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Year: 1872

From the Baton Rouge Gazette Cometl
Thursday evening last Governor
Warmoth addressed quite large as
semblage of citizens at the Court
House Square. He began by stating
that he was q Republican in principle,
but was not a Radical. After review
ing briefly the mighty leaders of Rad
icalism who recently run the machine
at Pixies Theatre, he proceeded to in
yestigate the causes of their opposi-
ton to him. The facts he stated on
this point are very well known to
most OF our readers-tley being en-
bodied in his vetoes of many of the
legislative, schemes for plunder in
which Messrs. Packard, Casey, and in
fact nearly all the federal office hold
ers We're alike interested. The Gov
ernor stated that that SO long as he
kept his eyes and ears closed to the
schemes of these demagogues he was
a very fine fellow, but just so soon as
he began to pull the check rein to
curb their plundering ambition, he at
once lost their friendship and they
concluded howl for reform was nec-
essary to oust him and screen them
selves from the perfdies practiced
which they knew would come out ON
them sooner or later. He argued that
so long as the laws were administered
i'll their interests they were pinks of
perfection in their eyes, but so soon as
it was known that the laws were to be
administered in the interest of justice
and equality, they became very sud-
denly arbitrary, unjust and sorely
needed reformation. He did not hold
up much of the past legislation as wise
and prudent; to the contrary, he
thought that an honorable and intel
ligent body of men in our next Legis-
lature could and would give satisfac-
tion in that respect to the whole peo-
pie, disregarding the lines of distinc-
tions in politics or race; he thought
if the people would burn their preiu-
dices and unite under the Liberal ban
ner for this campaign, that at the end
of the next administration they could
be able to thank God for the good
they had done for themselves and their
py oNtCl1 Ills SibCcCu
was listened to with profound atten-
ton, and at the close of which he as
serted that, for himself he had burned
his ships and was now marching for
ward to defeat a military despot and
to re-unite the States of the Union so
that every one could feel that pride in
American citizenship so long and hap
PLY felt in the glorious past. He
wanted this to be a country of freemen,
with not a single slave-political or
otherwise-and he was determined to
do all in his~power to make it thus.
which: could only be done by the de-
feat of U. S. Grant, and the triumph
of Greeley and Brown. For himself,
he cared nothing for political prefer
ment,s for, said he, eff there is one
man in your State who has tasted its
sweets and supped deeply enough at
its bitter cup, that one is myself" At
the conclusion of his address Colonel
Ed. w. Robertson stepped forward
and moved that the thanks of the cit
izens of Baton Rouge be rendered to
Governor Warmoth for the able and
satisfactory address delivered them ON
this occasion, and proposed three
cheers. for Governor H. G. Warmoth,
which were heartily given.
Year: 1872

| uIS1hiOhO "dS W iuSulG UIlt L IcSlutub


and Immediately paragraphs sent


from Washington began to appear


simultaneously all over the country


asserting that the most alarming con.


ditiOn of affairs existed in Texas; that


the Ku-Klux were engaged in a new


cOnspiracies; and that no mans life


was safe in that State who belonged


to the Republican party. And all


this time the police and military forces
of the State were under the absolute
control of Davis, who exercised the
power of a despot throughout Texas
without the slightest opposition from
any quarter.


But although Davis was absolute in
in State affairs, he could not entirely
disregard the authority of the United
States courts. When served with a
warrant, he haughtily refused to be
arrested, saying the officer would
hear from the Department of Justice
in Washington in relation to the mat
ter. And from Washington every eff
fort was directed to stop the proceed
ings. Emissaries of the Administra-
ton endeavoref to induce Judge Du-
val to dismiss the case, but without
effect. Then it was determined to
dismiss from Office the District Attor-
hey who was concerned in procuring
the Indictment; but it was found that
removing Il sworn officer of the United
States for faithfully performing his
duty so soon after the perpetration of
a similar outrage in Arkansas, under
precisely similar circumstances, would
be too hazardous an experiment on
public patience, and the matter was
allowed to rest for the time. But the
purpose of obstructing the course of
justice was never given up; and
when the right time arrived, all at
tempts at cajoling the District At
torney into Il disregard of his official
oath having failed, Grant removed
him from Office, as he had removed
the United States Attorney in Ar
kansas for refusing to perjure him.
self in the Clayton case.


