New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-12
COURT RECORD.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY IL, 1874.
United States Circuit Court.

Cnited States Circuit Court.
Stern Il Bros. VS.. Charles Clinton ct ais
The plaintiffs, residents of London, Eng
land, file a petition identical in its object
with that in the case of Macauley Va. Clin
ton, and asking an injunction preventing
defendants from carrying out the provisions
Of the funding bill.
Cisst District Court
ARRAlGNED.
Thomas Costello. malicious mischief. Plea
of guilty.
Sam Wilson, John Cousin, William Hall
Brown, McAlpine, }. d. August, Edward
Masterson. and Henry Berta. Plea OF net
guilty.
NOlLE tRosEQre ENTERED.
Larceny-Josiah Humphreys. Lucy Jones
SERDICTs.
State @s. Edward Garner--Assault and
battery. Guilty. with recommendation OF
mercy.
State IS. Long and Bepjamin.-False i'm
prisonment and assault and battery. Long,
guilty Of assault; Benjamin, not guilty.
State vs. P. Ryan. False imprisonment.
Not guilty.
State vs.. J. Morris-Larceny. Not
guilty.
State vs. John Moore, alias Morris. s.~Bur.
6A0Ay duV AcACC 0uAltNe
TRUE BILLS.
State ss. Charles Watriganf.--Embezzle-
ment.
sENTENCES.
State vs.. J. B. .Williams.-Larceny. One
month in Parish Prison.
State IS. Dick Norton.-Lagceny. One
day in Parish Prison.
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Enlightsne6 NO-Nlotherhood.
Mrs. Caroline F. Corbin writes in this way
about the growing aversion of the average
American woman to wOmanly cares and
duties, in the Herald Of Health. Our Amer
ican women develop year by year a growing
determination TO avoid the labOrs and dis
comforts of maternity. They are severely
rebuked for this by pulpit and the press.
But Mrs. Corbin says:
"As civilization advances, and the ranks
Of social life become full, and even crowded
the natural instinct Of child bearing de,
creases. / do not mean now the simple
provocative instinct. l refer to that natural
feeling which makes the women of all sparse
ly settled countries proud to be mothers.
1t is not matter dependent upon civiliza-
ton, but upon the simple demand for
people. In the thickly populated cOun-
tries Of Asia infanticide is the pre-.
yailing sin, while in the thinly-settled re-
gions OF our own great West babies are
literally at q premium. But as this mere
animal instinct declines life grows more
complex, the pains and perils of childbirth
are increased by unnatural living, and, as
we have seen already, the children become
less robust and require more constant and
exhanstine care. The drain upon the
mothers vitality. caused by frequent child
bearing, becomes excessive, and nature
rebels. It is thus when child bearing ceases
to be instructive and becomes a duty i'm
posed by reason and religion that the neces-
sity of education begins to be imperatively
felt. No intelligent being will readily un-
dertake duties for which it teels clear and
reasonable sense of unftness. You bring
up young girl to sixteen, eighteen, or pos
sibly twenty years, educated in all the arts
and sciences, with refined, aesthetic
tastes and aspirations, and beautiful
but very delicate physique, but with
out rational idea in her head
upon the subject of motherhood. Then you
marry her to a man equally ignorant and
unreasoning concerning the duties OF the
new relations, and with his animal forces
stimulated to the highest degree by the use
of tobacco. alcohol and highly seasoned an
imal food. and you require her to submit
herself without reserve to this mans appe-
tites, and to become, whether she will or
not, again and again and again a mother.
it is all unnatural and wrong. She is unfit
by nature and education for such life; she
knows it, and she will not submit to it If
she can help it. You have made her wise
enough to find means out of her dilemma,
however unlawful, but you have failed to
impart to her that wisdom which would lead
her first to acquaint herself and her hus-
band with natures laws and requirements,
and then, with holy and reverent love and
prayerfulness, to take upon herself, vOlun-
tarily, the noblest obligations which hui
man being ever assumed-the obligations
OF manhood"