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Year: 1873

New ORLEANS, Sept. "a. 1873.
FeIor- Citizens Of Louisiana The Commit
tee of Seventy has called a Mass Convention
to assemble in this city Oh the fourth Monday
Of November next.


The time is fast approaching when the cause
of the people OF this State will again be pre-
sented to Congress for final adjustment and
settlement, and your committee moved by pro-
found convictions looking to the well-being of
the entire people of this commonwealth. have
concluded that a Convention OF the people of
the State would be the most acceptable me-
dunn for an appropriate presentation to the
Congress of the nation of the alarming and
unprecedented outrages committed against
the rights and liberties Of the people Of this
State, by which government never elected
by their suffrage has been set up and estab-
lished by fraud aud force over them.


Elect to this Convention your tried. truest.
and ablest men. and let us make one united
and combined effort to rescue our State from
the grasp Of the spoliators aud usurpers


Let us make at least one last grand effort
to arouse the Congress of the Union, and the
people thereof, to a full appreciation of the
means and methods. employed under Federal
auspices that thruttled the State Government
of Louisiana.


We owe this much to ourselves and to those
to come after us.


We desire to preseat the question, fairly
and squarely. to the Congress and to all the





not it is permissible under our form Of govern
ment. for an inferior United States Judge,
supported by Uuited States soldiers and the
Chief Executive of the nation, without refer
ence to and in defiance of the will ID the peO
pie as expressed by the ballot, to pull down
one State Government and set up another IN
its stead. =.


3 Should Congress repudiate such repreheus
BILE practices, we merely will obtain our rights
Oh the other hand, should Congress lermil
such practices to go unrtbuked. we will ther
know our status; know that despotism has
usurped the place OF constitutional govern
ment, and the quicker We know it the better
Let the people of this State take an active
part in their own cause, which is the cause OF
every State in the Union, and you may ther
rest assured that all will yet be we'll


BY order of the Committee of Seventy.


X. III. MARI,


Chairman Committee of Seventy.
,IOSEpH Collins. Secretary,
Year: 1873

We are informed that Acting Governor An
tome, in recent letter to a citizen of this
town, stated that an election would soon be
ordered in our parish, to elect Representa-
tive to the Legislature, inf place of the Hon.
Beni r. CAN'T, deceased.
Year: 1873

No11cE-Parties indebted to this Office for
subscription, advertising or job work are earn
estly requested to come forward and settle a
without delay. We have urgent need for tne
Inoney-not to indulge in expensive iuxurigs, .hs
but TO pay our employees and to purchase the
necessary material to continue the pu1icatiie!n y!
of our paper. principally "for glory and in
order that the numerous opponents OF the
Kellogg usurpation and other frauds in our our
Parish may have an organ upon which thet
can depend to express their true sentiment, at
this, the most momentous crisis OF our history.
Year: 1873

~ The n. Y. World has an article
in which it presents the statistics of the
voting in the last Presidential elec ton,
showing that the Democratic total vote
in the nation exceeded that of the Re-
publicans by some thirty or forty thou
sand. The World further increases this
vote by estimating and adding thereto
the very large Democratic vote which
was not pnlled in that election, for va
rious special reasons, which will not
apply when the full vote of the party
is called out. Whence the conclusion
is reached that the negro vote cOnsti
tutes the maturity of the Radical or
Grant party which the Democracy must
overcome.


The fact is certainly an important
one, but the World fails to show how
| this obstacle in the Democratic path is
to be overcome. And the Republican
of this city exults in this failure and in
this fact, and tauntingly asks: What
can you do about it - It takes pride
and glory to itself for the wisdom of its
party in thus giving to the negro vote
of the country, this great control and
power over the white race and the Re-
public which that race created. We
confess to like inability with the


World to correct and change this con-


dition of our political affairs, but we
can not appreciate the pride and exult-
alton of the Republican in its rejoicing
over the elevation of such II mass of ig-
norance and semi barbarism over the
most intelligent, progressive and en-
| lightened community of white people
| in the Christian world.


