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The Louisianian.
Pasbis~ot Thurs-Iwsy a i Sv.ediys.
Orrac 114 CAUONDE.ET S rRErt,
NEW Oai.wrsn LA.
W'm. 6. BROWN, Ed4 ar and Pnabliser,
P. B. S. PINCHBACK, Manager.
OUR AGENTS.
MISSISSIPPI :.- Daniel r. Young,
Greenville.
LOUISIANA :- John A. Washin ton.
Black Ilawk, Goncor*Iia PNri'.h; Hon. G.
Y. Kelso, Ahlxanhrik; Antoine & St4errtt,
Shewvepoit, A. C. Ruth, Carroll Parish.
DISTRICT OF OOLUKRRLA: -JamMn
A. D.Oreen, Washington Otty.
ILLINOIS :--Lewis B. White. Chieago.
KENTUCKY:-Dr. R. A. Green, Louis
ville.
Mn. Gzo. E. PAlus is our special
agent, and is authorized to solicit
subscriptions and receive payment
of bills.
SUNDAY DECEMBER 3, 171.
OUR '11018R FOR PREJIDRKT, 1S :
U. S. GRANT.
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
DFFICER&
Pa'Tr--P. B. 8. PINCHBACK of Orleans.
Rnomrmwa Szc'r-WILLIAM VIGERS.
uBnDIwSoa Scc'v- J. W. FAIEFAX.
MEMStERS.
[ros rm s t LT Laez. ]
EDWARD BUTLER, of Plaquemines.
8. 8. SCHMIDT, of Orleans.
THOMPSON COAKELT, of P.apides.
ALBERT GANTT, of St. Lsndry.
JOHN PARSON, of Orleans.
A. W. SMITH. of Orlftnm.
H. BABY, of Natitoeele.
JAMES ML CLEERY, Caddo.
DAVID YOUNG, Coaeordia.
F. J. HERRON, of Orleans.
First Congreoional District-Hugh J.
cimpbell, H. Mahoney.
Second Congressional District-A. E.
Barber, James L. Belden.
Third Congressional District -Thoman
H. Noland, George Washington.
Fourth Oengreseional District -. W.
Devees, Raford Blunt
Fiflh O ngresaionsl Deitrirt --A. W.
Faulkner. A. B. Ilarris.
1w-EXECCTIYI SOMMiTTEE.
Hon. HUGH J. CAMPBELL, Chair
Lan.
Hon. P. B. S. FIlCHBACK.
Hon. HARRY MAHONEY.
IHon. F. J. IHERRON.
Hlon. A. B. HARRIS.
lon. A. E. BARBEL.
FIMNKSE COMMITTEE.
Hon. F. J. TIEBRON.
Ha.. T'O4. I. NOLAND.
flon. Sd. BUTLER.
lion. A. W. FAULKNER.
JOHN PARSONS FEiq.
Srniuon' tU~s1'rary. -Sutbbath
services at the usual hours, morning
and evening. Re,. Dr. Thaompston
having retuirno'I from the North,
will preach. "Whosoever will, let
him cozue." No distincvtion of race
or color.
stiRcnembcr that cii Tuesday
evening Decembier 5, the COy' ERT
annomnceed by i-w Lol-iSLNA Pao
OiRESSqIVE CILc, Will ttke pla0e in
the Meehanihs Iast tute.
Every inidicationl shows that this
will be a fine and croditable enter
titinment.
asp*The races at the Mlotairie
Course which should have corn
Ruenced ycst'rday, havre been post
poned till Tnesday, when the lovers
of the turf and its sports will have
smile opportunitics to indulge.
MiY'At a recent meeting of the
Commissi-niors of the N!ew Orleans
1'ark, Dr. 3M. F. Bhnzano was elect
ed President of the Commission,
VICO General J. B. West, resigned.
8g'Before anmotlhor issue of our
paper the Senate will have convened
in extra session an! doubtless elect
eils President, who will ox-officio
be Lieutenant Governor till the ex
piration of the late incumbent, term
in 1872.
Several of the most prominent
members on the administration,
and anti-administration side ol the
Senate have been mentioned, but as
yet the knowing ones spealk with
some reticence and seem disposed
to keep their own e'ounsel till the
time for action arrivea.
