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TO be continued.I

One OF the very strongest arguments
in favor Of Woman Suffrage is the de-
basing tendency of shutting them out OF
responsibility, where at the same time
there is in exercise a concealed power.
In France, under the salique law, the
excluding of women from the throne has
resulted in long series of profiigate
mistresses. How marked a contrast
with the great and useful reigus OF
queens like Maria Theresa and Eliza
beth and Anne and Victoria. The sal
dest feature of the American system is
that we have the Salique law in opera
tion under Republican rule, compelling
women to act by covert and indirect
means instead of frank and open meth
Ods, giving n premium on corruption.
Read in any Washington letter the de-
scription of the women lobbyists of that
city; and see how the very fact of their
disfranchisement makes them more
dangerous = compelling them TO use
tricks and cajOlery, and what are called
"the arts of their sexr because more
honest means have been denied them.
See, among the temperance "crusaders, -
the breaking forth, in wild excitement,
Of the influence which we have excluded
from the rightful channels. We see the
evil effects of women being under the
salique law in France, by their friDpery
and fashions, becoming better the eour-
tesan than the high minded, exalted,
virtuous woman. We see like effects in
this country, our women, no matter how
absurd or ridiculous those fashions,
copying after them. The Tilton- Beecher
scandal is only an outgrowth of our
women having comparatively no re-
spOnsibility save home drudgery, or fol-
lowing in an unrestrain6d round of fash
ion. The party of common-sense now
proposes to do with woman what has
been uniformly found best in dealing
with all other disfranchised classes; to
give her a recognized, limited, response
ble power in the State; thus enhancing
her influence for open good, and greatly
diminishing her opportunity for covert
i'll. Never yet was there an oppressed
class that did not punish its oppressoTs
by developing the covert sins which
slavery creates, and the only way out OF
those sins is through the door of free
dom. Let us take warming for our Re-
public from the picture that the keen
satirist, Charles Churchill, drew of the
worst sin of royalty:
women ruled all, and ministers Of state
Mere AT the doors OF women forced to wait.
women, who've Oft as sovereigns grac.d the
land,
but never governed well at second hand"
-Ipsndnf Commercial.
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"CoME HOME, THE BEANS ARE BURN
ING. .u-Iast Sunday morning, a family
living i'm the suburbs of the city went to
n suburban church, leaving little girl
about seven years of age and boy about
twelve years of age in charge of the
house. The family were to have beans
for dinner, and these were left in ves-
sci on the stove to cook. The little girl,
while playing, suddenly began to smell
the odor of burnt beans, upon which she
rushed out of the house, over into the
church, where the pastor was gravely
and earnestly preaching the profound
word OF God.
The FIRST person of the family the lit
tie girl spied was young lady cousin,
and to her ia a loud voice, which startled
the assemblage considerably, she cried
out; "COme home, come home, the
beans are burning ~ and Immediately
rushed out again. The astonishment
was great, and all the solemnity OF the
preacher as well as of the congregation
disappeared beneath a brosd smile a1
the righteousness of the matter
Louisville COHier-JOiU7ldL
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CULTIV ATE A TASTE FOR READING.
Young men with excellent purposes
sometimes make a great mistake in
thinking they ought to give up every
moment of their time to business, and to
neglect everything else. This is a sad
error. Every young man entering life
ought to give some portion of his time
regularly don't care if it is only half
an hour a day-tO the developement of
his mind, to the gaining of useful infor-
nation, to the cultivation of some innO-
cent and ennobling taste. Why, man
who has no soul except for his business
is 'poOr stick" a mere machine. \
taste for reading is worth more than n
hundred thousand dollars to him who
has it-nay, worth more than any sum
/ could name.
A rich man, without that or some
similar taste, does not know how to en-
Joy his money. His only resource is to
keep OH making money, unless he pre-
fers to spend it; aud 4 mind that is not
well developed, does not know how to
spend it wisely. y man worth his two
millions used to tell me he would gladly
give it all if he could only have the ed
ueatiOn which his lazy and stupid boy
refused to acquire. If you will pardon
the advice, I would say: Make it n rule
never to be broken-to devote at least
half an hour a day to the reading OF
some useful boOk-nOt stories chiefly,
neither. Stories are good in their places;
but every man needs a knowledge of
history, the elements of science, and
other useful subjects; and, if he has
only an hour to give to reading, he will
be very foolish to give it all to novels.
Be hungry and Thirsty after knowledge
of all kinds; and be sure you will be
none the worse, but all the better, as
business men.-E E. AbbOt
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OPEN THE DoORs.-Eighteen years
ago an educational convention was held
in Pennsylvania, and a proposition IA
voring the eo-edueation of the sexes was,
after days wrangling and amid bitter
opposition, Overwhelmingly defeated.
Pennsylvania has just held another ed
ucatiOnal convention, and the same
proposition was carried without a dis
senting voice. The late convention also
recommends the colleges to open their
doors to women without further DELAY.
as it holds the admission of women 10
the colleges only question of time
Santa Barbara IndeT.
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TIE STORY OF LIE.

