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Year: 1869

RADICAL MOVEMENT AGAINST THE CAB1NET.-The
following comes from Washington under date of the
9Th inst


Changes in the Cabinet continue to be discussed with
great freedom among the politicians here. Sena
Tor Sumner il is said is casting his eyes towards the
State Department. and Edwin NJ Stanton is spoken Of
for the Treasury Department by prominent Radicals,
who while they are satisfied with Boutwes politics,
thinks he lacks force. Sumner in conversation with
a gentleman few days ago said that if the country
demanded his services in the State Department, he
could not refuse although If his wishes con-
suited, of course he did want the place. Notwith-
standing this modest disclaimer, it is said by those
who know Sumner best that he would readily take the
State Department if it were offered him. Stanton has
great idea of his ability to manage the finances, and
had he been offered the place the outset here good
eason to believe be would have accepted it. 1t is said
pat the hue and cry gotten up by the Radical press
ont the Cabinet has for its ultimate object the dis


cement of some of the present Cabinet officers to


e wsy for more pronounced Radicals, ike Sumner


Stanton. learn from the best sources that 10


Der Of the Cabinet intends to resign just at pres
"a artanIP not before the meeting of Congress next
sE They say INC 50siFIUus te4a asen hAr
ostons; that some of them accepted at the
d quest of the President, and that whenever
hat their designations aTenecessaTy TO IN
M .ess of his administration they will be


y = They do not propose, however, to be


to resigniDg by what they term ne"spa-
Year: 1869

THE New York Tribune says:


One of those events which occasionally
.transpire to assert, in the most emphatic
manner, the leyeling spirit of the age, oc
Cured on Saturday in this city. This was
no less than the marriage of Prince of
the ancient and conservative house of
Bourbon to the daughter of a Cuban
merchant. The story-a most romantic
one--is as follows Some three or four
years ago Mrs. Hamil, the wife of well
known merchant in Havana, left that city
to place her daughter in q school in Paris.
They stopped for some time in this city,
having rooms at Delmonico's, and made
many warm friends wherever they were
known. ado ,,.a4,ss3


The daughter, possessed of more than
ordinary omplishments and personal
charms, attracted much attention among
the best society of the gay French capital.
She was received in the most exclusive
circles, and it is said was frequent guest
at the Imperial Court. Among the many
distinguished gentlemen who paid her
their court was Prince Louis de Bourbon,
SON of Louis, Count d'Aquilla, one of the
chief members of the Bourbon family.
The Prince proposed to her and was &C
cepted, under the mothers sanction, but
when Count d'Aquilla learned the inten-
ton of his sou, his pride revolted at what
he and others of royal blood considered
mesalliance, and he not only forbade the
match, but used his influence with the
Emperor to induce the latter to disoounte-
nance it should the Prince seek his sup
port. The lovers, in company with the
lady's mother, then determined to go to
England and there fulfill the marriage, but
the father interfered, and succeeded in
preventing them from carrying itgouta


After more than one disappointment
from the refusal of the Catholic clergy to
perform the ceremony, the prosecuted ones
determined to proceed to the United
States, where they hoped to find no diff
Guilty in fulfilling their contract; but even
in this free country the influence of con-
servatism prevailed SO far that the Catho-
lie clergy still declined to have anything
to do in the matter. However, a marriage
according to the civil rights Of the coun-
try was consummated on Saturday evening
last, and thus all opposition and persecu-
tion was overcome. This marriage, al
though perhaps it would not be acknowl-
edged among the crowned heads of Europe,
is perfectly legal in the United States and
all Protestant countries, and Ss such it
will never be disputed. The Prince, it is
understood, should his family prove obdu-
rate, is prepared to renounce his rights as
one of the royal house of Bourbon, and
will content himself with the possession of
his beautiful wife.
Year: 1869




FORT RANDALL, DACoTA TER,


b !. Feb. 10, 1869. -


TIE most extraordinary skill that is
exhibited in this part of the country, either
by the white man or red native, is in the
practise of trailing. Here it may be ac-
counted an art as much as music, painting
or sculpture is in the East. The Indian or
trapper that is shrewd trailer is man
of close observation, quick perception and
prompt action. As he goes along, nothing
escapes his observation, and what he sees
and hears he accounts for Immediately.
Often net another step is taken until a
mystery that may present itself in this
line is fairly solved. The Indian trailer
will stand still for hours in succession, to
account for certain traces or effects in
tracks, and sometimes give to the mat
ter unremitting attention for days and
weeks.


