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... "REPUBLICAN AT ALL TIMES, AND UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES." VOLU CI .*. NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 6O 1871. NUMBfER 57. -.e- :E: L"CUISIANIAN, OWNED,*; i r1 : fED AND MLLNAGED BY COLO ,1.1t, .!i. I PIUBLISHED EVERY ruiE1)A1 1 AND) SUNDAY MORN -: .t T 114 C(ARONDELET STREET ,I:Y (:LEA.NS LA. P110, J . S. PINCIIBACK, Oaztas, . (' C. ANI'OINE, CADDO, . t;Ei. Y. KELSO, RaPIDES. ran. (h. BROWN,---Editor. P. . . S. I'CLCHBACK, $," Til'rit or SUtscurP1io.: "*, .vo 'hra 5..3 iI ,.. ..... 3 00 ;a I. ,· a .. ....... .... 1 )50 ,,.-; . F" (" .y . . . . . . . . ..... . . " . PRPOSPECTUS OF The Louisianlau. In Lt.i endes.vor to establish another T;l,lui,'!r an journal in New Orihans, I SI' pr!.'or of tl:e Lmrs,,arust,I pr,', r..' tfil a necessity which has ,,. :t 1 ,:., and som.tumes painfylly f-it J, ilt Iu the transition state ,, :: I" '1. n their z srug;ling efforts , t.ain that position in the Body p,1'nel, l-hich we conceive t") be their due, it I, r. garded that much inform atior, guiJanet,, encouragenvnt, coun } ne! U. rtprof have betas last, in ..onsecorc of the lack of a medium, tLrough which these deficiencies might he surpliieeL We shall strive to make the LorisusiN a desideratum in these -epcte POLICY. As our motto indicates, the Louis c.oaYs hall be " Repabtica at dli n' ' a,:' arleral ircumstances" We sha aJvocate the security and enjoy tr:,. fbroadcivil liberty, the absol ute e.;iuLity of all men before the law, scp an impartial distribution of hon or tnl patronage to all who merit tL ri Pr:,-",ns of allaying animosities, of L' ,.ting the memory of the bitter pr.s.f promoting harmony and union isaIug al classes and between all in tr,'. , we ,shall advocate the removal of i: rol:tical disabilitiun , foster kind s , a..,l forbearane3, where madli nity antd :. n,.xeatit reigned, and set I for f,,msu. and justice where wroo and <p,!rea,-a prevailed. Thus united in ',ur :uiin end objects, we shail c.uservie c",r be,,t interests, elevate our noble t bhat. t on enviable position among I her -t: States, by the devcrapmentl rf i.r 'l:ul';t'blo resources and secure the f,:i henefita of the mighty changes :~t t h:tory and conditic(t of the 1 P p' .~ n the country. Belii :ng that there can be no true ':tv -ithoat the supremcy of law. 'L* `.di urge a strict and undiscrimi "4 ). ~iinistration of justice. TAXATION. WO sW:i1 support the doctrine of an pir.:l:., htision of taxation among ' ao,,s a fithfuld collection of the overu1,. <,enomy in the expendi- ' tjert c',tormablyv with the euigen e:ea of til, State or countary and the c dsc.arg, uf every legitimate obliga EDUCATION. , 'o shall ;ust.in the carrying out of a the provisaons of the act establiahing a tur common school system, and urge s Sa paramount duty the education of a cr youth, as vitally connected with tbhr own enlight ment, and the aeour :t sad stability of a Republican Gov armnent. FINAL. By a g'nerous, manly, independent, mi idicious conduct, we shall strive to rmaue our paper, from an ephem eI, ,nd temporary existence, and d stahbbb it upon a basis, that if we c mart . lnr, mand," we shall at all c BANKS, IlI PIEEDIAN', ISAll3Il .S AND TRUST COMPANY k Chartd by the United States I O"srnmeut, Matrch, c 1865. i )5 a. Orae, wasumn.rorN, D. c. t D. L. A TOY ... Actuary. in I 1 AT NEW ORLEANS, LA. 1;4 .rrdlet Street. " r 'Tpi'TEV. NT, Cashier. g ,sr. 1 I.rs I '... 't. A to 3 . ,xa (L 'Ig14g . 