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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-09-19


JRDAY, SEPTEMBE
vagabond, and insolent pre-
! tender that has made republi-
can government at the South a
reproach. to all the civilized
world. With such a gathering
before us we should not have
to search far for the causes of
the present distress, nor should
we be puzzled to suggest a
remedy. To take all these
men, and a few more like them,
by the collar, and lead them
out, would suggest itself to all
of us as the one great reform
necessary to secure the perfect
reconstruction of the South"
Peace and Reconstruction.
New York Herald, Inl,f
s,s The men who a few
short years ago were strong
enough by genius and valor to
to rule the councils of the I'm
ion, and subsequently, to con
struct a power in the Southern
Confederacy that required four
years OF war to suppress and
is still a historical power COM
manding the respect and adj
miration of mankind-these
men have not passed away,
We do not see them, but they
Five. The men who fill the
public eye in any country are
always few compared with the
millions unseen who only await
opportunity to act and speak.
Can we really reconstruct the
Southern States without the,aid
Of the real req 50 sons .!9! Of the South ont :
We have tried to doso, depend
ing upon the Ignorant freed
men who yesterday were slaves
and the unscrupulous white
adventurers who yesterday
fled from the North as political
mendicants aud soldiers of for
tune. There is no reconstruc
ton. On the contrary, we see
disturbance, civil outbreaks,
corruption and disorder, and,
worse than all, a war upon the
national creditby means Of re-
pudiayion that will be as dis
astrous to the Union as if the
rebellion had been a success.
1t would certainly be better in
the interests of civilization and
liberty to have two confedera-
cies, governed by statesmen Of
honor and character, who re-
spected credit and sacred obli-
cations, than such a Union a as
we we 8 shall certainly see if Ar
kansas and South Carolina are
permitted to drag these Feder-
al States into the abyss of
bankruptcy. This can be in
no respects a wholesome living
Union, and the end will be a
destruction by reputation
more disastrous than would
have been the destruction by
war. T. X
Have we not imposed too
heavy a fine upon the South |
as the consequence of the warg |
Have we not punished her, al
though a sister commonwealth, |
ten times more severely than
France was punished by the
alien invaders If Germany |
aStOnished the world in eyacf-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1874-09-19
FOR STATE TREASURER,
JOHN c. MoNcURE

FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
W. NJ. SWANN.
L. D. SA.NDIDGE.
FOR PARISH JUDGE,
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FOR SHERIFF,
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FOR POLICE JURORS,
- THOMAS LYLES.
JOHN J.. MEARS.
JOHN @. ALLEN.
Fl. BARNACASTLE..
ISAAC A. DILIaARD.
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clever a man. He positively thinks that the
fact that several of tho correspondents told
the same story is proof that it was false.
In company with Mr.. Parton's letter We
print another from the Surgeon to whom he
refers as his authority in regard TO the hang
ing. 1t will surprise no one to hear that the
Surgeon, while trying to defend the Sheriff,
positively cOntradicts Mr. Parton, in reference
to the most important point OF his article. 1t
will be remembered that Mr. Parton accused tho
reporters of inventing the story that the rope
was found to be too short on the morning Of
the execution of LusignanI, and that q box
was procured for him to stand upon, so that
the two ends of the rope could be united.
This story Mr.. Parton fatty and totally de-
nies, saying that none Of these statements
chad any resemblance to the truth" He
specaly denies the use of the box. The Sur
geon now admits the essential truth Of tho
story. attempting to explain it, however by
saying that the Sheriff knew the rope was too
short early in the morning, but thought
it might stretch after exposure to
the sun, and in case it did not, ho
had the box all ready. Thus the whole of Mr..
Partons story falls to the ground by the tes-
timOny of his own witness, for this Surgeon
does not corrobOrate his account of the de-
bauch Of the reporters. The case reduces
itself simply to this The Sheriff at Norris
town bunged an execution. The New York
reporters told the truth about it. An anOny-
nous youth in MOristown told Mr.. Parton
that the reporters got drunk and slandered
the Sheriff, and if Mr. Parton lives to be
thousand years old, he can never be made TO
believe that that nameless young man of Nor
ristown crammed him with a pure fiction.
Some men are so made, and we must repeat
that they are not of the best material
for reporters or critics of journalism.
They may be pleasing and graphic essay
lists as Mr.. Parton is; and the columns of
TIE TRIBUNE, and Of most other newspapers,
are always open to him, as he unnecessarily
reminds us, for the treatment OF matters OF
public interest, subject of course to careful
yerificatiOn of his sO-called facts. But this
incident shows how hard it is for him to be-
lieve any story except the first one he hears.
And his denial of what We have said OF his
attitude toward the opponents Of his heroes
is only another proof Of that power Of preJu-
dice in him which makes him unconscious OF
the force of his own words, or Of that care
lessness which makes him forget what he has
actually written.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-09
MR.. BRLSTOWS OFFER.