. The trailer is not graceful man. He
carries his head much inclined, his eye is
quick and restless, always on the watch,
and he is practising mis- art unconsciously
hardly ever crossing the track of man or
animal without seeing it. When he enters
house, he brings the habits he contracted
in the practise of his art with him.
know a trailer as soon as he enters my
room. He comes in through the door
softly, and with an air of exceeding eau
ton. Before he is fairly in, or at least
has sat down, he has taken note of every
article and person, though there may be a
dozen vacant chairs In the room. He is
not used to chairs, and, like the Indian,
prefers more humble seat When was
employed by General Harvey last summer
to take charge temporarily Of the Indians
that were gathered here to form new
reservation, one day guide and trailer
came into the Generals headquarters. ]
told him to be seated. He sat down on
the floor, bracing his back against the wall
The General saw this, and in vexatior
| cried out, My God, why don't you tax,
Ia chair, when there are plenty her
Year: 1869

Some Of Gen. Grants best friends
some of his best political friends-begin
to look upon him as failure, if not as a
humbug This thing of appointing all
his relations to office they regard as a
swindle For instance, the Union, a
Radical paper, published at Circleville,
Ohio, thus takes him to task for his in
numerable appointments of that sort ;
1--WE believe in pubtfc ncInSS-awfio nave
been elevated to Office, remembering those
who assisted them in their elevation. We
think it well for President Grant, now
that he is safely in the White House, not
to be unmindful of his friends who have
placed him there. We have no objec-
tions to his rewarding Washburne and
Rawlins as the deserve-no objections to
his providing his 'paternal ancestors
with a good fat place-no objection, in
particular to his giving all his brothers
and brotheFs-in law lucrative Offices. But
when he shows a disposition TO hunt up
all his wife 5 cousins, from the first to
the forty y-seeond, we think he is going a
little too far, and would suggest that the
tenure of Office act be put in force to re-
strain him. Too many of one family,
even though its name be Grant, are not
desirable"
Year: 1869

t is evident that the negro question


is apidly declining in importance. That
the inevitable negro is about to give
plce to something else, must be crafty
Ing to all, although some Radical dis
p,sed may feel grieved at the speedy dis
appearance of their cherished "eolored
frinds' from the stage. The no ional
delt, the innumerable office holders, the
military governments existing in one part
of the country, and the many violations
of the constitution, is forcing him out OF
the way, and daily remind all of the rich
blessings the question has brought upon
Year: 1869

THE EVENT OF THE PERIoD.-It is
whispered in Washington that Mrs.
Grant is in that interesting condition in
which ladies who love their lords delight
to be, and will add another heir to the
house of Grant, another olive branch at
his table, and a little arrow to his quiver.
That ubiquitous court journal, the New
York Herald, has delieately prepared the
public mind for the event By mysterious
allusion to the lady's health, and as she
will be the first Presidents wife who has
ever given birth to ! child in the White
House, the occasion will doubtless be the
cause of honest rejoicing among all the
people who voted for I've happy father
that isto be, who will be perfectly satisfied
in their own mind, that '.the nation" will
owe this auspicious event to the fact of
their having been original Grant men.
If boy, the coming young man, being
bona fde original Grant boy, should
be Immediately appointed to some Office
in order not TO interfere with the time
honored custom of the family. 1t viii
not be necessary for him to do the duties
of his Office His pa can publish an or
der relieving him aud let him draw his
pay.
Year: 1869

these outfaEes.


There is but little doubt of his being
the guilty party. The excitement in the
community was intense, and Friday nj ght
an effort was made to take Norris from
Jail and hang him. No less than eight
hundred people gathered about the build
ing, and speeches were made by num-
Der of prominent citizens, and the mob
was induced to disperse. The prison has
since been guarded by strong force
summoned by the sheriff The young
ladies outraged are daughters of three
most respectable farmers in that vicinity.


