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Year: 1874

Brooks still occupies the State
House and the surroundings. Whether
he intends to vacate or not under the
Presidents instructions, is not known.
Both Houses meet this morning at the
Otter building. There were II Sena-
tors and Al Representatives present
lacking three of a quorum in the Sen
ate and two in the House. 1t is gen
orally conceded that there will be a
quorum in both Houses tomorrow.
The Baxter men are jub:lant at the
idea of Brooks having to vacate the
Year: 1874

VANTED-Everybod body to know that my
w membership in the so-called Working
mems Republican Sd Ward Mother Club ceased
by oral withdrawal the very night that the
delegates of said Club represented it in the
Radical Republican Executive Convention of
this parish t35th of April, and before the Or
gami=atioa. of The While League; and that the
publication of the Constitution and Bylaws
at this late date is only for the purpose of
making political capital, by placing me in q
false light before those who are aware of the
active part have taken and intend to take
i'll the organization of White League Clubs.


Is. +. HARDESTY.
Washington. July 9th, 1874.
Year: 1874

The Thibodaux Sentinel grows wroth at the
COURIER for calling the attention of our read
ers to the fact that the Sentinel does official
printing. It indulges in historical reminis-
eeuces; grows mellifuous and indignant by
turns; admits the statement of the COURIER ;
Gays the White League can neither bribe nor
scare him fthe editor; that he has plenty Of
friends here, and refers us to them to find out
how brave he is and whether he can be bribed
by advertising, and, finally that :" if the editor
of the Sentinel sees proper to oppose the White
League, he will be very likely to do it."


We thought it very likely that he would do
90, aud hence we said the White League did
not expect his support. Because we gave our
reason for not expecting it, he gets mad and
tries to convince us that official printing has
nothing to do with his political views.


We know nothing whatever of the matters
mentioned in his diatribe against us but what
We said of the Sentinel we say of all journals
in the State similarly situated, and that is,
that the White League expects no support
from any individual or paper holding patron
age under the Kellogg usurpation. 1t matters
little how independent an editor may imagine
himself to be in his political views, it is, and
always will be, difficult TO persuade the white
people of this State that he who takes patron
age from the present administration will be
independent in his political opinions. The
SetatiHet claims to be SO, however, and we
freely concede to it's editor his right to satisfy
himself in this matter; if he feels thoroughly
convinced of his independence, the White
League will not disturb his serenity, but must
insist upon its own freedom of opinion in the
premises. As general rule, the Democratic
and Conservative press of the State have,
with singular unanimity, advocated the issue
made by the White League, which is simply
one of race, and, to say the least of it, it is
quite natural that opposition to that issue
should be confined to the official journals of
the State.


The insinuation you extracted from our re-
marks, Mr.. Editor, could not have been very
wide OF the mark, or you would not have be-
come so excited. If You will keep cool, you
may be able. after a while, to comprehend the
fact that the White League will survive your
opposition, no matter what be your motives.
Year: 1874

The white citizens of this parish are hereby
notified that the Opelousas journal is the Off
eial paper of the parish and that it's editor
holds a printing contract under the Kellogg
usurpation, and is member of the Republi-
can Club of Opelousas.


Hence, the White League declines any dis
eussion with him whatever.
Year: 1874

The following parody on ''Hamlets Solilo-
guy" is the production Of one of our promising
young gfellow-townsmen-not q White Lacquer,
however, for he is too young to john
Social equality. or no social equality.' That is


the question.
Whether IT'S nobier in the mind to suffer
The impudence of every nigger and petty


otfice-hoIder.
Or to take up arms against sea Of carpet


baggers and scallawags,
And by opposing, end them? To mix with


niggers,
And by mixing with them, snap the ties
That bind us to the name of white men Tis


a consummation
Devoutly to be feared! To mix with niggers
Perchanee to be ruled by them-ay, there's


the rub!
For under that rule what consequences will


follow
When We have shuff1ed off this moral degra-


tion,
Must give us pause There's the respect
That makes this rule so odious.
For WHO would bear this degradation,
The oppressor $ wrong, the carpet-baggers 9


contumely,
The insolenee of Office-holders, and the spurns
That honest white men will have to take from


kinky headed negroes,
When he himself might his quietns make
BY joining the White League! Who would


bear this rule,
To grunt and sweat under its weight of dis


grace.
When he might save himself by raising the


banner of spotless white!
Year: 1874

From the Continental Herald.


