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"REPUBLICAN AT ALL TIMES, AND UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES."
VOLUME 1. NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, SUNDAY OCTOBER 15, 1871. NUMBER 86.
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PROSPECTUS
OF
The Louisianlan.
In the andlavor to establish another
1 ipublii:In j. urnal in New Orleans,
ti.' pr ot ri ts of the LorDiANIA%,
tr. qi to tii. necessity which has
111 I lit., ;an' Rometimes painfully
f, It t \i'.t. In the transition state
of i r1j pb!. in their struggling eftorts
to attaia that position in the Body11
1" itie. ni hih we conceive to he their
due, it i. rigarded that much infor
Wnti' ii, gui iIbnce, encouragement,
e( 'un-l wii reproof have been lost, in
cIuNeaquence of the lack of a medium,
tir ugh which these deficiencies might
la .tjjdlied. We shall strive to make
he Li IAIANsuu a desulert umn in these
TI l ictý.
POLICY.
' " tr mnotto indicates, the Lor
eassiN shlul be " lbu puldicant It dll
" urel ttoilerull circuomsbance s" We
I.ii advecate the security anid enjoy
'a aut of braid civil liberty, the abso
ate equality of all men before the law,
ad en impartial distribution of hon
r and patronage to all who merit
hem.
Desirous of allaying animositie', of
r'llitertting the memory of the Litt, r
1.t,of promoting harmony and union
ion mg all chlasses and between all in
t. r tý, we shall advocate the removal
di all political disalilities , foster kind
and forbearance, where malignity
aud re'entment reigned, and seek for
f uuess and justice where wrong and
v{lu" -ion prevaiuled. Thus nnited in
aur auim and objects, we shall conserve
lris h tt interests, elevate our noble
>*t". to an enviable position among
it r States, by the development
ullimaitible resources, and secure
"full 1 ueits of the mighty changes
i:. tlhe history and condition of the
t :naid the Country.
lilip iine that there can be no true
11 rty uithout the supremcny of law,
*' hall urge a strict and undiscrini
Ia'tang administration of justice.
TAXATION.
We i'lnll suPport the doctrine of an
t Ut alul division of taxation among
iii cli'ws, a faithful collection of the
revvnoues economy in the exlwndi
tur-s, Conformably with the exigen
i. ,f thii State or Country and the
i lshrge of every legitimate obliga
EDUCATION.
We shill sustain the carrying out of
t'Iro' isi us of the' act establishing
' C1Ir!ouiii school system, and urge I
li araunonnt duty t'he eilueation of
etr 'outh, as vitally connected withI
tiuir awn s'nglgtenment, and the secn
l7 aua Istihility of a Republican
FINAL.
l1y a g.'zrous, manly, independent,
4'1 ludieious conduct, we shall strive
t50)(i our lpaper, from an ephem
-'il, anid temporary existence, and 1
-tallislh it upon a iaasis, that if we
'Ltot ' command, " we shall at all 1
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POETRY.
THE LABORERS.
You can not pay with money
The million sons of toil
The sailor on the ocean.
The peasant on the soil,
The laborer in the quarry,
The hewer of the coal;
Your money pays the hand,
But it can not pay the souL
You gaze on the cathedral
Whose turrets meet the sky:
Remember the foundations
That in earth and darkness lie:
For, were not those foundations
So darkly resting there,
Yon towers up could never soar
So proudly in the air.
The workshop must be crowded,
That the palace may be bright:
If the ploughman did not plough,
Then the poet could not write.
Then let every toil be hallow'd
That man performs for man,
And have its share of honor
As part of one great plan.
See, light darts down from heaven,
And enters where it may;
The eyes of all earths people
Are cheered with one bright day.
And let the nmi'ns true sunshine
Be spread o'er earth es free,
And till the souls of men,
As the waters till the sea.
The man who turns the soil
Need not have an earthly mind;
The digger 'mid the coal
Need not be in spirit blind:
'The mind can shed a light
On each worthy labor done,
As lowliest things arc bright
in the radiance of the sun.