If such mob had assembled in the
South for such a purpose, it wonld have
been styled Kuklux outrage"
Year: 1869

To the surprise of nearly everybody
there was compromise effected on the
Civil Tenure of Office bill, which was
rushed through both Houses under the
pressure of the Conference Committee.
The House, under the explanation of
Butler aud Bingham, thought that the
Senate had'yielded to a virtual repeal of
the old law, and. Senators were made to
believe, through Mr.. Trumbulls plausi-
bility, that the House had in substance
accepted what is known as the Senate
amendment, but now Senator'S and mem
bers of Congress, who were for repeal,
I5declare that through the usual mystifea-
zion of conference report. they had
Reep Received. In this category is Nor


l,Eho, from the first, has been for o
the law. In the House, eigh-
"a Radicals voted against the bill, while
(; essenden, Fowler and Gilbert were on
hand and refused to vote in the Senate.
Ia the House it was reported that the
tho new bill did not, under any cireum-
stances, restore suspended officer, pro-
vided his successor was not confirmed,
but subsequently it turned out after the
bill passed, that if the vacancy in an
Office is not filed during the session oc
the Senate, the men who were suspended
from the Office return to the old place at
the expiration of said session. The old
law therefore is substantially unchanged
in principle. Senator Williams, who
drew up the old law, says the new bill is
better. The indignation among the Radi-
cal repealers is very great. The House
repealers say that Ben. Butler has sold
them out. An attempt will be made to


we the President veto the BILL
Year: 1869

Thus has passed away gallant christian
gentleman, but his relations and friends
sorrow not as those without hope, for they
cherish the belief that there is rest for the
people of God beyond the vail, and that
their loved and lost one is now enjoying
the blissful repose of that land of the blest.
Year: 1869

Mr.. Eastlake. very cultivated Eng
lish writer, has been giving his views
on the decoration Of houses, and point
ing out the follies and extravagances
OF modern upholstery. The London
Spectator, commenting on Mr.. East
lakes book on "Household Taste,"
says: "Let every man or woman who
is furnishing decide for himself or her
self what he wants, arrange his rooms
as he pleases, take no counsel except
from artists and books and his own
sense of convenience, snub every seller
who ventures to mutter 'They are not
now used" and, above all, give time to
the search for the precise thing he wants.
With time and little money anything
can be accomplished, even the furnish
ing OF a modern house so that it shall
be pleasant habitation, shall not re-
Quire renewal more than once in a life
time, and shall not bear the most dis
tant resemblance to an upholsterer' g
showroom" The ridiculous custom OF
turning ones house into mere imita-
ton OF every one else's, and utterly de-
stroying its individuality by the resem-
blance to every other one in the town,
is too absurd, and is only equaled by
keeping a large, dreary, freshly-fur-
nished parlor, shut up and seldom used
because other people do. Every room
in a house should have an occupied,
habitable air, and not look like the
showroom of an upholsterer, and thus
serve as q mere advertisement OF some
shop instead of showing the taste of the
occupants of the house.
Year: 1869

THE bill to prohibit the obstruction
of the Ohio river by bridges of less than
four hundred feet span seems finally to
have been lost. 1t was reported back
Friday morning from the Senate Postal
Committee with an amendment that
would have required the tearing away
OF the Stubenville bridge; but we have
not been able to trace 1t any further.
1t does not appear to have been reached.
We cannot help being again reminded
of the remark made by "Mack" in re-
gard to the difficulty of getting any
thing through the Senate adverse to the
interests of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road. The man in the Internal regions
with a ke of powder under his arm
would have comparatively an easy time
of il,
Year: 1869

Ey- The Baltimore Gazette says tha,
The merchants OF the South are now pre-
ferrcd in tho Eastern markets over those
of the West. 1t concludes a labored ar
.cle, in which the reason of this fact is
given with sufficient clearness, with the
following paragraph:


