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JA. II. .COSIG(OYE, . - Editor. NATCIHITOCHE S SATUI:DAY - - - March 13, 1F75. ~ra............. S A dvlrtiusit J(,ia es. Isquare... 7 $ l 3.1 0a 15 111 5ýquare,...- 7 00 o :0 2 0' 15 0u: : o10 - sqi are.... t:) til 0, 3"; i 5 4,, 4 a7 quaemnt s4er ut7 Ofi 0 ( n1: Ssqqlures... 43,11) 30n , )pI 40 ,. 5 ', fi ,!O 10 egtt'auna., 30035:i)1. C I ' t*," "; :' 5!" ('' :" ('t1110 13 `1111 1':35 Ii). 5t 01 ' r~LnsiA!lf lldrrrt'Fý'9J1Pnl N ."31.5') ((r'' Pl!tR'.' f I lin,. Y.revier. first insertion. Eaoh :ulbse geont insertin 75 couts per square. OUR JOB OPFICE is supplied with a grest vnriet of tcne, and work in this ce.part mert pormrtned with neatness and at muder st* price.. Terms, CASI on delrery of work. Rates of Subscrilption. One Copy one year ......................$.0 One Copy six mouths............. ........ 200 (Paynlabtlo in advance.) John J. IIHerbert, is our duly anthori ond travelling agent. Notice to Contributors. 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We hope that occasion may arise to reciprocate his kindness. We hear that Mr. Hale, of St. Louis, has married a Miss Rain, of New Or leans. Kind of a mixed shower that, but rather hard on hail. We call attention to the card of I. Kahu&n' Co., in to-day's issue. They are offering their large and select stoek at New York Cost. Now is the time for bargains and we are more than satisfied that a call will convince rill that goods can be had in their es tablishment dirt cheap. River rapidly falling. No cotton coming in. Business dull. No money in'sight and everybody sick, mad, or drhnk. , Dring our absence, an article ap ; Ipered in these columns containing ~Muitares against E. Esernack, the elitorof the Repvblicain, in this city, to whidh a reply was made by that paperf enouncing the auther as a S'barefaced liar" and that they would aeow up the Editor of the Vindicator in 3is true colors. The card else : hee speaks for itself. .,The Mayor's Court is as dry as the cash drawers of our city merchants. Times has got too tiglht for fighters to get tfgk#i. Our higah looks dull and is a: croe as a sore head hear. Can't somebody get up a small sparing match, for the sake of the old man, s9 that he can smile once more. nugg saw a cleani place on Front S-ieet last week and proceeded to htsi a little race all by himselt. C. P. 'di'hi hand into that young ma's clar and the Mayor Aug fivesdollars rom his pocket notwithstanding the : ansig man protested "he warat bet 't Timn Ae hve minutes. Cost live 4ollar.,' WANTe .-0O,00() white farmers to 'ill' the baddoned rich Red River :.pdsef Natchitoehes parish. They ;nabee erved as farm laborers, lessees, or purchasers of homes. Now is -the rite far all jersons living (making out I~ tlle we may say) on the poor hills of Louisiana, to seenre homes upon ail the natural inoorease in the value bf which will make them prosperous in ean years. I. tter. for information addressed to this odiee will meet with prompt : atteotP n.. . , I': . oiatva'titiasue we will begin the -p. -~ a , eof. tha evidence :f the a : tousIuu taewi es oia Natehisoeshe lcstruction or Death! We regard the adjustment of the LOuisiana iffic.ulties as a strong card for success, and the intemperate de clamnnation and factions opposition to such measures as t will put us in a position to meet 'the enemy more ad vanttageously, tends only to give the opponents of the tune and good people of our State and the South an op portunity to doubt whether our mno tives are really ftor tile good of coun try or the glory of party. We have on all occasions given our views upon what we considered the true policy by which Louisiana could be benefited, in plain and unIrista kable language; the 14th of Septein her, 1,74., conviniced us thivt the Kel logg nsurpation could not be over come by force, and the action of Grant on the 4th January, t175, set tied, beyond cavil, the fixed deter inination of the administration to sustain Kellogg's government at all hazards; not only against armed forces, but against impeachment and all other peaceable means to be etam ployed by us for its overthrow. We are well aware of how highl sounding are the beauties of princi ples when illustrated by eloquence, but to a people on the "rLgged edge" of distruction, with starvation look ing at them from thle eyes of their wives and little ones; with a past whose path is strewn