The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-08-17


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After the three Democrats Senators
who are entitled TO the vacant seats
from Louisiana and South Carolina are
admitted to the Senate, the Republic
cans will have only two majority and
and two or three. shaky brothers TO
watch, who will hardly do to trust out
of leading-strings. Such men AS Dor
soy, Spencer and Patterson have no
political future before them in any
event, and even if they had, there is
nothing in their previous record to in
duce any confidence in their fuithr6l-
ness to the Republican party-or any
thing else. There is some prospect,
then, that the Forty-fifth Congress will
not be many days in session before it
will be wholly under the control OF the
Democrats. This, however, is only a
matter of 4 few months in any event,
for even their precarious majority of
two is preserved by the Republicans
during the Forty-fifth Congress, the
certainty that California will replace
Sargent with a Democrat, and the
probability, that is almost strong
enough to be Il certainty, that Ohio will
tio likewise with Stanley Matthews,
makes it an assured fact to-day that the
Republican hold on the Senate will
The Gar has signed an imperial ukase
! calling out lSS, 600 militia. There is no
doubt that the defeat at Plevna has
stirred Russian pride to the depths, and
the probability is that the whole of the
armed strength of the country will be
used if necessary to accomplish the hui
initiation of the Turks. Every Russian
over twenty years of age: is liable to
military duty for a term of fifteen years
six under the flag and nine years in
the reserve. The official statement as
to the strength OF the army, made last
year, showed that the regular army on
a peace footing numbered 457 ,s72 on
a war footing, SOS,G7O; army Of first
reserve, on the peace footing LIZ 1928 :;
army of the second reserve on the peace
footing POI 1872; on the war footing
27G,G64, making a total army al ,213,-
257 men on u war footing. To this
force is to be added LIS, 900 Cossacks of
tho Don, 200, 900 Cossacks of the Oren-
burg and Siberian lines and sonic other
small contingenta, which make Il total
available force OF 100000 men.
The Ohio Republicans nominated
w. ii. West, of Logan county, for
| Governor; Ferdinand Vogeler, of Gin
w. w. Johnson, OF Lawrence county,
for Supreme Judge The resolutions of
the National Convention at Cincinnati,
June, 1876, We're adopted. The plat
form tavOrs the demonstration Of sill
yer; 2resolves that no land grants of sub
sides to railroads, etc, should be
made; views with alarm the present
disturbed condition OF the country as
evidenced by the strikes, and recon-
men,is Congress to use its influence to-
| wards safety to public travel and traf-
| fic, and endorses the Presidents admin-
| istration.
The carpet-bag blaclz-and-tan lcgis-
| iators Of South Carolina have one con-
ISOLATION, now that their despotic rule is
forever ended-they lived like lords
while they held the keys of the State
treasury. A Columbia paper publishes
the liquor and cigar account contracted
| by the Legislature from March 4th
to March II, 1877, and it aggregates
SO, 1915, and that is said to be only u
fair sample of the way things were
done in those days.
The extraordinary heat is having its
effect upon the cane. 1t seems to be
growing as if by magic. "A somewhat
humorous neighbor of ours says he is
| willing to swear that the cane has grown
a foot within the past ten days. Ger
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