"But whilst the West is living beyond
its income, and-unlcss some moditica-
ton is made in the tariffs destined 60
grow poorer yearly, the South is getting
rich. She has learned lesson by the
war. Poverty has taught her economies
she never knew before Two millions
and half Of bales Of cotton last year
lifted her fairly to her feet. Three mill
ions of bales this year, with more rice and
more sugar, will give her larger command
Of money than she could ever before call
her own. Her people have wiped out
their debts; her merchants have bought
sparingly, either for cash or on short
credits, and now that she is making large
profits and spending but little money, she
is greatly courted by those at the North
who previously Stunned and denounced
her Now, when her merchants visit
there, they are welcomed with unusual
warmth and as the Post quietly remarks
the closencss with which they transact
their business seems TO give comfort
and assurance to those of our great houses
who do business with the South. Sc
King Cotton has once more taken pos
session Of his scepter. The West has
had its day. The turn Of the South has
come, and thus the whirligig of time,
brings about its revenge"
Year: 1869

Eg- As we are swift TO give credit to
the Packet Company's boats, so we shall
not be slow to call them TO time when
they do not give our town a halfa show.
The Gibson on her last trip disappointed
several Of our merchants, who were de
sirous of shipping on the day she was
here. More particularly were they anxi-
Gus to get Off two bales Of cotton, which


were ready and were being hauled to the
boat when she left here. AS the Packet
Cos. boats have no set time when they
will leave here, they should give our mer-
chants (that is, if they want the freight of
Van Buren, a liberal time in which to get
their shipments to the landing. The boats
can stop at Fort Smith from twelve to
twenty-four hours, and we venture to say
the shipments from there will not amount
to more than those from Van Buren,. We
cannot think Captain Eugene intention
ally gave our merchants the" cold shoul-
der" and must still believe there was
some misunderstanding. We shall see.
Year: 1869

In pursuance of the foregoing resolution
the undersigned committee diligently pro-
ceedcd to the discharge of the special duty
with which they were entrusted, and have
made such satisfactory progress as to justify
them in calling II State Convention of the Re-
publican party, and those who are willing to
unite and cooperate with them on the basis
of the foregoing resolution, and the broad
platform of Universal Suffrage and Universal
Amnesty to consider upon important PROPOSE
tions, looking to 4 further and more COZ Dlete
and efficient organization of the party.
\ st may perhaps, be deemed by some, Il
stretch of the power and authority vested in
Us, to call State Convention; hut in view of
the pressing emergency of the times aud he
imperative necessity that exists tor prompt,
vigorous and immediate sction, TO rescue the
country from threatened and impending ruin,
we are satisfied that every patriotic Republi-
can III the State will cordially approve of and
endorse the step we have taken,


Therefore we recommend and suggest, the
holding of q State Convention in the City of
Little Rock, "Wednesday the 18th day of Octo-
Der 1899, that being the ID day of the State
Agricultural and Mechanical Fair, to be COM
posed of delegates from the various ctunties
of the State.


As such Convention is intended to be mere
ly advisory and preliminary in its character,
it is not deemed necessary or prudent to limit
the number or prescribe the manner in'which
delegates shall be elected or app0inted-this
primary action being left to the discretion OF
each county to determine for itself.


1t is desirable, however, that as many dele
gates should be sent AS can make it conven-
lent to attend, and it is to be hoped that the
vast Importance of the interest involved will
be sufficiently appreciated by the good and
true men of the country as 20 censtfie q full
representation from each and every county
in the State, and such demonstration made
as to ensure the success ofa movement look
ing to such vitality important results.
| 1t is also desirable that this Convention
should embrace representation Of all tn,
solid, substsntiated patriotic, and conservative
elements Of the country, and to that end, We
cordially invite all TRUE Republicans, of al
colors, races and nationaities, and all other.
of all other parties who are willing 10 co-opc-
rate with them on the basis of the foregoing
resolutions, and the broad platform Of uniyer-
sal Suffrage and Universal Amnesty, to unite
in sending delegates to said Convention.
Having already received assurances from q
large number OF Republicans in all sections
of the State that this call would be cnthusias-
ticly responded to, we feel justified in asSur-
ing the friends of the movement that the
ConYention will be SUCCESS.