The following strange story has
been communicated to the Indian
|papers: We had left Columbo in the
Steamer Strathowen, had rounded
|Galle, and were well in the bay, with
'Pur course laid for Madras, steam


ing over calm and tranquil sea.


about an hour before sunset, on May


FO, we saw on our starbOard beam


hnd about two miles off a small


schooner lying becalmed; there was


nothing in her appearance or posi-


Zion to excite remark, but as we came
+. hp with her, lazily examined her
with my binocular, and then noticed
between us, but nearer her, q long,


low swelling, lying ON the sea, which


from its color and shape l took to be


bank of seaweed. As / watched,


the mass hitherto at rest on the quiet


Bea was set in motion. 1t struck the


Schooner, which visibly reeled, and


then righted; Immediately afterwards


the masts swayed sideways, and with
my glass / could clearly discern the
enormous mass and the hull of the
schooner cOalescing-I can think of
no other term. Judging from their
eXclamations, the other gazers must
have witnessed the same appearance.
Almost Immediately after the COLI
sion and coalescence the schoOner's
masts swayed towards us, lower and
lower; the vessel was on her beam
end, lay there few seconds and dis
the masts righting us she
sank, and the main exhibiting a re-
versed ensign struggling towards its
peak. A cry of horror arose from the
lOokers-on; and, as if by instinct
our ships head was at once turned
towards the scene, which was now
marked by the forms of those bat
ting for life-the sole survivors of
the pretty little schooner, which only
twenty minutes before flOated brave
ly on the smooth sea. As soon as
the poor fellows were able to tell
their story, they astounded us with
the assertion that their vessel had
been submerged by gigantic cuttle-
fish or calamary, the animal, which,
in a smaller form, attracts so much
in the Brighton Aquarium
rs the Octopus. Each narrator had
his version of the story, but in the
main all the narratives tailed so re-
as to leave no doubt of the
fact. The Captains account was as
We could see huge oblOng
mass, moving by jerks just under the
surface of the water, and an enOr-
nous train following; the oblOng
body was at least half the size of our
vessel in length, and just as thick;
The wake or train might have been
lne hundred feet long. In the time
hat / have taken to write this the
brute struck us, and the ship culver
I'd under the thud; in another sec
md the monster was aboard, squeez
ed in between the two masts. The
brute holding one by his arms, slip
ped his vast body overheard, and
pulled the vessel down with him on
her beam ends.
Year: 1874

81 wish | knew what to dor


Kate Warlield, sitting on knoll in
the cool, shawdowy orchard, on a
warm and pleasant summer afternoon,
gave utterance to the wish.


She was in quandary. She had
two lovers, and she wondered whether
it was best to choose.


John Rainsford was young, and
had life full of promise, and great
possibilities before him. But he was
poor. Kate Warfeld knew that he
loved her, as strong man can love,
but could she, used to the luxury of
life, give up that which seemed neces-
sary to her comfort and marry poor
man?


Philip Leith was old, and rich.
And he, in his letter, which she had
just been reading, made her an offer
of his heart-supposing such an or
gan to be in eXistence-and hand.
He could give her the things she
lOnged for, the glitter and show she
coveted.


She heard some one whistling down
the road, and looked down that way
saw John coming. Something seem
ed to tell her that she must decide
between her lovers now, and in swift
way she looked the matter over On
one side wealth and fashion, and all
that heart could wish for in the graft
lication of its selfish, worldly enjoy
ments. On the other hand, an hum
bic life, and struggles to climb to
that position where wealth could
place her at once.


But then? Did she-cOuld she
love Philip Leith, man old enough
to be her father? Would his wealth
make up for what her life would have
if love was in it? AS she asked her.
self that question she felt twinge
which told her that, after all, she
cared for John RainsfOrd as she had
never cared for any other man, and
for moment she wondered if life
with him would not be preferable to
life with Philip Leith and all his
wealth.


But the glitter of gold blinded her,
and she shut her eyes to the purer
vision which passed before them for
moment, and in that resolute crush
ing down of her nature, John Rains
fords answer to his wooing was made,
befora ha oclyad for If


He came up the orchard path, and
sat down upon the knoll beside her.
He had learned, in the summer gone
by, to love this woman as he thought
he could never love another one. She
was all that was good and true, and
womanly in woman to him.


