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National Republican., 1874-05-07
WOMEN At THE POLLS.

Sr. Louis, May s.-At the city election at Han
nbal yesterday the question of license or no license
was submitted to the people-an Independent
proposition, NoIlieense was carried two 70 one.
novel feature Of the eontestc was that mauy
ladies on both sides Of the question remainedEar
at the polls all day and eleetioneered with great
v gor and earnestness. % 1.--G 4E--
National Republican., 1874-05-07

"A French trumpeter lately deserted, from
Belfort with all the bag and baggage he could
carry. Safely arrived on Swiss territory, he
took position on q rock, turned his face towards
France and his pursuers, put his trumpet to
his mouth and played the old melody Of Ber-
traud.s Farewell.
National Republican., 1874-05-07
THE WEATHER REPORT.
WAR DEPARTMENT, }
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFEICER,
WASHINGTON, May Z, 1s74-1p. IN.

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER,
WASHINGTON, May z, 1s4-1p. IN.
.s.- PROBABILITIES.
For New England, generally, clear or clearing
weather, with cool northerly and variable winds I,
will prevail, with slight rise in barometer. For
the Middle States and the lower lake region,
generally clear and cool weather, southerIy to
westerly winds, and rising followed by falling
barometer. For the South Atlantic States, gen.
orally clear and cool weather, southerly to west
erly winds, and rising followed by falling barom-
eter. For the Gulf States, partly cloudy weather,
rising temperature, southeast to southwest winds,
and stationary to falling barometer.
THE WEATHER IN WASHINGTON.
The following was the range of the Thermometer
yesterday at HemplsT's optician store: g. m. so;
10 q. m, 500; L m, $50; p. M, s7o p. N, 60;
9 p. m, $50; p. m, $50.
National Republican., 1874-05-07
} THE cATBoLIc- -coNYolcATIoN

IHL NALHVH@1O !. = - 80 z. = w :. =
CiNcISNArI, May 6-Most Ethe Roman Oasho-
lie archbishops and other clergy attending tho
convention IN this city returned to their homes to-
day The nature Of their work will probably not
National Republican., 1874-05-07

About $4,000 have been subscribed to the
fund raising in Edinburgh for statue of the
late DR.. Livingstone. The design accepted for
the statue is that Of Mrs. Hill, sister Of Sir
Noel Patton. Fols p s-ts sits'd ~ ~
National Republican., 1874-05-07
WOMANLY DIGNITY.

tFrom the London Saturday Revisw.I
Nature, which has given weapons of assault
or means Of defence to almost all living crea-
lures, has made men audacious, and has en-
dowed woman with dignity. And dignity has
the best Off. In fact, womanly dignity may
be accepted as one among many explanations
Of that legendary power which turned the
brayest man to stone, and made the might of
the strongest like water in their bones. What
can any one do against III As well try to
penetrate the armadiIlo's coat Of mail by
needle, or make hole in q pachyderm by
popgun, as fire Q woman to passion or melt her
to pity when she has onceintrenched herself in
the stronghold of her dignity. No argument
can shake her, no reasoning convince her;
despair dies away to qucrulousness, and the
pleadings of love itself fall dull and blunted
from her stately selfpossession like so many
toy shafts hurled against polished and i'm
penetrable surface.
Indeed, how can you rage In anger, or abuse
yourself In entreaty, to . creature who Is icily
polite, loftily unmoyed not to be goaded into
the smallest demonstration which would put
her in the wrong and give you vantage-point
against her, and whose calm eyes look at you
with kind of superior scorn which, while 1t
maddens you, offers no point Of attack What
can you dot Simply nothing. The means of
defsnce which nature has given are unassaila-
BID, and diguffed woman Is mistress of the
situation by the very power of negation, If by
none otheSs But there are various kinds of
dignity, and II some are more exasperating
tAan others, some are very lovely and among
the greatest charms Of womanhood. There Is
.inspartieular that soft dignity which belongs to
women who are affectionste by nature and
timid by temperament, but who have reserve
Of selfrespect that defends them against them
selves as well as against others.
The fact is, useful as womanly dignity Is as
a womanly possession, 1t can be carried to ex-
cess, and from ayirtue become a vice. So long
as 1t is an honest defence-work against the
rough assaults of superior strength, it Is both
good and fair; but, when it assumes to be more
than this, 1t becomes an exaggeration, and, as
such, ridiculous. There is no law by which
women can be exempt from a share in the
troubles and sorrows of human life and even
their dignity cannot always protect them from
things that override all but nature. Still It is
a valuable possession, and women had better
have too much of It than too little; for, al
though too much renders them absurd, too
little makes them contemplate, and between
the two there is no doubt as to which is worst.
National Republican., 1874-05-07
LOCAL MISCELLANY.