On the 18th of this month Davis
was at last brought to trial, or rather
to Il pretended trial. Congress in the
mean time had pronounced him guilty
by expelling the creature of his fraud
from the seat he had usurped in the
House of Representatives. But the
proceedings in Texas terminated as
might have been expected. The new
District Attorney, subseryient to the
wishes of his master in the White
House, fulfilled the purpose of his APP
pointment by neglecting to call the
principal witnesses for the prosecu-
ton, and made no effort whatever to
procure conviction. Davis was per-
mitted to go free, though the proofs
of his guilt were overwhelming and
easily accessible.


The testimony published by order
of Congress in the case of Giddings
against Clark revealed IL system of
organized election frauds that have
never been paralleled in the United
States, unless in Arkansas under the
Clayton rule. BY interfering with
the operations of the Federal courts
in Texas in order to shield from pun
ishment the man chiefly responsible
for those crimes, Grant has again
shown himself the protector of ballot
box stuffing, as he has been the friend
and patron OF persons notoriously en-
gagged in frauds on the Government
and on the public during the whole
of his term as President.
Year: 1872

WoOdhull's letter of acceptance is a
model of brevity only three yards
long. There is bat one other fellow
on the continent who could condense
so much of the soul of wit into limits
SO contracted. That's Aleck Steph-
ems. Why did the Convention that
nominated her overlook the eternal
fitness of things in selecting Vice 7 !.
Year: 1872

If those peoples who think that
Greeley has no strength could only
see the weight on the safety valve
they would think about getting out
of the way. The Greeley fever is
raging inside the boiler at about one
thousand pounds to the square inch.
When the thing begins to move
Grant will conclude that an earth
quake has broken loose.
Year: 1872

HoMELY GIRLS" How did that
homely woman contrive to get mar
riehf" is not unfrequently remarked
of some good, domestic creature WHOM
her husband regards as the. apple of
his eye, and in whose plain face he
sees something better than beauty.
Pretty girls who are vain of their
charms are rather prone to make OBJ
servations of this kind; aad conscious
ness of the fact that the flowers of
loveiiness are often left to pine on the
stem, while weeds of LONELINESS go
off readily, is no doubt often at tile
bottom of the question. The truth is,
most men prefer homeliness and amia-
bility to beauty and caprice. Hand
some women are apt to oyer-valne
themselves, and in waiting for an ina
mense bid, occasionally overstep the
market. Their plain sisters. on the
contrary, aware of their personal de-
ficiencies, generally lay themselves
out to produce favorable impression,
and in most instances succeed. They
don't aspire to capture paragons with
princely fortunes, but are willing to
take anything respectable and love-
worthy that Providence may throw in
their way. The rock of our naughty
Junos and coquettish Hebes is fastid-
iOusness.
Year: 1872

Onwhat grounds does Legislature of
theState Of California assume the right to
tax the land claimed merely by possessor5
right? The title to such land is vested
in the U S. Government and will so con-
tinue until 1t is entered and paid for BY
the settler. The settlers posscssory right
is of no value to him except as one of the
preliminary forms or means through which
he may her. after be enabled to purchase
the land from its present owner, the Gov
ernment Whenever land is entered and
pai+4 fertile title is transferred to the pur-
chaser, and is liable to taxation by the
State. and not before, except it be done
through fraud and ilegality So long as a
settler remains on lands belonging to the
Government, he IS legally liable to taxation
on his improvements and personal property
and whenever the State Legislators
arrosae thority to lay tax on unsod
Government land, they do something they
have no right to do, ard perpetrate an
outrage upon the pioneer men who are to-
day living upon the Government domain.


