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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-01-16
PINCH AND THE REPUBLICANS.

The Bastrop Republican expressed
the wish, a few weeks ago, that Pinch
back would no longer continue the
contest for seat in the U. S. Senate,
but would go before the House as an
applicant for a seat there, as Congress-
man at Large; and, also, that either
John Ray, or w. J. Blackburn should
be chosen to take tho seat in the Senate
claimed by Pinch. The Donaldsonville
Chief replies to the Republican in the
following style, showing how dear .to
the average Republican heart is Pinch
back, and how insutIerable to the party
is the idea of throwing Pinch over
board:
One of our North Louisiana exchanges
wants Mr.. Pinchback to resign his
claims to a seat in the Senate and enter
the House as Congressman at Large, in
order that the veNed contest may be
settled and some North Louisiana Re-
publican elected to the Senate. Our
contemporary displays his utter igno-
rance of the extent of Mr.. Pinchback's
popularity by the above suggestion.
Should there be another election for
Senator by tho General Assembly, p.
b. s. Pinchback would be the success
full candidate and would receive almost
a unanimous vote. There is no Repub-
lican either in Northern, Southern,
Eastern or Western Louisiana who
could successfully compete with him.
We may say, that it is just like the
Republican party of Louisiana to prefer
Pinchback to any intelligent white
man in the party. If the Republicans
had a different preference, that party
would not be the party we have always
said it was. And yet its deserving
white allies still submit, like babes, to
such treatment.
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INAUGURATION OF GOV. ALLEN.

COLUMBUS, Jan. 12-Gov. William
Allen was inaugurated to-day, in the
presence of the Legislature and a large
assembly of people from all parts of the
State.
He delived a brief address, in which
he calls especial attention to the neces-
sity of reducing taxes and appropria-
tions. He says the increase Of taxes
and expenditures has for some years
been beyond the actual and rational
necessities of the public service. But we
are not assembled under ordinary cir
cumstances; few months ago that un-
defined, but tremendous power, called
money panic, impaired a violent shock
to the whole industrial and property
system. The we'll considered plans and
calculations of all men engaged in &C.
tive labor, were suddenly and thorough
ly deranged.
In the universal business anarchy that
ensued, the minds of men were more
or less bewildered, Sc. that few among
them were able to cleErly see their way
or knew what to do. Even for the
brief futurity of single week all values
| and incomes were instantly and deeply
depressed. There was not farmer, q
| manufacturer, a merchant, a mechanic,
| or a laborer who did not feel that he
was less able to meet his engagements
or pay his taxes, than he had been be-
fore. The distrustful effect OF this state
of things was felt by all; but it was
more grievously felt by the great body
of the laboring people, because it
touched them at the vital point Of sub
sistence. Many of these men were
unable to find that regular and remu-
nerative employment so essential to
their well being, whilst some Of them,
especially in large towns and cities,
would have suffered for actual want OF
the necessaries of life, but for that
prompt humanity and charity so char
acteristic Of and so honorable to the
whole American people.
In this condition of things you are
now convened, and it is manifestly the
duty of the Legislature of the State to
afford the only relief which it has the
constitutional power to afford by re-
duction of the public taxes, in proper
ton to the reduced ability OF the people
to pay.
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Is 1T PRUDENT

