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Year: 1872

honorable gentleman who was


elected President of the Senate. 1t


might be presumed by the meddle-


some world that if I oppose q man


with whom I have been 30 closely


connected, not only in business,


but in my personal and social re-


latioLs there is something else to


induce my action beside my politi-


cal views. It is for that reason, Mr..


President. that I have risen in my


seat to make this explanation. 1 DO


NOT BELIEVE THERE Is A COLoRED MAN IN


THE STATE OF LOUISIANA WHO HAS THE


INTERESTS OF THE CoLORED PLoPLE AND


THE REPUBLICAN PARTY MORE AT HEART


THAN YOURSELF. From NY PERSONAL


KNOWLEDGE OF YOU, AM SATISFIED THAT


YOU ARE A TRUE MAN AND TRUE RE-


PUBLICAN. While I admit these facts,


Mr.. President, and while 1 admit


your superior ability and your su-


perior knowledge of political affairs,


yet I claim the right which I accord
to every other Senator-to have an


opinion of my own. I am satisfied


that we are all working for the good


of the people of the State. If we
commit errors, I think they are
errors of the head and not Of the
heart. I entered into this political
fight without any personal animosi-
ty against anybody; nor did l, as
has been asserted, form q coalition
with the Democrats in connection
with the Senator from Orleans Mr..
1ngraham). We simply raised our
voices in solemn protest against
what we thought was the arbitrary
and usurpative conduct of the exc
cutive in calling an extra session OF
the Senate in direct violation Of the
constitution of the State. I do not
believe I could get a Democratic
vote for even the position OF police
juror. I have no claims upon the
Democratic party, nor has it any
claims upon me. If a man performs
his sworn duty as he should, I shall
support him. no matter whether he |
be black or white, Democrat or Re-
publican. If he is honest in his mo-
tives and earnest in his actions, I
shall give him the right hand of fell
lowship, stand by him until we both |
fall together, and, if necessary, sa-
crifce my life in his defense. 1 hope |
the substitute will be adopted.
Year: 1872

Our goings up and down, and tc
and fro. on this earth, has afforded


Us frequent opportunities of witness
ing strange performances. and com.
ing in contact with rare characters


We have seen much that was I'D.
mirable and exemplary, as well al


much that was reprehensible or re-


pulsive. We have seen society and
government in various aspects and
degrees of civilization. We have
seen absolute rule, monarchical gov.
ernment and Republican control.
But we have never seen anything
in any settled and respectable gov
ernment approaching to the sayings
and doings of Mr.. Geo. w. Carter
and his confederates in their last
efforts at revolution. Where again
would such o red-handed attempt
pass without prompt rebuke? Where
again would a private citizen dare
or be permitted to issue o procla-
nation calling citizens to arms, and
then afterwards to appear on parade
on the streets in the lead of men
carrying guns stolen from and be-
longing to the Government? We
have no hesitation in saying that
such outrages cannot be paralelled
in any civilized country in existence.
And yet these things were openly
done in New Orleans on Monday
last


And perhaps the fact that they
were permitted may be the highest
proof of the magnanimity of con-
sciously powerful Government
which could afford to tolerate for
the nonce the frenzy of desperate
man.
Year: 1872

The Senate having under con-


sideration O resolution declaring
the election of Lieutenant Gov


ernor Pinchback illegal and null,


Senator Antoine rose and said


Il desire to say a few words upon


the adoption of the substitute Of


fered by Mr.. Blackman, and 1 in
tend them more as an explanation
of the vote I shall give than any,
thing else. Limited as I am in my
knowledge of constitutional law, 1
am compelled to act by what I con-
slider the plain letter of the consti-
tuition, and I find nothing in that
instrument which authorizes the
Governor to call in extra session
one branch of the General Assem-
bly, without, at the same time, cal
ling both. I am satisfied that the
Governor has violated the constitu-
ton in that particular. While 1
was satisfied of that fact, 1 was also
OF the opinion that, if the Senate
should respond to the call of his ex-
cellency, it would thereby set
precedent for such action in the
future but 1 consider the Senate
the proper tribunal to settle that
question. It has since occurred to
my mind that there are many con-
stitutional points which in a court
of justice would be decided accord
ing to technical rules, but in the
solution of which Senators should
be guided by the dictates of COM
mon sense. Among the Senator's
who have taken the same view of
this subject that I have, there is not
one who more reluctantly opposes
the action of the Senate in extra
session than I do. from the fact that
l am and have been for some time
in business with the
Year: 1872

