary for his entire restoration to
health
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05

The St. Louis Globe says that tourist Of
that city lately returned from Europe alter
three years absence, during which he ha a
made art study, writes that he was fairly
overwhelmed with admiration On first be-
holding "Conover's Heeb."
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05

Boston is again agitating the subject of
public park. The plans offered for consid
GRAFTON vary greatly in cost. location and
system, and one of them proposes to utilize
the ponds, reservoirs and cemeteries to the
west and southwest OF the city, and to in
clude large tracts of unimproved territory
living in their neighborhood.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05

Our readers will find elsewhere in our
columns Bret Harte's latest production, a
the Life of Mr.. John Oakhurst." written
for the New York Times, and will doubtless
thank us for the opportunity of reading it
this morning.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05

Luke Chapman. of Connecticut, claims to
have in his possession the old hint-lock
musket with which General Putnam killed
the wolf in his den at Ponfrer. II will not
go off and is likely to be retained as an
heirloom in his family.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-05

From soundings made by MIR. John Nc
kinney, an experienced navigator and old
resident in the vicinity Of Lake Tahoe, Cali
fornia, it appears that the greatest depth OF
that remarkable body of water is l646 feet.