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The false issues withrc of : rio' nI I le 'l' ri lig toItIitkCCW ill till' sea I'hi''1 it''(ei'stll ";II,,ut 1111 1 t~n'1 -l l 'llert l he 21 (i I Ik~·~!,~It( Njv'' CIII1]( 'i~lC4!P 02 S(2lichlg()t~l 12: · e,-Iai ' 1vey' th ik(se e eral S( I Ms lal' I v t 1, t i 1 I I 'o"e'lti'' pa~r t hash ('rillOM ct Curl (2( 112' '111 (''ir 421n gti(11 :C llk(111 e 14 11 1'to l tl t.1v lc 11k'. ·~lr I11.'4 Ii('l~i! 44 17.( il;;lril t:,in l,!i llollt partiality or (rt-f otrenc e S tr c 2 All'ti:.li . eltllM"5. or e lc , 112(1 crimtho , `l 211. l Itll: : 1'1,111t ti l 4~tl' ;1'1'11al5 01 Ir l 2IICV. N 1.11' iii" run l.'1l ti'O l' l ll' 7 O l' RcI'2i112I1 2II tl"' 21 : ,lti ' k y .'111 tie', seek t I 15 "ýi!:" \' 5 t' i s l io l WcIri'sM tll;, 211.1 tltS I) 14'144" L1' "l C l t'.v prLo 'les ('lCl ' ill PLITFOII . '":i, ol 1,11,1' 1li a''t [It' DEM~OCRATiC - CONiSERVATIVE PAR1TY ri- i T'fI SI A CIVE IF LOI SIANA pil lI'A i1t rOprC'12trin ticea of thie Dem-11 \ II OC1rt::'l till( :; rI 11tv iiparty i oF thle Stat1e :I}f F1on1i(na, in Coo. veition n158cm- 1 is I'~1 4(1 lIerchy i t ec\lt e n l 4il n 11tr 'ti ( I ''04 tot, ate eycIcti'i 4( '1(1(1 p!t,'. l II 1 r ,forni 10 11(2 t. r ; Itaitt e ((1 (11('1i lt i 141411 i'll 2110 CoIliilg geiierari .11 Ci ol' 'tl: flr, I1 '1 o ' (Si ti(e1 ly a11 :11 ' 1i.t o o t 1(1 I' ll-I : ii iZ'11111 ol' every fore1} r po. 1 itulh 'ic i '1 ile . i nor ti l- Wi ns tr o nd colorir 1 '/(''(1':1 . Vr (ag-aipnrtlte Wit (. us in (lilt ! (I ill tine IIIet'Liui't 11 (fft1 t tiCha tf ltIlia! 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We hereby proclatuu tlihat it is our0 desire and fixed purpose under n nll" aoid eivery provocatioii to have a fair! and peaceable election; but we demand and will insist that there shall be nonh violence or intimnidatiini exercised to wards such of our colored fellow-citi- in zent, as nmay wish to co-operate with'h us for the redemption of the State fromn the mnisruiile. Spi We fully recognize the binding ef- Lha feet of the three recent articles of cou ainendlnent to the conttitutiou of the ordi Uniitd States, and alcce:t the saute as sIil i fitnal settlelintlt of the controverl'ie,i ige ithat engendered civil war, and wre tlh pledge ourselves to protect every cti- fr zen in the exercise of the rights ac qlaired and guaranteed by said amend- ri mnelits., whatever e his lrace, color or I'o, previous condition.n pt We hlerebty pledge our party to the t.im satisfaction of all the legal obligations iceh issued by the State of Louisiana; to frot the most strenuous efforts in the di- lark rection of reform and an economical tlh administration of the government, and cut especially to the abolition of all unnec- oin essary public officers; to the reduction of I of the fees and salaries of officers; to the standard of a fair remuneration te and the consequent reduction of taxa tion to the lowest possible limit coan- one mensmlrate with the necessary expen- ing ses of the government and the preser- whil vation of the public faith, and to the feet curtailment of the dangerously large too! patronage of the chief executive of the blit State. We declare onrselves in favor of the ct passage of the Texas I'Pacific Railroad fori hill, now 'ipendtling ibeforoe Congress, his and recontenll d our members of Con - gross to advocate its passage at an eatly date. Sat We advocate the fostering of the tray public sch(ool for the benefit of all the (edliruetil, ile children of t hie State, i Ind that equlai It\hdvantages lie given ti'l to all children, colored as Well as did white. We cordially approve ofa endorse It the pihtfo irn of the Initional I)Democrat- I it pi.tri t recently asseinblillel i ll co ven- il inin at St. Louis, aind feel inispired t, with the lhope lt a better Gover ltlnilt i ie tihe t ulle buit the great question of 'i rciforln is ibrought bef'ore the people of is thle whole collitry lby a great liltioul pal I Ipart, and we pleditge ouIrsetlves to lsea our Iutuost effortsl to seculre the success t1) ofli those gre:at expo eti'its of ittaittiol.l an reforni. Satnlucl J. Tildeu