with disaster and a future black with ruin ; "words that burn" have not in them the es sence of salvation. The people de mand a "showing of hands," and will insist that unless those who oppose compromise can settle upon a well defined line of policy, that possesses at least a hope of success, something that can be "seen and felt," not this everlasting cant of Northarn Demo cracy coming to the rescue, and lift ing us from this "slough of dispond" -this "high toned" abstract of sink ing with a ship, when a boat is at hand to save us-the PEOPLE we say, will insist upon knowing what good will come to them in their individual capacity as citizens of Louisiana, by acting out this sublime and God-like role of self-immolation for the benefit of high tariff, hard money, railroad subsidy, (to Northern roads and capi talists) loyal Democrats from the trans-Mason and Dixons line. As long as one ray of hope illumined the dreary waste of our dark situation we fought Kellogg and his damnable usurpation, with all our soul, heart and strength, but when we can see no benefit, no rictory, naught but ruin and defeat by a longer contin unance of the battle, we do not pro pose to rush to destruction to benefit strangers; for we now make this pre diction, that although a Democrat will be elected President, with a Dem ocratic Senate and House of Repre sentatives in 1877, if this policy of "masterly inactivity" is followed out, Louisiana will be, in the brighltness and bloom of her saved and prosper onus sister States, black as midnight with africanization. What Democrat will dare say that hlie or his party can then afford us relief t Will that par ty go hack upon its traditions, upon its principles, and ipterfere with the local atfalirs of Lotisiana or any other tte 1 No Sirs I netecr. -This incun bus is fastened to you like a mill stone, and all the "Democratic victo ries" from now till doomsday, in the North, will never shakoe it off. Thle proposed and accepted settle ment is a fixed fact, and we must be firm and united in our endeavors to get all the good from it we can; we have by this adjustment atlast se cured a foot-hold on the battlements of tile enemies position, and if victo I ry is not ours in tile enld then it will Ibe lost by our own volition-by our wandering to tile graves of the past and weeping over the tombs of dead issues. We must '"let the dead past bury its dead," the future is before us, and in it lies all that can save Louis iarna and her people. Democracy North has nothing to do with' our salvfration. It is destruction to longer fight, and deathl beyond resurrection to stbmit, then we must "make trea ty." Louisianians, you hold your salva tion or annihilation in your own hands, act well the part of wise men. . WASHINGTON, March 6.--U n ti within a few days the plan of arbitra tiing Louisiana affairs, so far as the ecmmittee were concerned, was not positively fixed. It may now be stated that the case will be consider ed by the whole committee, and that they will begin work as soon as pa pers coming from New Orleans reach them, probably as early as Wednes dhy or Thursday of next week. The propristy of an extra session of the Louisiana Legislature is still sug gested by the committee. The above sets at rest one of the statements of the anti's, for it will be made by the whole of thie committee, four of whom are known to be favo rable to our people. In the proceed ings of the last meeting of the Con servative cacnes on the day of ad journment, a committee appointed to wait upop Kellogg for information as to the date of the call session, ion formed the caucus that he would call 'an extra seosion of the Legislature at [ny time that the Congressional Con-a mitteetnow adjusting the Lopusian! dificulty would be pleap d to ite-· ti"o. We can, therefore, look with thd6f ope to relieif froau' brb(a e Ap:logieg and iegrets. It was ve~ r reniitis ill us, of colrse, not to bail thle Eiating of Sheridan ii and Lawrence as another evidence of I the hollowness of the Kellogg estab- i lishlinenit and the folly of conceding a an acqlliesence just as it is toppling v to its filtt fall. Obviously we should a have pounced upon the circuinstance I as a triumphant witness, and pro cceded to demlonstrato that if Sheri tlhn were legally elected in S172, so i also was the rest of the Fusion State e ticket. Front such premises how t natural the conclusion that the