Say, what Is lifee FTis to be born,
a hopeless babe to greet the light
Win sharp wall, as If the morn
FOretOld a cloudy noon and night;
To weep, TO sleep, and weep again,
With sunny smiles between, and thenS
And then apace the infant grows
To be a laughing, sprightly boy,
Happy despite mis- little woes,
We're he but conscious OF his Joy,
To be, in short, from two TO ten,
merry, moody child, and them
And then in coat and trowsers clad.
To learn TO say the DecalOgup
And break Il, an unthinkfne lad
WIN mirth and mischief an agOg-
\ truant Oft by field and fen
And capture butterflies, and then?
Aud then, increased in strength and size,
To be anon youth full grown:
\ hero i'm his mothers eyes,
A young Apollo in his own:
To initiate the ways of men
In fashionable sin, and then
And them at last. to he a man.
10 fall in love, TO WOO and wed
With scething brain TO scheme and plan
To gather gold or toll for bread;
To sue for fame, with tongue and pen
And gain OF lose the prize, and then .
And then in gray and wTlnkled eld
To mourn the speed of iife's decline:
To praise the scenes Of youth beheld,
And dwell in memory Of Lang Syre:
To dream awhile with d1r6ened ken,
Then drop into his grave, and then >
John G. SAKE.
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It was John G. SAKE who wrote:

"Nsn dying make their wilIs-but wives
Escape a-TOrK 80 sad;
Why should they make what all their lives
The gentle danes have had"
What pity that SAKE wasted his wit
upon this subject, when all the world
knows how willingly wives would un-
dertake this 'sad work" If they should
become equal before the law, and be
permitted to join in the disposal OF
joint accumulations. Men enjoy the
right of giving on their death beds
what their wives have helped to accu-
mUlate, and judges and lawyers take
pleasure in imposing upon wives and
mothers the necessity of looking care
fully after the interests of their own
childrens And we women ought to be
very grateful for all this solieitude ia
our behalf Perhaps Ye are not i-Des
lNOiRes Record.
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may be depended upon to protect

may be depended upon to protect
women"
'I fear you will regret yosr rashness,
Miss"
"Lool at my brother, sir. That boy
has been vagrant all his life. have
fed, clothed, and educated him, and paid
fines enough for his misdemeanors, out
of my own hard earnings, TO have pur-
chased me home. l have patiently
reared my brothers and sisters and
striven in every way to do my duty.
To-day am locked in a felon's cell, un-
justly accused of an unknown crime.
He is also locked up in the same way,
accused, no doubt, as he has often rightly
been, of being drunk and disorderly.
am suffering the tortures of the damned
because Of unmerited indignity and dis
grace. He is sleeping the unconscious
sleep of the sot, oblivious to degrade
tion. Let the law do its worst, sir. /
defy it to do more than it has done al
ready"
The EUening BugIe Blast contained a
column of closely printed matter, giving
an account of the arrest Of n notorious
confidence woman, who had long kept
the principal emporium of fashion in
Portsmouth, but who was now, thanks
to the vigilance of officer Brown, repos-
ing securely in the city lookup. The
article was desperately facetious, and
the delicate allusion to the prisoner, as
ga sister of our gifted editorial contem-
porary," was doubtless fully appreciated
by that political luminary.
While Annie was lying in prison
awaiting the tardy action of the law,
the preparations for May Hastings
bridal al-long postponed were being
rapidly completed.
Alice was in great trouble. She had
fully determined to reveal herself to her
fast-failing mother at all hazards, but
was now afraid to do SO because of the
great scandal, associated with her part
ner's name, and in her sorrow knew not
what to do.
But did Annie Lee have no sweet
solace in her sad dilemma, friends ?
All, yes, and we are glad indeed TO
tell you what that solace was. The
letters from Melvin Hastings had
been unusually frequent of late, and on
that darkest evening of her life, when
hope was dead, and grim despair held
carnival over her devoted head, her
more than sister, Alice, visited her in
prison aud comforted her with the best
letter of them all.
81 feel, my darling, that l could fly to
YOU" he wrote. al have dreamed that
some dire calamity was lowering
over you, and that you We're suffer
ing the indignities of u dungeon.
Darling, best and dearest, l soon shall
come to claim you. No matter what
the world may say, kH0C that you are
good and true. Be ye OF good spirit, my
sweet. Your self-denying heroism has
shamed me into deeds that trust are in
some degree worthy of you. Dream
that fold you in my arms tonight and
say in the full tenderness Of a most holy
joy, Good night, my precious wife, a
glad and sweet good night"
Can any woman be unhappy when
she knows that she is truly loved by her
souls dearest idol? We thank God,
friendly reader, that we can truly tell
you, no.
TO be cOniinued.I
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Some crusty old bachelor has said that
sgomen's vows are writ oil sand. y
shakespeare, though often severely criti-
eising the sex, makes restitution IN the
following lines;
...Bv all the vows that ever men have broke;
IN number more than women ever spoke"
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an elderly Chicago clergyman, in an
sxge- TO a question why he had never
married, replied that lie had spent life
Iookisg for a woman who would refrain
from Working him a pair of slippers,
and so fer be had failed to find her.
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Ninevah was fourteen miles IoHG, ;ti,
eight wide, and forty miles rounq' .%ici- %isL
a wall one hundred feet high anu Ctraast Last
enough for three chariots to Tlde ''ie'''''
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a Boston lady in California saws that
the big strawberries of the Pacific Coast
have but little flavor, being a cross be-
tween turnip and dried apple.
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AMIE AND HENRY LEE;
OR
The spheres Of the Sexes.
By MRS. a. J.. DUNIwAY.