This body has promptly resented,


as an affront and an infringement


of its exclusive prerogatives, the


suggestions from the Senate that


they relegate themselves to the linn


bo of Carter's rule, even for an in
stant The vast majority of the


House, as it now stands, and a de-
cided majority of the whole House
as it originally stood, have deliber-
ately decided ON their organization,
they have been struggling heroically
for the past three weeks against a
stupendous machination, q deep
laid plot, and their noble efforts
have been crowned by the triumph
of their cause, and the overthrow of
a plan to dismember the State Gov
ernment. In this battle all aid and
comfort were given to the Carter
faction by the Senators, who, for no
assignable cause, absented them
selves from their seats, and kept
the Senate from organizing,
thus Intentionally demoralizing
members of both Houses and
contributing to the utmost of
their ability to the success of the
nefarious scheme. And when this
combination has been broken, wher
the exposure of the real designs
have produced q revulsion of that
portion of republican sentiment
which sided with them, when even
decent Democrats denounce the
means employed, as well as the
end aimed at it argues considera-
bic hardhood that the very Senators
whose support contributed so large
y to the disturbances, should pro-
pose to the House of Representa-
tives to consent to meet as they ad-
journed on the 4th day of January
last ; that is with the original men,
bers and the original Speaker. The
House naturally felt indignant at
such proposal, emanating from
such a source. And we believe that
the shamelessness of the proposal,
as much as the sense of wrong
sought to be inflicted, prompted the
disapprobatory remarks made in
the House with reference to the at
tempted interposition.


The question of the Senate med
ding any further in the affairs of
the House has however we expect
been definitively settled by the vote
of the House on Tuesday, and the
communications officially between
the Senate and itself.
Year: 1872

"a That New York sterling
weekly, The Nation, of January Is,
says in reference to a rumor from
Washington that President Grant
had resolved to make q clean sweep
of the New York Customhouse Off
cials, that it would be salutary if
the same thing were done in all the
leading Customhouses; and says the
Nation, "When we say all the lead
ing Customhouses, we include New
Orleans. The best friends of the
administration will admit now that
the performances of Collector Casey
are an unsavory spectacle, and they
are rendered all the more unsavory
by his relationship to the President.
The Times says Casey "has taken
the Customhouse out of politics"
This may be, but the result is SO
queer, that it is plain the next thing
to do is to take him out of the Gus
tomhouse."


If the report which found its
way in the Wednesday evening pa
pers is to be credited, the President
is about to take away from us the
man who only wants to know if you
are "for Grant," and put in his
stead a MIR. w. D. w. Barnard, of
st. Louis.
Year: 1872

he thought that, although some of the rights
which they had claim to in the recent amend
ments to the Constitution were withheld, still
the courts of law would accord all legal privi-
lcges. He considered that the appending of the
supplementary civil rights bill to the amnesty
measure would jeopardize the passage of the
passage of the latter, and in that respect it
would be unfortunate. The former he thought,
from his knowledge of it, would pass on its own
merits as a separate and distinct measure.
Year: 1872

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel, Diabetes Drop-
syt ytlnconinence Of Urine. Brghts disease Albuminu-
ra and in cases where there Brick dust deposits or
the water is thick cloudy mixed with substances like
the white Of egg threads like white silk or there
IS morbid, dark, bilious appearance, and white Bono
dust deposits, and where there is pricking burning
sensat on and pain in the small of the back and along
liam ResOyent, aided by tbs application of Railways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back. and
the bowels regulated with one two of Railways
cure. In few days the patient will be enabled to hold
and discharge water naturally without pain, and the
Urine will be restored 70 its natural clear and amber
sherry color.
Year: 1872

Tonic BEER. - Messrs Sullivan Il Yinsinger
have rented the basement Of the building at s.
W. corner of Front and West streets and engaged
in the manufacture of tonic beer, sarsaparilla,
mineral water &c. Their tonic beer is a very
pleasant beverage, and is said to be healthy
one for the warm weather
Year: 1872