Several efforts are reported to be
on foot to defeat the assembling of
the Senate if possible, but we be
lieve they will i til of auy seacheffoot
THE CITIZENS' MEETING.
According to announcement there
was a meeting held in Mechanics'
Institute on Friday evening, under
the auspices of "The Citizens' Asso
ciation." The object was to take
into consideration the present con
dition of the financial department
of the City government, the em
barrassments under whieb she labors
on account of depreciated securities,
and from unnecessary and extra
vang'nt outlays of public money, in
short, in their own language it was
"for the purpose of taking some
I steps to check the career of reckless
ýextrsvaganeo instituted by the lire
sent City Administration."The meet
i e wl s rdegt'arly organized with
a Pre dent, an impasing array of
Vice Pr :side:ºts, and omer neces
sary officers. Several gentlemen ad
dressed the assemblage with evident
approval. The last speaker called
on was Governor H. C. Warmnoth
whose judicious hints and advice
seemed not to meet with that res
ponse which they deserved. In fact
they were not denunciatory of the
City and State Goutrnment and
hence were unacceptable to the
ntas4.
In our allusion to the meeting
a hen we saw it proposed, we em
braced the opportunity to suggest
the absolute propriety of approach
ing the important questions of the
hour with the calmness and dignity
worthy of the subject, and not to
be led away from calm investiga
tion, fair discussion, and manly,
reasonable recniimendations of
amendment, improvemncnt and re
trenchment, by heated passion,
bitter invective, mud irreconcilable
dislike. Unfortunately the majority
of the speakers rather inflamed the
minds of their hearers than informed
them of the true state of affairs, and
invite their co-operation in the use
of those constitutional measures
which are generally remedial.
In truth such meetings and such
speeches can do very little towards
accomplishing the results needed.
TLe gentlemen composing the
Citizens' Assoc ation can effect in
finitely more by availing themselves
of the opportunities which they
can un-puestionably obtain from en
quiiing into the state of municipal
affairs. With intimate knowledge
of the wants and requirements of a
good city government, they are
wall qualified to ofer such recom
mendati'ns as their wisdom and
discretion saggvst; and their coun
sale will doubtless receive the re
spec'ful consideration of the city
authorities.
But we cannot believe that men
believing themselves to be right
as we opine the city administrators
do-can he persuaded of the "error
of their way" by denunciation and
repudiation.
THE PRIZE RING.
The two noted pugilista Joe
Coburn and Jem ?iace, went out ont
Thursday morning last be endeavor
to batter each other to piecca for the
gratification of a crowd or heartless
oIbserverx. They did fight, but not
sufficiently savage, nor sufficiently
long to please those who did not feel
the blows.
The city papers have teemed with
acoonuts of the mill, and it is evid
ent that each was pretty wary of the
other. At the proper timecthey camne
to the scratch and for three hours
and a hail, they pounded at each
other, inflicting enough injury to
impress themselves that neither had.
a "s ft thing," indeed so firm did
thisi persuasion take hold of their
minds, that after the twelfth round
each preferred his"'corner ;" where
upeu the referee quickly appreciat
ing the posturo of affairs entered
the ring and apologizing for the'
part he had taiken in this sithir de
clared the fight drawn and the bets
on the result off, much to the
chagrin of the admiring multitude
who we.re longing for an entirely
different result.
The &~vbdieamt coneludes its re
port of tbe fight in this manner :
"Diamatiafled sporting men assert
that the whoje affair is hiable to the
suspicion that neither party intended
to whip the other, said complain that
they were cheated out of the glorious
hmazery of seeing broken heads, bloody
nose-, and battered faces, men maimed,
bruised and almost lifeless, the grand
result of one of the must terrific prise
fights on rseerd.
The disinterested public, whoregard
prize fights as most brutal, shameless
and senseless exhibitions, in which the
who fight and those who look on and
witness the terrible ahkay are all re
duced below the level of brutes, rejoiee
at the fact that there was grievous
disappointment among the sporting
fraternity, and at the other and mere
important fact that lms brutality at
tended this feigned fighting where a
"draw" was agreed upon at the outset
than was to be expected, after all the
preliminaries had been made for a reg
aliar crushnag, crashing, disgusting and
ikxnoralisinlgOeastestlisthe 51g5isesa4"
BASE AND COWARDLY.