Nine thousand herring we're received as the
Georgetown fish wharf yesterday, which sold at
% per thousand.
Messrs. r. A. Golden & Bro. sold yesterday
1000 shad ut from tl2 to SIS per hundred, and
%, 900 herrings at o. per thousand.
This afternoon and evening closes the ladies'
fair at Forrest hall, High street. Georgetown, for
the benefit Of st. Johns church parsonage.
On Tuesday dog owned by Mr.. Ball, residing
on street, between Third and Four-and-s-half
streets southwest, went mad, and bis Mr.. B., his
wife and child. Ofacer Edelin killed the animal.
Owing to the small number Of people that as
sembled at the Jewish synagogue last night .
listen to Mr.. A. E Franklln's address on the re-.
cent Hoods In the South, the lecture was post
poned until further notice.
L Beggot Jones, commodore Of the Americas
yacht paid visit to the navy yard yesterday
and inspected his new cram, which will sail for
the lower Potomac in . few days loaded With
choice spirits and plank shad
Ofhcer Sebastian, Of the Third police precInc..
was struck on the head yesterday morning by .
colored man named VIM. wIIlIams. The dsed
was committed while the oficer was endeayorinr
to arrest Williams and Q man named James
Parker. Offeer Sebastian's injuries are oonsId-
cred serious.
The regular monthly meeting ofthe Washington
Association Was held at CIarks's
hall, Pennsylvania avenue, between Foar-and-a-
half and Sixth streets, last evening; Mr.. W. T.
Baldwin tn the chair, and q. s. Price secretary
Aftsr the transaction Of the regular business, the
association adjourned. ~.
Yesterday evening, about O'Clock, q lad named
Ahfeo Barkley, ten years Of age, fell from the
wall on the west side OF the Treasury buildIng .
distance OF about ten feet, struck his head, frac-
turing the SKULL He was taken to willIams'
drug-stor and Afterwards removed to his home,
NO. l9l7 PennsyiVania avenue, by ofacer DIns-
more.
At the seyenty-etghth meeting Of the FIrstNOo-
operative Association, IS shares were redeemed.
The Security Association, at Its seYeuty-slxth
meeting, sold no money. Several amendments
were offered to the constitution which, It is stated
will relieve the association from any charge Of
usury, and VIII place It on . firm footing.
Al the forty-seventh meeting Of the Capitol HIIi
Building Association, 20 shares were sold as AZ
average Of 4511 premium, and 10 we're Withdrawn
1t an accrued interest Of ESQ per share. r-r
National Republican., 1874-05-07
THE DEATH OF DUELLYG IN lZSSIS-
GTppT

lFrom the New Orleans PIcayune, April d.
A correspondent of the P:cayuHe> having
called upon Governor Ames, asked what course
would be taken.
Governor Ames. am determined to put an
end to the business. When Colonel Rhett
killed Judge Cooley, though a strong pressure
was brought to bear against me, 1 thought that
I would not interfere, believing as the harm
was done 1t might be preventive for the fu-
ture. In short, if a man grossly insulted an
other and was killed, had an idea that the
people would be rather chary of how they did
such things in the future, and therefore took
no sta nd. The people of Louisiana, however
did not seem 10 appreciate this at all, and 10
and behold the very next difficulty they had
among themselves tbcy came Over here and
fought. grew a little angry, but as no one
was hurt took no action again. But when
the difficulty took place between Phillips and
and Bienvenu, and the latter was killed, / de-
termined to put stop to this bloody work at
once, and telegraphed to arrest all persons
fighting duels in this State, and to prosecute
them to the full extent of the law.
re- Now, as if to add Insult 10 injury, here comes
along whole crowd of people to engage in
another affair. They are fully equipped. They
bring wine, cigars and eatables, and then 90
coolly to work to try and kill each other, With
newspaper correspondents to chronicle events.
Fortunately, no one is badly hurt; but the
whole crowd is arrested and locked up. Now,
propose to have them all indicted. aud DUN,
ished, ss an example. am going not only 70
find true bills against them, but also against
the participants in the others; and If cannot
get them in this State, will issue reQuisitions
and have them brought here and tried. They
need not think, because 1t is the custom in
Louisiana, that It is or is going to be the Gus
tom in this State. If l can't get witnesses
against them / will have some one of the num-
Der TO turn States evidence, and will convict
them on that. If they all refuse to testify,
then can, under the laws Of this State, send
them TO jail until one does.
National Republican., 1874-05-07

