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Year: 1874

There is one sensation overlooked by our


neighbor in making up its argument for a


new election. We have trembled lest it


should have been seen, at period when there


might have been some danger from its use


It is proof OF our entire confidence in the


defeat of the bill! framed by the skillful


Carpenter that we expose it. Suppose we


present this argument in . manner that


even the most sensational reporter must
envy. It will then explain itself:


Monarchica: Form of Government Estab-
lished in Louisiana-"Kingo OF Thousand
Years'-Princes of the BlOOd-Dukes,
Earls and Barons-Poet Laureate-Mixer
OF the Royal Drinks-Boot Sinner by Royal
|. Patent-New Election Inevitable.


We have suspected for come time that q


design was being cOncocted to overthrow
the government of Louisiana and to estab-
| lish in it's place one monarchical IN form.
This suspicion found material of contirma-
ton on various occasions, while our special.
| in pretending by our instructions to be ir-
texicated and asleep. overheard enough to
put US on our guard. Within a few days
past the cOnspirators have thrown off all
disguise, and have issued their commissions
and commands righ: and left. Under these
| orders hotels have been occupied, streets
have been designated for royal progress,
Americans have put on royal airs, the
steamer Great Republic has been seized as
the flagship of the royal navy, and the regal
invaders have boldly stretched across the
streets large ensigns bearing, in diagonal
stripes of various cOlOrs, the royal crown,


and no doubt displaying other regalia, We
! trodden and dispirited population, deprived
| Of the rightful exercise Of those franchises
guaranteed by France and the federal con-
stitutiOn, have offered no opposition to this
royal invader aud his Haunting cavalcade.
Indeed, 1t becomes our still more painful
duty to avow that the population seems
| rather to like it, or recOnciled to any form
Of government, as q relief from the Oppres-
sive administration which actually refuses
them permission to pay into the treasury
the full amount of taxes which they have
hitherto paid with such alacrity. Without
! the means TO repel this monarch, we call on
the federal government to remember the
obligations to guarantee to each State 2
government republican in form. We have
repeatedly given warning that this occasion
had arisen.


Any federal minion can now see for him
self and hear for himself. A government
monarchical in form has been set up in
louisiana. The occasion has arrived for
federal interference. A new election, as we
nave all along contended for, is inevitable.
This moparchical movement must be sup
pressed. In the inter regnuns the State
government should be intrusted to the
Committee OF Two Hundred, and the public


printing should only be intrusted to press
ever vigilant in exposing the abuses of the
Radical regime. and the first, by its enter
prise. to publish the actual occupation and
usurpations by Rex, King of the Carnival"
of a jurisdiction now established through.


out the whole CITY.
Year: 1874

CHICAGO, April l0.-H. Il. Myers, at one
time manager of the Pacific and Atlantic
Telegraph Office in this city, and more re-
Gently employed as opera, or in the Western
Union Office here, was found dead in bed
at the Central Hotel this afternoon. He
was lying on his back, with hands folded
across his breast, and was at first supposed
to have died a natural death; but on NOV
ing the body il was discovered that he had
shot himself in the back of the head. the
ball taking effect in the brain. Domestic
troubles are supposed to have been the
cause Of the suicide.
Year: 1874

SAVE YOUR MONEY by calling and examining the


very latest style Of silk hat for fall and winter wear


at a, IS, and the very best rs. so, manufactured
by M. CUNNINGHAM. Any style silk hat made to
order and repairing done at his store, 1913 Main
Year: 1874

and similar departments: and, re
sembling Napoleon in this also, he
trusted too much to the effect of
strategy, and was not sufficiently
alive to the value of discipline and
good military system. He appears
also never to have bowed Mr.. Davis
and his counsellors to his will and
though he was certainly aware that
the rules of the South made capital
mistakes in invading the North, iu
maintaining an useless force in the
West, and in containing the hope !.
less defence of Richmond he never
eontrived to change their purpose.
Yet the grave that covers Robert L.
Lee hides the dust of one of the
great men of out age, and the time
has never now come when the victo-
rious North can think of hin as of
one of her foremost citizens.
Year: 1874