Roswell Hinman, an employee in the store of MT. Root, at the corner of Chapel and Day streets, New Haven, who had been unwell for long time, took an overdose of laudanum on Friday, from the effects of which he came near dying. A physician was called, who administered an emetic, which caused the man to throw off about two ounces of the drug from his stomach. Mir. Hinman is the brother of the person of the same name who committed suicide in Westville few months ago.
Year: 1872



 which of course accounted for his perfect abandon of care. On his return from Mill lerton that evening, (where he was proba- bly, sent to get him out of the way for a little while,) he was met by his brother merchant, Roberts, who succeeded admira- bly, in detaining him from his house, till all was in readiness to receive him, by talk ing about the price of salt. &c.,, Sc, and where twas best to buy, and all that sort of thing. After being released by Bro. Roberts, (and he said he was tempted to tear himself away before he did go, as he was as hungry as two bears, having had no supper he entered his yard and as he did so, thought there was rather more distur- bance about titan usual, but to use bis own words, he said, "he did not Ae,a smell a rat" Getting into the house he of course was not long in making up his mind that something was up;" as was evident by his appearance. Standing there with his white hat, Che is a Greeley man, in one hand, and eyes starting from their sockets with amazement, he was indeed a picture for an artist. Truly enough, he "was overwhelmed by everybody" as all hands seemed to be there, and as they had brought provisions of course were going to stay awhile. They knew it was the twentieth anniversary of the wedding of MT. and Mrs. Jones, and had thought best to call on them and inform them of the fact, bringing with them an abundance of China ware, which they neglected to take away with them. Is friend Jones to be blamed for feeling good. natured last Wednesday forenoon when we called on him? If we were in his place, don't believe we should complain much, if the anniversary of our twentieth wedding day came two or three times a week.
Year: 1872

Yesterday Wyandotte man appeared
at the Detroit q Milwaukee depot with
large mirror under his arm, and while
waiting for the train he sat the mirror
down against the seat. A big dog, owned
by saloon keeper, wandered in and soon
caught sight of the ugliest and meanest
dog ne ever saw, reflected in the mirror.
He arched his back and rolled his ewes.
and the otherdog lid the same. He showed
his teeth and lifted his back little high
eer and the other dog followed suit. At
length, angered beyond control, the dog
gave a howl and jump, intending to get
the other dog by the fore paw. There
was smash and crash, time of ours
ing and kicking, and the Wyandottei
went to see the Chief of Police about hay
ing some one shot.-Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1872

Recent geological surveys of the new
Territories of the Far West have revealed
the very important fact that the known
coal DEPOSITS Of the Rocky Mountain
region extended over an area of upward of
$4,000 square miles, in straits varying
from five to thirty-five feet in thickness.
Year: 1872

For wheat, Iowa stands prominent and
Nebraska is unquestionably the banner
State. The statement is made by the u.
s. Land Commissioner that the average
yield of wheat in Nebraska is greater than
any other State.
Year: 1872

If ever household affections and loves
are graceful things they are graceful in
the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy
and the proud to home may be forged on
earth, but those which link the poor man
to his humble hearth are of the truer met
tai and bear the stamp of Heaven. The
man OF high descent may love the halls
and lands of his inheritance as a part of
himself; as trophies of his birth and DOW.
er; his associations of pride and weslth
and triumph the poor mans attachment
to the tenement he holds, which strangers
have held before, and may tomorrow oc.
cupy again, has q worthier root, stuck
deeper in purer soil. His household
gods are of flesh and blood, with no al.
10y Of silver, gold or precious stone. He
has no property but in the affections Of
his own heart; and when they endear
bare walls and floors. despite the rags and
toll and scanty fare, that man has his love
OF home from God, and his rude hut be-
comes u solemn place.


