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Year: 1871

In thinking over every way
by which we can reduce the
expenses Of the State and light
en- the tremendous and alarm
ing tax burden likely to hang
over us for years, we will make
a reasonable proposition to the
Radical party.


When you concocted the
printing bill, which has taken
from the treasury about two
millions of dollars, you had q
three-fold object in view:


1. To crush the Democratic
press.


2. To force upon the people
the Radical press.


3. To sustain that Radical
press, independent of the pee
pies patronage, until said press
could stand alone.


In all this, we suppose, yon
have succeeded. Then, why
not stop the heavy expense by
Withdrawing the public patroh-
age? You know very well that
it has, from the beginning,
been a most shameful waste OF
the public money; and now, as
the points are all accomplished
spend not another dollar in
that way.


But we will suppose, again,
that you have not accomplish
ed any of the three ends In
view-that you have failed to
crush the Democratic party, to
force upon the people the sup
port of the Radical press, and
that you have failed to estale
liSh the owners of the Radical
press only from the public
funds.


If we are wrong, bring Us
TO the prOofSheet and we vii
confess.


Well, you are certainly corr
vinced that if you have not,
you never can. Your prospect
is no brighter now than three
years ago; and if your press is



not self-sustaining now, i
never will be.


4 But to test the strength q
your press, and that you mai
be able to see yourselves as
Others see you, withdraw tht
public printing all over thu
State and confine it to one pa
per. Let the judicial and leg;.
advertisements in the parishe'
rest, as in the better days of tbs
Year: 1871

per, or, III you please, let the
advertisement gointo the paper
Of the best circulation.


Now this is certainly E. fair
and honorable proposition ;and
we make it in no unkind spirit,
but with an honest purpose of
| Tightening the burden of the
people.


Those who have had the pub
lie printing are .fat and inde-
pendet, upon the thousands
drawn from the Treasury, with
out a return of a cents consid-
Grafton to the State or people.
They can afford to give it up
and retire. Those who have
been denied even a taste Of
this printing do not desire it,
and never have, because they
are a part of the people, and
feel the burden from the shame
full waste. They do not ask
for it, but in the name oil com
mon justice, they ask and beg
that the foolish expenditure be
stopped.


The people, white and black,
demand this, with thousand
other extravagances, cease
Taxation is truly alarming,
and, as people, we never can
prosper until we are relieved
from the burden. We are now
almost at the point where re-
pudiation is our only salvation.
Forty millions is too much If
it was good investment, COM
ing back in the shape of divi-
dends, it might do; but when
the people know and feel that
it has grown out of a wild waste
to support political power, they
will rise up without distinction
of race or color, and repudiate
the debt, the men, and the
measures [Ouachita Telegraph.


We have too many trades
men, idlers, loafers and spon-
gers. We want more farmers
more gardeners, more stock
raisers-in short, more ObSer-
GERS of the minutia of close
living. Let us have nothing
surplus-no deadheads about
us neither in the shape Of man
or animal. If a negro won't
work enough to earn bis wages,
or what you advance for him.
dismiss him instantly. If you
have one horse or mule too
many, to eat his head off in a
Ishort time, sell it off to others,
who need it worse than you
do. If you have a COW more
than you can winter, sell it or
convert it into beef, while it is
fat. 1t is all idle nonsense to
keep poor, dying stock around
you. Exhaust the full value
of everything you pretend to
use or consume. Our road to
comparative opulence and ease
lies through self-denial and
rigid economy. 1t is worse
than sheer nonsense to attempt
to keep up ante-bellum extrav-
agance and show. Our wo-
men must play IN important
part in the work of recupera-
7 ton and restoration our for
mer prosperity. Household
E duties must be performed by
them; as negroes, in a large
, majority of eases, will not dc
it, or if they do engage, they
steal more than they earn. il
Year: 1871

