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The Ouachita Enforcement.

The Stubbs' wing of the party il
Ouachita issues an endorsement, which
none will commend any more heartily
than we, bat, when it insists that a
Constitutional Convention is not nee
cssary first, because is would disturb
the present administration, and Sec
ondly, that it would cn1aDger the sue
cess of tho national Democratic party,
they save themselves from the charge
of rank iliocy BY the fact that the
'reasops" excite more laughter than
alarm. When any set Of men, claim.
ing to be Democrats, and having the
reputation Of being of mediocre inter-
lect, insist that the principles of
Democracy reside in a Governor, and
would be endangered by the abroga.
ton ofa OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
in form and essence-we are forced
to the conclusion that they are either
indu|ging in a burlesQue or that they
don't know what they are talking
about.
Aud strange to say, these are the
reasons, which the OuaclIita Democra-
cy, or scaut majority at least, put
forth for their hostility to a Consti
tutioDal Convention. Only this and
nothing more.
Seriously. If the Anti-Constitu-
tioual Conventionists Of Oucahita have
nothing better to offer as "reasons"
why they oppose the calling ola Cons.
titutional Convention than are found in
the resolutions of 18th, it we're better.
if they desire to retain the good op-
inion of thinking men, to let the sub .
iect drop.
From the noise made by Senator
Stubbs' party We were led to look for
a new and overwhelming reason
| under which we poor Democrats who
hitherto stood in the way of those re =
formers, schooled by association with
Ludeling and Ray, would be deluged.
But this mountain brings forth the
following mouse.
Third That we depreciate the agi-
| tation Of the question of calling a
| constitutional convention in the early
future as unnecessary, imprudent and
perilous to the cause of good govern
ment in Louisiana and to the success
of the National Democratic party.
What must good men believe, when
they are told with solemn assurance
that "good government in Louisiana
would be endangered "by an homes,
Constitution :" What must We think
when it is asserted that the success
of National Democracy is imperiled
by the abrogation Of q reconstruction
Constitution in Louisiana. If it il
not burlesque what other name
shall We give it.
We await in painful anxiety for the
"reasona' of the next, on this ques.
ton.
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Henry Watterson, ESQ.,, Of the
Con,ier-Jouraal, cay that Tilden was
opposed to tho Electoral Bill aud that
bis views on the proper mode Of meet
ing the issues Of 1911 relating to, =
settlement Of the presiden tial question
were suppressed By Mr.. Hewett in tho
Congressional caucuses.
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If tho people of this parish ever
hoped that the present administration
was to relieve them from tho Of.
forts of tho political bummers Of Rad
icalism, they are most sorrowfully
mistaken. They arc all returning to
contest this year for the spoils. A
little rope jadic,ously applied might
prevent a recurrence Of these locusts.
At least it is worth the tiial.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

10 judicial advertisement wiU be
inserted IN this paper hereafter, an
less the attorney becomes seca'3ty
for the advertising bill, achich must
be paid on FIRST INSERTION, or
thea ,cill be discontinued.
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Special NOtice.-Cavil Bray. Esq. of
Vernon parish, is the duly authorized
aren't for the VINpICATOE in Vernon par
ish. ard all contracts made by him will
he fully ratified and carried out by us.
E.P. PRESLEY and J. II. Caldwell, are
orr agents for Sabine.
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arrival and Departure Of Mails.

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BOUNCED.
A Fugitive From Natchit0ches Want
cd There for Cattle Stealing
n. 0. Democrat.