What cheers the musing student?
The poet, the divine?
The thought that, for his followers,
A brighter day will shine.
Let every hunian laborer
Enjoy the vision bright
Let the thought that comes from heaven,
Be sporead like heaven's own light!
Ye men who h0oli4 the pen,
Rise like a band inspired;
And, posts, let your lyrics
With hope for man be fired:
'fill the earth heconue a temple,
And every hlutnan heart
Shall join in one great service,
Each happy in his part.
Sincerity.
f(ie me sincero friends, or none.
'This hollow glitter of smiles and
words-compliments that mean
n'athing---protestations of affection
as solid as the froth upon cham
)agne-invitations that are pretty
sentences, uttered because such
things are customary-are worth
less to me. It is proper to be civil
and courteous to the most indiff
erent stranger, but why assmn"
friendship's outward show when no
reality underlies it? When one feels
friendship, the object of that sen
tinent cannot suffer, and leave of
hearts untroubled-cannot be sland
ered, leaving us unharmed. To see
our friend successfnl, even beyond
our own powers of success, is a
great joy tous ; to hear that friends
applhuded is a pleasure. Yet, every
damen who fancy themselves
friends, show mean envy of each
other's lucky hits ; and women,
who kiss ont both cheeks when they
meet, whisper treacherous little
stories of each other-yea, and
whisper them to mon. So that,
when most women say to me,
"We were talking of you just now !"
I wonder only-for one is not sin
cere to say it out-whether it has
been possible to squeeze one drop
of scandal into the hundrum story
of my life ; or, failing that, how
many times they have been mul
tiplying my age by ten, to prove me
older than I confess myself to be.
But it is not sincere to praise every
body. It sounds amiable ; but men
cannot all be "charming," and
women all "so sweet."
I like to know from speech of
man or woman that this one is a
friend ; that, a mere acquaintance.
I think warmhearted people are
never general admirers. All can
not be loved sincerely ; all can not
'be really even pleasant. Constant
laudation of everybody may* be a
pleasant form of incincerity, after
alL For me if heaven will help me,
I will be sincere. I will not abuaej
my intimate friends when their
beck. are turned ; I will not praise
a'nyone I do not like ; I will not
kiss women I hate ; nor give men
loving look~s and loving smiles
when I do not like'them. And as
I do unto others, may they do unto 1
me, for I deserre no better.-EFr.
What Masonry Does.
The following incident illustrates,
in a degree, some of the good effects
produced by the teachings of Ma
sonry if properly understood and
practiced, and shows how it con
ciliates true friendship among those
who might have otherwise remained
at a perpetual distance:
"Two young men had been fast
friends. In an evil hour they quar
reled. They did not speak, and
had not spoken for years. Mutual
friends tried the art of reconciliation
in vain. They were avowed enemies
for life. One of them became a
Mason after the estrangement, and
it happened that the other remained
ignorant of this fact. One evening
he too was admitted into a Lodge.
Almost the first voice he heard, and
certainly the first face he saw, was
that of his enemy, who presided
over the ceremonies of initiation,
and was obliged, according to usage,
to address him as "Brother." This
was a most peculiar situation, and
a severe ordeal for both. After the
Lodge was closed the Entered Ap
prentice sought the Mason, and
without any preliminaries, the fol
lowing coloquy ensued, commenced
by the newly made Mason:
"Are you a member of this
Lodge ?"
The answer was, "I am."
"Were you present when I was
elected ?"
"I was."
"May I ask if you voted ?"
"I did."
"'Now, will you tell me how many
votes it requires to reject a candi
date, on ballot for admission ?"
The Master answered "one.;
Thore was nothing more to say.
The initiated extended his hand,
which was warmly grasped by the
other, and uttered with thrilling ac
cents, deep emotion mellowing his
voice, "Friend ! Brother ! you have
taught me a lesson I shall never
forget.." This is a little ray of Ma
sonic light. No language is as dlo
luent as the silent troubling of a
heart full of tears. While this kind
of cement is used in our moral
edifice, should it not be enduring?