we copleu yesterday from
the springfield Mass Republi-
can a letter from a New Or
leans correspondent that de-
serves to be thougtfulIy read
and pondered by every reading
person at the North. 1t is a
vivid picture of ruin in New
Orleans and Louisiana-of
that desolation which is begin
ing to stalk like a spectre over
one of the fairest and most
productive parts of the United
States, and which, if not
speedily and promtly arrested,
will make Louisiana a land of
decay. We intimated not long
since that the people of that
state might be forced to repu-
Sdiate their state debt of forty
million dollars, seven-eights of
1 it contracted since the war,
from absolute inability to pay
it. The letter in the Spring
field Republican shows that
this enormous debt is the rep
resentative of nothing but
robbery and spoliation; that
the state received, little or
nothing in consideration of it;
that it is poorer now than
when the debt was contracted,
and that the increase of taxa
ton on the people is in proper
ton to their decreased ability
to pay. They are impoyerish-
ed, robbed, and despoiled.
New Orleans is a city of stag
nation; trade deserts it; it is
filled with vacant houses; its
levee, once the scene of an
enormous business in cotton,
sugar, molasses and rice, is
nearly deserted; and the great
city that was once the entrepot
for the whole southwest, and
which by all the laws of trade
ought to be SO still, is rapidly
sinking to listlesSness and in
significance.


There is but one cause fo1
all this-misrule. Louisiana
is being ruined by Radical mis-
government; New Orleans is
the helpless victim Of a carpet
bag COVER. or, and a foul con-
fraternity of negroes, SCALA
wags, and northern adventur-
ers, who are ignorant of every
thing except how to steal, rob,
accept bribes and sell all their
votes as legislators for money
These men have in six years
raised the debt of Louisiana
from five millions TO forty milt-
ions, and laid a mortgage fol
this great sum upon all the
property in the state. "What
have we got" for it all, asks
this correspondent; nothing
the money has been stolen.'
"History can furnish no paral.
lei to this spoliation in time o.
peace. 1t is idle to expect
men to be satisfied with it, anG
to rejoice at the sight of the
'old fag,' and to talk of the
best governmental the void eve
saw when they are living un
der a robbing, swindling, indie
cent pretenee Of q goyean
. o-A -
Year: 1871

An Irishman went to live IN
Scotland for a short time, but did
not like the county. Il was sick
all the time / was there, said he;
and If l had lived there till this
time I'd been dead year ago.
Year: 1871

EVERYBODY knows how to render
lard; but everybody does not know
that handful Of slippery elm bark
put into it while cooking viii pre-
vent IL from becoming rancid. 1t
viii not only preserve il perfectly
sweet Tor any length of time, but
win impart to it q most delicate ia
vor. Try it, everybody.
Year: 1871

mander-in- chief, in protecting American citl-
Zens from outrage and death; the party who,
under the fugltivc slave law, marched
United States soldiers over the very spo
where the first martyr for American liberty
shed his blood; and the blood of Christopher t
Attacks was as red as yours or mine, sir,
though his skin was black.


The party who sent their troops over the
spot which his martyrdom had consecrated
to force back into slavery one poor wretch
who had succeeded in flying to land which
he supposed to be a land of hberty-the
party that did this act dares to tell the
American people that there is no conStitu-
tional way to use the army or navy of the
United States in protecting American cltl-
zens from outrage and death, unless the
Governor and Legislature OF the State IN
which these offences are committed shouid
call for assistance. Sir, i have searched III
vain for the call made by the Governor or
legislature of Massachusetts for troops 10
assist in the rendition of Anthony Burns.
Every gentleman on this floor knows that
the United States soldiers sent to that
State bv the Democratic party to assist
their bloOd-hounds i'll tearing from Mas
sachusetts soil that poor. trembling
fugitive, were not sent there at
the request of that State, but by
virtue of the law passed by a Demo
cratic Congress, enforced by Demo
cratic administration, and interpreted by
a Democratic attorney general, whose
Interpretation has been sustained by the
courts and | know the American people
well enough to know that no legal sophistry
can make them believe that it was constitu-
tional to use the army and navy of the
United States i'll returning fugitives to
slavery, but that no constitutional means
can be found to use these agencies for the
nrotpction of life liberty and nrOnertv of
free American citizens in every State in this
TfniOn
Year: 1871

Supreme COurt-A Mandamus Against the


Judge of the Eighth District Court


Refused.