n. O. Democrat.
Yesterday J. P. Hartman, deputy
sheriff of Natchitoches, made an affidavit
before Judge Miltenberger against S.
Van Deusen. charging him with being
fugitive from justice and being indicted
for lanceny in Natchitoches. The facts
of the case are as follows:
In 1874 Van Deusen was arrested and
tried before a jury for cattle stealing,
but owing to some flaw in the prosecu-
ton he was released on bond to await
further developments.
Shortly after his release he jumped the
parish and left his bondsmen in the
iurch they, however, paid the amount
of the bonds 1t WAS ascertained that
Van Deusen had fled to New Orleans,
where he kept correspondence with
friends in Natchitoches, who would let
him know Immediately whenever the
sheriff. was preparing to arrest him. In
this way he managed to escape the
clutches of the law.
Last Thursday Mr.. Hartman, who hap
pened to be in town Oh business, was
passing on Dauphine, near Bienville, and
espied Il man answering to Van Deusen's
description entering Merciers clothing
store
knowing his man well Hartman watch
| ed him, and just as the fugitive was
coming out he was captured by police
officer at the request Of Hartman and
brought before the Second Recorders
Court. This evening the deputy and his
prisoner will leave for Natchit0ches.
Van Deusen expresses the greatest
willingness to stand tue trial; he says
the charge was a trumped up one brought
against him for political reasons, as he
belonged to the Kellogg crowd. From
what has been cleaned, however, his
reputation is far from being good in Nat.
cbitocbes be figured prominently in all
the Radical troubles there, and was,
though white man, keeping negro
school.
Van came up in charge ofdeputy Hart
| man on the Bart Able and resumes The
game left off by Myers, that of playing
checkers with his nose in the parish Jail,
Van was found guilty of COW stealing
and granted q new trial and jumped his
bond. That is how the record reads
against him.
The laboratory of the System.
The stomach IS the laboratory of the
system, in which certain mysterious
processes are constantly going on. These
result in tho production, of that wonder
fnl vivifying agent the blood, which in
state Of health rushed laden with the
element of vitality to the remotest parts
of the system. But when the stomach is
semi-paralyzed by dyspepsia, blood manu-
facture is carried on empertectly, the
circulation grows thin and sluggish. and
the system suffers in consequence. More
over, indigestion reacts upon the liver
and bowels, rendering tho first sluggish
and the latter const'pated The brain
also suffers by sympathy, and sick bead
aches, sleeplessness and nervous symp
toms are engendered. Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters reform this state of things, gives
permanent tone and regularly to the
stomach and its associate organs, the
bowels and liver, and ensures complete
n0urishment and increased vigor 70 the
system. 1t is the most popular as we'll
az the most Efficient anti-dyspeptic and
tonic in America. ,Junel At
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Congress adjourned ton days ago
and Atjll they talk Of an Indian war.
Such is remarkable.
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Broad.

LOCAL GLEANIyGS.
Rain this week.
in River still rising.
red
zed Busness is dead dull.
and
sres ICE Cream is the cry.
"a Why don't you advertise B?
Wit: How do you hve-withont the V1NDI-
tns GATOR.
nng, Frnit of all kinds will be abundant
ito. this year.
and Ont in the Black Hills jack rabbits are
,ino | called narrow gauge mules.
"''t Letter writing should be abolished.
A. 4 By it some Of onr noblest statesmen fell.
non Mr. HAYES seat will not be disturbed.
liea They will merely scatter few tacks IN
'lan it,
nty
BY We don't hear any thing authentic
NJ ~ relating to the cotton worm.
=. The Cathedral clock is on the strike
ton again.
for 4 -
i sy / We again call attention to the fencing
audi i on tho dyke at the lower end of the city.
be. Mr.. L. Duplex places our table the
Sec FIRST fully matured bolls of the season.
e9, 4
wn.s Mr.. A. Jordan sends six ,Jnne peaches
II which are the largest June peaches we
my have ever seen.
wn Hon. E. W Robertson, NJ. G Third Dis
es!, trict, has our thanks for Congressional
favois.
) Mr.. J. r. Williams reports corn crops
-. in the sections be has visited extreme
ly bad Cotton is, however, booming.
~ Won't our farmers drop us a line
about their prospects, and how they
compare with other years.
CHI. Captain Brogan, in charge of the COLI
Wet camp, Pacific Railroad, receiv-
ed another installment of hands per
cias Bart Able.
aa,, District Court still in session, en-.
last gagged in Civil business. Proc ceilings
te will be published in full next week.
n Messrs Percy a. Duplex are the own
., srs ola we'll anger which has proven
Wit ; quito success. Several wells of their
lol G make in the city test the virtue of the
md. machine.
n The Bayou on Second street is we'll
:be worthy visit. If anybody desires to
,urt Gee evidence of "do nothing" we advise
them to step down that way aud take
! bokS
.,e.f The Racine CWis.) Argus of a late date
u Aonors the VMD1oAToR by reprnting
- several Of our Editorials without credit
All right, my friend, we'll do that for
r. you the first chance.
query: fWhy will men smoke com
and noh tobacco, when they can buy Mar
ms oofs Bros Seal Of North Carolina at
, aye The same price Feb 9'7S-fy.
the The BART ABLE was deferred from COM
ing through Cane river last on account
- ofthe shiverng Of her rudder Captain
500 says, however, that "Shiver his timbers,
Wit nell come through next time, water per-
the hitting" z.2 ee
Eel, Major Green, Engineer in Chief of the
hty- New Oreans Pacific railroad, came up on
ac- tia Rart Ah,o ,.st +r, .,a
Do r.;,ro.a ,,.....s", ~ ".'N ~ avpoi. o''
,Ss; :.. oau m"s 'e all SERENE Inc Major
orth ~M nne health and We were pleased to
nth meet him.
runt &'.1 7's .sInT go. ~"'<'~> ..
ipg our 'eitIzen fafmersa are reporting in
any large numbers with full grown cotton
81 solla. ", q Barbse, Esq, \. H. Camp
nl Esq, and numerous others are
snt. aoekst.d in tina v;ndc ,,,r oss.a - ~. -.
MA - *"-'
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EsTRAY NOTICE.

