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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11
DOT LEETLE POY.

A lusty pair of lungs with small
boy attached made their appearance al
our residence last evening, and now,
like brother McCranie of the OUAcII1rA
TELEGRAPH, we stand desperately in
need of few more paying subscribers.
Baton Rouge advocate.
One of our best North Louisiana ex-
changes, and a paper we always read
| with pleasure, is the OUAcHITA TELE-
| GRAPH, which comes regular to hand
| every week. We congratulate Col.
McCranie ON the addition to his f,nni-
ly in the shape of a bouncing boy
ZberUille South.
If George McCranie, of the OUACIII-
TIA TELEGRAPH, didn't get elected
Convention printer, he is determined
that, so far as he is concerned, the
Kansas exodus will not affect our rep
resentation in Congress at all, when the
tenth census is promulgated. AS proof
of this read the subjoined paragraph
from his paper: awe are indebted to
Mrs. McCranie for the present of very
pretty little boy, and we hope she will
accept our thanks-about all, we fear,
she will ever get" Our Ouachita friend
evidently has very little confidence in
the promises of delinquent patrons
X1(CCGISOn JO1[272CtL.
We have received the Harry Hyams,
the Dave Morgan and. the Johnny
Shanks all On time.-Ouetcltitu Zs2e-
graph.
Just as we hope you received that
"little sonny" son who came scream
ing into this world of ours last Sunday
night-with outstrctchcd arms. The
Geo. w. McCranie is pleasant paper
| and Nc. ought to be proud of it, throw,
ing in the late arrival for lugeiuppe.-
| Sugar Planter.
The young man is vociferous with
thanks and with cholic pains. You
have placed him under Il great debt
which, added to that of the State anC
inherited, will make him poor mar
all his life.
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IS NIX KOMM RAUS!"

New Orleans German Gazette.l
The order of the Convention to in
vcstigatc and find out if certain dele
gates had received from the bondhold-
ers certain compensation for their
votes or had too deeply violated decen-
cy to speculate in bonds, appears as if
it would fail like the "Hornberger
shooting" The committee has held
several sittings and examined different
witnesses; every broker, naturally,
positively declares that he did not
"buy" any delegate, received no in
formation, and that he specialized on
his own hook, etc. In the event that
some of the delegates did receive
money he will certainly not be 80 fool
ish as to tie it to the nose of the COM
mittee Of Mr.. Lott of Carroll, and like
wise will the brokers guard against
giving the names Of those whom they
caught con the rum Under such cir
'cumstances, and since no one is direct
ly blackened, there can be no talk of
a "whitewashing," and the result of
the whole investigation will be "nix
komm raus.'
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THE CONVENTION.

To an outsider-with the mercury in
the COS, no breeze in the shade and no
enduring fair sunshine-restive,i mpa-
tient, and becoming more and more
befogged with every report-thc pro.
gress of our assembled wisdom seems
to be rather slow and expensive.
The most notable articles adopted
since our last are:
I. That privileges on movables under
existing laws, or that may hereafter he
created, shall exist and operate against
third persons without being recorded.
III. To protect laborers on buildings,
streets, roads, railroads, canals and
other similar works against failures of
contractors and sub-contractors to pay
their current wages when due, and to
make the corporation, company or in
dividuals tor whose benefit the work is
done, responsible for their ultimate
payment.
The passage of the resolution appro-
priating $25, 1000 by the Convention to
pay its expenses, was brought to an in
glorious end by the unexpected ssveto"
of Auditor Jumel. The wrath it ex-
cited and the sharp debate to which it
gave rise, reminded us of Congress in
the grip of Hayes. Tho subsequent
withdrawal of the resolution and the
prospective arrangement with the
Fiscal Agent, is a bow to the fiat.
Notwithstanding this takes from the
Convention its claim to supreme power
tho power to frame constitution
without submitting it to tho people,
and to turn every official in the State
out of office-we are consoled by the
hope that the members may yet get
their per diem.
Tho various rumors that have pre-
vailed fol- the last week as to the in=
tention of the Convention to adjourn
to re-assemble in January, have no
doubt had their origin in recent mo-
tions made to that effect, which did
not elicit argument or receive the CON-
pliment of rejection.
o what tongue can express
The sweet comfort and peace
OF a soul in it's earliest love?
JOHN WESLEY.
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MRS. DORSEY'S WILL.
New Orleans Democrat. I