In the matter of an application to the Su-
preme Court for a mandamss to compel the
Judge of the Eighth District Court to grant
a suspensive appeal from an order OF injunc-
tion granted to the Louisiana State Lottery
Company VS.. the New Orleans and Havana
Steamship and Lottery Company, restrain
ing the latter from interfering with the
exclusive privileges OF the former, and from
the organization of the said pretended
steamship and lottery company, the Su-
preme Court has refused the application
and the injunction will therefore remain
undisturbed.
Year: 1871

On the Wrong Scent.-0ur Democratic
city cotemporaries are quite inquisitive, we
know, as to the business of the Republican
party and its State Central Committee.


We had thought the business of prying into
our affairs was left alone to the Dispatch,
but in this we were mistaken, as we find
the Enqnnvr of this morning has its ''put
M IN relation to the proposed action of
the State Central Committee. We don't
propose to tell it what the committee aoiU
do, because we don't know; but the En-
quire''s assertion that the Hon. James III.
Platt will succeed Mr.. Wells as chairman,
is without foundation. Governor Wells
has not agreed to give up his position as
chairman Of the State Central Committee.
SO your truthful bird is a--mistakent


We have such confidence in the excellent
judgment of Mr.. Wells, to be satisfied he
will do whatever may seem best to
strengthen the Republican party and to
weaken Democracy.


We have no idea that the State Central
Committee would agree that it is to the in
terest of the party, should Mr.. Wells re-
sign his position, to fill it by the election of
any member of Congress. Their time is
occupied with other matters Gf
faithful representatives,, without shoulder
ing the responsibility and ardious duties
attending the position of chairman, &c.


Democracy has much to fear from the
next meeting ION the 18th of this body, for
it will be sure to accomplish work which
will tell upon the ribs of the old Democrat
ic hulk.


We propose to encourage our friends by
again repeating that many of the wrongs
upon the people and the inter-
terests of the party in Virginia, will be cor
'ected. and the causes of complaint re-
moved by the action of your State Central
Committee,
Year: 1871

Glad 7idings for tie Republican Pn9y
Of Vughaio.-We rejoice to be able to in
form our friends throughout the State that
John w. Douglass has been appointed by
the President to the highly important and
responsible position of commissioner of in
ternal revenue. For some time Mr.. Doug
lass has held that of deputy commissioner,
which qualities him in every respect for the
position to which he has been transferred.
Besides his official qualifications he is a
thorough and earnest member of the Re-
publican party, from whom the people, of
the State, in the distribution of the patron
age of his department, may expect care
ful consideration of their wishes.
Year: 1871

Dead Infant Found. The body of a
female white child, about week old, was
found on the sand bank in James river, near
the dock toll-gate, on yesterday morning at
8 O'Clock. Coroner Trent was called to
view the body, but deemed an inquest UNI
necessary. The body was buried at the
expense of the city in Oakwood cemetery.
Year: 1871

a Nuisance. attention of the
Board of Health is called to the pool of
stagnant water on the vacant lot on Main,
between First and Second streets. This
nuisance has been the cause of frequent
complaint by the residents of that neigh
borhood, and should be removed at once.
Year: 1871

MR. EDITOR: We were pleased to hear that you, in company with the editor of the Sentinel, visited the Steep Rock cut, on our. .Shepaug Valley Railroad, and that, with all the perilous adventures of the day. you safely returned home. We wondered what made the workmen so afraid of your little company as you approached the cut. The editor of the Sentinel will have it that twas because the face of our Sheriff was so familiar to many of them-they had seen him before-and did not wish to see him again. But let me suggest another reason I have heard that printers have devils; if so at the sight of your company what hon. est man would not have been afraid? i.s

 IN. R. and s. D. Smith start their but ter and cheese factory today, with about 100 COW power.. As calves grow scarce and
Year: 1871

Ha- The census returns will all be in by May - Tribune.

 We have been curious to see when the ring-boned, spavined, blind-staggering politicians who have had the taking of the census in some parts of the country would get in their returns. All things considered they have made excellent time.
Year: 1871

BT One of the jury in the Fair Critten- den murder case, lost relative during the trial. The jury couldn't legally separate, so the whole twelve, under escort of a con- stable, figured among the naourners at the funeral.
Year: 1871

Register your orders early in
the Custom Department. which
consists of Suits in effective and
stylish combination, while our
Coatings, Trouserings and Vest
ings are of that elegance of taste
and chasteness of colors, from
the silent to the loud, calculated
to please the most fastidious low
er of fine trimmings, artistic cut
and stylish make.
Year: 1871

Reflect that a sound mind aud body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubial
happiness, Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes Il weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly darkcns to the view, the mind
becomes shadowcd with despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
another is blightcd with our own.
Year: 1871

measures to arouse popular sympathy and to
rally the people to their support.