Taken up by William Welsh and es-
trayed before me the undersigned author
ity, two COWS, described a. follow. Ono
black, brsuded on tho right hip L; mark
I'd, smooth crop and swallow fork 10
right and smooth crop and .Iunderbit in
leh ear. The other red and white COW
without brand marked smooth crop in
light, and smooth crop and undsrbit in
left ear ~
IT,. BoulI1,
J.P. Ward !, Parish Nstohitoches.
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Dr.. s. NJ. Potts, Of DeSoto parish,
IL the reqular authorized travelling
Agent for the Vindicotor.
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LOCAL GLEANINGS.

PARISH AND CITY NEWS.
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lmbered
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last and
k Cleres
y, 1873,
to-wit:
as the
lated on
bending,
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lntati0n
hundred
per plan
Depnty
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and S.Y
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courts sentence has been indefinite
ly postponed in consequence of its
danger to the life and reason of the
executive officers.
The mental and bodily condition
of the prisoner is wonderful, con-
sidering what he has gone through
with. He is pale, and there is some
loss of strength, but his language is
coherent and his motions are steady
and under due control. If his read
ers should find any abatement of
vigor in his IucubratiOns they are
requested to bear in mind that he
has undergone infections which not
even his transcendent intellect could
hope to pass through unimpaired.
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4 NEW TURN IN THE EASTERN
QUESTION-A SEPARATE AN
GLO-TTRKISH TREATY.

Lord BeacOnsfield is determined
that editors shall not keep up with
him, but gives us a new surprise
once a week, if not oftener. While
the assembled wisdom of Europe
were working hard at Berlin over
the diplomatic knot which the Rus
sian claim to BatOum presented,
Batoum being a single seaport on
the Black Sea, My Lord, through
Mr.. Layard at ConstantinOple, was
quietly negotiating separate treaty
with the Turkish Government,
which established Il defensive alli-
ance between the two nations APP
plying to the whole of Asiatic Tur-
key. Lord Salisbury in a despatch
to Mr.. Layard explains the necessity
of this arrangement to counteract
the influence which the Russian
occupation of Batoum must exercise
in the way of shaking the allegiance
of the various half-civilized tribes
occupying Armenia and Asia Minor.
The truth is that this step is
practically a check-mate in three
moves to Russia. First move. halt
your troops advancing on Constan-
tinople, or we enter the Black Sea
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THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