New Orleans DentOcrat.I
We learn that the lamented Mrs
Dorsey leaves a will bequcathing hel
whole estate to Jefferson Davis. In
making this bcquest Mrs. Dorsey re.
fers to the great services and sacrifices
of Mr.. Davis in behalf of the South
and reproves his countrymen for their
failure, in gratitude and appreciation
for such services, and regrets the small
contribution which she is able to make
for his relief.
Tho estate embraced in this legacy
includes two large plantations in the
upper part of the State and the elegant
villa at Bcauvoir, on the sea coast,
where Mr.. Davis is now sojourning,
the climate and situation of which
have proved especially favorable to
Mr.. Davis's health and his present &C.
equations of study and labor, in the
preparation of his book defensive OF
his administration of the Office of Pres
ident of the Confederate States.
This legacy of Mrs. Dorsey will
make the circumstances of Mr.. Davis
quite easy aud comfortable. For lu XII
~, display and any sort of ostentation
Mr.. Davis has never had any taste or
ambition. Always cordial and agree
able to friends and visitors, the most
delightful of companions and most in
structivo of onversationaiists, he courts
the quiet of philosophic retirement and
reelection; and in his little study, with
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11
POWER OF THE CONVENTION.
New Orleans Bee,1

New Orleans Bee.]
A Constitutional Convention is the
highest expression of the peoples SOW
ereignty. Its power is, therefore, as
absolute as that of the people can pos
sibly be. Hence, in our opinion, it is
absurd to question the right of the
Convention to appropriate the funds
necessary for its expenses.
1t is said this would be contrary to
the Constitution of 1868. What beau
tiful argument! Has not the Conven-
ton the power to abolish or modify
that Constitution 1t was called for
that very purpose.
The Convention has been cOnvoked
not by virtue of the Constitution of
1868, but in violation of that Constitu-
tion-sofe1y by virtue Of the inaIiena-
BILE right of the people, simply recog-
nized by the last legislature.
The Convention of 1868 was Con-
vention arbitrarily called and selected
by Federal military authority. 1t did
not represent the people OF Louisiana.
The present Convention, freely elected
by the people, represent the sovereignty
of the State. Those who resist its or
dinances are seditious and should be
treated as such.
If this Convention does not know
AAo" " OAAOACC ACoPSCC AOA 40 ucCACco,
it is not worthy of the high mission
that has been confided to it, and con-
fesses itself to be incapable of doing
anything fit to inspire respect.
All the sophisns of the world cannot
make us doubt the absolute power OF
the Convention to adopt a constitution
and ordinances obligatory on all. We
cannot debate the question whether OF
not it is good policy that constitutions
should be ratified by the people. This
question should be decided by the dis
erection of the Convention. There are
as many presidents for one side as the
other, and good reasons pro and con.
But the opposition with which the first
ordinance of the Convention has met
is bad example, and we think the
Convention should, in justice to its own
dignity and the rights of the people
who elected it, compel recalcitrant
officer to submit to its DEGREES.
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Aggregating ......-.............$48O,O 900
annually saved, besides the 5000, 600
reduction of the principal.''
Gov. Warmoth asked Mr.. Newman
the following questions, which he an
swered:
Mr.. Newman, you say you repre-
sent between two and three millions of
State bonds? He answered, do.
Mr.. Newman, do you think the bal
ance of the State creditors would be
satisfied to accept your proposition?
10 which he replied: I am not pre-
pared to speak for others, but only for
myselfa and friends.
MIR. Newman, what is your opinion
concerning the other creditors; do you
think they would be likely to accept
He replied: I am of the opinion they,
or most of them, would.
Mr.. Newman, what is your reason
for SO thinking? To which he replied:
When the funding act of 1874 was
passed, it was some years before the
creditors, Or many Of them, would ac-
ceed to the reductions; in fact, many of
the obligations were only funded when
the present administration came into
power, and the reason of my belief is,
that merchants and capitalists gener-
ally accept seventy-fve per cent. of a
debt due them, in preference to going
into litigation, paying costs and attor-
ney's fees.
Another member of the committee
asked Mr.. Newman if he was prepared,
would he reduce his proposition to
writing, and he replied, l will inme-
diatcly, if desired.
MIR. Newman closed his remarks by
saying: Gentlemen, 1 have been as
liberal in my propositions as possible,
considering the condition of the coun-
try and all surrounding circumstances
1 can go thus far and no farther, ]
hope you will deem it to the interest
of the State to accept it, which will I'M
doubtedly be satisfactory to all parties
interested. With these remarks,
rest the matter With you, and hope it
will meet your favorable consideration.
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RATHER STARTLING.