Macaulay's New Zealander. standing
at the Windsor Bridge, and pondering
over the extinct civilization of Britain,
suggests metaphorical prophecy not
so Improbable as the superficial reader
may be disguised to imagine. Such at
least would he the reflection of the
witnesses of the Republicans hilarity
over the fact that the African race
holds the power and control over the
administration of this great Republic
| ~ o. Herald, 27th
Year: 1873

q A distinguished citizen just re-
turned from the North, brings us the
most gratifying intelligence as to the
prospects of Louisiana. His Opportu-
mites for observation were excellent.
He not only travelled among the peo-
pie, but as an alumnus of the most
prominent institution of learning in the
Countrywide College-was present at
an annual celebration which assembled
nearly one thousand of the most culti-
waited and distinguished citizens of the
North.


He was delighted with the cordiality
of his reception and the consideration
shown him as Il representative from
this unhappy State.


He expressed the opinion that at
least three fnurths of the Northern
people understood, appreciated and are
shocked at the conduct of the Admins
tration iu regard to Louisiana. He gives
no opinion as to the course of Congress,
but can our people doubt that with
such unequivocal manifestations of po-
pular disapproval the Government
must change front if we are only true
to ourselves! Such a change of senti-
ment at the universities of the country
is truly gratifying. Their influence is
incalculable. They are usually found
in the advance of every great reform
atiou.-Picagune, Oct. 26.
Year: 1873

TN consequence of the financial disturbance


Il of the country, and the embarrassed CON
dition OF affairs generally, we, the undersigned,
beg leave to announce to our numerous custom
ers and the public generally that We will sell
Year: 1873

The San Francisco Commercial Herald
gives an item showing the effect of one
Of the tariff enactments upon the agri.
cultural interests. All the wheat ex.
ported from California is shipped in bags,
and there is now on the way from Europe
to San Francisco three and half million
bags to carry off the product Of 1873,
and the total importation for this year
i, estimated at five and a half million.
The tariff and extra profit demanded on
account of duty will enhance the cost of
these bags by Sl,200,O0O, which as the
bags do not remain 10 the country-in
most cases barely leave tho ship to be
filled with grain, and are tLeu returned
to the ship on which they we're imported
represents the amount taken from the
farmers for the wise purpose Of support.
ing officials.
Year: 1873

Grant has never yet said whether be
will take the extra 500, 900 voted him
by the back pay grabbcrs to secure bis
signature to the bill. and some of the
papers are concerned on account of his
reticencs, and wish to know il he has de


cided to take it. How foolish to ask
such question. Was he ever guilty Of
refusing anything that was offered him =?
Year: 1873

The latest story of brave though
chi.diks form, faithful at the post oil
duty, comes from Ohio. lie vas the son
of village reporter, and having discov
cred broken rail on the road just out OF
town, sat for FIVE hours on a fence near
by waiting for the train, so that he might
carry the particulars of the accident to
his father. Such devotion to the pater
nal interest Is very affecting.
Year: 1873

President Grant it is said will rink all
personal and party considerations in 10
pointing successor to Chief Justice
Chase. aud select man that will be &C
ceptable to the whole country. He will
look to the newspapers to find the man
lie will have to do more reading than he
has the reputation Of doing if no thor
eughly digestsl all the articles that this
bit Of news will give birth to.
Year: 1873

The Mexico Leader, which is just one
year old. says: 1t would be very agree.
able TO the editor If some of bis friends
would celebrate the first anniversary of
its happy career, by remitting money
enough to have his old shoes half soed
Year: 1873

Queen Mary was basely betrayed and
cmelly oppressed during her life and
illuminated after her death.n With
such testimonial any one conveFsant
with the careful management Of their
household by Scotch Presbyterian di-
vines might not be ashamed to have
"a wife and sister" associate with
Mary, SIS. did the Lady SestOn and
other of the purest women Of Scotland.
We cannot array all the proofs against
the genuineness of these letters, but
there are one or two inherent facts
which are utterly inconsistent with their
authaDticify
Year: 1873