The mission of the Customhouse
organ, yclept National Republican,
seems to be to defame prominent
men in our party who were fighting
the battles of freedom and equal
rights, when those whose interests
it principally represents were un
kniowu in Louisiana as Republicans
-on the contrary, in several con
spicuous instances, were well known
as Democrats! The more earnest
and cansisteut, the mere daring
and successful their services in es
tablishing Radicalism as a power in
the laud, the more vilely, malig
nantly, and persistently does the
National Rqpulban attack political
leaders whom its backers should
feel it a duty to humbly follow.
In a recent issue Senators John
Lynch and Hugh J. Campbell were
the victims of its base slanders, in
connection with their management
of the offices of Register of Public
Lands and Surveyor GoneraL An
appropriation was made for neces
sary work in their respective offices,
a part of which appropriation each
has expended. In the form of soli
citous inquiry, with proper acconm
panituent of inuendo and oblique
accusation, the Customhouse organ
endeavors to convey the imnpressiou
that these funds have been wrong
fully and dishonestly used-that
the gentlemen named are guilty of
gl oss malfeasance in office. It does
not dare make the charges direct,
knowing its utter inability to sustain
them; and its own disbelief in its
own dastardly insinuations is proven
by the fact that it would produce
substantiatory details did but the
least foundation of truth underlie
them.
These efforts to defame gentle
tuen of well established integrity
can effect but temporary annoyance
and no real harm ; but they must
react upon the authors should the
latter remain long etough before
the public to permit their baseness
to be exposed at a proper time and
under proper circumstances.
W. CULLEN BRYANT.
The flonorable " M.)ntgoemorv
Blair, has denounced Prtvident
Grant, as "an ignorant loan, with a
strong will that compels Congress
to obey him in ;:ll things."
He has a plan however for do
feating the re-election of Grant.
He says:
"The Missouri programme suits
me. There the Radicals were de
feated through this kind of co
operation. Let the Radicals call
their conventioL and nominate
Grant, and then let the independent
Republicans bolt and nominate
whoever they please, and then the
Democrats rally to his support.
Tlis is the way Lincoln got in in
18g0, and in this way Grant can
eatily be defeated."
The co-operation is to stand back
as an organitat ion an d let the field
be kept clear to the disaffected and
independent Republicans.
Mr. Blair Lelieves that the Demo
crat. are fast coming to this. He
is of opinion th.at the bu'st anti
Grant can~dilate is William Culleix
Brv ant.
THE RUSSIAN MINISTER.
Minister Catacazy, the representa
tive of the Russian government at
Washington,has so far compromised
himself and his mission in the es
timation of President Grant that he
was "admonished not to adldresN the
President" (luring the reception of
the Gmind Dake Alexis. The pub-'
lic have not been made aware of
the nature of the calumnies against
the President by the Russian Am
bassa'lor, but the follewing language
is "sufliciently precise and emphatic
to indicate the gravity of the offence.
"In con sequence of his continued
mishehavior and his personal calum
nj of the Pres~dent the latter has
for some time past refused inter
course with Minister Catacazy, to
whom it was intimated that on the
occasion of the visit he must con
fine himself to the official act of
presenting the Grand Duke. Fur
ther than this, he was admonished
not to address the President, and
be did not offer his hand. The
management of the Russian legation
passed to-day from Mr. Catacazy
to General Orlofl whose residence
has bees at Hartford as military
attache ot the legation. Thin gen
tleman will be very aeceptable to
the executive authorities in his new
position. This ebmange relieves the
President of the unpleasant duty
which Mr. Catacazy's conduct had
otherwias made * necessity of mend
ing his psamport to the minister,
and may be regarded as a practical
compliance with the reqest of this
government for his reclLIt is un
derstood that Mr. Catacazy has
been ordered by his government to
waif vpon his Imperial Highncess the
Grand Duke during his tonr in this
cuuntry, and to return to Russia
immod~iaaely on its cdoss."
POINTS FOR THE COM
MITTEE.