Secretary BristOw invites proposals until
the 23d inst. for any part of S1'0,OOOOOO i'll
five per cent Government bonds, interest
payable in gold. We see no reason why he
should not succeed in disposIng of the whole
lot at a price equivalent to par in gold. To
persons having capital to invest the following
considerations may be suggested:
| 1. The lowest price at which these bonds
can be disposed of by the Treasury under the
law is half per cent below par in gold,
out of which discount the cost of printing
the bonds and other incidental expenses must
be paid Secretary Bristow, unlike his prede-
ceesors. has shown a disposition to obey the
law and conduct his operations fairly and
above board. We have no fear that United
States fives of the new loan will be offered
in the markets below par for many months to
come.
9. The supply of these five per cent bonds
is limited by Act of Congress to those now
ont and the $179,000,0O0 offered by Secretary
Bristow. AS Congress does not meet until
December the present lot will exhaust the
supply for :he current year.
& We think farmers and others having only
q few thousands to invest ought to prefer
Government bonds to any other security, and
we are sure that this opinion is much stronger
with such investors than it was before the
manic. The consequence is that there will be
henceforth a market for five per cent Gov
ernment bonds at home as well as abroad.
a.. There can be no danger that the foreign
market for the five per cent bonds will break
down during the remaining months of the
/ &c Ia IL
sold million of the six per cents are to be
called in and paid off. With $119,0OOO0O in
six per cent bonds withdrawn from American,
English, French, and German investors, it is
impossible to imagine that S170,00000O of new
fyes would depress the market, in any appre-
ciable degree.
8. Let it be remembered that business in the
four great nations we have named is now de-
pressed and that, as consequence, the prices
of all first class Government securities are ad-
vancing. What better investment will be at
the command of the holders of the skies,
which are to be called in and redeemed, than
the fives of the new loanf
6. In our opinion the purpose manifested in
certain quarters to discredit Mr. Bristows at
tempt to market this last batch of the $500,
100000 five per cent bonds will not bear the
test of examination. No injustice will be done
if these $l70,0JO,00O are taken, for once, with
out paying a two or three per cent shave to
Syndcates and loan mongers. We are in
clined to think that Mr.. Brstow will success
fully dispose of all the bonds he has to offer,
and that what troubles some people is the fear
that he Will carry out his plan, and not that
he will fail to do so. as is pretended.
z. The terms of payment on which the bonds
arc Offered are such as will least disturb the
New-York tribune., 1874-07-09
"Ay UPRISING or THE PEOPLE,"