informing Star and Catholic Messenger
The statement of Mr.. Isidore New
man, made to the Committee on cor
ruption, puts the final action of the
Convention in singular light. Mr..
Newman AYERS that he represents some
two millions of the bonds, that is,
about one-sixth of the whole debt, and
| that he offered to scale at rs cents on
the dollar. Seventy-five per cent of
| the debt would be about nine millions.
The Convention have ignored this
proposition, and generously retained
the whole debt amounting to twelve
millions. 1t would, we presume, have
been dishonorable to take advantage of
the offer made by Mr.. Newman. Oh,
no! The creditors may be willing to
give up twenty-five per cent of their
claims, but we are too proud, too hon
orable to accept it. We spurn their
offer and insist on paying them the
whole amount.
1t is clear that Mr.. Newman was, as
he says, not among those who raised
the money for Constitutional purposes.
He denies that he had anything to do
with it, and it is reasonable to pre-
sumo that only creditors who insisted
on the whole cebt were called on TO
contribute towards the corruption fund.
Luz SAASlcIlCC Va SuCn d luuu Scc10S not
to have been definitiVely established
as yet, however. Witnesses all deny
any absolute knowledge of such a
thing, and certainly such honorable
gentlemen would not lie. It is a very
queer thing, however, that the COM
mittce happened to strike on every
body, except the right ones, as wit
nesses. The general conclusion is that
our Carondclet street spectators are
gentlemen who will neither bride nor
lie.
Mr.. Newman's plain statement is
one fact in the right direction, how
ever, and Mr.. Lofts committee will do
we'll to follow up the trail.
Why was not the offer adopted and
earnestly used as nucleus for gem
eral arrangement ON the same basis?
That is tho question.
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Says the New Orleans Democrat OF
the Sth
The first bale of cotton of this years
crop that has reached here was sold at
auction yesterday at the Cotton EX-
change. 1t brought Is cents per pound,
Mr.. w. Sanchez being the buyer.
This cotton came from Dewitt county,
Texas, and was consigned to Damned
q Co. "A bale from the same county
was received at Galveston on the I'd
inst, one day earlier than the arrival
of the first cotton last year.
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nearly ten weeks there has not been a
good rain In this locality and for near
200 miles up and down the Ouachita.
We hear Of no complaint of the cater
pillar and none of the scarcity of labor.
Water for stock is very scarce.
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THE STATE DEBT.
CCarroll Conservative.1

CCarrol1 Conservative.1
1t was our intention to have written
one more article on the question of the
enormous debt, and general manage
ment of our State government, but we
have concluded not to do SO, and SUBJ
stitute therefor the tax bill OF a colored
friend of ours, by name Arthur Rich
ardson.
There are two sure things in this
world, they arc death and taxes, and
such Il tax bill as is hereto appended is
sufficient to cause the agricultural
death of any hard working man like
our negro friend against whom it is
drawn:
TAX CoILEcToR's OFFICE, !
Parish of East Carroll, La, 1879.
To Arthur Richardson Of the parish of East
Carroll:
You are hereby notified that your State
and parish taxes for the year 1873 is now
| duo and unpaid, and if not paid in ton days
from the service hereof, will proceed to
seize and sell property to satisfy the same,
and all costs, as required by law. See
statement below.
Valuation Of property. 81 ego.
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The charge that Warmoth and the
Republican party in Louisiana had,
during twelve years, robbed our peo-
pie of millions of dollars has been de-
cided as sensational and unjust by the
Convention in their action on the
State debt.-Eeliciana Sentinel.
What docs Ex-Governor WicklifIc
say on that head?
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Except from portions of Richland
and Morehouse parishes, we get sad
accounts of the crops, corn especially.
Planters say that the corn crop is a
failure, and some are cutting down the
stalks for winter forage. Cotton is
holding up better, but the blooms are
coming out at the top of the stalk. For
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a good library and diligent secretary
to record his observations and recollec-
tions, relieved Of all the cares and anx-
ieties Of active life, he will spend his
declining years in style BETTING his
great services and his eminent talents
and virtues, so long devoted to his
country, and so conspicuous in the his
tory of the republic.
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OAK RIDGE, La, July 4, 1877