81 have had letter from the city" /"
she said. 81 am going back next
week."


$50 soonP' he said, slowly and
looking thoughtfully off to the blue
hills. She knew well enough what
he was thinking about.
"Yes; l have fingered here too
long already. This summer has been
very pleasant one to me. One of
the pleasantest summers of my life, /
think"


"Can you guess what it has been to
me" he asked suddenly. 81 have
learned a lesson in it that l never
tried to learn before. have learned
to loye-to lOve gour'
His earnest eyes were on her face.
His words were full Of passionate
Year: 1874

The opinion of such a man as Hon.
Samuel Shellabarger is worth some
thing. In answer to certain ques-
tiOns submitted to him he replies as
follows:


''The first one is, whether the de-
sign of the license clause is, if adopt
ed, to pledge the Constitution against
absolute prohibition? OF course, no
one, in advance, can tell what the
courts may decide about it. But since
the no license clause submitted ex-
pressly says the Legislature may pro
hibit' the traffic, and the license clause
carefully omits this word, and only
authorizes the Legislature to restrict
(not prohibit, and to compensate
for injuries, &c, l should greatly
fear that voting of the form to pro
hibit,' and voting up the form to re
strict would be held to render abso-
Lutte prohibition by law uncOnstitu-
tional. So l think the courts would
be authorized to hold, and would
most likely hold. / answer the sec
ond question that we certainly would
be more likely to get a prohibitory
law under the mo license clause than
under the other. This for two rea
sons-one that under the license
clause in the Constitution | doubt
whether it would be constitutional to
prohibit absolutely; the other that
a voting down the prohibition clause,
and voting up the other, would seem
to me to carry with it such a moral
force against absolute prohibition as
to render it extremely improbable
that the law of absolute prohibition
would be possible, even If constitu-
4 i
Year: 1874

The editor of the N. Y. EUeniag
Post has been reading the utter
ances of the democratic conventions
of Indiana and New York, and he
reaches this conclusion:


We search in vain for any promised
plan by which the administration of
public affairs can be reformed. 1t is
too evident that the democrats be-
lieve in merit as qualification for of
flee only until they get the power to
reward their favorites; they think
now that they have a chance to OBJ
tain the loaves and fishes, and there
fore civil service reform has lost its
virtue. Neither are we favored with
any distinct promises as to the reve-
nue. legislation. Do they propose
once more to remand this subject to
the people, at the Congressional cleo
tions? 1t will not do to repeat the
blunder of 1872.
Year: 1874

The Schenectady Star is responsi-
BILE for the statement that June bug,
buzzing around in a dark, Water
town parlor, flew against a young la
dy's face with such force as to become
hopelessly entangled in her beau's
moustache.
Year: 1874

The Maine brethren march under
a hammer bearing the label, This
Government z was devised for the ben
eft Of New England The Indiana
brethren and, we might say, those of
Ohio, respectfully decline to muster
under that flag.
Year: 1874

That Wretched Quarrel about Precedence.


A London letter to the Graphic


says: 5 81


"The, Queen has gone off to Balmo-


raj, leaving her Imperial guest, the


Emperor of Russia, in London. On


the face of it this is little piece of


gross rndeness that less important


parsonage than the Gar might Justly


resent with anger. The court party


here excuse it by saying that the


health of the Queen has greatly suf-


fered in consequence of the unusual


exertions she has made and the ex-


citement to which she has been sub.


jected, first by the arrival of her new


daughter-in-la law, and then by the ad-
vent of the Gar, and that her doctors
have ordered her off to Scotland in or.
der that she may have immediate rest
and quiet. The truth is, / believe
that her Majesty is suffering from one
of her periodical attacks of what Mr..


