The weekly Louisianian., 1874-03-21
OUR COUNTRY

Our country contemporaries b.
gin to come in and our sanctum il
more home-like and cheerful-as
welcome as: the sunshine after
clouds, are the old familiar faces n
our journalistic friends, and not lesa
the new faces, that peep out from
our files. Up to date We are in H.
ceipt Of the following journals IRON
the country, and find crediab)a
progress whenacompared with Tia
past, not only in exterior appear.
ance, bat in: vigor At thought and
purity Of sentiment:
Rapides Gazette, Sugar Planter,
Weekly Republican, St Charles
Herald, The Iberyille Republican,
The Opelousos Journal, The Dou-
aldsonville Chief, Attakapas Regis.
ter, Plaquemines Sentinel and The
Grand Era.
The Grand Era scores the Baton
Rouge folks for their hardness in
the indeayor to secure the location
of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College in that town. Our contem,
porary says:
At no time during this struggle
was Baton Rouge far behind in this
race for so great q prize, and We
assert that had there been a little
more energy and promptness dis
played by her citizens, Baton Rouge
would have secured signal triumph
over New Orleans and Ouachita.
As it was, Baton Rouge Jagged be-
hind her competitors, for whilst
New Orleans and Ouachita were
holding forth great Inducements to
obtain the college, Baton Rouge was
taking chances, until just at the
finish of the race, the session of the
Legislature nearly ended, she put on
a few .spurts by Offering induce.
ments which should have been Of
fered a month before. The action
OF the City Council and the Police
Jury came too late, and even after
the bill which finally passed had
been adopted by the House. Such
arguments as were contained in the
action of the Council and Police
Jury, placed sooner in the hands Of
her representatives, would have en-
abled the friends and representa-
tives of this parish to have entered
moro conidentially and successfully
in this struggle, and secured to
Baton Rouge the Mechanical and
Agricultural College for the State Of
Louisiana. There was not that
promptness OF action and liberaGty
of spirit displayed by the citizens
of Baton Rouge, eqaalling that OF
other parishes, and now that it Is TO
be placed in the hands OF q commits
sion, there should be Immediate
steps taken to place before it tho
advantages of this city, it's donations
of school apparatus, buildings,
money subscribed. and land given,
go that all thefacts may be presented
and tie commission fully satisfied
that Baton Rouge is tho very best
locality for the Mechanical and
Agricultural College.
The Concordia Eagle Of March
14th. pays our paper the following
appreciated compliment:
We are glad to learn that IHE
Lou1s1AS1AH has again made its ap"
pearance. This paper, under the
management of ex-Lieutcnant Gov
ernor Pinchback, did good service
for the Repubilcan cause .lo
last campaign, and as the leading
man of the State still has its destiny
in his control, we may rest assured
that The Lou1s1AN1AN will always be
found battling for tho right OF on,
race, the welfare Of our State, ana
the perpetuation of the Republican
party:
The Weekly Planet, Louisville
too, says:
The L~ou1s1AN1AS has arisen from
a slumber which seems to nave
known a waking, and is another
evidence that journalism is not COL.
fined to any particular race. onder
the guidance of the snvanc'b@ l,''en, ,
back, that Republican journal WIN
probably live long and be q m'go'y
power.
George Eliot, the lady novelist
one of the keenest observers OF men
Ia Al:~~o oooLnc mia ut one e0s