YAK NUDGE, Ia, July 4, 1873.
MY Dear Detighlfut Nae:
On this our glorious, undying, ever
green, never-to-be-forgottcn annivcrsa-
ry, send you the subscription to your
TELEGRAPH. No cartls-no thanks !
Respectfully, ALEC MACKAH.
Z. S.-Do you think tho very Com
mon Council would let my show into
Monroe this season, or is there any fear
Of yellow fever?
Please be receipted. Mrs. farley and
her wax works will be welcomed,
cantccn or no cantecn!
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MIR. NEWMAN'S OFFER.
Made to the Committee ON state Debt
Of Constitutional Convention
of louisiana.

| Mr.. Isidore Newman being intro
duced to the committee said:
81 call on you, gentlemen, for the
purpose of comforting with you in re-
gard to the all-absorbing topic of the
day-the State Debt. In SO doing I
wish to say that it is unnecessary for
you gentlemen to picture to me the
condition of the country. Having lived
in the parish of Catahoula much of the
early period of my business life, I know
full well the disadvantages under which
L know that at the expiration of the
year when the planter brings the pro-
ducts to market and disposes of them,
the proceeds barely suffice to pay his
debts to the merchant, and that when
he returns home there is but little left,
if anything, with which to pay the
doctors, blacksmith's, and other small
bills necessarily contracted during the
year. I, therefore, thought it best to
confer with you and ascertain whether
we could not arrive AT some settlement,
satisfactory to the State on one part
and to the creditors on the other. Be-
fore proceeding further I wish to say
to you that in case we cannot agree, I
the matter. On the contrary, I shall
| native.
In my rather large experience in
business, I have always found it bene-
fetal to avoid litigation, and to COM
promise differences on fair basis.
| I therefore would propose to you
gentlemen to accept seventy-five cents
on the dollar, with four per cent per
annum interest, for all State bonds
which I and my friends, whom I rep
resent, may own, amounting to be-
tween two and three millions OF dollars.
You will certainly consider this
proposition fair and liberal; if you &C.
cept it, you will perceive the State
thereby saves twenty-five per centum
on about twelve millions Of dollars;
besides this reduction the State saves
annually on the reduction of interest
the following amounts:
Seven per cent on three million
OF dollars. .........,.................$2 ,OOC
Three per cent on the balance of
the debt, nine millions of
dollars ............................... 100000
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1t is reported that Gen. G. w. GUSTS
Lee has rendered his resignation as
resident of the Washington and Lee
University, Virginia.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-11

Biliousness disappears after occa-
sional doses of Ayers Pills.
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WIZ kindly welcome, Jenny brings him
ben;
A strappan youth; he talks the Mothers
eye;
Blythe jenny sees the visits no i'll ta'en;
The Father cracks of horses, pleuShs, and
kye.
The youngsters artless heart o'erflows VII
joy,
But blate, an faithful, scarce can weel
behave;
The Mother, wiz a woman's wiles, can spy
What makes tho youth sac bashfu' and
sac grave;
Wool pleased to think her bairn's respected
like the lave.
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+. II. G. TAYLOR, Collector.
And VIC submit another taX-bill-
from tho parish of Morchousc-made
out, likewise, against a colored man:
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o Thou who pour'd the patriotic tide
That strcam'd through Wallace's un-
daunted heart:
Who dar'd to nobly stem tyrannic pride,
Or nobly die, the second glorious part,
(The patriots God, peculiarly Thou art,
His friend, inspirer, guardian, and re-
wardO
O never, never, Scotia's realm desert;
But still tho patriot, and the patriot bard,
In bright succession raise, her ornament
and guard!
ROBERT BURNS,
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IL.