Nor is there any cohesion between the ad-
ministration and the leaders Of the party. We
have seen how Mr.. Greeley assumed to with
draw General Grant from denomination to the
fsesidency. To be sure, the Philosopher in
his speech last night takes him back
to his bosom, possibly to cast him out
again the first opportunity. We have
seen how Mr.. Sumner assailed the ST..
Domingo policy of the President. Other
prominent republicans, too, take the same
ground. The republican Governor of Penn
sylvania denounces, in his message, the action
of Congress and the President for the Enforce
ment ect and for employing government troops
at Congressional elections, as an interference
with the rights of State not contemplated
by the founders of the government. Many
of the prominent men Of the party, both in
Washington and throughout the country, do
not hesitate to act as Well as speak against
the President and his policy. Some of these
being rival candidates for the Presidency, we
can very we'll understand the motive for their
opposition; but as all are not it is evident the
party is tending to dlsinte2ration, and that it
will require strong hand and bold and popu-
lar measures to hold the republicans together
till the next Presidential election.


Although the difficulties among the republic
cans, and the mistakes or shortcomings of
the administration and party have given the
democrats an advantage in the late elections,
and particularly throughout the South, Gene
raj Grant is still head and shoulders above
any candidate the opposition can bring cut.
He was the great man of the war, is now
President, and has all the influence that
exalted position gives. Then the democrats,
like the republicans, have not any broad, COM
prehensive or well defined policy. Nor have
they any great statesmen. Respectable Gov
ernors of States and Congressman they have,
| and few soldiers who made good record
during the war, but no one that looms up
prominently enough to awaken the enthusiasm
Of the people. Their want of such man, a
strong platform or stirring issue, may yet
leave to the republicans the vantage ground
already gained and yet occupied. In about a
year and four or five months the Presidential
nominating conventions will meet, and be-
tween this time and that there may be many
more shifting scenes on the political stage,
but, while the republican party is declining
and the democrats gaining, General Grant is
still the foremost man.
Year: 1871

from Madrid.


From Madrid, by way of London and thence
through the Atlantic cable, we report specially
the telegram letter which appears in our
columns to-day. The communication is dated
in the Spanish capital on the Goth Of Decem-
Der. Our correspondent narrates by mems Of
electricity the particulars of terrible deed Of
blood-the murder of General Prim. The
civilizing agency of modern progress enables
us to present to our readers complete
account Of tbs tragedy, the manner
Of its accomplishment, the proclama-
tion Of its first consequences and its
fatal termination. The act Of assassination
was made known to the people Of Madrid in
the Opera House. The news produced con-
sternation, amazement and, to very consid-
cradle extent, feeling Of incredulity as to its
reality. The HERALD writer visited the resi-
dence of the Marshal He was admitted at
once. The blood Of the Spanish soldier was
sprinkled on the balustrades and in the hall.
Guards were on duty. The sentinels mourned
for dying comrade and patriot. From the
adjutant who was in attendance on Prim at
the moment when he received his death
wounds the HERALD writer received the ac-
count which we present to the public to-day,
and which passes this fearful crisis in the his
tory of Spain, the reactionary movement, its
impelling causes and the memory of its expia-
tory victim on the record for posterity.
Year: 1871

Situation.


The speech of Philosopher Greeley last
night at what used to be called the Twenty
second street Bear Garden, marks another
crisis in the history of the republican party.
After querulous wall about the fragmentary
condition of the New York wing of that
organization he made q convulsive'y earnest
appeal for unity and concord in the future.
What he said was, indeed, a complete sermon
in behalf of fraternal love. He did not, how
ever, go the length of announcing his text
but trusted to the Biblical memory Of his
hearers to supply it. Behold" says tho
Psalmst, show good thing it is for brethren
to dwell together in unity"


One thing is shown by this speech very
clearly-that his visit to Washington has been
very beneficial to the Philosophers mentak
vision. He now realizes that his party is in
the last stage Of Generalization; and he
cries to his republican brethren, as the darky
on the sinking ship did to the chaplain, who,
on being asked to pray, reproached him for
his sins: 'Dis is no time to argufy; somefng
has got to be done darned quick.