Who can wonder that it is so
strong ?-E.rrhange.
UNEARTHING GIANTS.
DISCOVEI:Y OF TWO HUL'DRED GIGANTIf
SKELETONS IN CANADA.
GATUCA, August 21.
On Wednesday last Rev. Nathaniel
Wardell, Messrs. Orin Wardell (of
Toronto) and Daniel Fredenburg
were digging on the farm of the
latter gentleman, which is on the
banks of the Grand river, in the
township of C(ayuga. When they
got five or six feet below the surface
a strange sight met them. Piled in
layers, one upon top of the other,
were some two hundred skeletons
of human beings, nearly perfect-
around the neck of each one being
a string of beads. There were also
deposited in the pit a number of
axes and skimmers made of stone.
In the jaws of several of the shele
tons were large stone pipes, one of
which Mr. 0. Wardell took with
him to Toronto a year or two after
this Golgotha *as unearthed.
The skeletons are those of men
of gigantic stature, some of them
measuring nine feet, very few of
them being less than seven feet.
Some of the thigh bones are found
to be at least half a foot longer
than those at present known, and
one of the skulls being examined,
completely covered the head of an
ordinary person. These skeletons
are supposed to be those of arace
of people anterior to the Indians.
Some three year. ago the bones of
a mastadon were embedded in the
earth about aix miles from this spot.
The pat and its ghastly occupants
are now open to the view of any
who may wish to make a visit there.
Tan Finer CownuED CnFTWn who
has ever exercised the right of suf
frage in Lsasse county, won fifty
dollars from the aristocratic Demo
cratic Supervisor of Plumas, on the
proposition that Booth's majority in
the State of California would be
more than one thousand.-Laseem
Sage )rutsh.
The Young Man and Life.
It is a great thing for a young
man to find out that he is of the
minimum of importanceinthe world'
that while it demands of him every
thing that he can do, it can get on
admirably without him. In all its
busy pressing forces, he is not
missed-bless you he has never
been recognized ! Don't forget the
mistake made by the $y on the
coach wheel, or the disaster that
overtook the ambition of the frog.
Do all you can, sink all selfish
thought of self; and compel out of
you the best that is in you.
Without morbidness, without mo
roseness, just this life has said to
me-I think it says it early-Trust
God, and your own right arm.
Look to no compensating charity
from man. Let your compensation
be in the reward of your own soul,
and the humble hoping for the ben
ediction of your God.
In nothing is the young man
more wont to be lax than the mat
ter of habit. Life says to him in
nothing does he more need constant
and anxious care. Habit makes us.
What we are in the habit of doing,
saying, thinking, decides the matter
of character and the success of life.
If life were only a series of inde
pendent individual acts, were there
no moral continuity to it, no de
pendence of part on part; if nothing
were repeated, it would everywhere
be a failure. It is repetition that
twists the fibre of existence into
something permanent, coherent.
Otherwise it would only be a rope
of sand. And so we ought to have
a special care about our first doings
because they entail second doings,
and second doings insure third do
ings, and then heaps on heaps rise,
as Himalay and Andes grow. Vir
tue is the habit of good; vice is the
habit of bad, that is all. Repeti
tion make each. Their power, their
majesty, their mischief, are only be
cause of that. Do good, with God's
help, and you can't help being good;
keep doing evil and you can't help
being evil. Honesty, integrity,
truth, avarice, sensuality, theft, are
only habits-no way separate irre
sistible acts, and are to be reached
or avoided by forming or avoiding
the habit. Life says to the young
man that its secret lies in the habit
formed and the habit avoided.
11cr. J. J. Ware.
THE FlIST NEWUPAPE1.