The idea of California Legislature
assuming the right to tax the Government
land on which some poor wayworn emf
grant has settled with a view of some day,
when he can save up the necessary money,
purchasing it of the Government, is a
great shame. Money thus wrung from the
10 ling poor will prove a curse to the Com
monweath and seve as an illgotten fund on
which thieves will feed, fatten, and
corrupt the State.
Year: 1872

GAME:-Sportsmen should bear 10 Iaiud
the fact that the last Legislature changed
the gaure law SO as to prohibit the shooting
OF deer until after the first of August
Under the-old law it was lawful to kill
deer on and after the first of July.
Year: 1872

Ralph wanted to SPEAK, but
he couldn't. And SO Shocky,
with his eyes looking straight
ahead and as if forgetting
Ralph's presence, tod over the
thoughts that he had often
talked over to the fence.raIls
and the trees. o. D ON


sit was real good in Mr..
Pearson to take me, wasn't.
it2 Else I'd a been bound out
tell | was twenty.One, may be,
to some mean man like Ole
Means And l ant but seven.
And it would take me thirteen
years to git twenty and +
never could live with nay moth
er again after Hammer gets
done her time. cause, you
see, Hammer II be through i'd
three more year. and IN be
ten and able to work, and well
git a little place about as big
as Granny Sanders's and"


Ralph did not hear another
word of what Shocky said that
afternoon. For there, right in
front of them, was Granny
Sanders's log cabin, with it's
row of lofty sun.aower stalks,
now dead and dry in front, with
its rain water barrel by the side
Of the low door, and its ash bar.
rel by the fence. In this cabin
lived alone the old and shrivel-
ed hag whose hideousness gave
her a reputation for almost su-
pernatural knowledge. She was
at once doctress and newspa-
paper. She collected and dis.
seminated medicinal herbs and
personal gossip. She was in
every regard indispensable to
the intellectual life of the
neighborhood. In regard to
her medical skill we can not
express an opinion, for her
"yarbs" are not to be found In
the pharmacopw OF science. j ii.


What took -Ralph's breath
was to End DR.. Smalrs fine,
faultless faultless horse stand
ing at the door. What did
Henry Small want to visit this
old quack for2
Year: 1872

1t Is not certain that the people will get rid OF
the expense Of tho Revenue officers, by the dis.
continuance of the income tax law II is now
proposed to continue the Offices under some other
Department.. What they ore to do is not yeI
known.
Year: 1872

% they come with greater com.
missions for greater good, to find
welcome abundant in hearts hero,
which will find reward there, as
they grow strong. and brave and
moro filed with that beautiful faith.
without which we are blind and
unvisited by those who come with
good words and gentle encourage
ment.


So we work, content to know,
for they have told us, that before
long some one will call for US to
take US Home. The poor blind
woman has faith. She believes.
She bides her time. listens to the
kind wo, ds OF those who come and
go, passing her day after day.
waits for familiar footsteps which
tell Of the lookcd-for coming, and
. happier as draws nigh the hour
when she can be taken home to her
comfort aud rest, when comes the
faithful guide and the blessed Sat-
urday night


"BRIcK" PoMERoY.
Year: 1872


God bless the little feet that can never 20


astray,
For the little shoes are empty, in my closet


laid away.
sometimes take one in my hand, forgetting


till see
II is a little, half-worn shoe, and much too


small for me
And all at once feel sense of bitter loss


and pain,
Aud sharp al when, two years ago, it cut my


heart in twain.
Oh, little feet, that weary cot, wait for


them no more,
For am drifting on the tide, and they have


reached the shore;
And while the binding tear-drops vet these


little shoes so old,
try to think my darling's feet are treading


streets Of gold;
God bless the little feet that now 80 surely


cannot stray.
And while thus am standing almost seen


to see
The little form beside me, just az it used 10
be-;
The little face uplifted, with its soft and ten.
der eyes
All, me might have kuown that look was
born for Paradise.
l reach my arms out fondly, but they clasp
the empty air,
For there is nothin of my darling but the
shoes he used to wear.
Oh ! the bitterness of parting cannot be done
away
Until meet my darling where his feet can
never stray;
When no moi am dtifted upon the surging
tide,
But with him safely larded upon tho river
side.
Be patient, heart while waiting to see the
shining way,
For the little feet in the shining street can
never go astray. -I!Seleescd.
Year: 1872

This from Charlie Phillips. tho
boy-editor of the Kokomo Junior.
Being boy he ought to know .
thing or two about it.