The triple alliance is it
What was it? or was it ever any
thing? Our friends who attribute
to us a much more accurate knOwl-
edge of European affairs than in
fact we possess, frequently ply us
with questions which it takes longer
to answer than to put, and some of
| them are better answered through
the medium of printers ink than in
conversation. The above is one of
them. Bismarck when asked the
same question answered, "The
| triple alliance is an understanding
between the three Emperors, not an
arrangement between the nations"
The indefinite nature of this under
standing has been the source of sore
! perpleXity among European CORES
pOndentS of American papers.
Sometimes during the late negOtia-
lions it would be reported that Rus
| STA had conceded AuStria'S de-
mands and Germany had agreed
with the two the terms of peace and
England must consent to them or
fight all three, but the next mail
would report Austria massing troops
in the Carpathian passes and Count
Audrassy in anxious conference
with the English foreign Office, and
the triple alliance nowhere when
most wanted. At last men began
to ask themselves, what is the triple
alliance? where is it? what is it
for? 1t was to some such questions
probably that Bismarck made the
reply we have given above.
The triple alliance probably
amounts to about this much: The
Emperors of Germany, Russia and
Austria are three very stately gen.
tlemen, who are fond of field-sports
and good company. They do not
often meet with people whom they
consider their equals, so they like
to get together and indulge in the
familiarity which does not breed
contempt. After dinner they like
TO talk politics, and there are two
particulars in which they are Won
derfully unanimous. One is that
nations are made for their sover-
eigns. They are disguised beyond
measure at the concessions that they
have all been compelled of late to
make to the demand of their people
to have voice in the policy and
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,ew York. July l, lS7.
ORANGE AND GREEN,

Montreal, Canada, was anticipat-
ing troubIeyesterday, beingthe ami
versary of the battle of the Boyne,
which the Orangemen there determ-
ined to celebrate with professions,
etc, while those of the green ribbon
areequally determined to raise a row
if they do. The Government has for
hidden both Orange and Green pro-
cessions and has sent a large force
of Government troops there to carry
out the order. Irishmen, whether
Orange or Green, should leave their
local quarrels at home and in Amer
lea be Americans.
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FrightfnI Severity of Punishment.