And all the people they loved her SO, this fairy in


the wood,
For she never was cross and proud, my dears,


but kind, and gentle, and good;
And she always was happiest when she'd made


some neighbor happy and bright
Unlike some little children | know, who tease,


and quarrel and fight.
Not you, my dear? Why, of course not, child!


did you fancy l should suppose
That Edie and Sid would ever do such naughty
Year: 1873

C17 EAST PATH ST, SECOND FLOOR FRONT
ell room.-A respectable young cha mher.
maid and waitress would assist with washing; is of u
good disposition, willing and obigng good reference
Year: 1873

| LIFE AND MATTER. Nothing remains


at rest. If single particle in a living
body were duiescent a chain of disaster
ous consequences would quickly follow,
terminating in death Such Is the fact
respecting the necrosis of any part of
an injured bone. When the circulation
and deposition of new ossifc materials
is interrupted at any particular point
or region, modification, gangrene and
throwing off of the dead portion i'm
mediately commences. We are per
petually supplying the system with new
life material That is accomplished by
food in the stomach. 1t is there put III
q condition to be waited all through
the body. On its route a particle is
dropped here and there, and at the
same instant an old one is removed.
AS soon as the vitality of the new piece
has been impaired, it becomes from
that instant useless. Thus we are per-
petually being renewed, and by eating
and drinking the supply is equal to the
demand Thus may be explained law
of the animal economy, how it is that
we have neither the same bones nor the
same flesh to-day that we had years ago.
Although identicaIly the same individ-
uals, our bodies have been renewed re-
peatedly In the course of an ordinary
lifetime. Whenever that process Of as
simiIation Is interrupted-in other
words, when neither new matter Is sup
piled nor can the old be removed as
when in healtll-death is inevitable.
Therefore, it is seIf-evident that every
particle of nutriment is chmged with a
definite amount Of vitality. An aggre-
CATION of these elements eventua'es III
a Iife-foros. Yariously arranged they
result in particular organic FORMS ana
who can Say that this may not nave an
important bearing on the graduation OF
intelligence fromone type to another IN
the ascending scale, Of animal forms
from creeping things to mAn9
Year: 1873

The pencil marks you see aronpd ebi.
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scriptior is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at ones
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons
but cash alone will pay expenses. sad
We are forced to adhere 70 strict oasb
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor


g We enter no new names on our
OoOks without the money in Al, - ce.
Year: 1873

A CHICAGO railroad contractor has in
vented plan to do away with the smoke
and cinder niisance on railways He
proposes that twelve or fourteen inch
sheet-iron pipe be connected horizon
tally with the locomotives smOhe-stack.
The connection is made with due re-
gard to draft from the direction In
which the locomotive is proceeding.
The pipe, supported by crutehes, runs
over the cab and tender Each car be-
hind the locomotive is fitted with a
similar tube, running along the outside
top, and at each end of the tubes IS a
fange. A continuous conductor is thus
made from the locomotive to the end OF
the last car. The draft is such from
the forwtss7 end Of the tube as to carry
the smoke, steam, sparks and sulphur
through from end to end,
Year: 1873




Henry Ward Beecher Iectured on
Thursday evening in Music Hall, Bos-
ton, on the g Battle of Business" BE
gave it as the result Of his observation
that no other occupation nade such de-
mands on the nervous energy of men,
was 50 beset with inducements to dis
honesty. as mercantile life The fault
is not that men do not want to be hon
est, but that the majority of them do
not know how to be. They think it is
all right to do as others do; or, more


likely, they initiate without thinking at
all of the moral quality Of the act.


Mr.. Beeeher was especially severe on
stock gamblers, saying that they de-
serFed the halter if any criminals did.
The only consolation IN reviewing the
career of these men was the assurance
that few Of them kept their ill-gotten
wealth long. He had lived to see six
or eight kings of Wall street dethroned.
Ia the shife Of business men regard
only the end, and do not scruple much
about the means. If it seems neocessa-
~ to buy legislature TO insure the
prosperity of their schemes they buy
one. All the great corporations know
the price Of the old members Of alegis-
Iature, and quickly find out what the
new ones can be had for. The men who
are bought the easiest over, the cheap
est, are the farmers, not because they
are In fact more venal, but because in
their simplicity shey are compromised
and involved before they know it. The
lawyers and merchants, more accus-
toned to the arts of schemers. are more
wary. They have to be fished for 1nore
patiently, and are only secured at
large expense.