Disraeli calls mental disability and
that it has been caused mainly by the
chagrin which she experienced by be-
ing compelled to yield to the Gar in
the matter of the concession to his
daughter of the rights of rank which
he claimed for her. I have been
greatly amused to observe the zeal
with which the English people take
up the Queens side in this little fami-
ly quarrel, and insist that the Grand
Duchess has been highly 'honored' by
being introduced into our royal FAM
ily,' and should be quite satisfied at
taking any back seat that was award
ed her. The Gar and his daughter
did not see the matter in this light,
and as ne insisted on having his way,
the Court Journal has been compelled
to announce that hereafter the young
lady shall be styled 'Hcr Royal and
Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess
of Russia and that she shall take pre-
cedence Immediately after the Prime
ess of Wales This concession has
been gall aud wormwood to the
Queen and to her daughters. and the
arising therelrom Is the
real cause of the present illness of
Her Majesty and OF her untimely
flight to Scotland.


S'The Queen, with all her virtues,
takes her queer freaks now and then
and acts in manner that gives rise to
remarks. She has never
been very fond of her youngest SON
Prince Leopold--aud she has lately
displayed a curious indifference con-
him. The poor fellow is q
student at Oxford, where he is said TO
be very much liked. For some weeks
he has been seriously ill--so i'll that at
times life was believed TO be in dam
ger. The Queen did not visit him,
nor did she send for him to come to
her. The young man saw nothing of
the fetes at Windsor and London in
honor of the Gar and his daughter
and now his mother has gone of to
Scotland, leaving him in condition
Of suffering and OF danger. Still
Victoria is the model and exemplar of
Ill the domestic virtues"
Year: 1874

'VFo ehiis8Fen are watching for winter.


The one with shivering dread.
And puzzled thought in her little heart


OF why. if the sparrows are fed
By Father-hand, she must always beg


In the cold for her daily bread.
And why she might never nestle,


By the fiie in the glowing CRATES.
That she sees thro' the cheerful windoW-pa


As she passes the closed gates,
But must hEein a cellar cold and damp,
And eat of the food she hates:
The other rich mans darling,


With a bright and pleasant eye,
Wei clad in her fur lined cloak and hood,


And Watching the murky sky,
Waiting to see the snow flakes whirl


In their merry dance on high.
She loves the beautiful winter,


The frozen lake ana stream,
Where gliding over the surface bright


Her polished skates wiI CLEAN.
And her thought. when even at work or play,
Is how short the winters seom.
Two little ones far asunder e


As the east is from the west,
Yet the children of one great Father
a mystery at the best;
For we only see the beginning,


while He knoweth all the restI
Year: 1874

f.. . 5


AN EPISODE AT NIAGARA FALLS,


niagara Falls Cor New York Herald. june IL


This village was fhe scene of a ter
rible excitement this morning, in con-
sequence of a painter named McCul-
Tough, who was employed in painting
the bridge leading from Goat Island
to the Three Sisters, having fallen
from the bridge into the rapids below.
He drifIed with the current to a point
within forty feet of the Falls. where
he found anchorage in the middle of
the stream that separates the islands
by coming in contact with a rock, to
which he clung. In few moments
the news of the accident spread like
wildfire through the village, and an
immense crowd of spectators gather
ed to look at the unfortunate mans
perilous situation, from which it
seemed impossible to rescue him.
Mccullough had given up all hopes
of being aided his arms and body
were fast coming benumbed and los
ing their hold on the slippery rock,
when shout went up from the threats
of the spectators which told him that
aid was nigh. In that vast crowd
which had assembled on the islands
and bridges there was but one man
who was willing to risk his own life
in trying to snatch fellow creature
out of the jaws of death, Tom Con-
roy, a guide at the Cave of Winds,
jumped into the rapids, and, holding
in his left hand the end of a rope and
smimming down the current, reached
Mccullough in safety. He immedi-
ately tied the rope around himself
and the hearty exhausted man, and
they were both safely landed ashore
in a few moments. Mccullough was
badly bruised about the head and |
body. A pnrse was Immediately ta-
ken up for Conroy, who is tonight
the hero of the hour. The season here
is fully thirty days later than last year
The arrivals at the hotels are meager.
Year: 1874




Apropos Of Mrs. Livsrmore's late lecture on
the above important question, the Davenport
Democrat thus sensibly makes answer:


Bring them up in the way they should go.
Give them a good substantial common edu-
cation.


Teach them how to cool, good meal Of
rictuals.


Teach them how to wash and iron clothes.
Teach them how TO darn stockings. and sew
on buttons


Teach them how to mako their own dresses.
Teach them to make bread


Teach them to make shirts.