Kel- c logg Government is a myth and the a M.1eEnery Government at glorious re ality ! On such a foundation how t readlily and swiftly we could rear the e structure of Conservative triumph f andti restoration ! We fear it was sadly wrong in us I to miss that opportunity of encour-II aging the peoplle. It is st) ceasy to r lersuadie ourselves of \what we most I desire; so easy to keep our heads c aiuoiin the clouds and ignore the mire a into which on11 feet sink deeper every ilda. Thisi Sheridan business is pro. fotindl-r signlificant and niotaillh. If it be truo thalt Sheridan is entitled to I his stnit ill Congress, does it not ne- l ccssarily fellow that the w hole ticket f was successful ? And if McEnery e llt the legally elected Governor accord- t in to to the nailnis:;ion of Congress, ii loes. it not eceessarily follow that r Kellogg is a mere iimpostor who has . no bnusiness in the Exentive chair h anid ought to he kicked out instanter? c And i-n't all this cuoigh to makoe everyibody happy and to expose the a ft'tilit, and uelessuess of any faither c eolfort f a These are beantiful and seductive Ir conclusiolns which flow spoftanlleously from the premises. l'rhe filct that I McEnery's election has long ago been established by a much miore dire'ct I and explicit test ; the fact that the C Kellogg Governmlent is conceded on t all hands to be revolutionary and utn repullliran ; and the further fact that, t notwithlistanding these other facts, a Kellogg has been maiintained for the t past two years and is sure to be per petuated for the two years yet to 1 come-these considleratios amount to nothing, it appears. The gates of "Fools' Paradise" have been flung 1 wide again, and there has . ensued a t general putting on of motley and flocking to the entertainment. Tio Picayune, unhappily, had to send "regrets." 1 The above from the Picayune of the 6th inst., it gospel when used in connection with our situation. How often have we been buoyed with hope, felt cheerful and could almost see the end of our troubles by certain acts of Congess, statements made by Grant and the reports of this committee and that committee. "Hope springs eter nal in the human breast"-but ;we have (we speak for ourselves) beconie sceptical on the subject, more so on the hope of relief.builn up upon such premises as the above. All these things are good themes for argument but possess not one shadow of prac tical utility. The first sale of currency under the Inew act of the City Council, took place at thile Mayor's office, on Satur day last, and the result of the meas ure is cheering indeed to our city taxpayers. The following named parties purchased: 3ai. Genins, currency, P4O fo B$ l eiapr. SH. Jal;,r, $50 " $105, - ."$' 5 " 10 if " " H. Jnaffor, " 50 " lln. " " " " 50 " ,10.00 " " S50L " 11I.50 " " P. Poet, 5)" 111,50 " " ' " ,5 " 111.50 " " II. Jailfor, " 2t " 441,40 " " Total currency #415 sold for $899,50 city paper. While upon this subject, we can not let the opportunity pass to com pliment our able and worthy )iayor, DeVargas, rind his City Council, upon the manner they have conducted the affairs of the city for the past year. Assuming control as they did when our Treasury was bankrupt and the city nearly nine thousand dollars in debt, with power to levy but $5000 as a tax for all purposes, in any one year-with the city script down to 25 cents per dollar, they have mana ged to force it.unpl by judicious legis lation, to nearly 50 cents, and by next mointh, under a continuation of this plan, we 'feel fully assured that city script will be worth 80 cents in cash, if not more. Some complaint has been made on account of thile ter rible condition of our streets, this can be answered and very easily, there was no money to do the work, and the taxpayers were in no condi tion to longer continue flooding the market with script, which to the la borer may have been but 80 cents for each dollar, but to the city was as a dollar. We feel and know that all good citizens appreciate thile efforts of the Mayor and City Council, and they will not fail to receive that reward which good action entitles them to. We understand thlat the wire for eight miles of the proposed Telegraph line has reached Grand Ecore, and that at an early day we will be in ,open commnnication with the outer world. We earnestly call upon all our leading citizens. to come forward without delay and subscribe to