Oh! If those who rule the destinies Of
nations would but remember this--if they
would think how hard it is for the very
poor to have engendered in their hearts
that love OF home from which all domes-
tic virtue springs, when they live In dense
and squalid masses where social deceucy
is lost, or rather never found-if they
would but turn aside from the wide thor
oughfares and and great houses, and
strive to improve the wretched dwellings
in by-ways where only poverty may walk,
many low roofs would point more truly
to the sky than the loftiest steeple that
now rears proudly up from the midst of
guilt and crime and horrible disease, to
mock them by its contrast. In hollow
voices from workhouse, hospital, and Jail,
this truth has been preached from day to
day, and has been proclaimed for years
1t is no light matter-no outcry from the
working vulgar-no mean question Of the
peoples health and comforts that may be
whistled down on Wednesday niRhts
In the love of home, the love Of country
has its rise; and who are the truer patri-
OTIS, or better in time of need--those who
venerate the land, owning it, woed and
stream, and earth, and all that they pro-
ducep or those that love their country,
boastng not a foot of ground in all its
wide domain ?-Charles Dickens
Year: 1872

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE administration
organ here publishes sensational story about the
breaking of Of negotiations relative to the
Washington Treaty and the break up Of the
Geneva Conference. 1t states that the whole
thing is at an end. Secretary Fish this morn
ing denies that there il any truth in the story
He says negotiations are still pending, and thai
last night he received despatch from Minister
Schenck submitting some new suggestions which
have not yet been adopted. No reply has ye
been received from Earl Granville to the pro
position sent last Saturday BY Secretary Fish
The latter has not given up all hope Of success
the treaty, but the chances are decidedly agains
any settlement Of the question.
Year: 1872

IMPORTANT CABINET NEETIN1-THE TREATY


ABANDONED.


WASHINGTON, May l3.
special cabinet session was held last evening
on the Washington treaty. 1t is understood that
the action Of the Geneva Arbitration will be sus-
pended and new treaty negotiated including
provision that for all future time neither country
shall be liable for consequential damages arising
out OF any acts done by US neutral AS when the
other is belligercnt power
Year: 1872

Artemus Ward had story which he
told with inimitable gravity about a
poor captain immured for weary years
in damp dismal dungeon. Ohe Sum
day morning bright idea struck him.
TIe opened a awindow and got out. The
Democrats in North Carolina waited
peacefully until their Joy was turned to
bitter disappointment q bright idea
struck them-the election was carried
by fraud!
Year: 1872

The opinions of The Atlantic Month!y Maqa-
zine upon matters of literature are presump-
lively valuable. It's opinions upon matters of
politics are worth just what they are found to
be worth after examination. 1t thinks that
"with President Grant the country has at
"least the assurance of tranquillity"-tha
reconciliation will be established on the only
"possible terms, submission to equal laws"
This statement is bit of smooth and super
fetal generalization, which we find, when we
come to examine it closely, really means
nothing at all. There is no reason to sup
pose that the last years Of Grantism
would be any better than the first.
On the contrary. we have, from the
tone of the general reelectioneering ora
tory, every reason to anticipate something
worse.


We hardly find single Administration
orator who can make up his mouth to
say kind word of the South. On the con-
trary, the speeches of Grants men are merely
q mixture of reproofs and threatenings. Ii is
taken for granted that the South does not
mean to be peaceable and loyal, and the vice
of the Grant policy-the assumption tina sub
mission is preferable to loyalty-is only sur
passed by the further assumption that loyalty
means substantially passive obedience. Grants
notion of reconciliation, so far as he has
any, is of the quiet and non-resistance
secured by an unchecked military su-
premacy. Tranquility" in the vocabulary of
camps, has very sinister meaning; but we
have 10 reason to anticipate under Grant a
tranquility even of this least desirable descrip-
ton. II will require more than four years ut
Year: 1872