President Grant is not altogether
pleased with the management of his
partisan rangers in the Southern pro-
vinces. The recent election In Texas
has afforded the President an opportu-
nifty to rebuke his lieutenants. In that
State an election by the people, at the
polls, was held few weeks ago. The
Democrats polled a heavy majority
swept the State clean. 1t was then dis
covered that the requirement of the
constitution Of Texas was not complied
the election ought to have
been held for four days consecutively,
when it was held but for one, under a
law passed by the legislature and ap-
proved by the Republican Governor,
Ell. Davis. The Republicans, with
Davis at their head, were not satisfied
with q heavy Democratic majority.
The Supreme Court Of the State came
In, to annul the election. Thereupon,
application was made to the President
to interfere, with troops, to set aside the
result Of the election. The President
responds:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, !
Washington, d. c., Jan. 10, 1874.
10 Coz. Davis, dustin, 1s.ras:
Your dispatch and letter reciting the
action Of the Supreme Court of Texas
in declaring the late election uncon-
stitutional and asking the use Of troops
to prevent apprehended violence, are
received. The call is not made in ac-
cordance with the Constitution OF the
United States and acts OF Congress
under it,and cannot therefore be grant
ed. The act Of the Legislature of Texas
providing for the recent election having
received your approval, and both polit-
tcal parties having made nominations
and having conducted a political CAM
paign under Its provisions, would it
not be prudent as well as right to yield
to the verdict OF the people as ex-
pressed by their ballots.
U. s. GRANT.
The people OF louisiana heartily res.
pond, that 1t would be prudent.
A. the result OF this dispatch, the
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GARDENING Z

January has como, and the season will
any garden, or land at all, ought to SOW
and plant seed of various kinds. In order
to supply the wants OF the public In that
respect, H. KINDERHGANN, on DeSiard St.,
has received q large lot of different
GARDEN SEEDS,
Pink Eye, Early Goodrich, Early Rose
Potatoes,
For planting. He has also on hand large
supply Of eating Potatoes (dry and neaIy
whom cooked) the best OF fresh Goldfish
Mackerel in kits Cheap; Macaroni, Buck
Goshen, nicely put up in s. h packages,
suitable for families; real good Tea and
Coffee; fresh and sweet Lard, in buckets,
kegs and tierces. Good Flour will make
good bread and biscuit; if you are in need
Of any, do not forget that you can find that
pound, on Desiard street, at the store Of ne
81. KINDERMANN.
Monroe, L., Jan'y 8, 1S74.-2m
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Information from Washington con-
corning Louisiana affairs, is contradic-
tory. The Democrats believe there
will be new election while the Re-
publicans offer to bet that there will
not. AS for ourself, we believe the
Republicans in Congress cannot stand
where they are. They have got to do
something, and we rather think a new
best
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HIGHwAYMEN AT WORK.
STAGES AND PASSENGERS ROBBED.