An ingenius physician of Paris
Renaudot by name- more than two
hundred years ago hit upon a good
idea for "cutting out" his more
learned brethren, which he was not
long in putting into execution, to
his own no small advantage, and the
great chagrin of his brother profes
sionals. His plan was an extreme
ly simple one, for he obtained his
popularity by the very innocent ex
pedient of collecting information,
and then circulating news sheets
among his patients, for their especi
al delectation and amusement. But
inasmuch as the seasons were not
always sickly, and found he had
plenty of time on his hands, he was
encouraged by his success to de
vote his attention more exclusively
to the business of journalism, by
providing the public at large with
news; and accordingly, in 1631, he
succeeded in obtaining for himself
and family the sole privilege of pub
lishing a newspaper called the Ga
zefte de France. Such, at least, is
the account of the origin of news
papers given by DeSaint Foix.
[ Erchanqe.
PUrrisO A HEAD Ox.-A corres
pondent of the Providence Journal
attempts to show the origin of the
cant phrase " put a head on him."
In 1863, he says, he was corporal of
the first relief on acertain cavalry
picket, and in posting his men
heard from the corporal of the re
lief then on poet a queer story, to
the effect that the sentinel on one
of the posts, which happenea to be
near an old grave, had been horri
bly perturbed by the appearance
before him in the dead hour of
night of a man on horseback with
out a head. To Jones, the man
whom the Journala corporal cor
respondent was to station at thim
pout, the tal. was duly told, sad,
thou the corr.aspondent added :
'Look out for the man on horse
back without any head on! " Jones
was just firing up his "brier-wood"
for company, and replied between
whiffs: "Well, (puff), if a man
(pufi puff) on horseback (puff),
without any head on (puff), comes
around me (puff, puff puff), I'll put
a head on him! "
COIFUIISOIT EDUCATION.
It is an evidence that the world
moves, progresses and is advancing
toward a higher plain of civilization,
that the question of compulsory ed
ucation is meeting with general
favor. The system is opposed by
only two classes; first, it is opposed
by the Jesuit class. Universal edu
cation and enlightenment, weakens
their power over the masses, and in
the same ratio that the masses are
educated, their power diminishes,
unless they can have the control of
that education, in which case, the
young mind is stamped so indelibly
with the doctrines of infallable pa
paco, that the instruction in the
branches of learning they afterwards
receive, almost invariably fails to
remove the peculiar religious im
pressions burnt into the young
mind; and more, when they have the
education of the young, their sys
tem of education is impregnated
with the tenetsof the Romish faith.
This class conted for a division of
the public school money, that with
the funds of the State, with money
taken from the pockets of those who
detest their doctrines, they may
proselyte among the young and
hedge about their crumbling edifice,
propping up their waning power by
raids upon the children of the na
tion, either by keeping them in ig
norance, or educating them in the
Jesuit school and faith.
There is another class arrayed
against the compulsory education
plan. It is the old fossil political
hacks, who rule in politics as the
Jesuits do in religious matters,
through the ignorance of the masses.
Educated enlightened men are too
independent for the old Falataffian
politician. The passions of the
ignorant slums of society is his
"harp of a thousand strings," which
he fingers to his own advantage and
advancement. Educate the masses
and his occupation is gone. He can
no longer control his herd of voters,
marching them to the polls to vote
for his interest, or the interests of
his party, without a thought for the
best interests of the country.
There is no argument advanced
against the much needed measure,
but on the contrary every reason
able argument is in the affirmative
of the measure. It will remove
from our streets a large class of idle,
vicious boys, who are training and
being trained in all kinds of crime,
and if suffered to continue, will fill
our jails and prisons, lumber our
courts, prey upon peaceful citizens,
swell riots and light the incendiary's
torch. It is proposed to take them
from this life of vice, shame and
ignorance, and place them in achool
and compel them, not only to quit
the evil ways they are pursuing, but
to receive an education, that shall
fit them for the responsible duties
of citizens. The State had far bet
ter clothe, educate sad board the
thousands of children who are now
growing up in ignorance and vice,
than to build jails and prisons and
employ keepers to take care of them
when grown up.
Again, universal eduestien is the
only thing that will save this repub
lic. A nation with universal saif
frage can only exist by as universal
an education. Universal suffrage
sill swamp this nation unlms it is
counter-balanced by universal edu
cation. The theory may be vary
fine; but when the voting masses
are ignorant it is destructive in the
extreme. We have only to point
to the city of New York as an ex
emplification of the effects of ignor
ance and suffrage in centrol.