We are not out with all boys, nor
do We desire to be meddlesome. bat
it is a fact that the conduct Of
many Of the boys Of this city as
we'll as Of all other places deserve
severe criticism. The trouble is
we can't reach them directly, for
they don't read, many Of them
can't. The Sunday School does
not reach them for there are not
enough Of persons willing to 60
out in the highways, the alleys
and lanes to gather them ia. The
only proper instructors for them
are their parents, but we actually
believe what we say whom wc state
that there arc plenty OF little boys
in this city who are not seen by
their parents from morning till
night, a few uho arc only seen in
the summer once in two or three
days, sometimes only once week.
II is facs that many parents do
not talke half as much interest in
their boys as they dc in their pigs
and cows. They put bells on the
COWS and go in search Of them II
they remain away one day, while
they pay no attention TO the alb
sence Of their boys If they are alb
sent the same length Of time.
These little candidates for jails
and penitcntiaries, are seen at the
door Of every show, begging some
one to take them in, they are here
and there, everywhere except do
ing something useful. Why is il
that parents are so very careless?
Can anybody tell.


The free schools are now in
session. and every youth between
the ages Of five and twenty one is
entitled to instructions. Why
should one child be absent from
school? If there is to be great
day of Judgment, in the future. q
day when parent and child shall
each have to give an account Of
their employment Of time, surely
he will point to his father and say
.sit is his fault-he never made me
work-he never gave me employ
ment to keep me out of mischief"


This is matter Of small impor.
tance. Let parents think Of their
duty and then do it. No boy
should be allowed to run at large
like q wild animal. He should be
in school or at home unless wher
sent away on errands. It is tht
duty of parents to see that theil


boys do not grow up to be first


class loafers.
Year: 1872

Sensible words about adve tising.


The Pittsburgh Post says that
q gentleman when negotiating for
additional space in that paper,
remarked, 81 might as we'll quit
business as quit advertising"


The New York Times says o
wholesale grocer in that city who
became rich In his business, says
his rulc always was, when he sold
q bill Of goods on credit, to imme.
diately subscribe for the local pa
per Of his debtor. So long as his
customer advertised literally and
vigorously, he rested, but as soon
he began to contract his adver-
tising space, he took the fact as
evidence there was trouble ahend,
and invariably went for his debt.
Said he, s.the man who feels too
poor to make his business known
is too poor to do business.


The New York Journal of Com
merce says: People who nervous-
iy sit in counting-houses,or behind
their goods, waiting for customers
to take them by storm, aud making
no effort to let the world know the
bargains they have to offer, will
find the season very unpropitious.
Many Of those who have spent
large sums in hiring drammers and
paying for other we'll known appli
ances to trade, have effected large
sales but swallowed up too large q
share OF the receipts in such enor-
nous attendant expenses. The
best remuneration has been found
by those who have returned to
more legitimate, old fashioned
methods of pushing their business.
We say it. not simply because we
are interested in this line Of cxpen-
diture, but as our best advice to all
who wish to be enterprising and
secure 3 larger custom, there is
nsthing so effective to this end as
judicions advertising. A little
advertising may be like . gentle
touch Of the whip to poor Dobbin's
h,ise, "a mercy thrown away but
a liberal outlay is almost certain to
bring 1t in a large return, and this
will last even beyond the current
season. We do not believe that
any who have valuable service or
desirable property to offer can
faii Of reaping a rich harvest by
continuous advertising on . large
scale.


| Let the people know where you
are-what you have to sell-hoW
cheap you SELL and that you want
to sell. Let them know all this
and the way to do it is to adver-


tise. 1t will bring you trade; il


will bring you money. If a mar


wants to buy anything; he goes


where the most men are buying it
-and he goes to the men who ad-


vertisc, becaus he knows where tc


find them. This is the great Sc


cret Of success
Year: 1872

that tho specific charges therein made
against Hartranft and Mackey were
not true. rii sIIl-


The committee was fully satisfied
that that communication was intend
ed as foil to the pending investiga-
tion and we gave it but triflipg re-
spect. '.e