LIBERTY BARTLETT,
r. G. JENNINGS,
TUOS. c. PEEK,
Year: 1869

GESERAL GRANT sent q subscription Of $500
to the Metropolitan Methodist Church on
Sunday, but in his usual modest way requested
that no notice should be made Of 1t in the re.
ported contributions
Year: 1869

GENERAL GRANT Will not. 1t il thought.
follow precedent in sending the names of the
gentlemen to compose Cabinets to the Depart
ment of State 10 be sent from there TO the
Senate. He will transmit the nominations for
lis Cabinet to the Senate direct by one Of his
staff officers.
Year: 1869

The friends Of the assassin Yerger do
not seem to have much confidence in the
decision the Supreme Court will render
relative TO The validity Of the Reoonst1ue-
taon laws and the power to try nssassins by
military tribunals in the ansurrectlonn1y
States. Failing in their project TO get the
case before Mississippi jury, through tho
Judicial blindness aud Democratic aspira-
tons OF Chief Justice Chase, they have at
tempted to buy the guards and procure for
him the liberty Of Cain, to be fugitive
and vagabond in the world. As Yerger
has never been anything else, hs probably
wonld not think the. liberty to repeat his
assassinations upon others very severe
punishment. We sincerely hope the fear
which his friends seom TO feel relative to
the ach IN Of the Supreme Court in his case
will I've justified hy the result.
Year: 1869

A villain recently lured a young girl OF r
pectable family from her home in this City by ar
dent professions of honorable love and solemn
promises of marriage Having thus got her
completely into his clutches he seduCed and soon
deserted her at Chicago, having never intended
to make her his wife. Finding herself alone
in q strange city Chicago, with no alternative
but life of shame or suicides death, she
chose the latter, and was corpse scarcely two
weeks after she was enticed away from her
parental home. This is an old, old story-a
tragedy which, with some variation in the ca
tastrophe, probably occurs in this country
many thousand times per annum.


What shall be done about it7 Can we do
no better than sit down in stolid apathy, and
say, $50 it has been, is, and will be, and there
lis no help for it"


AS yet, but one partial mitigation has estab-
lished itself-that of Homicide. 1t has become
part of the unwritten, jury -mado law OF our
country (and we note its recent extension to
the Canadas) that the woman who has been Sc
duced and betrayed may kill her seducer if
she will and can. II is not yet established that
she can do this with impunity if she is Black,
brown, or yellow, while her seducer is accounted
White; but there is case pending in Wash
ington which will settle this point. 1t IS settle
however, that the victims brother, father, or
husband, may act as her proxy, in case she is
too tender OF too timid to do the deed herself.


The moral of this justification of homicide is
not that libertinism is forbidden or condemned,
but that it is only allowed within certain limits.
If man DiH be lecherous, and has any serious
objection to serving as a target for loaded re-
volvers, he must choose his game from that
large class who are neither homicidally inclined
nor hedged about by sanguinary male relatives.
If his lawless desires lead him into we'll
guarded preserves, he must abide the serious
consequences.


-Is that the last word of Christian civiiza-
ton on this grave themeR Has the law no
terrors for Hbertines who make the timid and
defenseless their only preyR


We think it should have, and that it should
inaugurate reform by proclaiming every
keeper of house of infamy felOn, and for
felt to the State all property devoted to the
base uses of prostitution. This would speedily
strip the horrible trade of the false glitter which
now surrounds its early stages. The haunts OF
infamy are tho nurseries of crime, the hiding
places of felons. Forfeit all property devoted
TO the uses of harlOtry. aud send the bawds
Year: 1869

The Cortes of Spain have adopted its new
Constitution by vote of 214 against 65. We
gave fit denial yesterday to the report sent us
over the cable that the Republicans had refused
to take the oath of loyalty thereto. To-day's
kilograms make known their prudence in ac-
cepting the situation quietly. The new Con
stitution guarantees freedom to worship, general
suffrage national sovereignty, and the mon
archical principle-upon which the Duke of
Montpensier still stands expectant or anxious
for the throne which Serrano, it is said, has
no ambition to hold even by proxy. 1t was
the money of Montpensier which furnished the
powder to blow up the lato ruling house of
BourbOns, and hence the strong support which
he has received from SerranO, TOpete, and
their allies in the COTtes.