6 to o'clock id POETRY. A P11M. 31 rrrs 0 4N8 EAltLECK. (Hitherto Unpublished.] Twas like the poet's dreaming land, Where fairies tread the moonlight lea; Where sea-nymphs deck the si!ver strand, And spirits breathe in melody. The vesper dews were on the wold, The western planet of the day Had lit her twinkling lamp of gold In twilight's dim departing ray. "Twas sweet to see the pale moon weep O'er her blue wave her tears of light ! And list, across the swelling deep, The whisper of the winds of night ! Borne on that breeze of evening mi!d, The soul of music floating came; .Notes that might soothe despair's lone child, Or light devotion's hallowed flame. Now swelling fau in choral song, It seemed the seraph's hymn of praise! i Now in wild cadence swept along The green-haired mermaid's thrilling I S lays ! Now murmuring low it sunk remote, Soft as the dying cygnet's wail ! Or songs of moonlight fays that float On wings of woven air in some enchanted vale ! Such was that night. Dost thou like me 4 Recall that scene with fond regret? Lives in thy ear that minstrelsy? And on thine eye that moonbeam yet ? CHOICE SELECTIONS. A LECTUE. We received a polite invitation from the Trustees of the State Street African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church to attend a lecture in that edifice on Thursday evening. Being told that the discourse would be delivered by a female colored I lecturer from Marylsnd, curiosity, i as well as an interest to see how the colored citizens were managing their own institutions, led us at once to accept the invitation. We found a very spacious church, gas-lit, and the balustrades of the galleries copiously hung with wreaths and festoons of flowers, and a large audience of both sexes, which, both in appearance and behavior, was respectable and decorously ob servant of the proprieties of the pltce. The services were opened, as usual, with prayer and a hymr, ] the Latter inspired by powerful :alamg, and in which the musical e:r At once caught the negro talent for t melody. The lecturer was then in troduced as Mrs. F. E. W. Harper, from Maryland. Without a mo ment's hesitation, she started off in t the flow of her discourse, which rolled smoothly and usinterrupted ly on for nearly two hours. It was very apparent that it was not a cut t and dried speech, for she was as t fluent and felicitous in her allusions * to circumstances immediatol around a her, as she was when she rose to a = more exalted pitch of laudation of a the "Union," or of execration of the 1 old slavery system. Her voice was remarkable - as sweet as any woman's voice we ever had, and so a clear and distinct as to pass every a syllable to the most distant ear in the house. Without any effort at attentive listening, we followed the speaker to the end, not diseeming a j single grammatical inaecuracy of 4 speech, or the lightest violation of F good taste in manner or matter. h At'times the current of her thoughts e flowed in eloquent and poetic ex- a pression, and often her quaint a humor would expose the ivory in s half a thoumsand of open mouths. ( We confes that we began to won- e der, and we asked a Ane-looking , colored man before us, "What is p color; is she dark or light'?" He e answered, "She is mulatto-what t they call a red mulatto." The "red" I was new to nau Our neighbor asked, * "How do you like her' ~" We replied d "She is giving your people the best b kind and the very wisest of.ad"ice.' He rejoined, "I wjish I had her.edu cation;" to which we added, "that's a just what she tells you is your pust di;ty and your need, and it you are ti too old to get it yourseve., you p must give it to your children." The speaker lt 'the impression on our mird, that she was not onaj intelligent ntmd educated, b -the ol great end of educi-she ws i81 Senlightened. She en n,-'h.mcl lcr- ir wfeetly time sitastion i'i, - .rep', to' is whose intti'lets saec ueuin ,rde ntlv I deot 'ed Xm t:i.me of jieirlnt discourse, She one string to the har mony of which all the others were attuned, was the grand opportunity that emancipation had afforded to the black race to lift itself to the level of the duties and responsibili ties enjoyed by it. You have muscle power and brain power, she said, you must utilize them, or be coatent to remain forever the inferior race. Get land, every one that can, and as fast as you can. A landless people must be dependent upon the landed people. A few acres to till for