and Thomas wvl A, Ilendicks. It ...t .1,o4-- ---r·-- -Tuigsl report miade bJ Genelral Grant. Sto 'Presidenet Jolhnson in J)ecombler,i 186i5, is a valnablh public doculltient, ibecause it is one of the few we ihave whllich was at least lirepared from an bi Sitniart tial standlpollint. Qrant's opinion S- as to the bad results w lich follow froint - the emplonyment orfnegro troops in the is Sounth is of per:niliar iiterest just now, Cl I when Governor Chanmberlain is en- to Sdeavoring to disarm the white militia fi of South Carolina, giving the privilege m of armed organization to the black hi troops alone. General Grant, as far es 's back as 1865, said: It n "There is such universal acqnies- at i ceance in the authority of the general tl - government throughout the portions of i+ the conntry visited byime, that the t'( t mlere presenee of a military force, ti ' without regard to numbers, is sfficienit Ii cI to rnaintain order. The good of the country requires that a forcee he kept P s in the interior, where there are many ti freedmen. Elsewhere in the Soutliern Sstates than lat forts on tile seacoast ino Y forceis necessary. The soldiers should ii t all lie white troops. The reasons for , n this are obvioos. Wijthout mention ing any of them, the presence of black d f troops, lately slaves, demoralizes Ia li or, both by' their advice and filrnish- o i ing in their caillnps a resort for the Sfreedmen for lohig distances around. C i* * * TI sompe eases, I am sorry to say, tile freedman's mind does not c seem to be disabused of the idea that . the treedmna has a right to live with oit care or provision for the future. The effect of this belief in thie distribu tiin of the landls is idleness, and aecn tmulahtion in camps, towns and cities." This idea, in "the freedman's mind,' that he has a right to live "withont care or provision for the future," still Spersists; tthe black militia afford en - couragement to this disposition, and it yhas time and again been shown That - the white olilitia organizations are r necessary to protect not only the lives Sand property of the wllites, bht also to d, jprotect tile blacks fromnt the violence of >ur blacks. In fact, if the native whites '" are to be disarmed, the United States troops slould be sent to the state to the protect the colored Democrats from il- the violencee of the Republican negroes. f5 -[Baltimore Gazette. de -TnE arrest of Tweed, although no oil, extradition treaty exists between of Spain and the United States of Anlmeri tie ca, is not, as stated, without precedent. itd Not eight weeks ago. in presence of uour iMr. MePherson, eonanl of Seville, an -uglisihman was arrested for embezz nd ling mtloney from his employers, andl i:is was handcuffed, sent to Cadiz, shipped tur- to England, and Ihas been tried and l. isentenced. Within the last few years the als io two British subjects were arrested by in Barcelona, one of whom coninmitted va suicide on board a steamer bound fur inmer Etglanu while in charge of two detec lent tires. Spain, for various reasons, in an- case of a great defaulter or bad crimi for nal, hlas been in the habit of giving up Sbe Ito English or American police .:t An ti- 'piriutul Expo-ifliOin. A V E L S 0 FP LEIGIIT OF II.N D. Saturdayw afternon M31. ('azeno nve oil cntte: :i.ed a co.,)rapny of gentlemen ml in a srm.idl roon at (t.hic,-t g III l ,xii by doin, matny surprising 1 ;1n(so. : tih,) the kind pierl;'rrmcled by so-enilelll oth Spiritual meliu.s. IL. wa:1 so tie .ldres th.t n-tihert' hea , hands, nor feet ;01n1 could he moved, aca-i,rding to the w"n0, o)rdinar y laws of awtiln; al his lnit lhirt-c ils were sewed to the band sectr 'iges ai,t,t i his wrists in such a way on that the handsl could not be slilppet:, co\', from their confinement withont sev is al ering the threa:us. So hound he (res rang hells, lowued on a penny trumi- smrt pet, and beat a drum all ut the same of t time; or somebody or something did it behind a curtatin ldrawn across the stre front of a cabinet. Hie filled the the large eye of a needle with short othc threads from a spool laid on his lap, firer cut paper into curious