Senator Carpenter, while making Fourth
of July Grafton at GAINESVILLE, received by
telerraph the news of the decision OF
the Circuit Court at Madison sustaining
the validity of tho Potter railroad law
His remarks at once diverged to what he
calls "this unexampled uprising of the people +"
against the tyranny of capital; and he SAID
many fine-sounding things of the efforts OF the
farmers to "releve themselves from the Op-
"presson Of mOnOpOlies and fix within reason
cable limits the cost of transporting our pro-
"ducts to the seaboard." This he called labor
taking measures for ITS own protection. 1t Is
one of the privileges of labor to fix its own
wages. The farmer is at liberty to ask for his
corn whatever price he pleases, and II he can
not sell it he may feed it to his hogs or burn
it for fuel. Just 80 his hired hands may charge
as much as they like for their work, and II
they cannot agree with their employer, 1t is
free country, and they have right to remain
idle. But Mr.. Carpenters idea of liberty for
the farmer is much more comprehensive; 1t
seems to have a good deal to do with curtall-
ing the liberty of other people. The doctrine
that man has a right to charge what he
deems fair for his labor does not apply to rail
i
price not only of his own labor but of the
railroad mans labor too for it makes great
difference whether one works with hoe and
a steam -plow, or works with a freight car and
a locomotive.
The tyranny of the numerical majority in
Wisconsin is just now triumphant and the
people, in the iirst excitement of their cup
rising" are attempting the impossible task of
regulating the price of a commodity by legis-
lation. The railroads will not carry on busi-
ness at loss. They must reduce the quality
of their service in proportion to the reduction
in rates, or they must invest money in politics,
and so buy permission from the Legislature to
increase their charges. In either case the
farmers will suffer, the development of the
State will be checked, and grain will fetch no
more for the grower than it does to-day.
Perhaps after little experience the farmers
and the railroads will both realize that they
are necessary to each others prosperity, and
that neither can thrive by the plumber of the
other.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-09

three fractions, is now so thoroughly com
mitted to tho organization OF the kePuplic'
that il could not consistently vote FOR reso-
luton in which any definite confession Oh
faith was openly avoided. When, therefore,
Gen. Cissey announced that he and his asso-
cates would regard tho vote as Cabinet
matter the issue was clearly made up between
the Government and the opposition. The vote
WAS taken, and resulted in n Government de-
feat by a majority of 81 in full house. The
order of the day, pure and simple, was then
passed as a peace offering to the Cabinet
Il was not, after all, so serious matter as II
seemed: for the Right, which voted In dlrect
hostility to the Cabinet with the intention OF
overthrOwing it, cast only 50 votes out Oh the
1863 which constituted the majority. Inc rest
were drawn from the three fractions Oh the
Left, and seem TO have been cast rather as an
expression of their conviction that the uihe
for the organization of the kepuDiic
has come, than out of any settled h0stiilty 10
tbe Ministry. The vote, however, inevitably
took that form after the announcement OF
Gen. Cissey. and the Cabinet therefore pre-
sented their designations to the DUKE VI
Magenta. They probably knew that tins
a mere fOrID, rs lHc j iO9i"'h0 ~
eral days ago announced that he Wouiu
not give them mp on account Vi
any such accident He therefore commanded
them to resume their portfolios, and Is TO
send to the Assembly to-day or tomorrow
message informing them with more deilnite-
ness than hitherto that he proposes to keep
his place until death or the end of the seven
wears arrives, and that they will obllge nm
by taking immediate measures 10 organize
the powers they have conferred upon him.
The vote of yesterday is not so satisfactory
in reference to the future as many had hOped
il would be. The coalition which has defeated
the Ministry was a sterile one between radl-
caIly opposed sections of the Assembly, ana
cannot hope to accomplish anything III
the way of definite organization. Inc
combination which all reasonable men should
desire would be one in which the Le1t
shoud gain its accessiOns from the Center
and not from the bgOted and imDractcaDie
conservatives of the Right. If the halting
gentlemen who followed yesterday the lead
of NJ. Paris could only see their way safely
through to a frank and loyal organization OF
the only possible government attalnabie TO-
dav. the Left would not be the worse Tor
that new admixture, and the chronic restless
ness of France could, for time at least, be
quieted enough to allow to the nation the re-
pose it SO imperatively needs.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-09
MR. PARTONS DEFENSE.