foomd and a roof, however humble, over your hearp, are the castle of your in dependence, and when you have it you are fortified to act and vote independently whenever your in terests are at stake. That part of e her lecture (and there was much ef it) that dwelt on the moral duties and domestic relations of the col ored people was pitched on the highest key of sound morality. She urged the cultivation of the "home g life," the sanctity of the marriage state, (a happy contrast to her strong minded, free-love, white sisters of the North), and the duties of moth ers to their daughters. "Why"' said she, in a voice of suprise, "I have 1 actually heard since I have been e South that sometimes colored hus bands positively beat their wivee! I , do not mean to insinuate for a mo ment that such things can possibly 3 happen in Mobile. The very ap pearance of the congregation forbids it; but I did hear of one terrible a husband defending himself for the c 1 unmanly practice with, "Well, I've 1 B got to whip her, or leave her." 1 Again the white ivory showed what " a chord was struck in the audience. a We heard a darkey near us say, "If C I she will just stay here a few days, i 1 she will find plenty of them sort of I husbands. i; There wese parts of the lecturer's discourse that grated a little on a 1 white Southern ear, but it was lost and forgiven in the genuine earnest- c ness and profound good sense with C which the woman spoke to her kind t in words of sound advice. And when we came to consider her t education, we had to conclude that a the grating passages were compar rtively mild. She was educated d among Abolitionists before the war, e and was a trained and practiced e lecturer in the anti-elasery crusade. " And yet, to judgefrom her talk, she b is less bigoted and less emlittered 0 to-day than nine-tenths of the white I Yankees of that school. U On the whole, we are glad we ac cepted the Zion's invitations. It gave n us much food for new thought. It n reminded es, perhaps, of neglected a duties to these people, and it im- 1l pressed strongly on our minds that f' these people are getting along, get- b ting onward, and progress was a u star becoming familiar to their gaze 9 and their desires. Whatever the f negroes have done in the paths of ° advancement, they have done large- b ly without white aid. Wesay "'large- n ly," and yet the white people have a helped them to build their churches and to promote the honest in their a undertakings. But politics and white ti pride have kept the white people aloof from offering that earnest anda that moral assistance which would be so useful to a people just starting " from infancy into a life of self-de- b pendence The white people, have held back from a race who had giv- e en up their political consciences and their suffrage power to strangers o and to notorious enemies of the South, and have preferred to let e them do the work of opening the ' eyes of the black people to their true relations and interestsin society and i polities. But for hLe interloping" carpet bagger, who came between'" the two races to make strife, and to steal and plunder by meansof a U suborned negro vote, we bare never ti doubted thathappier relations weuld have existed between the two races h sine the war ended. That time d will yet coma It is hastene.d a step by the politi#l defest and eon- t sateast departup st every addi- k tioual me of these evil birds of h pasu and of prcŽ *c tl Cax~sur is b f,4i4p)iAi.e source b of amCusement a-.ig the belies of w 8ta't-u land The pretty~wns in ( S-'..ut oi tet fine residences upon the O 3%l ad present many pleasant scenes 0 during the Wteobor of the after- p noon - fs 101B CIRCLE. y UIUUS W lMTY. SWhat is beauty ? A divine gift, that Providence bestows on woman with which to gladden the eye and heart of map. Have not poets sung it from olden times ? Do they not sing it still? Then be not callous, you who posese it, bat hold it fast while it is yours; once lost, it can