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Year: 1876

TODAY a President will be chosen. The
government will be confided to Gov. Hayes
and the Union party, or it will pass into the
hands of Tilden, Tammany Hall and the
Solid South. Between these the voter is to
choose. Let no Republican fail to make his
choice evident at the ballot bax.
Year: 1876

we 90 not read anonymous letters and commune
cauonS' The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


we cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1876

A dispatch was received yesterday from
Coushatta, stating that Senator Twitchell
was improving rapidly. The prospect is
that his life will be saved, and that his
right arm will not require amputatiOn.
Year: 1876

TO the Editor ofMe Rsnnsbee yop,nai.


have ja,t this moment read the notorious let
ter purporting to have been written by Jefferson
Davis in reply to ex-spesker Blaine. The mask
is now removed. The people, if not blinded by
sycophantc nonsense, of northern prating for
general amnesty cannot fail to discover that the
secession government is to be reinstated at Wash
ington, if the democratic party shall succeed in
the coming National campaign.


Notice this passage in this famous letter


"Under the mellowing influence of time, and
occasional demonstrations al the North of desire
for the restoration of peace and good will, the
Southern people have forgotten much and have
forgiven much Of the wrongs they bore. If il be
less so among their Invaders ii is but another ex.
ample of the rule that the wrong doer is less able
TO forgive than he who has suffered a causeess
wrong"


What does the old scoundrel mean by the last
portion of this declaration, unless it be to defiant
" fling in the faces of those who defended the
public on the field, ~ well as elsewhere, the
tsunt that VIC were wrong and he and his cause
right Having been been Union soldier, snc
Year: 1876

Another blocking snow storm came to town on
Wednesday night, giving US foot or more of
beautiful snow" The snow is light and does
not lay compac:ly. and it was playfully sported
with by the high wind that followed The mixed
train from the west arrived about half past eleven
but the eastern train delayed ony about hi Ii
An hour
Year: 1876

The jury in the Charles X. Lands case, as We
sre informed by paper put into our hands by
Mr. Joseph Miller Of this city, made up their
minds for acquittal after spending season in
prayer. To quote the language of one of the
jurymen: 'Iong and earnestly prayed for
direction; the struggle was hard and strong and
then We arose and voted, and every vote was for
acquittal. cannot tell you how we felt or what
we did when the result was known; for it beggars
description. Afler we had agreed, we sang with
full hearts Praise God from whom all blessings
flow and told the constabes to ring the bell" All
that Lands was guilty of was in marching into an
editors sanctum who had spoken the truth con-
corning him and his schemes and shooting him
dead That was all We think there must have
been screw loose somewhere in those prayers, or
else the whole pack Of jurymen was composed Of
delinquent subscribers who had been dunned
Year: 1876

curious work OF ancient art may now be seen IL
one OF the rooms Of .he basement OF St Slephen'i
church, East Twcnty-cighth street II is entirely
OF wood said TO be cut rom the groves of Lebanon
and represents the early history OF the world IRON the
time OF the creation TO the crucihxon OF Christ Tnt
work about four feet square and many fec,
high. Tho figures and cmblcns II not perfect az
specimens oil art, are quaint ana interesting IN thc
historic associations and groupings This relic is saic
TO be very Old and TO be oil great interest to
seur3 IN ancient ART IL has been recently brought
from Rome, and may now be viewed the church by
those who take an interest IN matters of this character
The history and all the facts with tho work
can be easily obtained from the gentleman who is its
present owner. signor Cesarc Facchin who alone u
responsible Tor the authenticity OF the claims he puts
Toward Tor tins strange piece of mcdinva wood carv
in2 High authority is produced TO show the an
@ he reli
Year: 1876




Yesterday evening the New Orleans Bul-
letin furnished its readers with the follow
ing information:


The transcript in the Newton case has
been received at the executive Office and ls
in possession of the Governor.


In republishing this item the REPUBLICAN
will add just these additional points: l. The
case Of Alexander Newton is still before the
courts and has not reached final result.
2. The transcript in the aforesaid case has
not been received at the executive office
3. 1t is not in the possession Of the Gov
ernor.