But, bark! a rap comes gently to the door;
Jenny, wha kens the meaning o. the
same,
Tells how n ncebor lad cam DER the moor,
To do some errands, and convoy her
hame.
The willy Mother secs tho conscious flame
Sparkle IN Jenny's e'e, and flush her
check,
With heart-struck anxious care, inquiries
his name,
While Jenny haf1lins is afraid to speak :;
Weel pleased the Mother hears it's nae wild, ,
worthless rake.
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Scotia my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heaven
is sent!
Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toll
Be blest with health, and peace, and
sweet content!
And, o! may heaven their simple lives
prevent.
From luxury's contagion, weak and vile!
Then, howe'Cr crowns and coronets be rent,
a virtuous populace may rise the while,
And stand avail of fire around their much
lov'd Isle.
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Compar'd with this, how poor Religions
pride,
In all tho pomp of method and of art,
When men display to congregations wide,
Deyotion's ev'ry grace, except the heart!
Tho Pow'r, incens'd, the pageant will de-
sert,
The pompcus strain, the sacerdotal stole;
But haply. in some cottage far apart,
May hear, we'll pleas'd, the language of
tho soul;
And in His book of lifo the inmates poor
enrol.
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THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT.

INSCRIBED TO ROBERT AIKEN, ESQ.
"Let not ambition mock their useful toll,
Their homely joys and destiny obscure:
Nor grandeur hear, with disdai1 ful smile,
The short and simple annals of the poor" GRAY.
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o happy loye' where love like this is
ohcart-telt raptures !-bliss beyond COM
I've paced much this weary, mortal round,
And sage experience bids this de-
clare
eff heaven draught of heavenly pleasure
Ono cordial in this melancholy vale,
IT'S when 4 youthful, loving, modest pair,
tale,
Beneath tho milk-white thorn that scents
the evening gale"
Is there, in human form, that bears Il
heart
a wretch n villain! lost to love and truth !!
That can, with studied, sly, cnsnarinS art,
Betray sweet Jenny's unsuspecting
Curse on his pcrjur'd arts assembling
Arc honour, virtue, conscience, all exird?
Is there no pity, no relenting ruth,
Points to the parents fondling DER their
child?
Thon paints the ruin'd maid, and their dis
traction wild /?
But now the supper crowns their simple
The halesome parritch, chief of scotia's
The soupe their only hawke does afford,
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My loy'd, my honour'd, much respected
No mercenary bard his homage pays;
With honest pride, scorn each selfish end:
My dearest need, friends esteem and
praise
To You I sing, in simple Scottish lays,
The lowly train in life's sequester'd
Tho native feelings strong, tho guilelcss
What Aiken in cottage would have
All. tho his worth unknown, far happier
there, I ween!
November chill b1aws loud VII angry SUCH;
~, The short'ning winter-day is near close;
The miry beasts retreating frae the pleu gh:
The black'nlng trains o. craws TO their
This night his weekly ,noil is at end,
Collects his spades, his mattocks, aud his
Hoping the morn, in ease and rest to spend,
And weary. DER the moor, his course does
hameWard bond.
At length his lonely cot appears in view,
Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;
TIL ex tRhpet wee-things' toddlin'' stacher
To meet their Dad, VII hichterin' noise
am glee.
DIS W00 1hSlo, OAlHk1n OOnnlly,
His clean hearth-stane, his thriftie Witie's
smile,
Tho 1isping infant prattlins on his knec,
Does a. his weary kiaugh and care be-
guile,
An makes him quite forget his labour and
his toll.
Belyve, the elder BARNS come drapping in,
At service out amang tho farmers roun' !:
Some ca the plough, some herd, some tentie
A cannie errand to q neebor town:
Their eldest hope, their Jenny. woman
grown,
In youthful bloom, love sparkling in her
e'e,
Comes hame, perhaps to shew a Draw new
gown,
TO help her parents dear, f # they in hard
ship be.
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From scenes like these, old Scotia's gran
deur springs,
That max es her lov'd at home, rever'd
abroad:
kings,
can honest mans tho noblest work of
GoD;'
and certes, in fair virtues heavily road,
The cottage leaves the palace far behind;
What is a lordlings pomp? cumbrous
load,
Disgusting oft tho wretch of human kind,
Studied in arts of Hell, in wickedness re-
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Then kneeling down, to HEAVENS IMpE-
RIAL KING,
The Saint, tho Father, and the Husband
prayS:
Hope 'spriEgs exulting on triumphant
wing"
That thus they all shall meet in future
days:
There ever basl in uncreated rays,
No moro to sigh or shed tho bitter tear.
Together hy,nning their Creators praise,
In such society. yet still more dear:
While circling Time moves round in an
eternal sphere.