shapes, wrote that on a slate the words which members stre of this assembly had privately writ host ten on cards, gave the marks on a deli domino secretly selected by some opel one present, took oil his own stock- The ings and placed them in his' lap, and while his boots remained on, and his and feet securely tied above the ankle, air took off the coat of a gentleman who, eser blindfolded, sat beside him in the bolt cabinet, with one hand on the per- opp former's hi east awil another over the his forehead, to detect any move- the nment, kissed another gentleman who fata sat beside him in the saume manner, Injr transferred that gentleman's watch ena and chain from his vest to the pres- bur tidigitateur's trousers pocket, and in t did other marvels. After he was unbound, he tied 11 himself into the most helpless and 'Sta impossible position, malinag seventy- 'or twio knots in about live and a half dire minutes. He plainly says that, this ga' is all done by sleigt of-hand. A' whi part of this pI)cgr'aitme will be per formted at his exhibition to night, ant and the whole t) -morrow night, (ul which wilt b,e his lai;t appearance till here.-[N. Y. Suc:. . ihot SEAR.CHINs A COFFIN m-ORt EVI .EmNcE.--.;ome excitemcnt was re'a ted l yesterday in the neighborhood of tht Bedfurd by the exhum~ation of the re body of the-Rev. John F. Dawson of W\\oodla uds, who-was'- buried i,1870 tol in the churchyard of the village of Claphamn. Mr. Dawson, who inheri- m ted the estiate of Woodlands from his father, who had lought it, was twice At married, and though he had a son by th c his first marriage, lie bequethed the lia r estate to his son by his second wife. It is believed, however, by his eldest m Sson that tuh !.st.'tte was entailed by 1 the will of his grandfather, which kc if sl could not be found; and as informa tion had reached him that, documents It had been buried with his ifather, np. t plicaton was made for the exhuma y tion of the body to. the Home Secre Stary aInd the requisite sanction hav-: ling been obtainiied, the exhumation >r was commenece(l at 1 A. M. on Tuies day and completed at 8 A. m., when the coffin was openctl in thie presence of the legal and medical gentlemen Sconceroed. A diligent, search be to tween the inner shell and the outer it oak coffin proved in vain; but on lift , ing the body, which wa, in a won e. derful state of preservation, a bundle "- of what nlappeared to be letters, tied a -) round with red tape, was discovered. ' The documents were taken away, ut with the necessary legal formalities ill and the body was tben reinterred. i -. -[Pall Mall Gazette. it -"THERE is one thing on which a t husband and n .wife never have and Lre never can agree, and that is on what constitutes a well-beaten carpet. of When the article is clean it's a man's tes impression that it shoutld be remov tes ed, and he he allowed to wash up and to quietly retire. But a wonman's appe om tite for carpet-beating is never ap es. peased while a man has a whole muscle in hIis bodly. And if ihe wait ed until site -,olnntarily gave the sig no nal to stop he might beat away until nC hie droppedl down dead. It is direct r1 ly owing to his superior strength of 41. mind that the civilized wor'd is r.ot aa widow this day."--[l anbury News. -d -"Ax'.T for:ty dollars rather hiigh ped for lodging and brea:kfast?" was and what a departing stranger by the ars Kingsbury stage inquired of the ied clerk at one of our leading hotels, on Lted being told that was the amount of for his bill. "Yes, it is a little high; itec- but we might as well have it as the imi- stage robbers," was the placid an Sp swer of tile clerk as he receipted the bill,--[San Antonio Herald, Firematn's I)ress. An imlpovel dlress, ldesig'ned to t " en(Ialie firo;n to eltcr a bturning s yst onibling is sa . ry, ha, been recently iit's du:Etl the .o ;;',t of ( n1:0o interestit' li tImt ','rei iil'et!s, It -ilsi- t of 'tw in it f:at ! ciht "I '.c Iir l, t l+ (!:Rn n Ie over th- lito ' otther, ater the iennt!r of a diver's i t dtlregs. The inner lress is of er rulle:l a:l fits ti';,Jy; the outer irss., itCe wot R i over thii, i; of leather tld is mll len! quite toloe. 