The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-11-08
GOOD NEWS FROM LIVINGSTON,
The following is the official report of the
ote in Livingston parish:

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Alien, Dem observation-disclosures. foA
Hlestsnd. Rep. ~
I For amendments. ............. 127
i Against amendments. ......... Cos
The South Carolina Sandhiilers.
q IG. A. Townsend's Columbia Is. c. Letter IN
Chicago Tribune.l
! AS we were passing through the region o.
the Sandhillers, said:
"The Sandhillers, Gen. Kershaw-what
tribe of people are they?"
'.The Sandhillers are the queerest people
we have, and, though poor, not uninteresting,
} They live in this belt of country contiguous
to Columbia, where the soil is pretty much
bare sand, uninviting to the eye, and scrub
billy hmbered with pine and small oak
Their little plank cottages, almost
black with exposure to the sun; their
small figures, almost stunted, it would seem.
but capable OF great fatigue; their dwarf cat
le, and docile character, make them sort O.
dependt MT peasantry, not unlike what isf
found in old parts of the north of Europe.
1t has been guessed that they were Of IcelandiG
or Norwegian descent, emigrated anterior to
the historic period of Carolina. Their
| straight black hair, nearly oblique eyes, of an
| almond shape, and unambitious home habits.
remind us of nothing else"
Were they generally friendly to the Con-
1eQefate cause
Railways. The Sandhillers made some OF
the very best soldiers in the Confederacy.
They were easily disciplined, obedent beyond
any other soldiery, could not be worn out by
marching, and they were the first to plundez
the battlefield"
The st. Louis Republican, Of the 5th inst.p
says:
1t is needless to point out all the causes that
conspired to bring about this tremendous de-
feat of ruling Administration. The result
is revolt against the general policy OF the
Administration, with, perhaps, a special di
rection Of the popular anger against the
bloodhound system Of persecution adopted in
Louisiana.
1t might be said, without any great outrage
on propriety, that it is wholesale repetition Of
the September revolution in louisiana re-.
volt of the whole country against that cruel
and pitiless persecution OF the Southern
whites which the carpet-baggers have coun~-
seled and the President and his Attorney
General have SO diligently executed. It looks
almost as though Massachusetts,, New York
and New Jersey had initiated the Penn rekel--
lion in New Orleans, with the fusillades left,
out.
No debut President Grant and his dismayed
and stumbled advisers are asking themselves
what is to be done after SO terrible repri-
mand from the people The duty before
them is plain it is for them to do it, or in.
vite second reckoning by refusing to do it:
The country has expressed its wish and will !;
t is their duty to obey. The dragonnades in
The South must be stopped Major Merrill
must be sent about his business the army
'emoved from Louisiana !; the Federal officials
here ordered to conine themselves to their
proper duties, and the general working of tho .
Government, both in the North and South,
made to conform to the change in public
opinion.
The SCIENCE OF POCKET-PICKING.-
Il recent plckpocket case at the BoulOgns
aces, French newspaper gives some detailed
Information as to the modus Operandi, in &C.
ordance with the very latest improvements of
ne ight-fngered fraternity. Nothing appar.
ntly can be more systematic. They hunt in
cts of four at races, and, on other occasions
here there are crowds, and the labor is di-
lied among tireur, a coquer, and two non.
eurs. The first, who is the leader, makes tor
ne most crowded quarters and with the air of
ne who is extremely anxious to reach some
ne he sees, pushes through the crowd.
'llowed by the nonneurs. His object is
} discover Ell route who is likely to be
orth robbing, and on discovering victim
lakes sign to the nonneurs. They presently
ush against the victim. gently hustle him
IL,
reur then ''goes through him." The coquer,
eanwhile, is on the lookout, and as soon as
le tireur has got the booty, it is passed from
IS hands to those OF the coquer. The tireur'g
art in the performance is the most danger.
l.. The coquer requires no skill whatever,
1t his place is found very difficult to fill, in
much as, Notwithstanding the time-honored
Iage OF "honor among thieves" coquers are
most invariably suspected Of a tendency to
Up themselves before dividing up the plum
Il, an honest coquer be regarded as ra1issi.-
q 0uis.
There never has been in the his tory Of this
untry an instance before where majority
a hundred in the House of Representatives,
aich has less than three hundred members
all, was changed into an opposition of from
ty to sixty. 1t is revolution unparalleled.
Grace Greenwood has discovered some
arkling springs in Colorado, called the
aeidsick" and the "Mumn." No wonde,
e place is healthy.
Even in Observation-Disclosures do not like to-
told In the form OF statutory enactments.
at they must not take little of the ardent
caslonally for their stopach's sake and their
my infrmities.
The Rev. Mr.. King, the owner of Apology.
winner Of the great st. Leger race, must.
an lndefatigable sportsman. He is seventy
lrs OF age, but wheels out for partridge
ooting in an arm chair.