A committee to investigate the
affairs of the city was provided for
by the Mechanics' Institute mass
meeting. We would suggest as
especially worthy of examination
the following points:
First. The office of the Admin
istrator of Finance has for a long
time past been turned into a broker's
shop, and the Administrator or his
ca-hikr has discounted city obliga
tious, over the counter, in open
competition with the curb-stone
money leanders and St. Charles
street loan offices. It has even
been asserted by envious persons
(though we cannot believe it) that
the money of the city itself has been
nsed in these shaving operations
for laboring warrants have been
knocked down from fifteen to thirty
per cent. How much, we would
have the committee ascertain, has
this little official speculation tended
to conserve the city's financial
credit?
Second. "In 1870, $20,000 was
enough for the Dept of Commerce,
while now $36,000 is asked." Will
the committee not find out if the
duties and labors of this Depart
ment have not been doubled since
1870? Has not the care of all the
city markets, for instance, since
been added ?
Third. "The Mayor has reduced
the salaries of the employees in his
office from $18,720 to $12,000."
We should like to know if he cannot
consistently reduce $10,000 more
without injury to the public service?
Fourth. Judge Walker says the
people have "abandoned the city
government to a set of rings, job
hers, thieves and men devoid of all
honor or principle." Does the Judge
here particularly allude to the old
Drainage Commissioners--all about
whom he "knows how it is himself?"
Fifth. How can respectable tax
payers cousistently denounce the
plan of general improvements con
templated for the levees, New Basin
and connecting streets, yet sign
petitions for the square block paving
of streets running by their res
pective business places ? Vide
petitions published in last Council
pro eedings.
The above will do as a first in
stallment. We have some other
suggestive queries in reserve.
MORE HOMICIDES.
Two unfortunate occurrences are
reported in the city papers of Fri
day, both resulting fatally to color
ed nun.
One of them is that adisturbsnce
took place near Bayou Sara, on
board of the steamaer "R. E. Lee,"
between a deck hand and the mate
of the boat, in which the colored
hand was shot and mortally wound
ed by the offlcer.
The same day another tragedy
was enacted on board the "Great
Republic," hbout ten miles below
Baton Rouge, and while on her way
to this city. The roustabouts are
represented as assuming a very
hostile and thresteniug attitude
towards one John W. Cheeney,
threats to throw him overboard,
and actual attacks with their cotton
hooks and other offensive weapons,
and strange that with all the com
motion which such demonstrations
would undoubtedly create, there is
no mention of any notice of it, or
attempt to stop it, on the part of the
officers ol the boat.
The picture presents Cheeney as
a very ill used and patieut man,
enduring all the threats and abusee
until one of the hands brought a
rope with which to tie him, and
then he drew his revolver and
scattered the crowd, killing two,
and wounding a third. On the ar
rival of the boat here Cheeneg was
handed over to the police authori
ties. We hope that there will be
searching investigations into these
matters, and should it be found
that these lives have been needless
ly sacrificed, that justice will be
meted out to the offenders.
WORK BEFORE CONGRESS.
The approaching session of Con
grees is represented as presenting
one of the busiest business seasons
for legislators which has occurred for
many years. The New York World
reports "eight hnndred bills on the
calendar." An alarming number
certainly to be disposed of within
the limited period of the session.
3S"Yeeterday we had the pleasure
of welcoming the arrival of our
friends Hens. C. C. Antoine, Sena
tor, and Win. Harper, Represetat
tive, fnqm the Parish of (Jsddo.
THE NATION--OFFICIAL
FIGURES.