'T'h ouiter snit it also imy securedi to n tetnlic heot re tin lean oi1 the sniihleirs na d entireiy that cove l n tlhe hte:a. A line of hose out is ttil at iheii l e i hack of the outer bell: dress, where it divides into two li he a anller !ipes. One g(oes Ito the top day of the Ihlehin. Otl tile outside, where Iv, it tdisilpr a s nu ilmber of fine trici streams of water thati flow down over t hot the outside o f t ihe dress. '1' h c 'Fo other branch pipe passes uider the elec fireman's arm, tindends in a nozzle girlI that he may use in directing the of stream on the flames.. Within this are hose is another, smaller, t i at our delivers air under pressu'e 'to the any open space between the two garments. The The air expands the outer garmaqnt plai and keeps it away from the personi, tric and at the same time supplies fresh easl air fr respiration. To allow for the city escape of the spent air, two small Nov holes are drilled in the Ih elmet 11 opposite the eyes, and through throug hese in t the exhausted air escapes, driving mai the smoke :iAnd finames away from the thir fiace and giving a clear view without plat injury to the eyes. Such a dress "bi enabled a fireman to stay within a witl burning huilding for twenty minutes wit! in perfect safety.--[Exchange. the] -=----- . 0--- one A BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT. -Rev. F. you Starr King, in his address on the the Fiourtlh of July, 1860, at the chil- sier dren's celebration in San Francisco the gave utterance to the folldwirng, thu which is worthy of preservation: idr "You know that the clock ticks the and ticks, second' by second, in a oth (lull, patient, hundrum sort of a way, me till the hand reaclie the sixtieth the ~iintite, and lthen it strikes. A new sea hour is born. What if each day cor should be marked at sunrise by the thr louder striking of a clock to tell us tat that a inore important minute was by reached. What if the commence- tht ment of a' new year shoild always be told to us by the, vibration of some of miughty bell far up in space, that liti souinled only on the first of JiAnuary, of touched then by the hand of God?- wl And now suppose that when auy- a thing very important was about to pli happen- in the world, when a new el year of hope and joy for a nation or 8u mankind was to come, a mighty time hr keeper, away tip among the stars, should ring out so that men could al heitr it, and say: "hark! ah, a new y. hour, one of God's hours had struck wm in the great belfry of the heavens!" gi This would be grand, But God does lit mark the great seasons of the world's cr history biy a mighty clock. In fact, ci n every naion harts a lhuge dial plate, 01 and behindl it are the works, and be- S low it is the peindulum, and every ic now and then its hands mark a new t hour. Our revolution was such a period. That is the glory of it.- The Eng:ish government had op- a pressed our fathers: it tried to break Ic their spirit. It was for several years a dark time, like the season before sunrise. But thile old time-piece kept tickiing, ticking, the wheels kept playing calmly, till about 1775, there d was a strange stir and busy clatter inside the case; the people couldn't bear any more; a sixtieth minute a came, and all of a sudden the clock nd struck! The world heard the battle tof IBunker IIill-one; the Declara -tion of Indepenrdence-two; the sur. i render of Burgoyne-three; the siege v-of Yorktown--four; the treaty of .(Paris- five; the inauguration of W- ashingtou-six; and then it was p- sunrise, and we live in the forenoon leof the g'orious day. Let us be glad t-and grateful on this anniversary, i-that such a glorious hour was mark. ed for our country und the world, on our coasts. Let us hope and pray r(t that thle good old clock shall remain ws. for centuries uninjured, and that it S will strike many times again-butI Inot through battle--to mark new the i hours for humanity." the ti, o-"IT is strange", muttered a t o lVoung man, as hlie stag3ited home gh; fromn a tipper party, "h6Jevil com the munications corrupt gooj'manners. an- I have