There is stage road between
Austin and San Antonio, Texas,
and there is a genuine "Claude
Duval " On it. He's about twenty>
three years Of age and is the leader
of a darling gang of banditti. -
Lately, one night, the driver of the
mail coach was surprised by a man
mounting to the box and seating
himself by his side while the stage
was rolling along at brisk rate.
The intruder presented pistol and
requested the driver to be quiet
and drive into convenient byway
off the public road. This done, the
stage was stopped, and the passen.
gers, several ladies and gentlemen,
were ordered TO alight and shake
themselves. This was the first in
timation they had of anything out
of the usual course. Several other
highwaymen made their appearance
in the secluded spot where the stage
was stopped, and the proceeding
went on without the least noise or
interruption. The robbers were
very tender and gentlemanly in
their bearing towards the passen-
gers, and particularly polite to the
ladies of the party. They wished
to avoid ruffiing or frightening them.
The band took possession of the
small arms of the gentlemen, and
the mail and the baggage, and let
the mail coach pass without hurting
a hair of anybody's head. It was
a very neat, pleasant job of the
kind, and gave the party food for
contemplation during the remainder
of the trip.
Year: 1874

Bilkins heard a suspicious noise
in his cellar, few nights since at
the dead hour of midnight, He
sprang out Of bed, and without
waiting to make his toilet, seized
his gun and ran around the house
to the cellar stairs. He found the
door standing invitingly open and
pair of iery-looking eyes staring
at him out of the SIoomy depths Of
the cellar. He began to wish he
was back in bed where he was a
few moments before, but being an
economical man he thought it would
never do to leave such savage
beass-as that one appeared to be
prowling about his cellar. He
crept into an empty kerosene oil
barrel that lay there, put his gun
through a bung.hole, and opened
fire on the disheartening brute.


When he had fired half-dozen
shots, he heard splashing sound in
the cellar like stream of blood
flowing from a terrible wound
This was gratifying in the extreme.
He redoubled his energy, and fired
fifty more shots as fast as he could
load and fire. He was out of am
munition now, and screaming to
Mrs. Bilkins to bring him light
but she was up stairs lying on the
floor with six bed ticks over her,
and couldn't hear.


When be found that he couldn't t
get light he squared himself in
the barrel and placed one eye to
the bunghole, determined to see
what was in that cellar or die in
the attempt. He lay there till
morning without making any furth-
er demonstrations, except to use a
little profanity occasionly, when he
got an extra quantity of oil in his
eyes from the barrel. When it
was light enough for him to see, he
commenced reconoitering about the
cellar door and discovered that the
floor of the cellar was covered with
cider six inches deep, with here
and there an island of potatoes and
turnips and the remains of six bar
rels floating on the surface. The
only trace be could find Of the
animal that 50 alarmed him was a
small piece of cats tail and a few
lunches Of fur floating proudly on
the bosom of the lake of cider.
He went to his bed room and re-
sumed his clothing and confidently
observed to his wife, at breakfast,
if she said any thing about thi:
affair he would cave her head in.-
Dambary Neacs.
Year: 1874

About as complete swindle as
is now practiced is that of the Louis
vile Public Library Lottery, The
recent drawing ought to convince
any one that such institutions we're
invented for the express purpose of
demonstrating the adage that ga
fool and his money soon part. -
The Library itself is a mere sham
compared to what it should be judg~
ing from the vast profits realized
by the lottery.-Erehange.
Year: 1874

European agricultural society are
interested in the manufacture of
wooden shoes, which are said to
possess many advantages over leath-
er, as it is shown that many diseases
resulting in impaired constitutions,
and even in the loss of life, have
resulted from wearing leather shoes
in wet weather. A practical work.
man from France has been called
recently to Germany to superintend
their manufacture. They are light
and easy to wear, and provided with
small cushion within the upper
side to obviate any pressure on that
part of the foot. They are of
neat, pleasant appearance, blacken~
ed or vanished, large enough to
accommodate comfortable stockings.
and provided with leather straps.
Their prices range from twenty>four
to thirty>six cents, and a very few
pairs would last lifetime.