this great improlement, for we can as sure them that it will greatly benefit as all. "WUAT I KNIow, I KNow,n sal!. the great surgeon Magendie. "Give me stubborn facts: I care not for theories." .This is sound doctrine. Possibily a medical martinet might be able, in a plausible way, to show why Dr., Walker's Vinegar Bitters aought,oto cure Indigestion, Head. achei Nervousness, Liver Complaint, Moscalar Diseiases, and Miasmatie Ferers; but as they 'do tih ev.ery in ,Itaineo effect that oblet, his fine theo lo,.Wel4 be a waste. of words. As lriagndio said, theo world gemands 'ct*i, iet ipciilstivo oriipion. Arkansas and Louisiana. ,,'e I:y bfou're our readers tiis morulilg a letter from Mr. A. [I. Leo- 8 miaid to the New Orlea'ns Picayune, p defining his views on the compromise o aml his reasons for supporting it. It will he seen that Mr. l.eonard ifollows almost precisely the same line of ar- 0 gunlent pursued by ns in an editorial ci - published in the Times of the 4th inst. We helieve that our article m isd Mr. Leonard's letter, have mark ed. out the true policy of Louisiana in P this crisis, and that if we hor to ac- e cornplish anything in the future, we c: m3 lust net upon it. In this connection we may remark d r that, in the hurry of preparing the n editorial of the 4th inst., we omitted b 1 from our examples of usurpations p which have beetn accepted by the people,, and through which the true jiprilciples o'f ovclrnme:lts have beeni I re-established, tie case of the l'axter It Susurpation in Arkansas. Blaxter bi- tl 4 ec:ne Governor of Arkansas, precisely d as Kellogg became Governor of Lou isiana ; that is, by fraud and violence ; o in other words Baxter was in every p sense of the word a usurper. But he td º was sustained as Kellogg is, by the power of federal bayonets, and lhe . t people, after vainly protesting against a' the outrage and becoming satisfied it they could not overthrow the de facto, d accepted it as an inevitable fact, and n under its authority, addressed themn s4 SlveC to the redemption of their r State and the re-establishment of it Iconstitutional, through the machlinery c Sof de fateo government. This they accomplished. The constitutional ti convention was called under the 1' authority of tlhe usurper Baxter. a tl new constitution framed and a legal , State government elected by the peo t ple and inaugurated. SlThis policy has brought peace to It t Arkansas and has started that State on the highway to prosperity. When the Arkmlnsas people found they could 1) Snot overthrow tile Baxter usurpation, t thev acted wisely in recognizing its authority and working under it for C the revival of their prosperity and C the re-establislnent of sound repub · lican government. t Now, until within the last two f months the people of Louisiana have believed it practicable to overthrow p the Kellogg usurpation, and their d 1 war upon it was proper, patriotic and courageous. But the 14th of Sep r tenmber convinced them they could f not overthrow it by arms, and the 2 f 4th of January convinced them they a could not do it by any means-that the Kellogg usurpation was a fixed v fact, sustained by the army and navy of the United States. Convinced of y this, further efforts to overthrow it I are simply folly, and sound policy prompts us to recognize its authority 9 t and seek the revival of our prosperi 1 ty under it, looking to the future for t the re-establishment of political rights and de jure government in our ruined i e and outraged State.-Srercport Times e -- - ý-4 , .-- 4 u We can inform thie writer of the W ICommunication signed "One of the e People" in to-days issue, that the t whole intent of those who favored the Compromise or adjustment of the difficulties'in our State, did so for the express purpose and with the dis e tinct uniderstoding to fighlt more ad k vantageously and with better hope -of success Kellogg and his minions. - We accept the adjustment, revolting I Y as it is, because we cannot help our d selves in .any other way. To us Kellogg is no less a usurper 1 Snow than six months since; we sinm ply bow to the inevitable for tlhe sake of peace, and that our people may have a chance in the future. If we, with fall control of thie low er house, cannot work out our own Ssalvation, then to our mind we are not deserving of success. If, two years ago, our Senators then elected and returned, had gone into the Kel logg