Entered. according 70 Act Of Congress, in the
year 1874, by Mrs a. Duniway, in the office OF
the Librarian Of Congress at Washington City.I
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G5s & :f#5e'u !}.ll.ortbwest.

Journal for the People.
Devoted TO the Interests OF Humanity.
independent in Politics and Religion.
Alive TO all Live Issues, and Thoroughly
Radical in Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs
of the Masses.
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Correspondents writing over assumed sigma
lures must make known their names TO the
Editor, or no attention will be given to their
communications.
The weekly Louisianian., 1874-06-27
TIGER HUNTING

: In the course Of q speech made
by Col Mcconnell, responding to
an invitation to address the Repub-
Of Iberville parish, at a Bar
held in Plaquemine three
weeks since, the speaker referring
to the efforts that had been made
to cripple Senator P. 3. s. Pinch
back, said:
eThe apparent impolicy Of the
to create discord in your
should not be urged as any
of mental defcienc3-on
The contrary, the highest praise
should be awarded these gigantic
The weekly Louisianian., 1874-06-27
CLUB DIRECTORY.

FIRST WARD CENTRAL CLUB-Corner
4alpomene and White streets. Meets every
Monday, ct u O'Clock. 10. Miller, Pres't,
George O. Norcross, Secretary.
SECOND WARD CENTRAL CLUB
Geddes Hall, Erato between Baronne and
Carondelet. q. +. Glanden, President, A.
Ttilot, Secretary.
THIRD WARD CENTRAL cLUB-Gay
bal, Perdido street, meets every Saturday
evening. c. +. Ladd, President, John Pull
lum, Secretary.
FOURTH WARD CENTRAL cLUB-Cor
ner Of Cont and Treme streets, meets every
Monday evening. Robert Malcolm, Pres't,
Chas. p. Vigcrs, Secretary.
FIFTH WARD CENTRAL uUB-ules
Lonabare, President, o. 2. Fernandez, secre-
tary.
SIXTH WARD CENTRAL CLUB
Claiborne near Ursaline streets. B. F.
Joubert, President, L. LAmaniere, Secretary.
TENTH WARD REPUBLICAN, GEN.
TRAL CLUB-First Street. near Liberry
street ia. Kyser, President; meets every
Tuesday. a"tf F. ,>
THIRTEENTH WARD CENTRAL CLUB
Evening Star Hall, Oadez between Camp and
Chestnut streets, A. Dejoie, President, J. B.
Mallory, Secretary. -.
SIXTEENTH WARD CENTRAL CLUB
0laiborne Hal, Adam street, meets every
Saturday. John T. Claiborne, President,
III. McCray, Secretary.
taxy.
SEVENTEENTH WARD CENTRAL CLUB
Corner Oambronpe and Burth streets,
T.R Stamps. President, T. Diebel, Secretary.
The weekly Louisianian., 1874-06-27