From advance sheets of the Cen
sus Table No. 2, it appears that the
population of the various Statesand
Territories, as officially and finally
revised at the Census Office, is as
follows:
Alabama...................... 996.992
Arizona...................... 9,658
Arkansas..................... 484,471
California.................... 560,247
Colorado..................... 39,864
Connecticut .................. 537.454
Dakota....................... 14,181
Delaware................... 225,025
i)istric t Columbia............. 131,700
Florida ...................... 187,748
Georgia.................. 1,184,109
Idaho....................... 14,000
Illinois....................... 2,539,891
Indhana...................... 1,680,637
Iowa......................... 1,191,792
Kansas....................... 364,3:'9
Kentucky................. 1,321,011
Louisiana..... 726,915
Maine .. ................... 626,915
Maryland .................... 780 894
Mas sachusetts ................ 1,457,451
Michigan.................. 1,104,050
Minnesota.................. 439, 706
Mississippi.................. 781,722
Missouri .................. 1,722,295
Montana . ................... 20,595
Nebraska..................... 122,000
Nevada ..................... 42,491
New Hampshire............ 318,300
New Jersey.............. 9
New Mexico.................. 91,874
New York................... 4,382,759
North Carolina............... 1,071,371
Ohio.......................... 2,665,260
Oregon... ................. 90,923
Pennsylvania............... 3,521,791
Rhode Island................ 217,353
South Carolina............... 705,606
Tennessee.................... 1,258,520
Texas........................ 818,579
Utah......................... 86,786
Vermont..................... 330,359
Virgini.................. 1,225.165
W..aiington .................. 23,9.5
West Virginia............... 442,014
Wisconsin................. 1,054,670
Wyoming.................... 9,118
Total....................38,255,983
The totals of population of the
States and Territories and made up
of the following classes:
ALABAXA.
Whites.. ..521,384 Indians.........98
Colored .... 475,510
ARIZONA.
Whites..... .9.581 1 Indians..........31
Colored ...... 26 Chinese .........20
aaxssias.
We tes .... 362,115 Indians ......... 89
Colored ... .122,169 Chinese ......... 9d
Whites .....499,422 Indians ..... 7,241
Colored .... 4,272 I Chinese .....49,310
Including 33 Japanese.
ooWaUADO.
Whites......39,221 Indians ........180
Colored..... 496 Chinese........ 7
OONNECTICUT.
Whites ..... 527,249 1 Indians ........ 235
Colored.... 9,668 I Chinese........ 22
DAKOTA.
Whites......12,887 Indians ......1,200
Colored ..... 94
DELAWARB.
Whites......102,221 1 Colored .....22,793
DINTRICT OF OOLUMBEt.
Whites......83,288 Indian..........IS
Colored .....43,404 Chinese......... 3
toRaWS.L
Whites......96,057 Indians..........2
Colored .....91,680
Whites.....638,926 Indians ...........
Colored ....545,142 Chinese ..........1
WiAO.
Whites.......10,618 Indians....... 47
Colored..... 60 Chinese......4,274
ILLISD. .
Whites ....2,511,096 Indians..........32
Colored... 28,762 Chinese......... 1
INDIANA.
Whites....1,655,837 Indians.........240
Colored... 24,560,
IOWA.
Whites ... 1,185,979 Indians......48
Colored. .. 5,762
Whites.... .346,367 Indians.....914
Colored .. .. 17.108
KENrecKY.
White... . .1,098, 692 Indians ........108
Colored... 223,210 IChinese.....1
Whites...362.065 Indians.....569
Colored . . . .364,510 Chinese. .......712
Whites...634,800 Indians.....499
Colored.... 1,606 Chinese.....1
MARYLAJD.
Whites...606,497 Indians.........4
Colored ... .175,391 IChinese.......
Whites .. .1,443,156 Indians.....151
Colored . . 13,947 C hinese . ......97
Including 10 Japanese.
Whites . . .1,167,282 Indians. ......4926
Colored.. . 11,849 Chinese.... 2
MINNEGOTA.
Whites...438,257 Indisans. 6...90
Colored . ... 759
Whites...282,896 Indians.....809
Ooilored .. . .444,201 IChinese .. ... .16
MSsoURs..
Whites .. ..1,603,140' Indians......75
Colcre... 444,201 Chinese .....32
moNrANA.
Whites....18,306 Indians.....157
Colored ... 183 Chinese....1,949
wana~sxA.
Whites...122,117 Indians.....87
Colored . ... 739
NEvADA.
Whites. ...33,959 Indians.....23
Colored ... 357 Chinese....3,162
Whites...31&6974 Indians.....23
Colored .... 5800
Whites...875,407 IIndisas.....16
Colored .... 30,668 |Chinese......15
Including 10 Japanese.
wuw mazzoe.
Whites....90,382 Indians.....1,300
Colored ... 172
Whites . ..,330,210 IIndisans......
Colored... 53,061 IChinese......9
Whites..6 .78,4710 Indhisa....1,341
Colored ... .391,651i
Whites ...2,601,446 Indisans....100
Colored... 63,2131 Chinese.1...