Four miles west of Arcadia, on the
Mt. Lebanon road, the stages from this
place to Shreveport meet, going and
coming. At about one o'clock on the
9Th inst, the stage bound west was
halted at this point, by four armed
men, each having handkerchief over
his face. The men were on foot, and
were armed with shot guns. The
driver halted. The disguised robbers
quickly opened the mail bags, and
went through the contents, making
small pay out of the effort. They kept
this stage at halt, until the rumbling
Of the stage coming this way was heard,
when they hurried to meet that. Mr..
Shaw, the General Agent Of the line,
informs us that the robbers told the
driver to halt; asked him If he had any
whisky, to which he replied no; If he
had any arms, and that he said no /;
and then demanded his mail bags, when
he told them to take the bags at their
peril. Three of the robbers approached
from one side Of the road, and two from
the other, the fifth man coming up out
Of the woods. They required the pas
sengers to come out, one by one, and
searched their pockets as they came
out. A passenger from Weatherford,
Texas, was robbed of $347, and was in
formed, by one of the party, where he
lived, what had been his business, and
what his name was. One Of the robbers
told the driver what his name was, and
that this was the fourth time his mails
had been robbed. In each case, the
said that they were disappointed, that
they were looking for Jew from this
end of the line, with $4,000. The rob.
bers got about $500 from the passengers,
! but nothing from the mails, except a
registered package of papers. They re-
turned to the robbed passengers five
dollars each, giving to one however,
ten dollars, because, as they said, hav-
ing the most money, he was considered
to be the biggest rascal Of the party,
him through.
The country where the robberies were
perpetrated is thinly settled, and men
are continually coming and going
Disguised as the robbers were, and in
such country, it will DO difficult to
identify them and bring them to pun
ishment. We do not hesitate to say
that such scoundrels richly merit hang.
| ing to the first tree.
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his grasp. Certainly, had his rule been
permitted to continue, General Barber
would never have ridden with General
Longstreet, as commander, in a pro-
cessiOn In honor OF the most celebrated
event In the history of the proudest city
Of the South. The wheels Of time move
rapidly In our day, and it is only men
Of liberal and enlarged minds who can
keep up.
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Blackburn closes his latest chapter
on Romance of Politics in the Back
woods, with the following paragraph:
Now some nice gentlemen, including
my editorial friend, Captain McCranie,
Of the OUACHITA TELEGRAPH may
assume to tsmake fun" of these things;
but know him and he shall not be
sighted in these chapters. 1 may
undertake to show before I am through,
how it is possible that even so good and
conscientious" gentleman as HIM
self may, under political prejudice
under the exciting influence Of the
romance Of politics in the backwoods-
consent to believe lie and be damned.
We bave, in our life, believed several
lies, but, like George Washington, never
could tell one.
We can see no difference, favorable
to truth, between the lies we have be-
lieved, and the truths Mr.. Blackburn
and his party have illustrated. The
fact is, we rather think, concerning our
lies, as an old friend of ours did when
asked II he knew anything about the
Devil. "Pshaw, shyster ~ replied he,
ssthe Devil has been my best friend"
If for believing lie, we are finally
damned, we can only say, with our
expiring breath, that the lie appealed
to our common sense and conscience,
while the truth never appealed to us at
all 4; and that if there be any response
bility about the business, truth must
bear 1t for appearing in such guise
and without the power of articulation.
The Republicans, doubtless, have a
great many truths on their side, but
they are like masked batteries, one
never knows where they are, or, like
Schenck's railroad battery, they are
always ready to do execution, but break
down at the start. 1t has seemed to us,
in short, that our Republican friends
have deliberately undertaken to let lies
have the ascendancy, or, at least, to
break down truth, by "the force Of OK
AMPLE" We have often wondered how
a party Of 50 much morality, truth and
integrity could find it consistent with
it's creed to carry a people and a State
so rapidly to ruin, as this people and
State have been. All the lights we
have seen, have been beacons set on
rocks, warning us not to go there and
all Of truth we have seen, has been
sstruth crushed to earth.' Will it ever
rise again7 While we mediate upon
this question, we shall await most
patiently Mr.. Blackburn's promised
disclosures, calm in the possession of q
willingness to be forgiven for anything
wrong we may have done, sromantic,' y
or otherwise.
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The Shreveport Times comments as
follows upon the course Of trade above
the Raft:
We have received very little cotton
from above the Raft this season, which
indicates that the Cairo & Fulton rail-
road must be carrying it off, as naviga-
ton with that region is now good.
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Massachusetts pays to the internal
revenue, as tax on spirituous liquors,
81 ,674, 900. Michigan, with about the
same population, paid $685. 900. Mas
sachusetts has prohibitory law, and
Michigan has not.
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Wednesdays Vicksburg Herald says

Wednesdays Vicksburg Herald says ::
The Emma took out another big lot
of plantation hands yesterday, emil
grants from Georgia and Alabama.
Nearly all the upstream boats and
tributary packets now have from fifty
to a hundred of these emigrants, who
are leaving the worn out soil of their
native land for the more productive re-
gions hereabout.
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In the constitutional convention of
Ohio, the committee reported an article
to give the right of suffrage to women.
The article is to be submitted to sep
arate vote of the people.
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.PuLL, DICK, PULL, DEv1LI''