WHEN CHILDREN SHOULD BEGIN
ScHooL.-ln a paper on the sanitary
aspects of primary education, read
recently by DR.. R. J. Sullivan,
before the New York Academy Of
Medicine, an important suggestion
occurs in reference to tke earliest
age at which a pupil should be
admitted in our schools. He con-
tends that seven years is min
imum age, not because mental
exertion would be injurious to
healthy intellectual growth, but
because school life under its present
hygienic surroundings is very un-
favorable to physical development
In other words it is to be under
stood that, although a pupil is
capable Of reasonable understanding
and limited amount of intellectual
development prior to the seventh
year, such education should be
given it out of school and without
the usual restraint. A fact that
renders DR.. Sullivan's views valuaa
BILE is that he was for several years
medical inspector of public schools.
Year: 1874

There is an old, bat elegant, but
most expressive saying: What is
bred in the bone will come out of
the flesh Age has lent force to
rather than impaired the truth of
the saw. The high bred man nev-
er forgets what is due to others,
however mindful he may be of what
is due to himself; the hybrid, c
contra, by derogation of others
would cover his own bar sinister,
hoping, in degree, to magnify
himself. Time, circumstance, nor
association can obliterate "faw,"
which becomes the more apparent
the higher the hybrid climbs the
social scale. Merit alone-nor
coupled with riches-can make the
thorough gentleman as well under
take to make hyperion out of a
satyr. The truly high man tender>
ly regards the feelings of all-and
the humber the individual the more
careful is the real gentlemen of
touching his sensibilities.


There is no truer distinctive be-
tween the gentleman born and the
mouus homo than the department of
one and the other to those with
whom fortune has not dealt so kind
ly as with them. Materialism is
all the 60 now, and materialism will
destroy sentiment, polish, refne>
ment, and at last honor. Money
makes the mare co. but money
nor place never yet convered a hy-
brid into high bred,-Richmond
Whi0.
Year: 1874

TIE GRANGE ADVANCE is furnished In clubs
of ten for $3.50 per year, and will be furnished
for the next thirty days to single subscribers
for three months, and to clubs Of ten or moro
for tour months at 81 cents each on trial. We
want five thousand new subscribers in the next
thirty days, snd can have them II every one Of
our friends will 60 to work in earnest.
Year: 1874

~ Ot1i - viz eA4Sy
govern. They are born to that po-
sition, hold it through life whether
competent or incompetent, and trans
nit it their children along with their
heirlooms, and bloodhounds. They
may not be able to- distinguish law
from passage Of the Koran or an cpl
taph, yet they are lawmakers BY birth
and position, by legal right and title,
and 'sby the grace Of God.'' :


These men are also born to- enor-
nous fortunes, almost without exccp-
ton. And what is to hinder! Hav-
ing in their hands the source Of all title
to property--the law making power, can
it be wondered that they use
it for their own aggrandizement! Being
born legislators, they are also born
public plunderers !, and cormorants.
They reap where they have mot tsowgn,
they gather the fruits of the labors and
tolls of others, and squander. them too
in drunkenness and riotous living. They
claim that whatever the law gives them,
whatever they hold by legal right and
title is morally and in good conscience
theirs, Notwithstanding the fact
that they themselves framed the
laws for the very - purpose
of reaching for, and possessing them
selves Of the property that rightfully
belongs to others. They do not claim
to be more righteous than the law, but
they might have made the law more
righteous than it is.


Seeing and appreciating the great
wrong and injustice of this system of
legislation-a system that places all
wealth and property under the control
of a perpetual monopoly Of law makers,
our people, in attempting to avoid this
terrible evil have invited another of al
most equal magnitude, by swinging to
the opposite extreme. Instead of a
tenure Of office running from genera
tion to generation, and from century
to century,, we elect for
thirty days! and then because
the inexperienced legislator does not in
that time prove himself thoroughly
competent to give just and wise laws to
the people-the most difficult thing
ever undertaken by mortal man-we
kick him out at the end of his, thirty
days in the utmost disgust. Was there
ever such folly committed by, intelligent
beings!


Extremes arc always dangerous, and
in jumping from one extreme to its op-
posite, we; rarely, if ever, better our
selves. There is always happy mean
If we could but find it.. We do not
often find it for the very reason that we
do not seek it. Wherever. we find gre.
vious wrong and injustice we fancy chat
the further we can get away from them
the surer we will be to find right and
justice. This is a grievous mistake and
most grievously do We answer for it.