TnE Iron Ag' publishes a decision recently
rendered in the United States Circuit Court for
the Northern district of New York, in q case
involving the question as to what q patent will
and Will not cover, which Is of unusual import
ance to patentees ami inventors, inasmuch as a
knowledge of the principles laid down will tend
TO prevent much waste Of time and money In
lutlie applications or useless suits for infringe
inallt. The gist of the decision is as follows: A
etaln 70 a result is not, per sc, patentable;
nefthercau claim be sustained which covers
every mode or means by which, certain adyan-
taees can be secured In an invention. The mera
location of an old apparatus upon machine is
not pstentable..
Ii new devices are required in order to adopt
an, old apparatus TO q new position on a ma
chine, and the change produces a new and
beneficial result, then the change is patentable
in connection with the new devices; not the re-
suit, but the means Of producing it, or, If such
a Change brings into existence new combina-
tion of devices productive of a new and useful
result, the new combination is patentable. The
patent will not be infringed in either ease by .
like change in the location OF the appafatus
unless the new devices which adapt IL to its
new position are also used in one case, and un-
less all the material elements of the newly
Developed combination tAfe,. employed IN the
other. In changing the location of an appa-
ratus upon a machine It seems not to be
patentable TO adopt such mechanical changes
to. render It practicable as mere judgment die
tstes or the necessity of the case demands.
These are points which all Inventors and paten-
tees would do well TO remember.
National Republican., 1874-05-07
Trc-NoxY OF FRANK A. LYNCH.

Fraak A.Lynch sworn. -----"
By the Chairmap: q. Are you familiar with
tile-ppc! A. Yes, sir. have been in the bust
ness Overseven years. b'EH p IL >. . ...E-
q And the prices' A. Yes, sir.
~. Mere WEI you engaged in that business in
1871, ~, T5i A. Yes, sir.
q. DID yoH furnish the Board of Public
Works f7!th any pipei 4. No, sir. --
Y. DO you know Mr. WilsOns A. Very we'll
acquainted with him,
9; 10 yCu HTow the prices Of pipe in Phfia--
Q. Have you noticed the testimony Of Mr.
Wilson az 70 the prices paid IoF pire ip This
cityi A. read it over casually. :
g. pid you sen any pipe in this city,, A. A.
Q. To private partiesl A. Yes,sir3 az
Q. How were your prices, compared with the
schedule Of prices that We have had teforI, r,,l
A. In some instances It ranged above and In
some below it. We had no set prices In Wash
tngton for pipe. Some parties got better terms
than others. '.'1 =. y.
Q. How far below the prices IN the schedule
Of prices did you sell pipe in this sityf- A. /
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-11
LATEST EAD-ITION.

One of the corps of compensated cor.
respondents announces the following a.
the latest probability:
The House Committee on Roads and
Canals to-day agreed to report favorably
Captain lads plan for opening the mouth
of the mississippi, and to abandon the costly
and questionable scheme of digging the Fort
st. Phillip canal through the marshes for ten
miles. Captain Eads is to select whichever
pass at the mouth of the river he pleases
and is to have $4,000, 900 for making a chan
mel of a depth of twenty eight feet and
S5000,0 900 more for maintaining the channel
for nine years afterward, the whole to be
paid in installments. Captain Eads' plan is
the lefty system, which is in use at the
mouth of the Danube.
That Danube is like famous witnessin
a libel case. Much was said to be PROV
able by Pelagie Brown, but she was
unluckily in the bone yard and could not
come. The Danube is an absent and con-
tumacious witness, and though much is
imputed to its testimony can not be
brought into court. The court in the
libel case refused to allow the testimony
of the absent and inaccessible witness to
be set up, and we shall except to that of
the Danube, until complete verifcation
of the reported jetties and their identical
to the distractions of the
shall have been demonstrated.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-11
WILLARD FILLMORE.