Lest some injudiciOus and absurd writer,


without just conception of the duties and
obligations of journalism, may mistake the
purpose and the scope of the article which we
publish elsewhere, showing the abuses to
which Immigrants are subjected abroad, at
sea, in Castle Garden, and the Emigrant
Boarding Houses of New York, and on the
Emigrant Trains of our Railways, we will
begin by saying that in the prepara-
ton of the material we have been
aided at getting at the whole truth by
none so much as the steamship managers
and the Commissioners of Emigration, who
have most to lose or to gain by the develop
ments And we will here add, in justice to
all concerned, and for the general credit of
humanity, that in all our exposures, whether of
Debtor Jail or Insane Asylum abuses official
or commercial frauds, we have found none so
ready 70 aid and advance reform as those
most deeply involved and most severely
reflected upon as responsible for mismanage-
ment and corruption. 1t has invariably
proved, as the result of our investigations,
that while the responsibilities were placed
upon the leading managers or officials,
the abuses complained of were wholly by SUBJ
ordinates, and that an exposure being made,
the responsible or managing men were eager
and honest in their effort at reform. AS the
general plan of an expedition may be correct
and be satisfactorily executed, and yet the
details be carried out most imperfectly, so it
happens frequently,-nay, almost invariably
that while the managers of great corporations
and important public offices are faithful in |
the general supervision the subordinates in |
the discharge Of their detailed duties commit |
the grossest Outragcs.


Inc present story Of Steerage Abuses illus
Year: 1872

lie intelligence when confronted with these
issues. These are really the issues which,
gathering force quietly in the hearts and con-
victions of tho American people for years,
have finally resulted in the Liberal movement.
Remove these issues and the Liberal cam
paign possesses no significance. Divert the
public mind from them and we lose our hoid
upon the heart and conscience of the nation
The public mind is returning of its own mo-
ton to the questions Of Reconciliation ana
Publication as tho absorbing natlonal
issues upon which everything else de-
pends. Let tho managers OF the lid
eral movement take heed of these, ana
meet the popular tide and drive it forward
with vigor confidence, and determination IL
is the aggressive issue which already puts
the Administration on the defensive; when
will unite the South and give every Southern
State except possibly South Carolina, MlsSls-
sippi or Florida to Greeley; and IL ls
the issue which will rally that Llberai
Republican balance of power at the Nortn,
which, added to the Democratic party, VIII
carry enough States to elect tho Liberal
candidates by an overwhelming majority.
Year: 1872

Why lngereth Tremain in his tent Why
is not the eloquent voice of the Tweddle Hall
orator heard in the land Can it be that the
Dix and Tremain Succotash has beentoo much
for him We search the Grant Committees
list of appointments In vain for the name of
the eloquent Tremain. Why is this thus
Year: 1872

1t is of no use for Mr.. Cespedes, the counsel
of the Cuban Insurrectonary Junta, to pro-
test against the seizure and sale of the
Pioneer. The State Department is so en-
phatically and firmly welded to the pro-
Spanish view of any possible case which may
arise, that any attempt to drive an idea of
international law into the Bureau would be
futile
Year: 1872

Facts and figures of great importance were
yesterday brought out at the session of the
Milk Producers Convention. Reports show
that an honest attempt on the part of the pro-
ducers to get pure, unadulterated milk into
the city, in their own vessels, has been fought
with bitterness and rage by the middlemen.
Last Winter, THE TRIBUNE showed that the
dangerous and cheating manipulation of milk
consumed in the city was the work of the
middlemen, with scarcely an exception. This
is abundantly proved now, as it was then,
by the statements of the producers.
1t is shown that the country product
falls far below the city consumption (;
the excess is made up of foreign materials
added by city venders. And the producers
are at last reused into self-protection by the
discovery of the fact that their business is
kept down by the substitution of an artificial
compound for the natural product. We will
not stop to inquire how long it would have
taken the dairymen to see the enormity of this
crime against consumers if they had not, like
Mr. McNaughton, found they only got $G2 40
for that for which somebody else received
s270 when diluted. 1t is good sign that the
milkmen have resolved to do something for
their own protection. They will thus protect
their customers.
Year: 1872

With Owlish gravity it is announced from
Washington, in a semi-official manner, that it
has been determined to make large number
of appointments to clerkships under the new
Civil Service rules. We wonder if the Exam
iners who are detailed for this farce do not
think of the well-worn story of the Roman
augurs, who did not dare look at each other
during their mummeries lest they should burst
out in laughter.
Year: 1872

SOME one says Il business man without an
advertisement is Ike woman without a
baby, but we think he is more like horse
without legs or wagon without wheels.
The few customers they get they must cheat
or starve, and it is not safe to trade with
them.
Year: 1872

IT is strange that Grant who talks Z" horse .
80 much failed to say something about the
epizootic in his message. This omission
should convince the country that Grant S
horses have not yet been attacked.