Whitcs....86,8391 IndIans.....318
Colored... 346s IChinese ...3,320
Whites...3,456,449 I Initians. ...4
Colored.. $5,394 Chinese.. ....14
Whihes......l~as JuIla.... .....giss
Colshed ... 6,883
sonst ans num.
Whites.....189,667 Indisas........124
Colored .... 415,814 Chinese........ 1
White.....936,119 Indians .........70
Colored ... .622,331 `
Toes.
Whites .....565,700 Indians ........379
Colored ....253,475 Chinese........ 25
VTA.
Whites ......86,044 Indians ........179
Colored ..... 118 Chimes........ 445
vXMONT.
Whites ...629,613 Indians .........14
Colored .... 924
rzmormsu.
Whites....712,089 Indiana.........229
Colored ....512,841 Chinese........ 4
wasmToWex TErrITORY.
Whites ...... 22,195 Indians...... .1,319
Colored ..... 207 Chinese .... 234
WIBT YfLRODUU
Whites .....424.033 Indians...........1
Colored .... 17,980
wuacoesm.
Whites ...1,051,351 Indians. ......1,206
Colored... 3,113
wYOxINo.
Whites .......8,726 Indians........ 66
Colored ...... 183 Chinese........143
THE BROTHERS BOYD AC
QUITTED.
FzRST DISTRICT COURT.
William and John Boyd, charged
with the murder of Samuel Rainey,
were released Saturday morning, at
111 o'clock, the jury having re
turned a verdict of not guilty.
OUR CHOICE.
[rnox THE SHREVEPORT REPUBLICAN.
We hoist the Republican banner
with the name of H. C. Warmoth for
Governor, in 1872. We have been
careful observers of all movements on
the politicals chess board and have re
viewed the acts of men, as leaders of
the wings of the party, with care, and
find that after noting his acts, the dig
fied tone in meeting the accusations of
members of his own party, we pro
nounce in his favor.
The fact is, political matters are so
complicated, and may become more so
auring the coming year, that we re
quire an astute, able and with all a lib
eral and honorable man to fill the ex
ecutive chair of the State, one W
seeing the administrative ability, with
the firmness of execution to meet and
master the questions, a proper solution
of which will add to the material
wealth of the State and to the pros
perity of all classes of our citizens.
And in H. C. Warmoth the mass of
the people of the State recognize these
merits, and without asking Democrsts,
Custom-housites, "Passivites," "ac
tivites," or any other "ites," a conces
sion or a compromise of their princi
ples, kre say that as the question of
"who is the man," will rest upon the
respective merits of the candidates,
and as his are transceudant, above, be
yond and superior to any man of this
State, "he is the man" to be the re
presentative of the people. The
sources from whence charges of cor
raption proceed against him, convicts
-if there is any truth in the charges
-those men of the party who sit in
judgment on him, and as he is not the
law-maker, but executor, and guardian
of the law, is guiltless, but they are
the guilty instigators of laws which
they say "oppress the people." As he
has been found to be an honest official,
a faithful executer of the law and the
vindicator of the rights of all clamse
before the the law, we will support him
as the choice of the Republican party
of the State of Louisiana, subject to
the nominating convention.
"All hail the Chief," the most no
ble and able of Southern Governres.
"Our Choice" for Lieut G3over
normi 1872, saswill be seen by re
ference to our bast column, is the
Hon. P. BL S. Pinchbeck. The
political record of this gentleman
shows no blemish, nor can his most
violent political opponents charge
him with corruption or faithlessness
to his constituents. As an able
representative of his class in whom
his fellow-citizens place implicit
faith, he will in the next guberna
torial canvass poll a heavy vote,
and as a co-worker on the Repub
lican ticket with Gov. Warmoth,
assurance of succeus is made doubly
mure.