never be restored, for N.ture pun ishes those who neglect her choicest boon by taking it from r them, often when most needed. t Again, what is beauty? Is it the har, the eye, the teath, the hand? It is all that-and, more than all, it is complexion. a ith a soft, peach f like complexion, whether fair or dark, a women is always lovely: and this may be preserved till a good old age with very little trouble: toa certain extent it may be acquired, and it can always be improved. How ? I will tell you. Skins, however, differ: some are I cold, soft, and moist; others are a warm, firm, and porous; some oily, i some dry. They equally vary in < thickne s, color, and elasticity; but I in any case they should never come a in contact with animal grease. Im- t agine for yourselves, ladies, the l danger of stopping up the pores of 1 your skin with the fat of animals, i perhapsediseased The idea is as s noisome as that of sleeping with e slices of uncooked beef on your t cheeks, with some misguided women 1 have been foolishly induced to try. r What are you to use if you may not use cold cream? you say. There is a an answer to that question, as to all a others; Search Nature. Take the a oil and juice of vegetables-they t never hurt. Indeed, fresh olive-oil f is the unction above all others to b soften the skin. Rub the face gent- b ly every night with it and you will c soon find the skin become impervi- c ous to storm and blast. The an- a cient Greeks knew the value of oil a to the skin, and used it freely for b beauty to the skin and pliability to p the muscles Natuaally oily skins a should avoid ointments of all de- a scription. A few drops of camphor, diluted in water, will be found more ii effcacious, and powdered fuller's- if earth puffed on the face after wash- h ing. Exposure to the sun is very o beneficial to the skin, though ladies f object to the tanning it produces. .1 It was on this accou it that masks u used to be worn in the streets at one tl time. Some ladies, it is, carried the a mask mania so far as to sleep in c masks. Marguerite de Navarre was one of- these; Henry IV. expostu lated in vain, but Marguerite pre ferred losing her husband to losing her mask. Indeed it played a not 0 unimportant part in their subse quent divorce. This shows the folly of the whim; for a mask could only check perspiration, and would be most injurious to the wearer in many ways. In fact, it only de serves mention to be condemned. It was not to such tricks that Di ana of Poictiers, Duchess of Valen tinois, resorted to preserve her beau ty to the age of three score years and ten,-she who, at sixty-five, rode en horeeback like a girl! Tbis remarkable woman was a celebrated I beaty in san age of beauties, yet, strange to msay, no historian has er er given details of those wondrous U charms which captivated two king. ' one of them .fteen years her junior in age. Wedozot evenknow wheth- T er her eyes were blue or black, a whether her hair was light or dark; I we only know that she was the love liest woman at a eourt of lovely women are, to msay the least, omIe what pase. People said she poe. a sessed a secret that readered her al thus impervious to the ravages ofP time. Someweatmo faras toeny, a in that snperstitios age, that dle hadboughbtb r secret from a very dark ge'nt!Eitaa, indeed!I What 1 wa, th, secret, the? Didd.ever ~ a te& '" Never. Did amy.se everaP knc , ' Yes, her pedme. Did P1 he nc-' r l i"t .? Tht edrirg er lihfe. ,' ., kno,, the'9 It is, 0 thse w ic, hve the patibqeo wadet thro#gh musty marjr u * fe books May we no: k~?wit ? You i will only smile and dis, livel Try,'! ood'then I wall tr&ilate .vsdre udard's on Awords to you: ' Oodsad, apothecary, sarocom, pefeaer, ro hhere decire, faith ad shot memos ored and much beloved mistres iMadame Diana of Poictiers, Duchess of Va!entinois, that the only secret it, she posseesed, with whieh to be and remain in perfect health, youth, sad ad beauty, to the age of seventy two, was-Rain