The hereditary tenurelan the thirty
day term are to the extreme opposite
ends Of the pole. This mischief and
injuries arising from ] the former,
do not probably arise from
the latter; but the latter ! Is
productive of quite as serious wrongs,
which do not flow from the former. Let
us seek for that term that shall com
bine the most Of the advantages of the
extremes, and avoid the most of their
disadvantages - s@ ..a,s 9


We have already made this article
long enough and will defer the further
consideration of this subject to another
occasion.
Year: 1874

THE Cannon Falls Echo complains
bitterly because it's late endeayor to
''write up'' the village Of Cannon Falls
did not give satisfaction, and intimates
very strangely that poor and imperfect
as the article may have been, the pay
was still poorer. 1t tells the people Of
the village in very plain terms that it
will be time for them to find fault when
they have got what they have not paid
for.
Year: 1874

the four men walked over to
the grave, where they found the
two workmen engaged in screwing on
the lid of the coffin. When it had been
completed, the curtain Of the wagon
was at once buttoned down over it.
The gravediggers remarked to the four
men that they had just buried a man
who had died Of the worst case of yellow
fever they had ever known, and they
would advise them to seek healthier
atmosphere; but as the visitors refused
to credit the story, and manifested no
alarm, the gravediggers drove off into
the city.
Year: 1874

COLUMBUS, April SIN the Senate
thls afternoon the following bills were


House bill authorizing the Comptroller
OF the State Treasury to draw on county
treasurers in advance Of their annual and
semi 0nnual settlements with the State
Auditor.


House bill to provide for reducing de,
hnquent taxes when no property Is found
to dtstraln TO the form Of q Judgment.


The Western Rail Mil Association met
IN this city to-day. Representatives were
present from nine points. The Associa.
Lion comprises all the rail mills west oil
Pittsburgh, about thirty In number. As
no action would be conclusive without q
vote Of the majority oil the Association,
1t was decided TO adjourn without trans.
acting any formal business, to meet
In Chicago in June. All the mills
represented in the meeting to-day are
idle, and without orders, and reports
nom various sources show that nearly
tho entire set of mills In the Association
are without business. Parties with thirty
five years experience In the iron trade re.
ported that they had never known such
stagnation in the manufacture Of rails.
ltWas also stated at the meeting that the
receipts OF the western railroads during
the past month have fallen of more than
twenty-five per cent below those Of the
corresponding month last year, and as q
consequence the companies are or
dering very few rails for any purpose.


1t Is quite probable that a bill will bs
reported in the Senate this week TO re.
duce the size OF the new central locomo-
tive system, II 1t can be done without
destroying tho general system oI build
Year: 1874

An exhibition OF the pupils OF the Institution for
the Improved Instruction OF Deaf Mutes was held
last evening at Lyric Hail. Sixth avenue, between
Forty-drst and Forty-second streets. The object
OF the exhibition to illustrate the me thod OF
instruction by articulation and lip reading and the
progress made BY the pupils during the past year.
The hail was well fIled by the relatives and friends
OF the unfortunate pupils, and the result proved
most gratifying to those interested. There are
about eighty scholars in the charge OF
the institution, divided into six classes,
Wneu a pupil first enters the institution
he sue Is placed In the elementary division for
about year, the time being cnteny devoted to the
acquisition Of the sounds OF speech and lip read
Is promoted into higher classes, and new studies
are entered upon according 10 the capacity OF the
pupil. Those In the higher divisions grade high
IN scholarship as many children OF the same age
who are IN the possession OF all OF their faculties


The children OF the elementary class were brought
forward on the platform facing large placard. on
winch was printed IN bold Characters words OF
one syllable. The tutor would point to one OF
these words and the scholar would distinctly
call 1t out. Then the tutor would ask some simple
question referring to the lesson and the child by
studying the movement OF his lips would be able
to understand and reply The examination OF the
more advanced pupils developed surprising de-
gree Of culture. Grammar, arithmetic. history,
were among the acaurements. Some OF the
specimens Of letter writing would put to shame
the graduates OF many OF our educational instltu-
tiOns, and many OF the drawings were almost
cusi0n OF the exhibition Dr. Blumenthal, the Pres
ident and Mr.. Greenberger, the Principal were
the recipients OF warm on the pro-
gress made BY the pupils in their charge.
Year: 1874

The Jury still De1iberating-Exciti


Scene I'm the SHERIFF. once.