The evening Democrat publishes in loaded
type the following:


IMPORTANT.


We have received, too late for insertion,
the copy of q cable dispatch from Amster-
dam, announcing the stoppage of the sale
of Louisiana cOnsOls in that market. The
full dispatch will appear in the morning.


Should the Democrat of this morning carry
out its promise of last evening and publish
in full the cable dispatch from Amsterdam,
to which it refers, it will be found that
the paragraph quoted lacks the important
element of truth. The simple facts are
that one Of the largest banking houses in
Amsterdam. holding a very large amount
Of the new Louisiana console, telegraphed
to their agents in this city that rumor had
been circulated by cable to the effect that
the State had suspended the payment Of
interest on it's new bonds. The agents
promptly laid the dispatch before Governor
Kellogg, who authorized them to reply that
SO far from suspendipg payment OF interest
on the new bonde, the State had already
sufficient interest funds on hand to pay not
only the current January coupons, which
had already been fully paid up as fast -
presented here ard in New York, but also
the coupons coming due next July, and all
arrears.


The two paragraphs are fairly creditable
specimens of the imaginative powers OF the
reporters of our evening contemporaries, but
they do not quite equal the efforts of one OF
the Times men who every now and then
announces some startling movement as be-
ing contemplated by one or other OF the
leading State officials, and when the play
does not come off according to announce
ment, accounts for that little discrepancy
the next morning by explaining that the
enterprise" of the Times il discovering and
disclosing the secret intention of the official
in question had happily prevented the prc-
gramme from being carried into effect.
Year: 1876

Information was received last night that
o meeting of the West Feliciana Regulators
and their friends was held at Bayou Sara,
yesterday, when resolutions were adopted
directing every Republican official of the
parish to hand in his resignation without
delay. This order also includes Senator
Weber, who is now in attendance upon the
Legislature. What next!
Year: 1876

EDITOR REPUBLICAN:


In relation to the card signed by Judge
Evans, which appeared in your issue of yes
terday, SO far as it refers to my cotton in
the premises, desire to state that my
promise to notify him applied only in case
his proposition was accepted, which was to
pay over the surplus of fines over and above
his salary held BY him, or, to put it palmer,
if the city would allow his salary he would
pay the difference, and not otherwise, as
Understood him. The city refused to &C.
cede to this settlement, insisting that he
should pay over the whole Of the fines. and
his claim for salary due be paid in the
usual manner by warrant drawn on the
proper fund. AS he still adheres to his
alternative, can not see that notification
that his proposition was rejected would
have changed the result as relates to the
report of the Administrator to the Council.
and of which he appears to complain, as
far as he is concerned.


CHIEF CLERK,


Department of Public Accounts.
Year: 1876

On the fifth of February, the hall of the
Opera House will be thronged with beauty
anc gallantry on the occasion of the ball of
the French Mutual Benefit Society. The
affair is in the hands of an excellent com
mittee of arrangements, and the proceeds
will be devoted to the cause of charity.
Year: 1876

The Tom SCOTT subsidy papers and
those in the pay of JONES Il Co.
charge the Independent, outspoken
newspapers of the state with attempt
ing to blacken the character of the
chief lobbyist of ARCHER's freights
and fares bill-A. A. COHEN. This
must be mistake. No intelligent
journalist would undertake task so
hopeless. The ebony hue of the mans
character cannot be deepened. 1t is
already as black as midnight; as black
as mountain of black cats as black
as million black crows as black as
the world before God said 'let there
be light" Nothing can be blacker
than Mr.. CoHEN's character and to
attempt to make it still more bla ok is
to paint the lilly, gild refined gold and
all that sort of impossible nonsense.
Newspapers cannot slander COHEN
more than to say he is an honest man
and there are few editors who have so
little regard for the truth as to make
such an absurd statement.
Year: 1876

cry effort to shield the guilty man
from the consequence of the crime.
Babcock's bondsmen it is said paid
the defalcation and their information
was communicated to the Secretary
of Treasury, and it is also alleged that
the object of LaGranges recent visit to
Washington was to intercede with
Secretary Bristow for condone ment of
Babcock's crime. Whether he was
successful or not in this is as yet un-
known.
Year: 1876