President Grant Is succeeding badly
In his efforts to supply the place OF
Chief Justice Chase. The nomination
of Attorney General Williams, from
the Presidents standpoint, was a
proper nomination. Mr.. Williams had
been confirmed as the chief law officer
Of the Executive,-an Office, Of late,
Of as much resultant good, or evil, as
that Of Chief Justice; and it was only
reasonable, on the part Of the Presi-
dent, that he should give the Senate
the credit of making Chief Justice, the
individual that body had already con-
firmed as Attorney General.
That the Senate, largely composed of
Republicans, failed to answer, favora-
bly,, their Chieftain's behest, is no bus
ineRs OF ours.
The Republicans Of the Senate ap-
pear to have risen In rebellion against
their chosen leader, and the nomina-
ton Of Williams had to be withdrawn.
This drove the President to the hui
initiating confession, that his Admin
istration Of public affairs, to the ex-
tent Of selecting proper nominee for
the Office Of Chief Justice, is a failure.
The President had offered the Sena-
tors Of his party a staunch Republi-
can, whom they declined to receive.
He now turns upon his pursuers, the
faithlees adherents of his Administra-
ton, and tenders them the name OF
Caleb Cushing, q lawyer Of acknowl-
edged ability and long practice, but an
old-time Democrat. President Grant,
1t seems to us, has said to his friends
in the Senate, I offered you good Re-
publican, and you said he was incom-
petent, although he Is Attorney Gener-
al; now offer you a man whose COM
potency Is undoubted, but he comes of
Democratic stock. Do as you like.
The Republicans who rejected Will
liams, because Of his incompetency,
are agreed, the telegraph informs us,
to reject Cushing, because he is not a
good Republican.
We are undecided which side to take
in this quarrel of the brethren. That
Grant has faithfully administered his
Office In the interests Of his party,
(Which seems to have been his highest
conception Of duty,) we are ready to
affirm. In all his party relations he
has been faithful. But, perhaps, he
has only been administering a bad
law, in order to secure it's repeal, and
the Republicans of the Senate have de-
tected what Is his intention. Whether
we jump one way, or the other, it is
gratifying to see that the Republican
party is no longer the compact mass it
was. Mr.. Grants failures, nor the ex-
posures of Republican corruptions and
weakness, do not annoy us in the least.
The war Of the septs has begun, and
will go steadily on. The power Of the
Republican party is failing.
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MONROE ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE GREAT FINANCIAL PANIC
Has not prevented
=. M f. y E R
From occupying his Splendid New Store,
On tho corner Of Grand and Grammont
streets, aud from offering to the Public .
stock Of
q II N u Il Al M II Il IA N Disc
Unsurpassed in the Monroe market. His
stock was selected in Eastern markets, with
Especial Reference to this trade, and COM
prises, in part
FASHIONABLE PRINTS,
FANCY DRESS GOODS,
GENTS AND BOYS CLOTHING,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, GAPS;
STAPLE GOODS, DELAINEs.
woRsTEDs, CAssIMEREs,
GENTS UNDERWEAR,
And, In short, Every Article usually
called for at a First Glass Dry Goods House.
These goods are offered for sale, with the
Guarantee to be expected OF . House In
tending not to be second to any establish
ment in North Louisiana in the Quality,
Variety and Cheapness Of its Gooda
REMEMBHR
MYERS NEW BRICK STORE,
Obs,>ev Of Grand and Gronsnso,se Streets,
NON ROE, La,
And call and examine the Goods for
yourself. Attentive statesmen will take
pleasure I'm showing the Goods and answer
ing all Inquiries. 8. MEYER.
October 3, 1s73.-ly
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The Picayune has not changed hands
since our last, but is daily improving.
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NF,KINNA,S SALOON,
uA DE 8 lard ST r T. EFT,
Opposite Endom's Livery Stable)
MON r o E, La,
Is kept we'll supplied with the best wines
and liquors and favorite brands of cigars.
Polite attention and good order guaranteed.
April Is, 1871. n3O-Sm
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N E~ Go OF s
PANIC PRICES!
GIN THE PATH, OR OUT OF IT.n
Makes No Difference,
Ifyou will call at
GROSS BROS. NEW BRICK STORE,
ON DISCARD STREET,
duoements offered to purchasers are
Entirely New Goods;
The Very Lowest Cash Prices;
III.
Guarantee of Satisfnctions
ALarse Assortment of all kinds OF Goods
and Groceries usually kept in
this market.
Buyers will remember that we are In
earnest in offering to sell at the lowest
prices, and they are invited to test the mat
ter for themselves. If they want
Fashionable Prints, Ribbons,
Worsteds, Toilet articles; or, Clothing,
Hats, Boots, Shoes, Heavy Goods; or, cutlery,
Hardware, Saddle1.y; Supplies,
Tobacco, or, Any article,
Likely to be kept in Monroe, we believe we
can supply it, and at as cheap figures, II not
cheaper, than any house in Monroe.
GROSS BROS,
Brick Building, DeSiard Street,
MONROE, fla.
December IL, 1878.
There is no need for starving, rs long ~
H. KIN D ERIN nm,
On Desiard street, has for sale plenty Of
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS,
Such as Al Coffee and Sugar;
Excellent Syrup and MOlaSses;
Splendid Cheese, Macaroni and
Vermicelli; New Buckwheat
Flour in any quantity; New
Sugar Cured Hams [irst in
Market; Plenty of Eggs,
Spiced Pigs Feet, Oysters,
Sardines, Potted or Deviled
Meats, HOLSTERS, Salmon and
Mushrooms; Assorted Canned
Fruits and Vegetables;
Potatoes and Onions;
Choice Carolina Rice;
| White Beans and English
| Peas Hominy and Grits;
| Cranberries, Raisins, Citron
| And Currants; Nice Jelliee
And Preserves; Dried Figs;
| Crackers, Cream Biscuits and
| Cracknels; Toys, Dolls and &
| Variety of nice and useful
| Ornaments Also, a
Small Assortment Of Crockery and
| Shelf-Hardware, such as is mostly
Needed for General Use.
Come and see for yourselves, but do not
fail to bring along the ''spondulix,' because
L must have more ready money and less
| merchandise. Fair dealing and no humb bug
! will be found by every one-man, woman
or child-in trading for cash at the store of
| 14:tf II. INDERMANN.
40 TO G. BOFENSCHEN,S
1 u
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NEW MARKET HOUSE.