concern, we would now have controle of both houses instead of one, in fact, the whole matter is con n tnined in a nutshell, thle acceptance of e thie adjustments is entirely for the n future salvation of the State, thie re jection -simply means that we will continue to rear monuments in mem- 1 0 ory of departed hopes, and call upon the world to witness our self-sacrifice, Swhich the world will say is all very y nice, but it don't pay. Those are our views, short, sweet and to the point. n Will thley suit or not? Remember 1 we have found out lately that the most of people like individual mar tyrs, bht not one in a thousand as ' pires to the honored distinction. The stamer Texas, with the trip 1 Sof the Bart Able reach Grand Ecore on Tuesday last, and will go down again on Monday next. Passengers and shippers will "make a note of this." ' We suppose it would be a matter of Sno moment to call the attentionof our enterprising citizens to thie condition Sof the Grand Ecore road ; that is, if h any person would be brave enough to risk his life in endeavoring to find Sthe "blame thing." That road is in Sthe same condidion as the backwoojl .1 man's uncovered cabin; don't need d any work on it in dry weather, and is during the rainy season its too wet Sand muddy to fool with. When, oh ! it when, will our people ever have en terprise enough to build a bridge over a ditch two feet wide Echo an Swers--When ? 'r .The' blacks have already begun w. I4hat they no doubt cousider the en it joyment of thleir "civil rights." In w several cities of .tlthe Union, attempts r have been made to force themselves 1 into the white cireles of the Theatres. t, The Varieties, in New Orleans, was il the scene of quite a hubbub last a week bat the affair was quieted down. ,- When Degrees force themselves into la such place, we are of the opinion that Is the case shouldb he made ne of as sanult, and that tomptl. The people of the (;tlh and 7th wards of what is now Grant parish re are extremly desirous, upon the re peal of the act forming said parish, to of being attached to Natchitoches, 8. and we commend to the considerathion 1li of our citizens the good that will ac- 'p crue to us by such annexation. lis The white vote of the two wards cii is very large, 250 or 300, and as a nl population, thrifty and energetic, and en,'j"y some means, what might be of called as an average comfortable liv- At ers. Montgomery, the central busi- to pr ness point, notwithstanding many tl, bad causes in the way of ruinous sa parish legislation, &c., has improved tC' all the time, the trade is quite lah.ge with the interior, the merchants in telligcent and enterprising; in fact, dr the population is one in every way p'r desirable for the material advancin.g ' of a parish; and as our future die pends upon the immigration of whites all to the negro districts, i. e. the rich de .river lands, and by the counter-batl r' rei ancing of the ignorant vote in the ot hands of unscrupulous men, this ad- fai dition to our parish is in every way an desirable. lpe l'etitions, we understand, are lc- i ins circalated and generally signed, tih calling upon our compromise legisla- cl ture, when it meets, to allow that th portion of Grant parish, embraced in the two inamed wards, to attach them selves to our parish. We wish the move success, and will do all in our PC humble power to further it. re IBASE BAlT.,--A series of games of Base Ball have been played between the "EXI'ERIIMEN'NTALS" of Company C. 3d Infantry, and the "PnocGiRss" t Club of Natchitoches. The bad ce weather rendered out-door amusement for two months past impossible and in consequence, the game was sus pended up to the 21 of Feb., on which day the play was resumed, the game at that time resulting in a victory n for the "Experimnentals." On the 28th Feb. the same club defeated again the "Progress" club, and upon of Sunday evening last the "Progress" i being reinforced by new and good a f players were victorious. The fol lowing is the summary of all the games to date which shows four winnings for the "Experimentals"and r two for the "Progress" club : iEXPERRXIENTAL. I'IIOG(;mEaS. 1 1 game 51 Rnns. I game 15 Rnns. 2 30 " 2 9 " 3 " _ " 3 " 25 " 4 4 1" 5 i 5 " 47 " 5 " 24 " b B6 " 4 " 6 " 52 " The Vindicator office will give, as ir B a prize, to the victorious club in a e 3 series of three games of five, a pair of n 0 companion steel engravings, entitled, a