Speaking of the power of the great
corporations of the country, Mr..
Beecher declared that If the New York
Central. Erie and Pennsylvania Central
companies should conspira to do it,
they could elect the president of tho
United States.
Year: 1873

"Once IN a while" says the Daabary


News, "there is q day when man is


out of work, and he stays at home. Af-


ter breakfast is eaten and the dishes


are removed, be pulls out the family


drawer, and dumps the contents on the
table, to look fora paper of suddenly
acquired importance. Having got a
chair which has lost leg, and for that
reason has been. set aside where nobody


viii be apt to get into trouble with it,
he drops into it, and it Immediately
comes apart, and deposits him under
the table. Hejumps to his feet at once,
and kicks the chair into the hallway,
to the. imminent danger of his wife and
the wOman.who lives In the other part
of the house, both of whom, being. IN
der the impression that one of the. child
rem had fallen from the mantlepiece
and broken its back, have started to the
rescue. He Immediately asks his. wife
what kind of an idiot she is to leave a
broken chair where any one can sit down
on it and jeopardize life and limb, and
sarcasticaIly inquiries if she wanted to
kill him, or merely cripple him for life,
and scouts with scorn indiscribable the
intimation that the chair was placed
where no sane person would ever think
of looking for one. After that he gets
a new chair which he is confident will
throw him and hurt him, and says so,
and pores over the paper again Pretty
soon he is attended by one of the child
rem who is making herculean efforts to
scale one of the table legs with a view
to getting. on the top to see what is go
ing on. As the little round head, with
the swelling check and bugling eyes
and tumbled hair and very dirty mouth,
appears above the top, and beams up
at him, he neryously cries, Hey, you,
now, come out of that and start after
your mother; she wants you. But the
child knows that its mother doesn't
want him, and SO does he, and being at
a loss to explain why, he falls to work
at the papers again. In a very little
while, one very chubby arm is thrown
on top of the table, and the eyes have
reached the level, and ere taking in the
wonders of the display. There is ar
other move up, then a sudden weakness
in the legs that are tightly hugged to
the tablets legs, then a desperate but
hopeless clutch at the papers for safety,
and the little head disappears with light
ening velocity. and then an ominous
bump, and then a scream, and the mis-
erable man is on his feet again, holding
the suffering child wrong side up,
and screaming for help. The moment
it is in its mothers arms, and the cam
phor is in reach, the man, who stays at
home because he has nothing to dc, puts
on his coat and hat and beats a hasty
retreat, leaving the wife to calm the
distracted breast of the child, and to
set the table to rights. When he has
another day to himself, he dumps out
the drawer again, and goes over a SIM
liar performance.
Year: 1873

~ EaReAREr Z. sASssTE.
Wonder Il oak and maple,


Willow and elm and an.
Are stirred at heart by the coming
or tha day their leaves must fafi
Do they think Of the yellow wlirlNiad,
Or know Of the crimson spray
That shan be when chill November
Bears al their leaves away2
PeVhaps-beside the water


The willow bends, serene
As whom her young leaves glistened
IN = mist Of golden green.
But the brave old oak Is flushing
To wine-red dark and deep,
And maple and elm are blushing
The blush Of child asleep.
" II die We must tho leaflets
Seem one by one to say,
We VIII wear the oolors Of gladncs
Until we pass away.
No eyes shall see us faiter


And before we lay i down,
Wen wear, IN the sight OF all the earth.
The years most kiDgly crown.n
So, trees Of the stately forest.
And trees by the trodden way,
Tou are kindling into glory
This soft autumnai day.
And we who gaze remember


That more than all they lost.
To hearts and trees together,
May come through the ripening frost.
Year: 1873

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thusl mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, aud that
you are requested to pay mp st once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit TO our friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you vii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such
course, and renew your subscription
without DELAY. We solicit your favor.