He used to cramp his feet up in little
boots, and limp painfully to her resi-
dence every Saturday evening; but
the morning after his marriage he
went into shoemaker's, drew chalk
mark around and around his big foot
about an inch distant from it on both
sides and at the heel and toe, and Or
dered the man to make him a pair OF
boots after that pattern. Oh, there's
sweet liberty, there's balmy boundless
freedom in the marriage state of which
sore heeled and distorted bachelors
have no conception.
Year: 1876

A dog fell into the bulkhead which
feeds the hydraulic pipe in the Blue
Tent Consolidated Company's dig
gings the other day, and the next
place he brought up was against the
gravel banks, several hundred feet
away. He passed through the pipe
a long distance, and made his exit
through a five-inch nozzle in very
elongated condition.
Year: 1876

The miners on the Nevada county
Ridge are about forming Miners
League. This league will shut out
Cinnamon, unless they will demand
full prices for labor. We think that
the Cinnamon will not go into the
arrangement. John can live at a
very low rate of wages.
Year: 1876

Some inhuman person has been
amusing himself the past few days by
poisoning number of dogs about
town. This would not have been so
bad had the dose been sufficient to
kill, but it seems it only sickens some
of the animals, and the poor wretches
are lying about the streets in great
agony, some of them being barely able
to crawl.


Yesterday Captain Pishon called in
to Craig's gunsmith shop TO get "A re-
volver which he had left there for re-
pair AS he was stepping out of the
door with the revolver in his hand he
saw Judge Willis ahead of him and
called to him to stop. A lady passing
by hearing the order and seeing the
weapon took in the situation atl
glance, and jumping before the gall
liant Captain, begged him in frantic
tones not to shoot. The Captain and
Judge settled their difficulty amica-
bly, by retiring to AL. Rodgers, and or
dering two straight, without sugar.
Year: 1876




SAN FRANCISCO, 23d.-The defalca-
ton at the Mint is some $4,000 and
the defaulter is Jefferson l.. Babcock,
late coiner. A few weeks since he
gave way to a successor and from the
fact that all the friends of the late
coiner were dismissed at the same
time it was surmised that all was not
as it should be, but the facts in the
case have just be en- developed. 1t is
now asserted that Babcock appropri-
ated to his own use sum of money
given at $4,000 and it was in conse-
quence of the discovery of this defal-
cation that he was removed from the
position. 1t appears that General La
Grange, Superintendent of the Mint,
was anxious that the matter should
not be made public and he made ev-
Year: 1876

This is 80 because this state of things forces
the nation face to face with one of the
two following alternatives:


L. Either the triumph of the Confederate
Democratic coalition, with negro serfdom
as its corner stone and q resectionalized
South as the seat of its political power; or,


g The territorial reconstruction of the
late Confederate States under congress
ional Republican protectorate.


In the face of altimatives like these, it is
needless to say, what the North will do,
and if it will not not do its duty volun-
tarily, what it will be finally forced to do.
The North under the rule of a Confederate
Democratic restoration will be forced to
fight as it was in 1861. Nothing can pre-
vent this result. The men who in 1866
planned the political massacre in New Or
leans, who carried forward the late revolu-
ton in Mississippi, and who have just
lighted cloody cigar as it were at Ham
burg, in South Carolina, will rule at Wash
ington under a Confederate Democratic
restoration. So ruling they will be certain
to produce the renewal of the conflict
which was supposed to have closed with
Lees surrender. Let Southern conserva-
tives look to this! They alone can give the
South and the nation peaceful solution of
the conflic; which has so long convulsed
Southern society.