We print this morning a letter from Mr.
Parton, written with that sprightliness and
force which make everything he writes
interesting, but marked also by that uncon-
scious and unintentiOnal unfairness to which
we have hitherto had occasion to refer. We
presume no one except Mr.. Parton read the
straightforward statement of Mr. Miles with
out seeing that it was truthful and honest
presentation Of the case, and that the men
who criticised the bungling conduct of the
Sheriff at Morristown, on the occasion
referred to, had no purpose in view except to
obey their orders and give an accurate
account of the affair. But it is an idiosyn-
Grassy of Mr.. Parton that he cannot see this.
Having hastily taken the Sherifl's side, and
having been crammcd by his anonymous
Morristown journalist, it is morally impossible
for him to see that he was deceived; and
when he says that he took pains to inform
himself of the truth of the matter, it merely
means that in this case, as in all Others, he
took pains to gather as many piquant details
as possible to sustain his original prejudice.
lie is free from any intentional wrong in this,
we have no doubt. But he is so made that it
seems more important to him that he should
not have been lied to by the Morristown man,
than that half-dozen reputable and indus
trious journalists should have been branded
as ruffians, drunkards. and slanderers in
widely y-circulated magazine. And what is per-
haps still more characteristics, Mr.. Parton is
evidently astonished and not well pleased to
find that one of the gentlemen whom he called
q slanderer, bully, and a debauchee,
has risen to defend himself against these in
furious and wanton attacks, and that the
journal he has faithfully and acceptably served
for seven years assists him in the defense of
his well-earned reputation. If it were not SO
serious a matter. it would be amusing to see
how THIS prejudice dstorts the judgment vi SO
New-York tribune., 1874-07-09
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cold and exchange markets. This VIII DO
seen Inv reference to Mr.. Bristow's circular.
9. The condition of the banks in the United
States. Great Britain, France, and Germany
shows that there is more money to invest
than there has been before for many years
What Mr.. Bristow wants to do is not to con-
tract a fresh loan, but simply to find investors
to take the place of such holders OF the Unlteu
States fye-twenties called for payment as
may not choose to substitute hves for Skies
These may possibly be holders of bonds to
tbe amount of twenty or thirty millions, ana
twenty or thirty millions we should JuuSe 10
he n very moderate estimate OF the Oniteu
States fives which will be called for by new
investors in Europe and America during the
povt four or five months. Any dealer IN
foreign exchange may with almost perfect
safety subscribe for these bonds at par. Ihelr
nrice in London has been at above par for
several months. The announcement OF MI
Bristoy's success will be offset by his cail lor
the redemption of hve-twentles.
o. The market is a broad one, covering the
four richest and most powerful nations III the
world.
In view of all the above considerations, Is
il not little too much to ask us 10 pelleVe
that nothing is to come OF MT. BrlstoWS
straightforward proposition, because, forSooth'
some back-stairs arrangement may suDSe-
quently be consummated by which the bonds
will be thrust on the market at n discount
Under Boutwell, OF Richardson this might DE
credible, but we shall be disappointed IL the
present Secretary does not show more respect
for public opinion and the laws than we have
been in the habit of expecting from the
Treasury Department.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-09
uACulHOY AND THE ASSEMBLY.

The French Crisis has come but has appar-
entity not passed. The engagement between
the Government forces and the variegated op-
postion in the Assembly can scarcely be
called anything more than a drawn battle.
But so far as any advantage may be said to
have been gained, it would certainly seem to
lie on the side of the Republicans. The
motion of NJ. Lucien Brun, censuring the Gov
ernment for the suspension of the Union, was
rejected by the decisive majority of $40
70 only 80. This sustains our conjecture
that the Left would not submit to be used in
the interests of the mOnarchical faction, even
upon pretext so tempting as the freedom of
the press. This vote was fair warning to
the Right that if they desired n coalition with
the other extremity of the Chamber they must
themselves take the necessary steps. The
subsequent votes in the session showed that
Immediately after the defeat of the Right
under NJ. Brun, which the Left permitted but
did not assist in accomplishing, a member of
the Right Center, NJ. Paris, introduced reso-
luton pedgng the Assembly to uphold the
septennial powers of Marshal MacMahon, but
reserving all constitutional questions. This is
nothing moro than the personal Septennate,
which these tender-f footed monarchists are
now willing to establish, although they do
not yet see their way clear to organizing it
IN republican sense. This afforded at once
an opportunity for coalition without
compromise. The extreme Right is opposed
to any formal recognition of the Septennate
which shall make restoration impossible for
tho next seven years. and tho Left. in all its
New-York tribune., 1874-07-09
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