Water ! In truth, I a n ser that ther is nothing in the world like this same Rain Water, a constant use of which is imperative to render the akin soft and downy, or to freshen the color or to cleanse the pores ot the shkin, or to make beauty last as long as life." Once a tLk. LAWS --Or THIE STATE OF LOUISIANA. A [PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.] d, CoxriNUED 1sO OUR LART NuvmmR d. The Council shall have power to levy a tax, in addition to all other re taxes now authorized by law, upon re all the real and personal property' ly, within the limits of the city, suffi in cient to provide for the payment of ut the annual interest of msaid bonds, se and it is hereby made the duty of n- the Council, when such bonds shall be have been running twenty years, to of levy an annuall tax for the remain Lif, ing twenty years of the currency of as said bonds, upon all real and per th sonal property within the limits of ur the city, sfficient to provide for the m payment of the principal thereof at 7. maturity. At The bonds issued by the provi is sions of this section, and made pay ll able in ten years, shall be known 1e and designated as street assesument y bonds; and those made payable in I* il forty years, as street improvement to bonds; and neither class of said t- bonds shall be disposed of by thel ill city at less price than seventy-five t i- cents upon the dollar. But the city g n- may contract to pay for improve l ments contemplated in this section a ) by the issue of the bonds herein r to provided for, at the rate of seventy- t 's five cents on ths dollar, or more as t e- may be agreed upon . t r, The city shall also have power, a re in order to facilitate the payment t - for progressing improvements, to d I- hypothecate said bonds temporarily, c 7 or to issue to contractors certificates d `s for work done; which certificates a 8. shall bear an equal rate of interest d s with the bonds, and be. ietired by t] e the issue of bonds upon the final a 8e conpletion of any contract or a n contracts made as contemplate by a this section. a And it is further provided, That whenever a majority of the owners Z g of property petitioning for the use a of any particular patented pave ment, for the purpose of paving or S d improving the streets, or any part d thereof, then the Council of said city is hereby authorized, by reso- I lution or ordinance, to fix the price to be paid for such pavement, and A to let the same under contract to the license or assignee of msaid piten- ( ted pavement, and the payments or A improvemente. And it is ferther provided, That Sten dsys' public notice shdal be gi d ven by the Connel by advertise ment in the official journal, of the intention of thecity to make any Simprovement such as in contempla Sted by the provisionsofthis srction. r See. 11. Be it further enaceted,et, .. That the Conneil shall have powere. , and is hereby authorized to estab ; lish, alter and amend all gades . throughoat the corporate Emits of ythe city, whethpr of teets alleys, Ssidewalks orpblie ,gromnds or ways, . and sid grads w hnssebhbhd, 5 alterded a amended sha ll t ash c ti ,f plied with by d property owdes, C , istreet and other ailroamid omieeL e under such psinalties as the cil may resPibe And the Couqn l , is hereby .pmowered to r sses a may be ds it .-as uasede I " . bea4 or torepalr a orto eneeths aamg _Ird nsa h power .oI- t udbe the materhialer the oe apo* TA 1 on r oir &tb sr s - When Sever the Coundai al daem it_ a! cessary to take smeh tion, notice ret of such intemtion shall be published ad in English, in the ocial journal of ad the city, oee a week daring four r. weeks. And all improvements to said sidewalks, ordered and dole ýi by the Council, under the discretion a and authority of thiaprovision, shall iye be s.bject to the canditions already y, preseribed for improvements to be as made in cowpliance with the peti he tion of property owners, and pay meats therefor shall be assessed and collected in like maer, and the same penalties, liens and privi. lege shall pertain and be saloured as if the work were done by peti- v tion of the property holders. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, etc., That no part of this act shall be j construed to impair or affect the contract made by the Southern Paving Company for paving St Oharles avenue. er Se. . Be it futher enec.d, ede., That this act shall go into effect ty upon its passage, and that all laws - conlicting herewith be and the of same are hereby repealed, so far as k the confliet of [Signed] GEO. W. CARTER. a Speaker of the House of Represents- A tives. [Signed] OSCAR J, DUNN. Lieutensat Governor and President of SSenate. Ar- Approved March 18, 1871. of (Signed) H. C. WARKOTH, e Governor of the State of Louisdan. t A true copy: Gno. E. Bova, - Secretary of Stat. 7- rn No. 49. t An Act 2 inTo Temmd remiet artile 578 the Code at adPymetiesi id Saco 1. Be it enacted by the e Senate and House of Representa Fe tives of the State of Looisianain Y general assembled convened, That - article 573 of the Code of Practice n be amended and re-enact so as to n read as follows: Whoever intends - to appeal may do to either by peti m tion or by motion in opn court, at the same term at whi i the judg r, ment was rendered, upon offering p It to give such surety as the ourt may to direct, as hereafter provided. But in P . cases where the judgment derees a Sdivere, auch petition or motion of Sappeal must be led within thirty Sdays, not ineluding Sundays, after 7 the signing of suach judgment, in l stead of ten days, and shall operate r as a auspeneive appeal therefrom, ' and there shall be no deveoltive appeal allowed thereafter. SSee, 2. e it further enacted, act., S re That this act shall take effect from - 1e and after its pasuge. - (Signed) GEO. W. CARTER, kr Speaker of the House of Beprc- 8 rt sentatives. d (Signed) OSCAR J. DUNN, - Lieutenant Governor and President - o gf the Senate. d Approved March 13, 1871. o (Signed) . C. WARMOTH, I. Governor of the State of Louisiana. r A true oopy: Gao E. Bovs, Secretary of State. Entitled ua aetto plaee the ank-. y l Coflqgs at Opuloussa, .Louis Sina, under the eoantrol the L tae Boad S e Ededostiou, Dfor I thes purpmsof blishig s nar : mmli rbigh school threi; sad Sthe ppropriatiouoQ moneafr ita repairs, ad the iiquidatki'' N Sdqimas against said opy' 5. Sequow. 3 oiLAl y the .iS.nA tad at segre,.. as .college, hslo... a, u app e at ,ee olla6eg 3d h ich he the Be. 'eaia. 4.r hsi ites o Ml weani ofiap pre iStedaees at Publie 34scation of he Stat.dre t - eemitou** am - an A a.- ivy9 01 ADVERTISZNG. ed Sqw.tlto]o S eesUsmlt d A .a IO 833r Ur Two 7 9 11 sos tom 15 26525 50 70 "' 25 45 20 U Liz 2442 50 70 o ioima. 45 80 11j20 175 anI= be .qmn eCn ia .Um; sea mlaeqmret ti- izertam, 1.3 -~ AU bmrini nodoeI of adveetiuetaoi ý tibeheieged "ty St ra p.w Mm auk ed emu;; id jam p ep cutd with unhiern vi. mad dimtch., id Wedding (uri amoeshe in soeasdmeme d. with pemlini hehiom. FPners! Notice printed on .bhoeteg no tio mad with quick" dkcoshk be LAWYERS' ADVERISEYhKrJ be rn T. A. BARTLETTE, 3t. AITTORNEY adOuUNSRIOB AT LAW. t., 142... .Qravier street....142 ct (Up stairs.) NEZ ORLEANS, Ls. HAWKINS & THAbP, F. (Jr HWn--AIn sail?.) - ArTTOBNEYS AND COUNSELLORS 19.. Commeriail Place......1 New Orean, Lot Prompt attention `hen to vni bud. nen in the tate and United Stet Cortm. 3817. JOHN B. HOWARD. LAW o01MW, 26 St. Chares r ert I6 Id Prompt ettemica Rhea to hiii t undm int enverar owt othe St.. U crie anr CMm rra caomaonowg, It - arne mae AND £bmmiuioxer ofthe Cowu of Claim.. i- DspwitNor, t buomo achnowldg. mt met, etc., taken atehort notice. Pnpata wincd from the State Depert. ,neat, Washington, with accunrq and 9 promprsa b7 Oda at the Cuionhbo., oarse te n Pat OOda. newsapepr deiery. a ~ New Oilnn.s, Louisaa.. A. P. Felds &R&obert DotUs rW Attorneys A Couneloreat La. No 9. 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