FrightfHi Severity of Punishment.
We have already intimated that
on the 18th of July last this editor
was placed under trial before the H.
c.. c. To make known in detail
the charges preferred against him
and the line of argument for prose-
cutiOn and defense would be to di-
vulge secrets Of the order whose
sanctity is beyond that of the Eleu-
sinian mysteries of old. Suffice it
to state that the Indictment charged
upon the defendant the PROCLAMATION
and publication of these very myS-
teries that the prosecution and de-
Tense were both conducted with
cOnsummate ability. The court,
however, is organized upon the fun
elemental principle that every de-
PENDANT is assumed to be guilty
until he is proved innocent, and the
proof Of innocence was declared in
sufficient and the defendant pro-
nOunced guilty. Sentence was pro-
nOunced.
Weare here again prohibited from
publishing the antique oriental
phraseOlOgy in which this was done.
The sentence itself we are permitted
to publish in solemn warning of
anyone who may hereafter be
tempted to set at naught the author
ity of that sublime court.
After cOpiOus additions and lus-
tratiOns at the consecrated fountain
of the order, the prisoner was to be
visited during six days of the ensu-
ing week by the Chief Priest of the
order and the Grand Marshal of the
court, who were for three hours on
each day to read to said prisoner
his own editorials, published in the
GAINESVILLE CHRONICLE on the East
ern question and the silver question
respectively, the former subject be-
ing assigned to the Grand Marshal
and the latter to the Chief High
Priest. On the PRONUNCIATION of this
awful sentence the two high officers
commissioned to execute it protest
ed, with alarm and dismay on their
countenances, that a very large
amount of the punishment would
in that way fall upon them individ-
ually, and that human nature shrank
from the degree of suffering to be
endured as well as inflicted. The
prisoner, on the other hand, pale
but unmoved, awaited the execu-
ton of the sentence with the stern
endurance of Prometheus on the
Caucasus. The protest was disre-
garded by the court; having an or
igin among the ancient Modes and
Persians, its DEGREES, like theirs,
cannot be altered when once pro-
nounced.
On Monday, the Sth, the Grand
Marshal (known to the profane I'M
der the initials p. G. j. presented
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productive industry TO rags and misery and
said that relief was promised by the young,
vigorous and patriotic national greenpack
party. You have a right to infer this was
liquidation and communism, but you have
no right to state your conclusions as my eX-
prcsSions. The whole press that sustains the
Radical financial policy, which has covered
the land with wrecks OF ruined fortunes and
brought hunger TO the homes Of many
thousands, claims that paying of the United
States debt IN greenbacks IS communism I;
50, also, did they denounee the remonetiZa-
tsOn OF silver as reputation, as comInu-
nlsiics but they have the fairness TO STATE
such opinions as their conclusions, while
YOU prctcnd To state my opinions. Your ar
ticle concludes with fiattering notice OF
Judge Tyler's speech, indirectly, paliiating,
il YOU do not justify, an unlawful appropr1a-
ton of the peoples money. Judge Tyler
followed me and distinctly approved every
thing said ON the subject Of finance and
taxes. How does it happen that you charge
me with being a communist and in the
same breath commend Judge Tyler? You
heard him approve my speech; II IL was
cOmmunistic, Judge Tyler is as much a com
munist as myself. OF all who heard my
/ speech, doubtless you were the only person
4 who dreamed of its being communisttc.
/ am responsible for that speech, and viii re-
| peat it in every district in Montgomery
| county; but / am not responsible for YOU
/ bad hearing, distorted Imagination ana par
/ TALLY for the rOgues who plumber the people
/ in the name and for the sake OF "publl'
| credit
You say YOU have before heard that il
/ private DIHS>tu GOLiAlluLllSLACNGAlNlAAA
/ Your infOrnants misrepresented me just a
/ you have, and doubtless your misrepresen
tation was based alone on your preconcep
| lions. They had no foundation in anything
! / said at JOrdan's Springs, otherwise yol
would have Joined Judge Tyler with me IL
/ your condemnation. Never in my life, pr
vately or publicly, did / express an agrarial
/ sentiment. No man will more firmly pro
tect others in their honest requirement thal
myself, but this does not require me to sup
port the means by which lot of pOlitica
| tricksters and stockholders cOnspire to bull
up a mOneyed aristOcracy on the ruin c
productive industry.
You intimate that hereafter your poten
pen will be welded in this county election
DO let yourself in; it is n free fight. If yo
! want to know my opinions, look TO you
| first issue of June and read the Independen
platform. I stand upon that platform witt
out exception, and this you knew befoI
yon went to JOrdans Springs. Why don
! YOU Ventilate that platform? IL Is just .
cOmmunistic as was my speech, but II car
not serve your purpose il you intend TO mi
/ represent me. THUS. l.. l ANOE {.
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THE LIFE OF GEN. ALBERT SIDNEY JOHN
sTON; by his son, Col. Vim. Preston john
sTon.
The history Of our civil war is
gradually taking place-magazine
articles, partisan papers North and
South are giving way to works OF
instruction, and insteand of an
angry spirit of recriminatiOn we
find growing up a desire for au-
thentic and impartial information.
The papers published by the South
ern Historical Society are one fruit
of this new spirit, and many re-
prints of dOcumentsNOrth and South
and especially the present work.
Gen. JOhnstOn's career in the civil
war was so brief though so brilliant
that his reputation was overshad-
owed by that Of less able officers
who continued to the end of the
war. This work by his son was the
more demanded both for that reason
and because the war in Virginia
and that in Georgia has received so
much more attention than that in
Tennessee and North Mississippi,
which was the fc!d u Albert John
ston's service.
But it is not only The war of South
against North in which Johnston
served he distinguished himself in
the Cherokee war Of 1859, tAe Mex
lean war of 1910 and the campaign
against the MormOns in 1877, and
valuable "reminiscences OF all these
wars are to be found in the present
work. 1t is altogether one Of the
most valuable contributions to the
military history of tine country
which has yet appeared.
We are glad to learn that our
public-spirited friend; M. II. Clark,
ESQ, has, out of regard for the
memory of the father and the abili-
tiles of the son, consented to become
agent for the work. Mr.. John
O'Brien will call on the leading
citizens to receive subscriptions,
which, we feel confident, will be
numerous in this region, SO near the
field of Johnston's military career.