Our salvation is in edcaetion and
enlightemmeat; sad by all mean.
let us have the compulsory law.
[(lawmic Mirror.
A compulsory school law by which
children between the ages of six
and fourteen are compsap4 to attaqi
arbhel at leust fopq mebtstobnge
year, is attreeoiagcegod deal of
puhli. sutq iu liarentpru.
of the United States just now.
Michigan has adopted the principle.
Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and New
York had bills before their Legisla
tures last year for the same purpose.
The question was discussed in Cali
fornia during the recent campaign
in that State and contributed to the
success of the Republican ticket.
A system that would compel all
persons, male and female, white or
colored, to learn to read, write and
become acquainted with the com
mon rules of Arithmetic and Eng
lish Grammar, and have some
knowledge of American history,
would be of incalculable benefit to
the country. The South would be
a very different country from what
it is to-day had all the people here
tofore had the advantage of a com
mon school education. Whenevei
the voluntary plan fails to place all
of the children of the State, or at
least a majority of them, in schools,
the future good of the country
would be promoted by compelling
their attendance.- Weekly Plod.
Earthquake is the Ilsaiusippi Valley.
The first recorded shock in the
Mississippi Valley occured in the
summer of 1719. An account of it
is given by John Heckewelder, a
missionary of the United Brethren,
on the Muskingun. River, in Ohio.
It happened at eight o'clock, A. M.,
and its duration is asserted to have
been two or three minutes. "The
southwest side of the house was
raised with such violence that the
furniture was nearly overturned.
It was accompanied by a subterra
nean rumbling noise. The cattle
were frightened by the shock, and
the Indians continued after to ap
prehend some great disaster, of
which they conceived this to be a
precursor."
The next shock occurred in the
year 1791 or 1792, in April or May,
about 7 o'clock, A. M. Furniture
in houses was agitated by the jar.
The shock was preceded by a rum
bling noise in the earth, which
seemed to come from the west.
The course of this movement was
evidently the same as that of the
great shock of 1811. The region
where the shock was felt was con
fined to the northern and eastern
part of Kentucky. There were at
the time few settlements further
west, so that, for all we know to the
contrary, it may have had a wider
range.
At three o'clock A. IM. on the 8th
of January, 1795, a considerable
shock was felt at Kaskaria, in the
territory of Illinois, and in the part
of Kentucky adjoining on the south.
Its direction, like that of the pre
ceding, was from west to east ; its
duration was about one minute
and a half. Two other shocks should
be mentioned. One, at Niagara
Falls, occured at siz A. IL, on the
26th of December, 1796. It came
from the nort-west, was very slight
and affected the vicinity of the Falb
over a radius of about fifty miles.
Another occurred near the site of
the city of Chlcsgo, in 1804, at ten
minutes past 2A. M., on the 24th
of August. It seems to have been
quite a strong shock, though we
have no accurate description of it.
It was felt as far as Fort Wayne in
Indiana, nearly two hundred miles
distant. As with the p receding
shocks, the impreassion left upon
the minds of the observers was
that it came from the west. Al
though the last two earthquakes
were not felt over any portion of
what is properly called the Missis
sippi Basin, they were still within
the earthquake area which we
named from the great river.
For more than seven years after
the shock of 1805 there is no re
cord of any movement of the earth
in the Miasimsippi Valley. Without
premonitory shocks, and without
those varid atmospheric symptoms
which are so generally supposed to
indicate the approach ofta greit
subterranean disturbance, there oo
curred on the night of the 16th of
November, 1811, a great and la
continued earthquake, which uo
a larger area than any known
shook exeept the IThbos convul
sion of 1756w and which in intmnsit3
was probably not surpeassed by the
movement. whieh'produced that
Oig to the
~ pephdondito of the re
giu ls the bank if the Mim.
ducing any great loss of huissa
life-ouer acounnts of the great
hame so these can be Do doubt
th dths e e events of that
pmIs itoU bi#4ari c earth
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