e "Fishing and HIunting." What do IT - the Presidents of the respective clubs tl - say tothatt ii m. The Rump Senate passed the 'fol glowing bills, which originated in, and d -had previously passed thie lower e House. House Bill No. S1, transfer- P r ring the parishes of Red River and l - Natchitoches, from thie 17th Judicial a e District to - . House Bill No. 104, y amending the act incorporating the n City of Natchitoches. To what Jo- e - dicial District we are now attached ij n we are unable to learn, and from the f e report of the proceedings in the Te- ti o publican, we seem to be "laying c d around loose;" made a kind of soft y - crumb to be given some toodl ess rad- ti e ical to munch npon. We can only f say that this orange is quite dry, and a - what is more, develish hard to squeeze. S f We opine thIe amendment to the city a e charter, to mean a payment of parish S -taxes in future, of thie justness of t I which we will in our next, have some - ithing to say. We find that our eight n n Senators were instrumental in defeat ,, ing nearly thirty "pet bills" in the y Senate, which is something gained, y e and further that their presence put a a complete stopper to the general "rush " through" of Bills as has been usual r upon tlhe last days of the session. S Some people delight in making fun i- of thIe miseries of other peoplle, and b "Perkins," a crazy youth, of un- s known pedigree, has not escaped thile d p rule. When "Perkins" is surrounded n e by a teasing crowd it is difficult to t n distinguish whetlher "Perkins" is cra- v a zy or the crowd all fools. How is it f gentlemen "We make no note" of a change in " f the weather-on the contrary, the r i' Clerk thereof, don't give as time to a ttake breath, but pours down his fluid if in copiouas streamns. b d We are pleased to inform the b n publio thlat, that Queen of steam t Sers, the Xew Rart Able, will re-. d suame her trips to Grand Ecore, q leaving New Orleans on Saturday next, 20th inst. We congratulate our friend li SCapt. Sinnott, in so soon replacing i . his fine packet in running order, and we feel assured his efforts to " give the shipping and travelling t Spublic, the benefit of a first class ! steamboat will be duly appiecia a ted. 6 05 We have had pleasant weather h i this week, and the hearts of our a farmers are cheered thereby. Corn r planting has commenced,( and we a ] do hope that more acreage will be F t put in than last year. Tis way ,. of short corn crops speals lad for any country. o A joint resolution, authorizin r and re irig a crihlinal pro ,chti),: a; ;inst all p1 rsr t. implicated in til murder of R. A. I)owees, tax collet tor' of the parish of )e Soto; Fralt k S. Edgerton, sheriff'; llomir J. Twitchell, tax collector; Clar!k !iol la:d. supervisor of registration; W. T. lowell, pal' isl attorney: ,MeWil lis, justice of the peace, and:r of oter citizens of the pa:rish of Red River, on or about the twenty-ninth of Au gust, A. I). 1874 ; authorizing and di rec:tiltg a charngeg of venueo n the part of the State on appllication of the " Attorney General, of the district at torney, or of the district attorney protempore in certain Cases, whenever `' the district or parish courts in afore- i said parish of Red River may be in- ( terliered with. obstructed or prevent- a ed frona hohli-lg their regular terra t by' resistance or any other unlawful neas ; providing the mianner of drawin juries antil mode of trial; prIvit!ding for the conmpu!lsory atten dance of witnesses ; conferring upon the grand and petty jiuries of the parish of Red River jurisdtiction over all persons impllicated in said tour ders, either as principals or accesso- 1 ries, and whether said persons are residents of the parish of Red River, or otherwise; providing penalties for (. failure of jurors to attend tha court. and conforring upon the grand and petty ijuries of the parish of Jefferson ' jurisdiction of all)persons implicated t in said murders, whatever may be the parish of their domicile, provided change of venue is applied for in I these cases on "behalf of the State in the parish of Red River, and granted by the court. The bill was read the first time. The constitutional rule was sas pended by a four-fifths vote, the hill was read the second time and refer red to the Committee on Judiciary. The above is a synopsis of a bill introduced in the Rump Senate by . II. II. Twitchel, and we