we got dere we all go to do court,
and dere, in de face of the whole
court, Squire H- lhe kiss de book
and do declare dat John is a free
born." Upon being aseked to show
his papers, which ho never would
consent to do, the poor half-witted
fellow, who had long years before
committed them and locked them
in his memory, when he himself did
keep the key, in a monotosa
one recitative repeated something
like the following never vary
ing in the elighteet degree, mad al
ways reiterating "dat I'r free
born:" "In the State of Xaryland,
do An Arundel county, and de An
no Domini in deyesr of our Lord,
do one thousand and do eight hun
dred andds lorty-seven. In do face
6f the whole court I do mow decisre
dat John Queen, who is Are feet ten
inches in do height, wid do long
straight, black hair, yelfler in com
plexion, wid a mole on do eight up
per lip, whiekui da. ims-bor.,.Ja de
hestimey whoeree I da hereby is
the State of Maryland, in dehu
of Ann Arundel, in do year of
Lord, Anno Domiiu one thousand
eight hundred and forty-seven,set
my hand and de great meal of do
court, and do hereby now declare dat
do aforesaid John Queen is frW
born."
John never paused until he fnish.
ed this indubitable proof of his free
dom, and always seemed to gleam
satisfaction from having the original
in his possession, which he said he
never would part from save with his
heart's biood. Only a few evenings
ago I heard this incident described
in the presence of some of the con
nections of the Maryland families
referred to, and they instantly re
cognized thepicture and the persons
preserved in the memory of this
simple freedman. If I suppress
the names it is only because it is
unnecessary to revive individual
relations to a system that does no
credit to those wo subsisted upon
it, however unconeciously or inno.
cently.-Washington Sunday Ciro.
nick.
Alice Cary's only Love.
In the profoundest sense Alice
Cary never loved but once. The
man whom she loved is stinl alive;
yet gossip, with its keenest scentk
has never found or named him.
With all her fullness of affection,
hers was an ecletic and solitary
poul. He who by the very patent of
his being was more to her than any
other mortal could be might pass
from her life, but no other could
ever take his place. A proud and
prosperous family brought all their
pride and power to bear on a son to
prevent his marrying a girl neead.
dated, rustic and poor. "I waited
for one who never came back," he
said. "Yet I believed he would
come till I read in a paper his mar
riage to another, Can you think
what life would be, loving one,
waiting for one who would mevur
come I"
He did come at last. I saw him.
His wife had died. Alice was dying.
The gray-haired man sat down be
side the gray-haired woman. Life
had death prosperously with him,
as it is wont with men. Suffering
and dealt had taken all from her
save the lustre of her eyes. From
her wan and wa ,i face they shone
upon him full of tenderness and
youth. Thus they met with life be.
hind them-they who parted plight
ed lovers when life was young. He
was the man whom she forgave for
he blighted and weary lire, with a
smile of parting as divine as ever
lit the face of woman.-Isdependent
FIOLAIATIO AGAINST THE 91I111
Il-KUI!.
Governor Conrad Baker, of In
diana, has issued the following
proclamation in reference to the
organized band that recently hung
the three negro murderers in that
State:
Whereas orgnnized bands of
armed and masked menfae
recently usurped the functions and
powers of the judiciary in the coun
ties of Franklin and Clarke, and
have assumed fhe right to forcibly
take prisoners from the jails of said
counties and execute them for of
fences against the laws of this
State, charged to have been com
mitted by such prfioniers, sad in
the tatter county three negro in
were taken froms the jail and ex
ecuted by one of these lawles
organization;, and it has been made
known to me that proclainatiofl
have been published in said county
of Clark; purporting to enm5Mst
from one of theme klan; notifyifng
all colored persons who have 5sttlad
in said county since the elcse of
the late war, to leave said county
on pain of death; and, being sl10
informed that there are now colored
prisoners in the jail of Clarke conO
ty, who may be in danger of mob
violence;
Now, therefore, I, Conrad Baker~,
Governor of the State of Iiidmiian
do hereby eall upon the legal
authorities and people of 5
county, and of all other countin
where these illegal ogaZ
may euist, to 135 .ll the lewf5
meanas intheir power for heiP'
pression of thessams, and for the
speedy arrest and trial of those~
have been enlgaged in the recs@
terrible tragedy before mentQ5
Every citizen and every clse'
citizenu, is entitled to the eqid
protection of the laws and s~
violence must be supprWd5'
prisoners awaiting trial and their
lawful custodians must be protectel
at all hazards. To this endal di
ineans atnmy comanand wil e or
nished to the local asth&
aid in the perfermmn & h
defes whmevser a request toth
agest is madle. I especially war