60 We enter no new names on our
books without The money in advance.
Year: 1873

A great many stations trst too wide !:
that is, they have too open a gait. Such


an action Is faulty and the reason Is
this; 1t Is necessary, as sll admit. that
IN speeding, the action Of the hind-legs
should be vide enough to allow the feet
to pass outside of the forward-lers,
This IS indispensable. But Il should


be borne in mind that every inch Of lat
eral action requires exertion, costs ef-
fort, and exhausts strength and that
the horse should be gated, therefore,
so as to open up" no wider than
Is necessary, in order to get safely by his
forelegs; for every inch OF side ae-
ton beyond this is unnecessary,
and source OF exhaustion, when
every ounce of strength is needed
to bring him home in time. What we
want IS motion IN a straight line. or as
near straight line as the circumstances
of the case viii permit and he is the
best horse who Z" spreads" enough to
go clear and free. and stops there. I
hold, therefore, that these over-wide
gated horses are of faulty action. They
and their gait show exceIlentiy on the
exermse-ground, or when led al ear
fairs up and down before the Judges
stand to the halter; for they literally
make a good spread, attract the popu-
lar eye, and enable every fool TO see
they have trotting-aetion. But those
colts that trot so wide, that they could
trot with a -four barrel between their
legs, do not tros 50 well, notice, at the
end of the heat as they do at the begin
ming, and are generally found at the
wrong side of the dislance<postE at the
in a well contested race Of
the fourth or fifth heat.-''The Per
feet Horse"
Year: 1873

L6ttOT LfcSS 'UittC Duiutiy ..,.,..f !


Thinking that letter from "the
city beside the sea" would be read
and appreciated by some Of your
many readers, and do umbrage to
none, I drop you a few hasty lines.
Next to the pleasures afforded to the
human family of seeing for ones self,
is that Of enjoying in the way Of a
written account what others see. To
the country pleasant, who has never
wandered from his native heath,
Cha r!cston would afford world of
wonders. Many sights are seen here
that even attract the attention Of
those accustomed to sightseeing. Al
classes Of human nature are repre-.
sented in some way or other, the
saint, the sinner, the rich, the poor,
the miser, the spendthrift, all can be
seen upon the streets How true The
saying that one.haIf the world knows
not the doings of the other. Here
you find the vcnder of his patent
glass cutter or potato peeler palming
off upon the unconscious laborer, or
the prize dollar store man, fresh from
yankeydom, where you pay your dol
lar and draw your prize, but most
frequently you get priced out of your
dollar. There is something at every
turn in your walk to furnish food for
the thinking man. So many ways to
cheat the South out OF her honest
tolls. St. Patrick's day here was a
big thing. Those who have witness
ed former celebrations pronounced it
quite success. 1t is strange how
foundly we cling to those time-hon-
ored days and love to celebrate them.
The Son of Erin has his St. Patrick's
day, while the American has his
fourth of July, and the Mason his
St. Johns day. I witnessed today
the launching of a boat which had
just beer completed. It being the
fret sight of the kind for me, ] enjoy





ed it very much. I had often won
dered how those immense structures
could be put into the water, but after
seeing this one 90 in so easily l came
to the conclusion that it was not so
big u job after all, when you are pre-
pared for it. . -...


Charleston is having her full har-
vest now. A great many merchants
from the interior are in now selecting
their spring stocks Of goods-conse.
quently there is a good deal of life
and activity in the business. l think
that Charleston has her full share OF
trade this season, and she can now
boast of as liberal terms to her coun.
try friends as any other city. Leav
ing the wholesale circle, if you will
90 into King street, yon will find on
almost ceaseless going to and fro ofthe
ladies, doing honor to the retail mer.
chants stock Everything that car
entertain, amuso or disgust, can be
seen upon this street. The fairest o
the fair and the poorest Of tho pr
The sea crab, the roe shad and frea


oyster, are ringing in your ears from
early dawn till late at night.