Teach them all the mysteries Of the kitchen,
dining-room and psrlor


Teach them that the more one lives within
their income the more they will save.


Teach them tao further ono lives beyond
their income the nearer they set to the poor
houss.


Teach them to wear calico dresses. and do
it like a queen.


Teach them that round rosy romp is worth
City delicate consnmptives


Teach them to wear thick, warm shoes.
Teach them to 30 marketing for the family.
Teach them not TO run up store bills.


Teach them God made them in his own
image and that no amount Of tight lacins will
improve the model.


Teach them every day hard, practical COM
mon sense


Teach them sclf-reliance.


Teach them that good, steady. greasy me-
chsnc without a cent, is worth dozen oily
p.tod Ioafers in broadcloth


Teach them to have nothing to do with in
temperate and dissoute young men.


Teach tbm to climb apple trees, go fishing,
cultivate a garden, and drive road team or
farm wagon.


Teach them accomplishmcnt--musc, paint
ing, drawing If You have the time and money
to DO it with


Teach them not to paint and powder.


Teach them no. to wear false hair


Teach them to say no and mean it or yes
and stick 10 IT,


Teach them to regard the morals not tho
money Of the beaux.


Teach them the essentials Of life-truth
honesty, uprightncss-tben at a suitable time
let them marry.


Rely upon it, that upon your teaching de-
pends in a great measure the veal or WOO Of
their after life.
Year: 1874

The following strong figure Of speech vas
used to illustrate the great size Of America 10
a son Of the Emerald Isle who could not make
up his mind about emigratiug


What sort Of place is that, wonder =


"Menky They tell me It's mighty sizabls,
an tould you nigh, roll England through it,
and it would hradly make dint in the ground.
There's fresh water ocean inside Of it tha.
you might dhrown ireland in, and save Father
Mathew a wonderful sight Of trouble an' for
Scotland, You might stick it in = corner Of one
Of their forests, and you'd never be able to fnd
it. except. might be by the smell Of the
vhiskey"
Year: 1874

The Singer Company, at Elizabeth, are
polishing up to turn out four thousand of
the family machiues per week Then they
make other kinds and styles, so that they
hope to finish forty-fve hundred machines
a week
Year: 1874

James H. Heavy, an emplOye of the Fourth
Avenue Railroad engaged on the improvements at Sew
euty-sxthst was tried In the Court OF oyer and Ter


miner yesterday before Judge Barrett indictment
for shooting with intent TO do injury. The complainant
who appeared to be reluctant witness, testified that he
was standing on the new wall of the railroad when the
prisoner warned him of Words passed bgtween them,
one loud remark being made by the complainant that he
(Heavy) ought TO be thrown into the cut crowd Of
men were around. and Heavy drew pistol, fourished
tire crowd and fred The prisoner testified that
he had bis wOrsinC at ten hours and they were
annoyed by the eghi-hour men coming there. BE
ordered the prisoner and another OF the 5fd-e and
ran towards them They OF, and he fred his pistol
into the air and that all. The two men had pTev
ousy talked about throwing him into a open cut
Some OF the cOmpldnant's companions were behind and
before him, when complainant cried, Let 10 throw
him into the cut" The defendant also stated that
several OF his had been ntimidated 10y the society
and he considered binsef in danger anu fired 10
make the committeeman leave the bridge.


Alter recess, the pr oner pleaded guilty 10 simple
assault The Assistant DisTIct-AttOrney accepted the
plea and Judge Barrett simply inflicted 1iae OF s25
Year: 1874

In the case of Joseph Mauvius agt. Chester
A. Arthur as Collector OF this port, action brought
to recover OF duty paid under protest
on ported patent enameled leather The Collector
demanded on the leather in question duty OF IS per
cent ad vaorem under the of ls61s2 less 10 per
cent under the act OF 1917. The plaintiff claimed
mat the leather embraced within section one
of the act OF 1872 which imposes duty OF 20 per cent
ad valOren all " skins dressed and finished, of all
kinds not herein otherwise provided for" and shat,
therefore, II was only subject To that duty The
case tried yesterday IN the United States Circuit
Court before Judge shipman, who directed the jury
find verdict for the defendant. Hartley Colman for
the plaintiff and Assistant United states District Attoi
pey TreInaln for the defendant