The undersigned has opened has opened
his new market house, and will be pleased
to supply the best of meats at all hours of
the day. His old patrons are respectfully
invited to como and see him.
. Whole hogs, neatly butehered, sold
at So per pound. j. l.. NELSON.
Dec. 10, 1S73.-14:tf
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DAVID KAI1sK1'
ROAD BLOCK.
Near tile Depot,
MON ROE, La,
n o N RO E, L A.,

Is selling out his stock Of Dry Goods at
greatly reduced prices, in order to engage
entirely in the sale Of Family Groceries. o.
the latter he has now large stock, which
is on the market at the lowest CASH prices.
Call and see for yourself. June z, 1873.
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10 TO G. BOFENsCHEN,S

(NO L " Cs bOFENSCAENSS
~ AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES!
The following articles now on exhibition
and for sale IoW for cash:
WATCHES,
Consisting in part of fine Gold and Silver,
American and Swiss make, for ladies' and
gentlemen, key and stem winders.
A SELECT STOCK OF JEWELRY,
Such as Gold and Silver Watch Chains,
Gold Sleeve Buttons, Shirt Studs, Gold
Lockets and variety of Charms; Crosses,
ne sefs Of a1d ana
tIemens' Bosom Pins; Gold, Silver and
Steel Spectacles genuine pebblesE A very
select stock of sterling
SILVER PI4ATED-WARE,
Consisting of Castors, for dinner and
breakfast; leo Pitchers, Soup and Gravy
Spoons, Table Forks and knives, Butter
Knives, Butter Dishes (plain and revolv-
ing); Fine China Vases; Ornamented French
and American Clocks; Musical Instru-
ments; Howe Sewing Machines the best
machine made.) Monroe, May "a, 1873.
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SS 10 COO Per DayI Agents Wanted !!
Sc YDU All classes Of working people
OF either sex, young or old, make more
money at work for us in their spare mo-
ments, or all the time, than at any thing
else. Particularly free, Address g. Stinson
q c., FsrtlaAd, Aaia>. js1aS
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fail to bring along the "spondulix," because
l must have more ready money and less
merchandise. Fair dealing and no humbug
Will pc found by every one-man, woman
or child-in trading for cash at the store Of
14:tf II. KINDERMANN,