The jury in the Newark conspiracy case, as re.
corded In yesterdays HERALD, retired shortly
after two O'Clock on Wednesday afternoon to de-
lIberate upon q verdict Up to q late hour last
night they were still out, unable to agree. Yes
terday morning they came INTO Court and asked
for the evidence OF Stainsby, ex-Strcet Com
missioner Rogers and Street Commissioner Sulli-
van. With the mutual consent of counsel it was
given them. The jury also asked the Court II the
accused could be convicted on any other charge
than that in the Indictment. They were or course,
promptly answered in the negative. They then
retired. Shortly alter two O'Clock, after being
out exactly twenty-four hours, the Jury came
again into Court and announced to the Judge
that they desired to be discharged, as they were


UNABLE TO AGREE UPON VERDICT.


charge them. He did not wish to coerce them into
verdict, he SAID, but in view OF the importance
OF the case Its large cost to the county and the de-
PENDANTS, and the dtscouragng effect 1t had on the
civil business OF the Court he thought IL his duty
to require them to retire and try and agree upon
last night they were st out with no prospec. Of
their agreeing. 1t was rumored that they stood
eight Tor conviction and 1Our for acQuittal six to
Six aud ten to tWo but none Of the reports are re-
liable. tI.


LIVELY SCENE


took place yesterday afternoon In the Sherirs
OoSCs Al. LuWolu Muucu, al dCttvo hOmuSI W
the Citizens Investigating Committee, had been
authorized by the prosecutor and the foreman OF
the Grand Jury to search out some matters relat-
ing to certain 0tlcias-matters to be iound IN the
Common Council minutes These had been useu
In evidence during the conspiracy trials ana were
still In possession OF the Court. Mullen nad no
sooner obtained them than ne was immediatey
and other persons who declared ne could not
have possession OF the minutes. He retired
to the Sherin's ONCE, and tney ioilowed
time nearly resulted in personal rencontre: Null
len declared that they must be AFRAID 70 let tne
away the city records. They made no reply except
that he should not have them. Mullen stood hrm
as rock, and kept possession OF the minutes until
the prosecutor and the foreman OF the Grand Jury
came on the scene and put stop to the excite.
ment winch ran quite high. The affair occasioned
considerable OF q sensation about the Court House.
Year: 1874

MEMPHIS. December 2s.-Iesterdav.
Jack W. Smith. planter, living near
White Hover four miles south Of this
city. and his brother, while returning
home discovered two negro hunters in
hi> field. telling Ms brother to proceed to
the hcuss and shortly after reaching it
he heard two shots; after waiting for An
hour and his brother not having arrived,
At the instance of his wife he went to look
for him. and found him lying dead in the
field with portion Of his head shot OF
and large hole through his breast,
showing that the gun had been dis
charged close TO him. The dog that be
hsd seen with the negroes was with the
body, but they bsd fed. Ii Is believed
that they can be traced BY the dog.
Year: 1874




During the recent mission at C0omasse the
King made use OF every effort to induce our Com
missioner, Captain Lees to assist him In reuniting
again into the kingdom OF Ashantee the tribes
that since his deleat have revoited. or these the
most powerful are the Juablns. Their royal family
are connected with that OF Ashantee. 1t was the
last and most powerful tribe that the Ashantecs
brought under their rule. Captain Lees having
doubtless in accordance with his instructions)
refused TO interfere the dislntegration OF Asian.
tee Is complete. The Kings OF Becqua ana Adausi
having separated themselves, ana the JuaDins
having made treaty on the footing OF their inde-
pendence, it may now airly be considered that
the King OF Juasin Is the most powerful monarch
or the country.


At Cape Coast the slave question is making a
great stir the recent debates in Parliament have
no doubt excited the attention or The more edu-
Gated slave owners The regular pay, also, which
so large portion Of the black population received
during the war Tor the various services in which
they were engaged must nave presented, even to
their inert minds, some new reflections on the
subject OF capital and labor. Cape Coast Castle
will probably remain the seat Of government, tho
swamps close to Einina being thought conclusive
against Its being chosen as the capital A new
native town IS being laid at Elmlna to replace
the one destroyed last year.