comnnmend it to the consideration of those who so earnestly oppose an adjustment of 1 our difficulties, but at the same time insist upon "perfect peace within our borders." In other words, we shall go to the shambles like sheep, and be slaughthered by a negro jury in a negro parish. to make political capi tal for a lot of Northern men with Southern principles. Bahli! we beg to refer to 1861. We, and a number of our friends are charged with being ! implicated in the above murders (?) and for them we say that iithough we may not compromise, we will uev. er take any Jefferson parish in ours, and being lame, we can't run worth a cent. [Comnlnuicatetd MR. EDrroR:-Having opposed the Wheeler Compromise from the beg ginning, I would say now, since it has become a fait accomplie, that we have done so in no spirit of thoughtless a impulse, much less of bitter madden ed hatred. The men that have op pf osed this measure are not of that number that have heretofore coun s, eled violent and extreme measures. a The violence that has been used in a this matter is the violence of Federal interference. It is the violence of Gen. Grant, that as if armed by di. vine right, has ordered the enforce ment of the midnight orders of a l drunken judge, remanded into obedi r oence a people triumphant over usur Spation and insult, and outraged all law and decency, by disbanding a Slegislature convened in all the rights I and forms of law. What I wish, is, thlat no one shall inistake our eompelled a'mubssion, otherwise than the enforced obedi ence of the powerless.'" In no sense 1 is it either the acquiescence or rati e fication of the people or State. The ,truth is, that it is a farce to call this comrpulsion, a compromise. True, we g cannot do otherwise than have the rt yoke fastened on our necks, but woe ' to the American people if this com pulsion, misnamed a compromise, Ssheuld so "denationalize" the Lonisi ana outrage as to cause our sister _. States a quiet acquieseuce, in so great y a wrong done to the cause of all tile b States of this Union. Snch.a delusive acquiescence must inevitably enslave the American people. SIf they are wise,they need moast t make tile cause of Louisiana their Sown. It will not do to fall asleep in Sthe shade of the Upas tree, much less ! beneath the sladow of a milit4rj des I, lotism. If we need must accept this a compromise, let it be done with a re h newed purpose to make a more do termined resistance in future, * OaNE OF TIHE PEOPLE. N'atchitoches, March 7, 1875. n The only "reform measure" passed d by the rump legislature during its - sixty days howling, was the expnol e oon of the negro, Ward, but as the d majority of the expellers are no bet o ter than that individual, very little b- virtne ean be claimed for such action. t Parson (i) Blunt, the windy Sena tor, so-called, from Natchitoches, SIwaxres wroth at the very name of e White Leagnuer, and annffes battle in i the-air. He delights in telling to his d eager listeners what "hle knows about bandits," and as his observation has been large, his ken quite remarkable, o being'able to see armeil men through i two brick walls and a wooden one, . I his Muncehhausen stories are no doubt quite interesting. 3'1 In all the noise of non-compromise we fail to hear any one advance a dI line of policy for the people of Lon g isiana to follow. Is not this rather "old womanish ?" Reason and com mon sense .should be consulted in this matter, and not factions declama tion. - The home boat Seminole, reached Grand Ecore on Tuesday last with a fairtrip. We are under t:hanks to rher genial oficers for favors. We r are sorry to see our people not u patronizing, the packets. who have e stuck to them as they should, and we Spredict that regrets will before long Smutual. r Thanks to E. L. Pierson, for files of the journal of the Rump ITone. "Tihe rumor grows ronder and be. e!ins to obtain credence that one of the secret :articles of the 'Louisia5 Compromuise' binds the C(onservatitP to elect the Administration's brother. in-law, Mr. Jim. Casey, to the seat in the Senate at present ainlmed b Mr. P. B. S. PinchIbak. In thle lte breath, it is asserted that the Presi. dent has cooled toward .Marshal Pate a :'dl, whoml he ncctses of lying to his about Lueisiana: affairs, and putting him in a, 'awkward position.'" ?Where there is sn.mnch smokeit would seeml there muc.t he somoe bi, It' the miembelrs of t: Conservative Caucus know anything of this lit t atrrangemelt, they opht to enlirtgb, the worhl. So far .a Mr. C(asy S)ancetrned, it woO Id be cronomaical for f hint to he 1leteld S.nattor, for he s1eld"s Tlmos0t g"l time'e in 1Washim, :as it is.