Kings often linger in their last years
incapable Of duty, and the command o,
whole people falls into the hands of IA
vorites. A republic so tenews its execu,
tive incumbent as to have always the eS.
ercise of a mature and active intellect.
The distinguished republican who heads
this notice had been called 60 executive
| Office by his feliow-citizens. He had per-
formed its duties well. He passed into
honorable privacy from which he had been
elevated, and died at an advanced age in
| the midst Of the scenes and friendships
familiar 20 hiu from his infancy. 1t is
thus a republican chief should live in the
faithful execution of every duty, and die
with the respect and honor Of the nation
by which he had been trusted.
There has been perhaps no better rep
resentaye American than Willard Fill
more, man Of unpretending but I'M
shaken integrity, of unostentatious and
tolerant faith, of large love for his
whole country and with no prejudice
against any portion of its people, mind
substantial and comprehensive, capable
of all public affairs, yet with no abnormal
development Of any special faculty into
oratory, poetry or political intrigues 1t
is probable that the character of Willard
Fillmore will compare very nearly with
that Of Washington in its mental and
moral balance, and in uniform reputa-
ton that has defed and survived the IN
scrupulous assaults which rapacious am
bition always directs against unbending
integrity.
Mr.. Fillmore lived at time when it
especially required sterling qualities to fill
the executive station. He stood as q
breakwater between the interests and the
prejudices Of sections. As the author Of
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-11
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN,. WEDNESDAY, MARCH IL, 1874

tariff not sufficiently protective to sat
isfy the timid or covetous, yet recognizing
q principle that e1asperated the FREE
traders, he excited the hostility of the on
without gaining the enthusiasm of tn
other. He did not, perhaps, satisfy Gree
ley, and certainly did not appease Rhett
In like manner, his approval of the meas
ures known as the compromise acts, ex
posed him to the discomfort of abolition
without committing notification to his
support. He stood in calm and reso
lutte attitude keeping apart Infatuated an.
tagonists. His successors were not so res
olute or SO successful. Perhaps the day
of mediation had passed
The administration of Mr.. Fillmore
was unexceptionable in its moral. The
Union grew and prospered and was pre-
parlng to assume more pronounced
character in the dramatic cast of inter-
national history. The nation was nour.
lshlng strength to disencumber itself
OF sectionalism preparatory to the Lar-
monlous execution OF its great mission.
Cautious and conservative, aiming 90 as
certain the limits Of official authority,
that they should not be passed
in the performance of official duty.
the administration Of Mr.. Fillmore
was in full conformity with The
reputation of its predecessors. Since that
period events have precipitated respon.
sibilities upon the national government
which will test its endurance. 4 larger
sphere Of duty has been cast upon it by
the compulsory remuneration OF power
claimed by the constituent States. and
now exercised without question by the
federal government A war without ex.
ample in the terms Of adjustment has
come to aggrandize TIE powers and il
crease the Duties Of the government. It
has been followed by the usual conse.
quences Of extravaganza and official
The nation crushed out sec.
tionalism as grand preliminary 70 per-
petual union. II will crush out cor.
ruption as the sole foe 10 national
We have entire confidence in !
the nerve of che nation. We believe there
IS just as much virtue in the American
people as there ever was. With large !
powers and a distinct destiny has come G
capacity adequate to The present !
Ind to the future. The youth of the re-
public is perpetual. 1t has no decline OF !
3ecsepitude, and the trust Of conservative /
reedom which Willard Fillmore admins.
cred Sc well in his day has been trans.
nitted to men who appreciate its yalue
nd will assure its success.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-11
JUDICIAL QUESTIONS.