l say that this state of things devolves
on Southern conservatives solemn re-
sponsibility. But does it not impose an
additional responsibility upon the conserv-
stive citizens of the Northe May not these
Southern conservatives really desire in
Year: 1876


Rosy and warm the freight falls
In the rich mans home tonight,
On the pictures hanging against the walls,
And the children's faces bright.
They have parted the curtains crimson fold
Away from the window high,
And their eyes look out at the whirling snow
And the dull and stormy sky.
Their dainty garments are rich and rare,
Their faces are fair to see,
And the golden GLEN of their shining hair
Is as bright as crown might be.
And many stranger stops to smile
At the picture warm and bright
The beautiful children looking out
On the dark and wintry night.
With tattered garments and faces thin,
Abroad in the bitter cold.
The poor mans children are looking in
Through the curtains crimson fold.
The bleak wind tosses their rags in scorn,
Their feet are aching and bare,
While they gaze at the beauty and warmth


within,


And the children's faces fair.
think as hasten along the street,
OF the beautiful home above,
Where the rich and the poor alike will meet,
And share in the Fathers love.
The Lord will open the shining door,
And gather his dear ones in,
The rich with their soft and dainty robes,
And the poor with their garments thin.
Year: 1876




Mr. Peter Skidmore, of German.
town, plays little on the bugle.
One night last summer he went
into the parlor, in the dark, and
felt over the top Of the piano for
the horn. 1t happened that his
aunt from Penn's Grove had been
there that day and had left her
brass ear trumpet lying on the pi.
ano, and Peter got hold of this
without perceiving bis mistake, as
the two were of similar shape. -
He took it in his hand and went
out on the porch where Miss
Mills was talking to his sister. -


He asked Miss Mills if she was
fond of music on the horn, and
when she said she adored it, he
asked her how she would like for
him to play Ever of Thee and
she said that was the only tune
she cared anything for. aK sta


So Peter put the small end of
the trumpet to his lips and blew.
He blew and blew. Then be
blew some more, and then he
drew a fresh breath and blew a
gain. The only sound that came
was a kind Of hollow moan, which
sounded so queerly in the dark
ness that Miss Mills asked him if
be was not well. And when be
said be was, she said that he went
exactly like a second cousin of
hers that had the asthma.


Then Peter remarked that the
horn was out of order, somehow,
for "Ever of Thee" but if Miss
Mills would like to hear "Sweet-
ly | dreamed, love-" be would try
to play it; and Miss Mills said
that the fondest recollections clus.
tered about that melody.


So Peter put the trumpet to his
lips again and strained his lips Sc
verely in the effort to make some
music. 1t wouldn't come, but he
made a very singular noise, which
induced Miss Mills to ask if the
horse in the stable back of the
house had heaves. Then Peter
said he thought that somebody
must have plugged the bugle up
with something, and then asked
his sister to light the gas in the
entry while be cleaned it out. -
When she did so the ear trumpet
became painfully conspicuous, and
both the girls laughed, When
Miss Mills laughed, Peter looked
up at her with pain in his face,
put on his hat and went out into
the street where be could say o.
yer some sensational language to
himself. =


He is courting another girl
now, and learning to play on the
piano.
Year: 1876

The following is the independ-
ent opinion of the Springfield
(Mass. } Republican on The North
ern Methodist Church as a politi
cal machine:


"The Methodist Church is fore
most among all American church,
es, not excepting the Catholic, tor
political activity. We mean by
this, not that its pulpit is more
attentive to political themes and
the discussion of political princi-
pies, but that tie machinery and
influence of the Chuch are thrown
into personal politics, to work
for this man or that man, too Of
ten irrespective Of morals or pro,
prieties, to an extent which is
rapidly becoming a christian scan
dal. Never since the time proba-
bly, Of JEFFERSON has such promi-
nence been given to the Presi-
dents denOminational relations as
has been given to those Of Gener-
al GRANT, the good Methodist
and never in the history OF the
Republic has the appeal been
made SO openly to sectarian sup
port. At the West the political
work of the denomination is no
torious, and in Iowa particularly
goes into politics, local and Ma,
tional. with an undiscriminating
zeal which has thrown men like
Harlem to the top, Even at home
here we have witnessed the uses
to which the Church can be put
in supporting for Office those whose
political practices have passed un-
der severe judicial rebuke.