The duty cnjoined by the first and
principal resolution was pursued by
us all earnestly, and ] am sure con-
scientiously. In penning the report
a duty I sought to avoid gave the
facts ELECTED as succinctly as | could,
and drew tho conclusions deemed
warranted thereby. | read il first TO
the committee. full except General
White, and second time TO the full
committee 1t was approved and
printed and then signed by all. ! can
speak for but myself as to any at
tempt to interpret the language used
otherwise than in accordance with its
plain meaning. When said:


"Your committee have not language
sufficiently strong to express their
disapprobation of so bold an outrage,
or fitting terms in which to character.
ize those in official position who seek
to palate or excuse the wrong. Evans
collected 1854, 1853 "a and retains the
whole. State officials knew this fact
for three years before it became pub.
lie, and the neglect TO report the
transaction to the Legislature is re
garded by us as gross dereliction Of
official duty They cannot but ex-
press their disapprobation of the
iooseness of official routine that placed
in the hands of Evans over million
of dollars of valuable assets without
requiring from him any security
whatever"


mean precisely what the language
plainly imports. The transaction was
regarded by us all as 80 glaribg an
iniamy that we sought TO exculpate
none There were sins both OF omis.
sion and of commission and both re-
ceived all the condemnation it was
possible for us to give consistent with
the facts ascertained.


"In expressing our disapprobation
of loosencss of official routine" surely
no one dreamed that laxity in the ex'
ecutive office where the assets were
not filed was the thing condemned
The assets to the full value of a mil
lion were in the office of the Auditor
General, and their passage therefrom
into the hands OF Evans without SO
curity was "the looseness of oilicia
routine that was in my mind when
| drew and signed the report. Nc
one of the committee, either then OF
since, has expressed any opinion ap
proving the act OF the Auditor Gener
al in this respect.


From the introduction of the two
resolutions, the separate inquiries int
each, the plain language of the repor
itself in this regard, and the fact,
proved and added to the report, it Il
apparent that the concluding para
graph of the report has exclusive
reference to the tribune communica
tion and its charges.


Both the written and the unwrittor
history Of this transaction cry alout
for reform in the administration o
the State government, and none who
know tho inner workings OF the ma
chinery thereof but will earnestly
pray for a change of policy, change
of officials and change of oflicia
routine.
Year: 1872

1t was thus, a few days since, we
heard STRIPPING of sixteen designate
the mother who bore him. By coarse
husbands We have heard wives called
SO occasionally, though in the latter
case the phrase is more often used
endearingly. At all times, as CON-
monty spoken, it jars upon the car
and shocks tho sense


An "old woman" should be an
object of reverence above and beyond
most all other phases Of humanity.
Her very ago should bo her surest
passport to courteous consideration.


She had fought faithfully "the good
fight and come of conqueror Upon
her venerable face she bears the
marks of tho conflict in all its furrow-
ed lines.


The most grevious OF the ills of life
have been hers; trials untold and
known only TO God and herself, sho
has born necessarily; and now, in her
old age--her duty done patiently
waiting her appointed time-shc stands
more bonorably and deservingly than
he who has slain his thousands or
stood triumphant upon the proudost
field of victory. lUuoI stH0


Young men, speak kindly 10 your
mother and even OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
y of her. But little time and you
will see her no more forever. Her
eye is dim, her form is bent and her
shadow falls graveyard.


Others may love you when she has
passed Sway--kiDd hearted sisters.
perhaps, or she whom Of all the world
you choose for q partner-she may
love you warmly, passionately; chill.
dren may love you fondly, but never
again, never, whilo time is yours, shall
the love Of woman be TO you ms that
of your old trembling mother has
been. ana
Year: 1872

Under the new internal revenue law, the
force of Assessors and Collectors OF that
office, now numbering two hundred and
thirty of each class, is to be reduced to
eighty by the beginning OF the year, and
a dispatch from Washington states that
Commissioner Douglass will soon begin
tue work OF consolidating districts in order
10 make the reductions. In some States
there will be but one or two collectors
assigned, but in the larger States and
dtnsely populated cities there will be a
sufficient force to do the work without iu-
convenience TO the business Interests. An
immense pressure is being brought in favor
Of various ineumbents.