There is nothing more perplezing to
the average reader than TO find the right
side OF so-called judicial question. He
reads in one paragraph that ignorance Of
| the law is no excuse. and he must con.
strue It for himself In another he is told
! that a certain alleged law is in dispute,
| and none can tell what it means until it
has received judicial Interpretation.
Scarcely q law Of any vital importance
has been passed by the Legislature since
1868 which has not been called in ques-
tior in some manner or another by pro-
fessors OF law. And yet very few statutes
have been declared void by our courts.
It is the same with United States laws.
The knights Of the green bag have from
the earliest times exerted themselves to
make an honest penny by persuading
some victim or another 70 stake them for
tilt against congressional enact.
ment. With three exceptions, we be.
lieve these legal knights Grant have
been ell endorsed. The Missouri COM
promise was declared void. as well as
law providing fos trials by military com.
mission in States not in instruction. We
believe the action Of the court IN che
cotton taxes and toe .ecens singular de-
cisions in coniscation. though not quite
coming to the point. may be taken both
together as fully equal to another.
With the Presumption and the practice
then in favor Of the written law as il
comes from the national or State Legisla- |
ture, it IS strange that new victims can be |
found every year. and frequently every
day for a period Of time. !
It may be necessary for the public |
safety that the people should be COM
PEELED TO interpret laws correctly at their
peril, though we submit It requires more
than human Intelligence to forecast some |
of the decisions we receive. Perhaps we
shall arrive at some settled rule on this |
subject by and by; but at present we can
not say how man may refuse to tell at
sight whether a law is good one or not,
because he is liable to pay for wrong
guess. Until otherwise agreed to, we sub
NIT that the wisest plan is to receive every
statute as valid and then be very much
to find that it is worthless,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-11
STALE IMPORTATIONS.

Our modern Mercutio lBooth). who re-
Gently gave out that be had had "eoough.
comes back for more. He propounds
! eight hard conundrums TO the Times,
| which our good aatured contemporary
very wisely ''giyes up" But our irritable
| halter imports his hats from Boston and
his political phrases from Washington.
Neither appear 20 us 70 be fresh OF desira.
bic. and both doubtless lind dull mar.
ket. With the shop we have nothing to
do. but against Che slang plagiarized from
Matt Carpenter we file our protest. 1t
occurs in his eighth conundrum. and is 70
this effect: Booth wants the Times to tel.
him. categorically. under mysterious pen.
alties for laundering. "What is the inevi,
table. which the Fusionists could not
master. and TO which they have y;elded?'
And then comes the kindly suggestion:
''Does the Times mean that compound Of
politica: treason. got up. as Senator Car
penter says. by those rascais down there
and popularity known as the Kellogg usr,r.
pation?" As the Times does not meet this
question OF the political mechanic fairly
and souarely, as the carpe. bag mezchan.
had q right to demand Of it. We are left
altogether in the DARK as to what was
meant by the Times.
We Go not feel much interest in this
quarrel between two parties who .yere re-
Gently such close friends as the journal
and the halter. Possibly we could inter.
pref the oracle which talks in enigmas 90
Mr.. Booth. and that, Zoo. withou, borrow
ing from Senator Carpenter. OF that '.high-
est tribunal in the world. the Senate com.
mittee." We suspect the Times intended
to give the irascible blonde a gentle hint
that he was exposing himself to fidicule
by setting up pretense to o representa-
tive capacity which has been decided by
the ''highest tribunal" in this State, the
Louisiana Senate. to belong to another
man. The ''inevitable" referred to by the
Times is probably the majority, against
which it is Improbable to contend. 1t
was to the clearly expressed will of the
people. no less than to the hard logic of
events to which the more sensible Fusion
yielded. They took the seats to
which they had been elected notwithstand.
ing other constituencies had elected men
opposed to them in politics. Mr..
Booth would make a close corpora.
ion of the Senate and House, and
admit none who did not possess
he odor of Democratic sanctity. Those |
who have the bad taste to disagree with |
aim in his wild distractions about govern
nent belong to the class so elegantly de-
cribed by Carpenters backwoods slang
They are all 'those rascals," of course
md will be so long as they show any in.
dependence of opinion. And we are able
o convey to Mr.. Booth that the chances
re favorable for 'those rascals" in Wis
onsin turning Carpenter out of the
United States Senate, the same as Mr..
}ooth has been left in this State Repre-
entatives should be like their constitu-
nts, and we rejoice that MIR. Booth has
ound out that he is not fit to represent
ity ward. He is too good by half for
those rascals. and they deserve all they
aust suffer in the loss of his valuable
erviceS