"But this is a matter which
concerns the Methodist Church
more than any body else, and
when the Bishops and Elders who
don't approve of this sort of thing,
get tired of disclaiming perform
ances a little more notorious and
offensive than the average, they
will doubtless find other outlets
for the surplus forces Of the de-
nomination"
Year: 1876

A clergyman at HouItOn, Ne,
was recently SO affected by a
dream that a woman whose fu.
neral he had conducted had been
buried, alive that he prevailed up
on the husband to have the body
disinteIred in the middle of the
night. A large crowd gathered
to witness the sight, but the wo-
man was found to be dead and
bearing no evidence of premature
burial.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Marrowfat threw out fine
thought at the table last evening.
He remarked that a man with
much honesty about him these
times must feel a good deal like
tying it up in rag for safety.
Year: 1876

The exodus of Democratic soldiers, q
Boys who seore the blue" from this city
and Baltimore, to attend the bogus soldier
convention at Indianapolis was small in
numbers, was smaller than the Democratic
managers anticipated, in view of the fact
that they offered free railroad transportation
TO anybody and everybody who would go
and do their bidding; but what the crowd
lacked in quantity it made up in vicious
ability to do dirty and criminal campaign
work. A more brazen attempt to prostitute
the purity of the ballot box than this effort
to introduce foreign repeaters into one of
the greatest States of the Union on the
eve of an important election was never
heard of before. Free passes, free food,
free drinks, free lodging and, in short a
free spree is thus offered by Tilden & Co.
to the very worst elements of the voting
population of dislnterested and remote
localities. But the Democracy is compelled
to resort to such disreputable tactics to
sustain q waning cause.
Year: 1876

Mr.. HENRY 81. SMITH, clerk to the..Com-
mittee on War Claims in the Forty second
and Forty-third Congresses and Journal
Clerk of the present House, has rushed
voluntarily to the defense of the Democ-
racy against the charge that an enormous
amount of Southern claims are pending
consideration during the present Congress.
He retorts by saying that the majority of
them are old bills reintroduced from the
Forty. third Congress. This is decidedly
transparent. If the bills had been based
upon good and substantial Claims they
would have been passed by the last Con
gress, and the rctort does not remove the
fear that, SO far as the House can accom-
plish it, they may become laws at the next
session. 1t is we'll to remember that these
claims are still pending before body noted
for its decided friendship for the South and
Southern rebels.
Year: 1876

WE DEVOTE a considerable space this
morning to extracts from recent speech
by the Attorney General in Cincinnati,
showing the necessity of interference by
the Federal Government to protect the
lives of Republican citizens in the South


1t is calm, logical and we'll considered ar
gument, and will amply repay perusal. 1t
shows conclusively why the protection of
the negro in the exercise Of his franchise
in the South is the paramount issue in this
campaign, and why it is necessary to the
prosperity Of the nation and the existence
of free government. Let everybody read it
Year: 1876

THE Democratic policy of reducing


appropriations without corresponding re-
duction of taxes to assimilate the revenues
to them is resulting to increase the cash in
the Treasury. This, of course, involves q
contraction of the circulation to a like
amount. All this has been brought about
by the party which has been loudest in its
denunciation of a contraction of the cur
Year: 1876

Poor Joe Hooker! He is on the retired
list, and is privileged to do something fol
amusement's sake. But that shell at Chan,
celloIsTille did HOt shock him more than he
will be shocked in due time if he should
live long enough to fully appreciate the dis
grace he has incurred by lending his inau-
ence to the Indianapolis convention OF
bogus "Boys who aDore the Blue"
Year: 1876

The indications are that Connecticut will
not join that solid South in support of
Tilden. The municipal elections show
Republican gains and indicate large Re-
publican majority in the State at large next
Novemher