But what is to be done? Ah, there's tho
rub. Greeley, however, in the last trembling
paroxysm of political panic has caught already
at what he hopes to be sustaining straw
s'Let us renomnate Grant," he roars out with
the energy of despair. But, alas! bis coun-
sci will lose nearly all its force, because his
party will couple it with the mood in which he
is now foundering That mood is exactly
akin to that in which he first uttered that MEM
orable cry of son to Richmond" And per-
haps it will meet with equal disregard.


One impression alone remains upon tho
mind after reading this remarkable oratorical
effort-that, if the republican party is ever to-
be tinkered up into being again sound politi-'
cal machine, other heads and hands than
Greeley's will have to be called in to boss the
-,
Year: 1871

TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS were stolen
the other night from q combination safe in
a Williamsburg jewelry store by party Of
burglars, who inspected it in the guise of a
party of customers during the day previous
Their combination beat even the combination
safe.
Year: 1871

Ben BUTLER and HORACE GREELEY, who
were themselves at bitter loggerheads recently.
arc now credited with trying to make peace
between Fenton and Grant. There seems TO
be nothing going on among the Republicans
just now but trying to make peace. They
were very consistent indeed in adopting
''Let I'D make peace as their campaign motto.
They still carry it on th cir banners and follow
its preeepts in their actwns
Year: 1871

A NEED.-what is badly needed for the accom-
modation of the people of Northern Kansas, is a
train from the south to arrive at Atchison some
time between noon and o'clock, P. NJ. Persons
wishing to 60 south from this country, can make
reasonable connections by taking any train. Dy
the morning train, they can rcacn Atchison in
time for the afternoon train; or by the evening
train, tncy can get from Atchison by night
train. But coming from LeavenwOrth and points
below, passengers must get to Atchison either by
the midnight or morning train, or they have to
lie over a day in Atchison. If they miss the
morning train, they are stuck for the day, as
there is no other train on either side of the riv-
or, that connects with the afternoon train north
from Atchison. They arc all morning or evening
trains, and there is stopping off to transact q
few minutes business on the way. train at
noon or little after, would obviate all this troub
Year: 1871

q The american Newspaper Reporter has good
deal to say to country newspapers, in the way of
advising them to adhere strictly to the cash sys-
tenn. 1t is very easy to sit in New York and write
about this thing; and it would be very agreeable
to the Newspapers if they could carry it out. Big
city papers, that have the bulge on the business


can enforce this principle, and make it pay; but
with country papers it is absolutely impossible,
let them try their very hardest. They would run
themselves ont of circulation in short orler This


is the experience of those who have tried it, if not
of those who sit in New York and write about it.
Year: 1871

n The Passivists are hOisting the name of
Senator TRUMBULL as their candidate for the
Presidency. In a Presidential campaign, enthusi-
asm is the main part of the battle. Just imagine
anybody enthusing over TaCMBULLl 1t wuuld
be like striking fire out Of an iceberg with cab
bage head
Year: 1871

~ The Butternut editor of patent outside
thumb-paper in Ohio, has the agency ofhis entire
County for the sale Of the Life Of VALANDIGHAM.
If it takes well, he should next start out with a
Life of the Devil
Year: 1871

.-e Come doWn.-Fd0d SptFH-


And what have we done to you, and how are
We in your way, that yon join in the hne and
cry, and ask to "comc downf" We are not
one of the kind that come down. We expect to
stay up, and behold you blow for brief season
and play ont of at least dozen more Kansas
towns, and finally leave the State in disgust, be-
cause, although proverbial for wind, she does not
annreciate and " come down to hatulence
Year: 1871

At the Dollar store, corner Ninth and Main
streets, are to be found those excellent adle5 lea


ther trIvclng-ba that you see so many use


Their assortment Of goods far exceed our expcc-
tation. They have nearly everything you may
want. They have The best assortment of slippers
and cushion pattern In the city. An elegant new
leather fan can I've got there. .esst. --s -If.j