-N. 0. Iihlletin. If Louisiana can, by the electi - of Mr. Casey, rid herself in fult - of Presidetitial interferance in er local allairs, for God's sake let a. sey go to the Senate. We want r control of Louisiana, that is the i lsun total of all the principle in. volved in the contest. Her sitn, tin at this moment is such tha i she cannot afford to "martyri] - her people for the North, the bid. I uce of the South, or any on else. No one should at this m ment consult feelings or passis on the contrary, reason will bt - us, that in no way can our 8St be benefited by a further coni. I nance of this plan of masterlyi1. r activity. We have fought it t enemy from the outside in for D mighty campaigns, and we sal if ftr from the goal of success ovr, as in 1868, and our ability to sta r defeat, a thousand times less. Conservative Caucus. i THEY ADJOURN SUBJECT TOCUe., The Caucus was called to eal a l o'clock. A quorum present. Mr. Estille reported that, uas ds r man of the committee for that p g pose he had called on goveraor J logg, asking himn what time he 'pi call an extra session. In reply h hi stated that Governor Kelleg said he would leave the mas~l t. a, tirely in the hands of the commitl a in Washington who, as soon a t would have settled the mattert al returns, would notify him wh mi could call the extra session. e Gen. Young moved that whAn i cancus adjourned that they waI S meet one day previous to the a i. .e zatien of the House. 3 Mr. Jeffries thought it better tea j. morn, subject to the call of Bpr . Wiltz, who might desire thim b It meet a few days previous to he d. 2. ed session, in order to conlittgPl . er on what action should be taleh n the session of the Legislatore. a- Mr. Mitchell moved that the n Df members of the committee appWoo i. to take into consideratiom tihqem . tion of compromise call the Cl.a a, together when necessary. i. Mr. Jeff'rieS's motion was ad.i. r. Mr. 'Hammond moved a vt d !1 thanks to Speaker Wilts, Mr. hi. a J. Trezevant, clerk, and the ga tL men connected with the amms 1 their services during the sittld 11 the caucus. S Mr. Estillette offered a ubil~b i the same effect, which was - 4 monsly adopted. 8. Speaker Wiltz said: t I hardly think the people .u d is i~ana or the United States hde m re se together orever will agali e a body of gentlemen sitting E D in such perfect harmony is sed a. cause. In every transaeties Shave worked in a manner of : the people may well be prel; or in adjourning I return my theasLk nt them for the manlner in whibch ie have aided the cause of the Peph e the State. re On motion, all the members d t Committee of Adjastment w N at structed to act as a exeeti ir mittee after the enauee in the city members to act ain l#' s sence of those from the eomntl, ,. On motion, the caueus thIt is journed.--N. O. Pica ej.m o e- A CARD. In my paper, the Natebitetdi publican, pnder date of Felu., 1875, I published an article i1 I stated that the author s Es ed which appeared in the Popqlde ts eator of February 6th, l- my :ersonal character was a faced liar." I now dedolae he above offensive epithet was aS t- tended to apply to Mr. 1. ;le grove, the Editor of the as I did not consider him tlMs e. of, or responsible for the a1 ferred to, he beilg absea~ t city at the time; and I ' all that may be offensive to . of Cosgrove, Editor of the pelA in dicator in said article. EDWARD EZELNA' i March 11th, 1875. as We return thanks to the* le, sioner of Education, at W gh D. C., for copies of the HiartyI , re, National Bureau of Edcaetie bt other documents. Our thanks are due and se ed the polite oficers of the a er Texas, for late favors. er Grant parishl has been coe i ted by the riddance of e e in who pretended to reprecent hr a- the ramp legislature; we allS Capt (1) William Ward, whbol expelled from the "Den" for ud unbecoming a member of that a table boly, lately sitting at Ihe to Louis Hiotel. Poor Ward, his 'e have gone - well, we sapps ot ry one knows where, and the re of it is, no body seems sorry a it The editor returns shanks to SGallion, MI. D., foran invitstit t tend the commencement exercit. es thle. Medical Department of the versity of Louisiana. 4-