mtellectsb who, amidst the delighta
ofsocial life, the cares Of oneroua
and varied public positions, turn
their attention to your struggles
and condescendingly assume The
tack q relieving you Of all partisan
care BY suggesting, not merely the
course you should form on the
question Of. Senator, but even
deigning to select your delegates to
q Parish Convention. Fully must
you appreciate this sacrifice for you
BY those patriots, but regard for
their own future should induce the
suggestion that overwork-even Of
their brains-may result unhappily
to them. Il killed Raymond, Il
cost the Nation E. NJ. Stanton-it
troubles Bismarck-and let us hope
the future has not in store for Lou
isiana any such misfortune aa their
return to private life or unti1nely
taking of. Possessed of most of
the Christian virtues, it is easy to
understand how their attempts to
emulate the examples of the SANITY
Dead, have rendered their political
career in many respects, ike unto
the ways of Divinity, particularly
in that particular, which We are
told, 'passeth all human under
standing
Some of the following Of these
"Heaven-born" statesmen have
given the public the benefit
Of their large information on mat
ters in generaland Gov. Pinchback
in particular. In reference to their
abuse of this gentleman, without
whom the Republican party in this
State would be in the vocative, they
declared that if they had said any
hing wrong of him, it was only by
accident, and it appeared probable
Tor the reason that if they spoke the
ruth at all. it was only by mis-
This style Of warfare was exciting
like everything else in this
world Of change, was sometimes un-
pleasant, and he (the speaker) re-
minded those indulging in it Of the
experience Of the Frenchman, who,
returned to Paris after an
tour in the East, was
'sked how he liked Tiger hunting:
"Ah, my fen," replied the sports
nan, re hunting ze Tiga it be vera
inc amusement. It be bien agree
bic; but my fren when 70 Tiga, he
lunt you-zen it BE- Hi"
The weekly Louisianian., 1874-06-27
CONGRESS-

The National Congress adjourned
on the 23d. Business left in the
condition Of incompleteness antici-
pated and suggested as probable in
,our last issue. Three measures Of
Importance may be considered in
sonae sort to form an exception to
this statement We give the Con-
gress credit due in this direction by
announcing the passage Of the Cur
I rency bill, the fate of which before
the President we have not yet as
oertained. If approved, it but par
tally meets the demand of the
South and West for an increase of
currency, and will not, We appre-
bend after all, meet the full meas
ure of public approval from the
people in whose interest It is sup
posed to have been specially passed.
We announce also as an earnest Of
something better and more ade-
quate, to be done by the approach
ing Congress, such action upon the
Levee and Outlet questions, az will
furnish full facts for future legisla-
ton, and as will lead Ultimately to
the naturalization Of the Levees
and the construction of the Fort
s. Philip Canal.
The weekly Louisianian., 1874-06-27

ANOTHER SwmD1R-The Pleas
anton Observer says . ret Of rascals
who ought to be in the penitentiary
are travelling through the country
selling q recipefo r making butter.
The ingredients used are eggs,
alum, etc. -@n: 81
The weekly Louisianian., 1874-06-27

much the Demagogues may rant o.
envious traitors insinuste 70 tl1scon,
4hary.that they win trust, not only
to their political numbers and
weight but to the returning sense
of justice Of. the good men even
among their political opponents fol-
success-and BY patient endurance
and wise discretion, no less than
quiet, lpnobtruave persistence in
soaking practical equality in the
enjoyment Of their rights Of citizen
ship, they will 50 impress their re-
liability and value, as a political
element, upon the opposing parties
in the community, as to win the
cheerful recognition of all that they
now rghtfully claim. We are be-
ginning to appreciate the philoso-
ply contained in the utterance Of
the wise man: "When thou doest
we'll for thyself men will praise
thee" and propose to practice it.
our first illustration of the
Of the proverb, by ex-
ercisinp. according to onr hest
and our conscience, a free
in the selection of the men
who shall lead US and be entitled to
our trust, whether they be "'white'' or
'fcolored, "''thene w Conner" or "tothe
manor born" We propose to re-
'pect ourselves, and deserve the re-
,pect of others, and standing on
such a platform, we can patiently
the coming in Of the better
Tine.
The weekly Louisianian., 1874-06-27
~ All letters ON business connected
With this paper should b addressed to
q. A. CORBM,
Business Manager.
New Orleans, Feb. Is, 1874.
NJ The proprietor of this paper
will not be responsible for the correct
meas of communications.
~ Col. W. B BARRETT is our
special agent, and is authorised to
solicit subscriptions and receive
payment of bills n
SPECIAL NOTICE.