been esurrendered by tumbler·s the all the eveninig, and niowl Ia a turn bler myself." A New sec of Electricity. "You see we are running our cash ývst.imn with lightning, or electricity it's the snie thing" still Mr. Wil !inm El'hrich. :a 1 stepped into the a:'on:.Is .:ilth .tiv\i'nue store on Sat I ,t:v ,ft -irnoon. "Hlleretofore on :!urniavs. :rtic:ularly in the after .,1, the (din 01nd confusion, and the incessant call of 'cash!' by our sales maen were absoiutely deafening, So my brother Louis and I put our heads together to invent something Ihat would e:,! the cash girls with. out so much noise. I suggested bells, blut louis said, 'No, that would bIe as 1,:nl as the Cash calls.' One dlay he eame to ume and said excited ly, 'William. I've found it. Elec triti:y is tile thing.' I declare I thoiughit Louis had gone. crazy.- 'Found what?' said I. 'What is electricity the thing for?' 'our cash girls,' he replied. 'In the name of of conscience Louis,' said I,' what are you going to put electricity on our cash girls for? 'I don't see .that anything is the matter with them.' 'Theu Louis began to laugh. lie ex plained that he meant to apply elec tricity to call .them, instead of the cash call used in all the stores in the city from A. 1. Stewart's to ours. Now come and see his ilvention," lie took tme at once to the register in the centre of the store under the main staircase, and showed me the thirty or more little circular silvar plated drops, labelled "hosiery' "buttons" "inillinery," andl so on, with numbhors also to correspopd with the sections. Every now and then, as if by magic, down dropped one of his little silver: plates. A young man standing by the side of the register instantly spoke, "ho siery," or "trimmings,"-l,72 or 3, as the case might he, and as soon as he thus anuotrnel the-department and nidniber otf started the head girl-in the line of cash girls seated on the other side of the register. In the mean time others came up as fastlas the tirst departed and took their seats in the line. There was no confusion, no hurry, not I call throughout the huage and busy es tabllishmenit when dollars and parcels by the hundreds were passitgb over the &ounters. Then Mr. Ehrich took me to one of his counters and showed me the little cord-like straps running back of the saleswomen that they pulled whenever a purchase was made auQ| a sale completed, and which lie ex plained to me were connected with electrical wires running under the r floors and joined to'the drops that I e bad seen at the register. , , 'An advantage in this system' in I addition 'to what you can see for v yurself," said-Mr. Ehrich," 'is, that k we can so regulate the labors of the girls that each one is obliged to do 8 her share, and whoever has the most s cash checks creditad to her at the , entd of the week we give a premiur , of fifty cents over her regular wages. S- ee how orderly and composed they y look compared with their former dis Straction utnder the old system." a It was a fact. The little girls -looked perfectly self-possesed, calmu P and self-respectful, and the saleswo Ik men were no longer fretting and s scolding, and calling to get atteitd re ance, and the hundreds of ladies at pt the counters were collected and easy Pt in the task of shopping on Saturday i' afternoon. i't Clippings. Ite te Faithfulness and sincerity are the ra- greatest things. .r The wise neither grieve for the ge dead nor for theliving. of Govern the child by gentleness; of even the camel moves not swifter be as fore the whip than behind the flate. ion Strong as our passions are, they lad may be starved into submission and ry, conquered without being killed. rk As the eagle files high above the on lighest moluntains, so does true and ray holy love above struggling duty, One half the want is caused by it people looking at this, that and the but other employment as not being gen teel. When a man is hideously ugly the Saon!y safety is in glorying in it. Let he im boldly claim it as a distinction; SThe strogest man feels the inflt erace of woman's gentlest thoughts, um as the mighftiest oak quivers in the usoftest breeze.