The Presidents of all the Repub-
lican Clubs in the city are respect
fully requested TO send to this
Office, the time and place of meet
ing Of their respective clubs. W.
desire to have q Club Directory in
our columns,
The weekly Louisianian., 1874-06-27

For the four months ending
April SO. the importation Of railroad
iron from Great Britain compares
% follows with previous years
For 1874, 42,348 tons ; 1873 1886
tons; 1872, 1so,19s' tons. Since
the year 1866 about 5000 miles Of
road have been built, at the cost Of
al,out lAo0y0o0.0o0.
The weekly Louisianian., 1874-06-27

and qssestionably vigorous lye to it
as the,
do but 5 small fraction Of either th,
interests or the people Of tho coun
try. Again, this movement pro
ceeds upon the assumption that til,
grain, meats, cotton and other pro.
ducts Of the valley, must find thei,
cheapest, safest and speediest outle'
to the consumers of England, and
other European countries, moi
though the artificial channels Of the
railway hnes-rnn by The monopo.
lists that have heretofore imposed
upon the Western farmer, a sort o.
industrial serfdom-but in the
natural, providentially provided.
direct, water lines, supplied by the
Mississippi and its feeders.
Finally, this movement proposes
to dispense with the great army Of
factors, who come as intermediary
between the producer and the con-
sumer-whether he handle the
plow or tho loom-and who are in
some sort, necessary evils
growing out Of our present abnor-
NAL and unhealthy commercial re-
]ations, and to bring the farmer Of
the West with his food, in unem-
barrassed and untrammeled trade
with the manufacturer of Europe
with his perfected fabric-thus
taking an incubus from commerce,
in the consuming commissions of
the middlemen, and at the same
time, strengthening good will, with
all the world, by the kindly inter-
change Of thoughts as well as
values. There are none in the
more interested in this
matter than the colored workers of
Our toll produces the
great staples, that will ultimately
feed md clothe Europe, and the
least to which we are entitled and
by wise endeavor-in giving
complexion so legislation and to
trade-we will secure, is that our
labor shall find it's reward by re-
near as possible-at
first cost, the manufactured articles
needed in return.
The weekly Louisianian., 1874-06-27

The snow fence on the Kansas
Paciao IL being taken down for the
purpose ot saving it from the FIRE
which passes over the praries every
summer. Il viii be replaced. IN
The ffall, 10 u1ual
The weekly Louisianian., 1874-06-27

The Fsnnsylvania rsilaoad COM
pany recently negotiated in London
twelve millions Of consolidated
mortgage. and three millions Of
AueRhepy branch bonds. ~
The weekly Louisianian., 1874-06-27
THE RAID On THE BILLIE
TIN.

A1aSt SATURDAY ulSnG our enter
prising contemporary, the New Or.
leans Bulletin, was the victim of q
raid, by certain members of the
Police, under the auspices of a citi-
zen, named Houlihan. We have
not room for a statement of the
facts in detail, but will say that the
Bulletin forms without q warrant,
and upon the plea that the type
belonged to. Houlihan and was
about to be made way with-were
seized by Policemen, in citizens
dress, and locked up in the Police
Station for the night: forcing the
Bulletin TO; send out an unfinished
sheet on Sunday morning: The
Republican, with prompt and credit
able courtesy, rendered such aid as
our unfortunate contemporary
needed in the premises in securing
the issue of it's unfinished sheet.
Wearepleased to see that both Judge
Macarthur and Gen. Badger disavow
responsibility for this midnight out
rage upon our extravagant, eprightly
We do not know who is
the prime mover in this reprehensi-
BILE and lawless mischief-but the
type seized was being used by the
tacit, if not express, consent Of
and he well knew that
The forms were on their way to the
press and that there. was no .dispo-
or purpose to deprive him Of
his property or to abstract the
same-and we frankly characterize
it-whether springing from Houi-
han alone, or Conformity with others
-as a piece OF petty and contempt
lble malice, that will and ought to
bring shame upon those who insti-
gated it. As q Republican, we find
constant occasions to differ both
the philosophy and the spirit
# the bulletin on political issues,
'ut it does oomport with our self
aspect or sense Of justice to make, !
our personal or political
ights in this way. e.,
Our neighbor has appeared in a
lew dress, and looks as smiling and
lean as a newly born, freshly
baby, and We may be per-
as a journal that has passed
at Of its swaddling clothes while
ongratulating it upon its healthy
to hope that it's temper,
speaking OF our race, will
GREATER possess somewhat Of the
and good nature Of its ]
lce. - Il